My name is Susan E. Dudley.
RAP is dedicated to advancing knowledge of regulations and their impact.
As part of its mission, the program produces careful and independent analysis of agency rulemaking proposals from the perspective of the public interest. This morning, I would like to highlight some of our most important concerns with the risk assessment underlying EPA's ozone proposal. There is little scientific basis for the selection of the standard. EPA recognizes that the selection of the standard was a policy decision, rather than a scientific decision. EPA's science panel did not find the proposed standard to be significantly more protective of public health than the current standard, and most members who expressed an opinion preferred a level less stringent than that which EPA has proposed.