Key Parts Of EPA Coal Ash Plan May Boost Bid For Non-Hazardous Rules

摘要

EPA's pending proposal to regulate coal waste could boost industry's opposition to hazardous waste rules by outlining possible new approaches to resolving concerns over a lack of federal enforceability of non-hazardous rules, and including new data on major adverse economic impacts of hazardous rules on the beneficial reuse industry, informed sources say.rnThe proposal, due out later this month, is no longer expected to identify a "hybrid" approach- regulating some disposal as hazardous and reuse as non-hazardous - as EPA's preferred option for regulating coal waste under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), the sources say. Instead, the agency is likely to offer a "level playing field" of options for controlling coal ash that includes the hybrid option among several others, one source says.