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On the recordJanuary 20, 1995
if the city of Philadelphia is mandated to put in a waterworks or cleaning system under existing law and in the future a law is passed that would require the standards to be used by the regulatory agency in the enforcement of that order, and it did or did not comply with the standard, it would allow any corporation or any municipality affected by more than $100 million to move into the Federal court system to bring an injunction. We are faced with the problem over here of trying to find out how large an effect this would have and what the ramifications are.
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Paul E. Kanjorski
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of regulatory standards on municipalities and corporations.

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