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EPA TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS IN WASHINGTON AND CHICAGO ON PROPOSED VISIBILITY GUIDELINES

Release Date: 08/20/2001
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Note to Correspondents

EPA will hold public hearings tomorrow (Tuesday) in the Washington, D.C. area and Aug. 27 in Chicago on the Agency’s proposed guidelines to help clear the skies in the nation's most treasured national parks and wilderness areas such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to establish a rule to improve visibility in 156 national parks and wilderness areas. The Act also calls on states to require older power plants and industrial facilities to install best air pollution controls available, technically known as "best available retrofit technology," or BART.

WHAT: Public hearings on EPA’s proposed guidelines for BART.

WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 21 in Washington, D.C. at 10 a.m.;
Monday, Aug. 27 in Chicago at 10 a.m.

WHERE: In the Washington, D.C. area, at the Crown Plaza Hotel,
1489 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.
In Chicago, at the Metcalfe Federal Building, Room 331, 77
Jackson Boulevard.


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