EPA Administrator Whitman to Detail Regional Benefits Data for President's Clear Skies Initiative During Visit to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee With U.S. Senator Frist.

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Whitman Whitman, town (1990 pop. 13,240), Plymouth co., SE Mass., S of Boston; settled c.1670, set off from Abington and inc. 1875. It is an industrial town that manufactures shoes, plastics, foundry products, and textile machinery. The Toll House (1709) is restored. on Monday, July 1, will visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park Great Smoky Mountains National Park

National preserve, eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, U.S. It is 20 mi (32 km) wide and extends southwest for 54 mi (87 km) from the Pigeon River to the Little Tennessee River. Established in 1934 to preserve the U.S. with U.S. Senator Bill Frist (R-Tennessee).

During the visit Whitman will outline new region-specific human health and environmental benefits that will result from implementation of the President's Clear Skies Clear Skies could refer to:

Clear Skies Act of 2003 and 2005 in the United States
Clear Skies microgeneration programme in the United Kingdom

proposal. These benefits, which will be achieved more quickly and with more certainty than under current law, have now been identified specifically by regions throughout the country.

Whitman will announce the new data at an afternoon press conference following a day spent on an educational tour where she will be briefed on air quality issues and resource threats to the nation's most visited national park. Reporters who wish to participate in the entire tour should join Whitman and Frist at 9:40 a.m. at the Sugarlands Visitor Center. The press conference will commence at 12:15 p.m. at Clingman's Dome dome, a roof circular or (rarely) elliptical in plan and usually hemispherical in form, placed over a circular, square, oblong, or polygonal space. Domes have been built with a wide variety of outlines and of various materials. .


Administrator's Schedule
Monday, July 1, 2002

9:40 a.m.
TOUR Great Smoky Mountains National Park
View Air Quality Display and Briefing on Air Quality Monitoring
Start of Tour at Sugarlands Visitor Center
Great Smoky National Park
Gatlinburg, Tenn.

11:20 a.m.
Arrive Clingman's Dome. Frist, Whitman and Park officials will
proceed to observation tower for brief view, followed by 1/2 mile hike
to Clingman's Dome air quality monitoring station. Participate in
briefing by Park officials at Clingman's Dome air quality monitoring
station.

12:15 p.m.
Press Conference to Detail Local Benefits and New Region-Specific
Data on Clear Skies
Clingman's Dome
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Gatlinburg, Tenn.

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