Fugitive Emissions Exemption Rule Stayed As EPA Reviews Petition for Reconsideration

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency will stay for 18 months a final rule that exempts some industries from having to report fugitive emissions when determining whether they need to upgrade pollution controls under Clean Air Act new source review requirements, according to a final rule published in the Federal Register March 31 (75 Fed. Reg. 16,012).rnEPA is issuing the stay while it reviews a petition for reconsideration from the Natural Resources Defense Council asking the agency to overturn the Bush administration rule allowing certain industries, including mines, to exclude fugitive emissions from new source review requirements.