...said during the Senate debate on the Amendments: "The deadline [for automobile emission standards] is based not, I repeat, on economic and technological...feasibility, but on considerations of public health." 26 The automobile industry would clean up or be shut down — unless, of course, they could convince...

..."primary" standards. As Senator Muskie noted : The deadline [for automobile emission of standards] is based not. I repeat, on economic and technological feasibility, but on considerations of public heaith.S7 The Federal approval criteria for state plans do not include social, economic, and technical...