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Analysis Group Inc., was commissioned to examine the economic impacts of the PCB ANPR, with particular focus on the specific microeconomic effects to individual natural gas pipelines. The data and models employed in support of the economic analysis are for modeling purposes only and are not necessarily reflective of the nature and extent of PCBs in the natural gas pipeline system today. While commissioned by INGAA in support of its comments, this paper is an independent analysis, and its conclusions are based on the expertise of the authors.

In October 2007, U.S. Senators Joseph I. Lieberman (Independent-CT) and John W. Warner (Republican-VA), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection, introduced S. 2191, America's Climate Security Act of 2007. Following action by the Committee on Environment and Public Works, the modified legislation was later introduced as S. 3036, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008. In response to the introduction of global climate legislation, the Natural Gas Council (NGC) undertook a study to review the potential impact on natural gas. Our model runs were being completed just as Sen. Barbara Boxer (Democrat-CA) introduced her substitute amendment to S. 3036, but they are consistent with the offsets outlined in her proposed changes.