Lawmakers Plan Bill Giving EPA 'Solid Waste' CCR Enforcement Authority

摘要

House lawmakers are poised to introduce a bill that would give EPA first-time authority to enforce solid waste rules for coal combustion residues (CCR) in an effort to reach a compromise with the agency to avoid more stringent hazardous waste CCR rules, which industry says would obliterate the coal ash recycling industry.rnRep. Heath Shuler (D-NC), the chairman of the House small business committee's rural development panel, said at a July 22 hearing on the issue that he and other lawmakers are developing legislation to give EPA authority to enforce CCR rules under subtitle D of the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA).