EPA Delays Cooling Water Rule, Driving Calls For Stricter Cost Reviews

摘要

EPA has agreed to delay issuance of its final cooling water intake rule for an additional 11 months from its current deadline of July 27, confirming what many sources have said was inevitable due to the complexity of the rule and the agency's need to review comments on its recently-released notices of data availability (NODAs). Several sources have independently confirmed that EPA has agreed to extend the deadline for its rule that would set national fish mortality standards for cooling water intake structures from existing industrial and power generating facilities by 11 months, to June 27, 2013.