Clean Water Act: Proposed Revisions to EPA Regulations to Clean Up Polluted Waters
T-RCED-00-233
Published: Jun 28, 2000. Publicly Released: Jun 28, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed proposed revisions to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to clean up polluted waters, focusing on: (1) the reasonableness of EPA's economic analyses for the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 and the Regulatory Flexibility Act; and (2) whether EPA's determinations under the two proposed regulations were adequately supported.
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