Readying MACT, EPA Floats Federal Plan To Cut Sludge Incinerator Emissions

摘要

EPA is proposing a federal plan to curb air pollution from existing sewage sludge incinerators (SSIs) in a host of states that appear unlikely to adopt the agency's requirements even as the agency works to revise its air toxics limits for the sources in response to a court ruling that requires a better explanation of its methodology. In an April 27 proposal, EPA proposed a federal plan to impose emissions guidelines (EG) on existing SSIs, in lieu of missing or inadequate state plans that would otherwise be required to implement requirements for regulating pollutants, reporting emissions, training incinerator operators and for other purposes. See page 2 for details. (Doc. ID: 180933) EPA in 2011 set emissions limits for SSIs covering both toxic and other pollutants under sections 111 and 129 of the Clean Air Act, setting new source performance standards (NSPS) for new and modified sources, and EG for existing sources - those that commenced construction before Oct. 14, 2010.