13. Environmental Protection Agency · Minor
Conduct CAA Section 321 evaluations of job and plant-closure effects
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Printed page 424 13. Environmental Protection Agency
“Obey Congress’s direction in CAA § 321 to “conduct continuing evaluations” of the employment and plant-closure effects of air regulations.”
What has happened
- Not started
EPA has published no continuing evaluation of the employment and plant-closure effects of its air rules. Section 321(a) has directed the agency to conduct them since 1977 and the agency has not begun; nothing in the Federal Register or on an allowlisted EPA page in this window announces a §321 evaluation, a schedule for one, or a program to produce them.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search (2026-08-27): among the EPA Federal Register documents we keep and search, none in the window carries a §321 employment evaluation, and the EPA notices among them include no employment or plant-closure study; EPA’s continuing evaluation program under CAA §321(a) has never been stood up, which is what the litigation over it (Murray Energy v. EPA, S.D. W. Va.) was about, and that case predates the window.
- The Quote is unusual for this chapter in asking EPA to do something the statute requires rather than to undo something. Nothing in the record shows it being done.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Clean Air Act Section 321 employment effect evaluations
- ID
- 1064