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Eliot Engel: “Let me ask the gentleman also, the existing statutory standard for approval of a plan containing a gasoline requirement…”

On the recordApril 10, 2003
Let me ask the gentleman also, the existing statutory standard for approval of a plan containing a gasoline requirement is that ``other control measures are unreasonable or impractical.'' Would this amendment alter that standard in any way?
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Questioning an amendment related to gasoline requirements during a legislative discussion.

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