Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 9

Saturday, June 10, 1989-Mid-Illinois Newspapers-A- Bush likely to seek new emissions standards WASHINilON (AP) President Bush is expected to propose legislation requiring a 10 million-ton reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions by the year 2000 to combat acid rain, administration and congressional sources said Friday. The new acid-rain standards not quite as extensive as Vie 12 million-ton cut sought by environmentalists but far more rigid than industry has wanted are expected to be a key component in a clean-air package Bush will unveil on Monday. The who spoke on the condition of anonymity, also said that Bush's package likely would give Industries that use clean-coal technology additional time and flexibility in meeting the standards. The legislation will not mandate how Industrial plants should go about reducing sulfur dioxide emis pected to include a proposal where a utility exc-ceeding the required reductions could sell credits to one that had not, permitting the buying to utility to comply. Several sources said the president was provided options that ranged from forcing the 20 dirtiest plants to come up with most of the early emission reductions to forcing smaller cuts on 107 plants across the country.

The president is expected to propose a system by which a utility that exceeds the reduction requirements may sell credits to another that has not, bringing the buying utility into compliance. American Electric Power, which operates in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and West Virginia, said Friday if the 20-plant option is adopted, it would be forced to raise residential electric rates to to its customers from IS to 25 percent. "The cost of such emission reductions will grind the economies of the Midwestern states. Our heavy industries which rely upon low energy costs would be devastated," maintained A. Joseph Dowd, senior vice president, of American Electric Power.

Among the decisions still to be resolved, presumably, are whether Bush's package billed in advance as the most comprehensive overhaul yet of the 19-year-old Clean Air Act will set new standards for automobile tailpipe exhausts. Environmentalists want a requirement that tailpipe emissions of hydrocarbons and nitrogen dioxide which were last reduced In 1981 be further reduced by 1993. The automobile Industry has voiced strong objections to any further tightening of the standards. sions, giving them the choice of methods, the sources said. And the package will offer special credits and other financial incentives to industries that surpass the standards, the sources said.

Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said that Bush had made some "preliminary decisions" on the clean-air package, but would make up his mind on some of the thornier issues this weekend while at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Md. "He is taking with him decision memos and options on all the major questions that are still outstanding, and we would expect decisions over the weekend," Fitzwater said. It was unclear Friday on how the cuts would be distributed nationwide, but the president was ex FATHER'S DAY SALE colorful Jantzen swlmwear for him (I 1 11 ijaxmg, to look good. Reg. 926.to.f28 Popular volley length styles with drawstring waist.

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