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Last scheduled wood furniture reg-neg held; MACT emission standard agreed upon. (maximum...

The full meeting in the regulatory negotiation (reg-neg)--possibly the final full meeting of the group--convened in Raleigh, NC, on Nov. 30-Dec. 1, to address clean air issues in the wood furniture and kitchen cabinet manufacturing industries.

The intensive two-day negotiations built on and advanced the tentative consensus reached at work group meetings held in early and mid-November between representatives of the Industry Caucus and the Environmental/State/Environmental Protection Agency (ESE) Caucus. Also at the full reg-neg committee meeting, several of the remaining ou

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