SENATE PANEL OKS PLAN FOR CABINET-LEVEL EPA

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 25, 1993                   TAG: 9303250178
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
SENATE PANEL OKS PLAN FOR CABINET-LEVEL EPA
Efforts to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet level moved ahead in the Senate on Wednesday, including a proposal by President Clinton to abolish a White House environmental council.
The bill to create a Department of the Environment, which has failed to clear Congress in previous years, was passed by the Senate Government Operations Committee.
The committee also agreed to a request from Clinton to disband the Council on Environmental Quality, an office Congress established 24 years ago to settle environmental disputes among agencies and advise the president.
Many of the council's duties would go to the new Department of Environment, while interagency disputes would be settled by the president himself. -

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB