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1 CIS H 40188
TITLE: Ozone
Transport and Reformulated Gasoline: How Federal Regulations Are Raising
Gas Prices
CIS-NO: 2001-H401-88
SOURCE:
Committee on Government Reform. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: July 6, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+103 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1016-A; 1016-B
SUDOC: Y4.G74/7:OZ7
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full
Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-27048-5.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-230. Hearing in
Racine, Wis., before the Subcom on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources,
and Regulatory Affairs to examine possible causal relationship between EPA
reformulated gasoline (RFG) motor vehicle emissions reduction program and
increases in consumer gasoline prices in southeastern Wisconsin
and elsewhere in the Midwest region during the late spring and early summer of
2000.
Supplementary material (p. 5-21) includes a press release
and:
-- Kumins, Lawrence C. (CRS), "Midwest Gasoline
Prices: A Review of Recent Market Developments" June 28, 2000
(p. 10-21).
CONTENT-NOTATION: Gasoline
price increases and EPA reformulated gasoline program,
relationship
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON NATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND
REGULATORY AFFAIRS. HOUSE; GASOLINE; ENERGY PRICES;
CONSUMERS; ENERGY REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL
REGULATION; AIR POLLUTION; CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE; RACINE, WIS.;
WISCONSIN
01-H401-88 TESTIMONY NO: 1 July 6, 2000 p.
34-103
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
LYONS, FRANCIS X. (Regional Administrator, Region V, EPA)
KOERBER, MICHAEL (Technical Director, Lake Michigan Air
Directors Consortium)
TAYLOR, JERRY (Director, Natural
Resource Studies, Cato Institute)
MCREYNOLDS, WILLIAM L.
(Sheriff, Racine County Sheriff's Department)
GREENWALD,
DARWIN (gas station owner)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Opposing views on a causal relationship
between EPA RFG program and high gasoline prices in the
Midwest; differing opinions on RFG program; perspectives on high gasoline
price problems in southeastern Wisconsin and elsewhere in the
Midwest.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Gasoline
price increases and EPA reformulated gasoline program,
relationship
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
LAKE
MICHIGAN AIR DIRECTORS CONSORTIUM
LOAD-DATE: August 22,
2001 
