Advocates Eye Interim Existing Source Controls Ahead Of EPA Methane ICR

摘要

Environmentalists are suggesting that EPA could use data it has available to set controls for some existing sources of methane at oil and gas facilities ahead of the agency's planned timeline for finalizing its pending information collection request (ICR) meant to inform eventual existing source rules for the sector, and then target the remaining sources using data from the ICR. "We're committed to winning comprehensive regulations on existing sources as quickly as possible," one environmentalist says, adding that "there are certain sources" for which EPA has enough data to act on before the ICR process is finished. Afterward, the agency could bifurcate a rulemaking to address the remaining sources after collecting data through the ICR, the source says.