Premise: Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social welfare.

Hypothesis: Social welfare, out of that entire list, is valued the least by a not insubstantial number of people.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: On December 17, 1993, EPA published a notice of proposed rulemaking on the integrated air and water rules in the Federal Register.

Hypothesis: The EPA published a notice of proposed rules for the air and water in the Federal Register.
Answer: yes

Premise: The first adaptation of this story (originally a play) was the 1934 Death Takes a Holiday , which came in at a perky 78 minutes.

Hypothesis: The first adaptation of this story was the 1934 Romeo and Juliet.
Answer: no

Premise: I didn't even know the word matriculation.

Hypothesis: I am afraid to ask what it means.
Answer: it is not possible to tell