RE: Who Chooses the Alternatives to be Studied?
- Archived: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:04:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:45:34 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Eileen Jones <egayjones@aol.com>
- Subject: RE: Who Chooses the Alternatives to be Studied?
- X-topic: Permits and Rules
OK, maybe this is a dumb question from an academic, but since I have written fairly extensively on public participation and agree with your message generally, here it goes: what are the obstacles to EPA passing more "user friendly," regs - to begin with ones that require earlier input from public and also mandate an affirmative duty on EPA to seek out interested parties. As I said, I have made this argument academcially (Eileen Gay Jones, Risky Assessments: Scientific Uncertainty and the Human Dimensions of Environmental Decisionmaking," 22 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 1 (1997)) numerous times as I'm sure others have in different contexts. What's behind the lack of new regs or initiative from Congress?
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