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NACS, NATSO: Proposed diesel-fuel controls unreasonable.(National Association of Convenience...

Steps to significantly reduce diesel-sulfur content can, and should, be undertaken, but the levels proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency could cause considerable supply problems, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores.

The EPA has proposed a 90-percent reduction in diesel-sulfur levels to 15 parts per million by 2006.

"The proposed cap and time frame are in excess of what is feasible or advisable from both an energy-supply and an environmental-protection standpoint," said Gus Olympidis, NACS' vice chairman of gove

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