Sec. 404. ACID DEPOSITION STANDARDS

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## SEC. 404 ACID DEPOSITION STANDARDS Not later than 36 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall transmit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on the feasibility and effectiveness of an acid deposition standard or standards to protect sensitive and critically sensitive aquatic and terrestrial resources. The study required by this section shall include, but not be limited to, consideration of the following matters: ####

(1)identification of the sensitive and critically sensitive aquatic and terrestrial resources in the United States and Canada which may be affected by the deposition of acidic compounds; ####

(2)description of the nature and numerical value of a deposition standard or standards that would be sufficient to protect such resources; ####

(3)description of the use of such standard or standards in other Nations or by any of the several States in acid deposition control programs; ####

(4)description of the measures that would need to be taken to integrate such standard or standards with the control program required by title IV of the Clean Air Act; ####

(5)description of the state of knowledge with respect to source-receptor relationships necessary to develop a control program on such standard or standards and the additional research that is on-going or would be needed to make such a control program feasible; and ####

(6)description of the impediments to implementation of such control program and the cost-effectiveness of deposition standards compared to other control strategies including ambient air quality standards, new source performance standards and the requirements of title IV of the Clean Air Act.