Industry Opposes EPA Plan To Revoke Bush-Era NSR 'Aggregation' Rule

摘要

Industry groups are criticizing EPA's proposal to revoke a Bush-era new source review (NSR) rule allowing facilities to avoid "aggregating" emissions from different facilities on the same site by warning it would create permit confusion, though environmentalists support the proposal and say the rule makes it easier to avoid NSR requirements.rnEPA took comment through June 16 on its March 29 proposal to withdraw the January 2009 aggregation rule, which changed the way existing industrial facilities combine upcoming construction projects to determine if they trigger NSR, which can require the installation of expensive pollution controls. EPA justified the proposal by saying it has concerns that the 11th-hour Bush EPA rulemaking would make the NSR permitting program less effective.