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James Lankford: “This is what happens when the EPA makes a private agreement, overshoots a State agreement, and says we're going to go in…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2012
This is what happens when the EPA makes a private agreement, overshoots a State agreement, and says we're going to go in and step in and take over: over $1 billion of additional costs to the ratepayers in Oklahoma, with no difference in the two, other than who controls it. This is an issue where there is no public-comment period, no stakeholder involvement, nothing. It is time to resolve how we do our regulations and to make sure stakeholders that are affected are also at the table helping make the decisions on how things will be affected for the good of our country as a whole.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma
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govinfo.gov
Jul 25, 2012

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