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Henry Waxman: “This language does limit the agency. I do not think it is binding, but they feel a limitation when the committee that is…”

On the recordJuly 23, 1998
This language does limit the agency. I do not think it is binding, but they feel a limitation when the committee that is appropriating their money to stay in existence tells them not to do anything until you get another study, and this additional study would keep them from doing things like putting a cap on settlement of PCBs.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Discussing limitations imposed on an agency regarding PCB settlement caps.

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