Number: RL30031
Title: ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: A REVIEW OF PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE MANDATES, 1993-1998
Authors: Linda-Jo Schierow, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division 
Abstract: Between 1993 and 1998 Congress considered many proposals that aimed to increase or improve the use of risk analysis by federal agencies, especially in developing environmental rules. This report describes differences and similarities among selected provisions of key proposals: Senate-passed Johnston amendments to S. 171 and S. 2019 in the 103rd Congress; S. 343, as reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, in the 104th Congress, House-passed H.R. 9 in the 104th Congress; S. 981, as reported by the Committee on Governmental Affairs, in the 105th Congress, and S. 1728, as introduced, in the 105th Congress.
Pages: 25
Date: Updated January 22, 1999