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"The ONLY text of the international "anti-pollution" treaty which the
State Department allowed Congress to read has certain sections BLACKED OUT
..."
Panel Subpoenas Pollution Document
WASHINGTON (AP) - A House panel voted Wednesday to subpoena the State
Department for a document on the government's negotiations with Canada and
Europe over the reduction of air pollution.
The State Department so far has not turned over an unedited copy of a set of
instructions for officials negotiating on issues regarding nitrous oxide
emissions that cross national borders, said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.,
chairman of the House Commerce Committee's investigations subcommittee.
Nitrous oxide is emitted from large industrial plants. The subcommittee voted
10-0 to issue the subpoena for the document, which is related to the United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe's Convention on Long-Range
Transboundary Pollution.
The document ``is necessary for the committee to confirm that the
Environmental Protection Agency has sufficient legal authority for
implementation of the convention,'' Upton said.
The department - responding to oral and written requests - has only given the
subcommittee a version of the document that has certain sections blacked out,
he said.
``The State Department's basis for withholding the document is that the
(document) contains `sensitive discussions of an internal, deliberative
nature and also contains information pertinent to our ongoing discussions
with Canada on amendments to the U.S.-Canadian air quality agreement,'''
Upton said.
The subcommittee is sensitive to those negotiations, he said, but the State
Department has not asserted any legal basis for keeping the full document
from subcommittee members.
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