Reading Room Document

Scope of the Environmental Protection Agency's Discretion to Adopt Any One of Three Alternative Interpretations of the Mitchell-Conte Amendment to the Clean Air Act

Based on Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v Natural Resources Defense Counsel, Inc., the Environmental Protection Agency has the discretion to adopt any one of three alternative EPA-suggested interpretations of the 1988 Mitchell-Conte Amendment to the Clean Air Act. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/24201/download.

April 14, 1989