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 PUBLIC LAW 95-95—AUG. 7, 1977 mental Protection Agency, as determined under regulations of the Administrator, may concurrently serve as such an officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agency. "(d) The Administrator shall promulgate rules for purposes of subsections (b) and (c) which— "(1) identify specific offices or positions within such agency which are of a nonregulatory or nonpolicymaking nature and provide that officers or employees occupying such positions shall be exempt from the requirements of this section, and " (2) identify the ownership or financial interests which may be inconsistent with particular regulatory or policymaking offices or positions within the Environmental Protection Agency. "(e) Any officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agency or member of the National Commission on Air Quality or of the scientific review committee under section 109(d) who is subject to, and knowingly violates, this section or any regulation issued thereunder, shall be fined not more than $2,500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, "(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or impair any other Federal statutory requirements respecting disclosure or conflict of interest applicable to the Environmental Protection Agency. Subsections (c) and (d) of this section shall not apply after the effective date of any such requirements respecting conflicts of interest which are generally applicable to departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States.".

91 STAT. 781

Rules.

Exemption.

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AIR QUALITY MONITORING BY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

SEC. 309. Title III of the Clean Air Act is amended by adding the following new section at the end thereof:

Notice and hearing. Regulations.

" A I R QUALITY MONITORING

"SEC. 319. Not later than one year after the date of enactment of 42 USC 7619. the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 and after notice and opportunity for public hearing, the Administrator shall promulgate regula-, tions establishing an air quality monitoring system throughout the United States which— "(1) utilizes uniform air quality monitoring criteria and methodology and measures such air quality according to a uniform air i4d\ ':>?:>}, quality indexj "(2) provides for air quality monitoring stations in major urban areas and other appropriate areas throughout the United States to provide monitoring such as will supplement (but not duplicate) air quality monitoring carried out by the States required under any applicable implementation plan, • > al "(3) provides for daily analysis and reporting of air quality based upon such uniform air quality index, and "(4) provides for recordkeeping with respect to such monitor- Recordkeeping, ing data and for periodic analysis and reporting to the general Report to public, piiblic by the Administrator with respect to air quality based upon such data. The operation of such air quality monitoring system may be car- Operation, ried out by the Administrator or by such other departments, agencies, or entities of the Federal Government (including the National Weather Service) as the President may deem appropriate. Any air

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