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David Cay Johnston: “May I suggest here a way, perhaps, to get at this question of conflict? Part of my problem is to say that ``in the event…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1995
May I suggest here a way, perhaps, to get at this question of conflict? Part of my problem is to say that ``in the event of conflict''--in my judgment there is no possibility of conflict. We have written conflict out. So, therefore, you do not want to admit the possibility of that which you have written out, which injects its own ambiguity. So you ought to take that phrase out and simply say that nothing herein shall derogate or diminish or repeal or modify the health-based standards or the technology-based standards of environmental statutes--or words to that effect.
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David Cay Johnston
West Virginia

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Discussing potential conflicts in environmental legislation.

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