Commenters Say Reconsidered Boiler Rules An Improvement But Other Changes Needed

摘要

The reconsidered air toxics standards for boilers and incinerators that were proposed in December 2011 are an improvement over standards the Environmental Protection Agency rushed to issue in March 2011, several commenters said.However, the reconsidered standards could be improved, commenters on the proposed rule told EPA.For example, EPA was right to replace numeric emissions limits for dioxins with work practice standards and to allow a full three years for compliance, industry groups said.But the agency erred in its calculations of emissions limits, and the standards are more stringent than necessary, the comments said.