ACI supports protecting public health and the environment through reasonable, economically feasible, and carefully considered programs that are developed and implemented based on clear statutory authority, sound, objectively verifiable science, and careful consideration and accommodation of state economic development priorities. ACI supports efforts on the state and local level that are necessary to assure that EPA’s new ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) non-attainment designations are representative of conditions in those areas. Objective scientific evaluations establishing a cause-and-effect relationship should precede development of environmental regulatory and permitting programs.