Mobile Source Provisions: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress on H.R. 4400 ... H.R. 2130 ... September 21, 22, 23, December 7, 1981, and January 21, 1982 |
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Page 270 - The purposes of this title are — (1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation's air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population...
Page 376 - ... engine, be a period of use set forth in paragraph (1) unless the Administrator determines that a period of use of greater duration or mileage is appropriate.
Page 1005 - designed for emission control" as used in the preceding sentence means a catalytic converter, thermal reactor, or other component installed on or in a vehicle for the sole or primary purpose of reducing vehicle emissions...
Page 891 - ... (B) for any person engaged in the business of repairing, servicing, selling, leasing, or trading motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines, or who operates a fleet of motor vehicles, knowingly to remove or render inoperative any device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine in compliance with regulations under this title following its sale and delivery to the ultimate purchaser...
Page 1100 - Given the costs involved in cleaning up the environment, do you think Congress should make the Clean Air Act stricter than it is now, keep it about the same, or make it less strict?
Page 132 - The Chattanooga school children study: Effects of community exposure to nitrogen dioxide: II. Incidence of acute respiratory illness.
Page 358 - Section 307(d) shall apply to any high altitude regulation referred to in paragraph (2) and before promulgating any such regulation, the Administrator shall consider and make a finding with respect to — (A) the economic impact upon consumers, individual high altitude dealers, and...
Page 953 - The vehicle fails to conform at any time during its useful life to the applicable emissions standards as judged by an EPA-approved emission test, and (3) Such nonconformity results or will result in the vehicle owner having to bear any penalty or other sanction (including the denial of the right to use the vehicle) under local, State or Federal law, then the manufacturer shall remedy the nonconformity at no cost to the owner; except that, if the vehicle has been in operation for more than 24 months...
Page 773 - Major off -highway customers are the construction, mining, agricultural, oil and gas, logging, marine, industrial locomotive, electrical generator, compressor pump and other special-purpose machinery industries. Cummins also manufactures and markets crankshafts, turbochargers , and related components for diesel engines and industrial equipment; oil, fuel, air and water filters for truck and passenger car engines; and reconditioned diesel engines and truck parts.
Page 358 - ... section 202 of this Act regardless of the altitude at which they are sold. (2) By October 1, 1978, the Administrator shall report to the Congress on the economic impact and technological feasibility of the requirements found in subparagraph ( 1 ) of this subsection. The report is also to evaluate the technological feasibility and the health consequences of separate proportional emission standards for light duty vehicles and engines in high altitude areas that would reflect a comparable percentage...