Environmental Protection Agency research authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1978. Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session, House of Representatives, October 19, 1977
A conference report was issued on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 5101) to authorize appropriations for activities of the Environmental Protection Agency. The differences between the House bill and the Senate amendment were noted and the substitute agreed to in conference was discussed. The conference report authorized a total of $253,603,000 for the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental research and development program for fiscal year 1978. This compares to a House authorization of $313,064,000 and a Senate authorization of $185,330,000. A significant difference between the House and Senate bills was that that Senate bill does not authorize research under the Clean Air Act. Rather, the Senate carried this authorization separately in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (Public Law 95-95). For this reason, the conference substitute contains only an additional authorization of $35 million to cover the environmental protection Protection Agency's supplemental appropriations request for fiscal year 1978. The Senate has also included authorization for research, development and demonstration in support of the Safe Drinking Water Act in the bill S. 1528, the Safe Drinking Water Act amendments, and for research, development, and demonstration in support of the Noise Control Act in the bill S. 1511, Noise Control Act amendments. Both of these bills passed the Senate. There was also an authorization for fiscal year 1978 of 45 million for research, development and demonstration related to solid waste contained in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (Public Law 94-580) passed in the last Congress.
- OSTI ID:
- 6540139
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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