Industries Ask EPA to Stay Rule Defining Which Burned Materials Are Solid Waste

摘要

Representatives of paper, wood, and plastics manufacturers May 18 asked the Environmental Protection Agency to stay a rule that defines which materials burned in combustion units are solid waste and subject to emissions standards for incinerators and which are considered fuel and subject to less stringent boiler standards.The rule threatens to classify many more materials as solid wastes than intended by EPA, they said.The groups said there is "substantial uncertainty" about what materials will be considered waste under the rule and asked the agency to stay the rule until it determines that its definition of solid waste "is not broader than it intended."