Refinery Rule On Hold Pending EPA Review Of 'Solid' Waste Definition

摘要

EPA has put on hold its plan to propose a rule addressing competing concerns from recycling companies and petroleum manufacturers over petroleum refinery waste disposal under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) until the agency completes an ongoing review of issues related to its hotly contested definition of solid waste (DSW) rule, an informed industry source says.rnEPA has been planning to propose the rule, which is intended to respond in part to a 2003 petition from the Vanadium Producers & Reclaimers Association (VPRA), for several years, with the rule scheduled to be proposed in 2009 as of last year. But the Obama administration's most recent regulatory agenda released earlier this month lists the date of the planned proposal as "to be determined."