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Carter administration's EPA
Q: The Burford administration's management, those who came in after President Carter's EPA Administrator Douglas Costle left, said that EPA had been unnecessarily slow in promulgating regulations, not issuing permits in a timely manner, and that sort of thing. Was that something that was endemic to the big crunch of implementing legislation or was there something at EPA from the time Train left to the time...?
MR. ALM: The Carter Years are very interesting. For some reason, during that time regulatory activity was much lower. There were a couple of big regulations issued then. One was the New Source Performance Standards for electric utility boilers. That was a very big issue. There was also the original RCRA regulations that were issued in draft during the Carter administration. But, the regulatory action was down, because of circumstances. But, the Carter people did have to begin the implementation of RCRA and TSCA. These laws had really just enacted at the end of the Train era.