NSR Reform: An Obituary

摘要

New Source Review (NSR) is too complicated. It inhibits technical and economic development and innovation. The program is a patchwork of regulation, interpretation memos and court opinions. The goal of reform efforts was to clarify and streamline this well-intentioned but ill-writtenrnregulation. However, the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt at a huge reform of NSR has died. Table 1 summarizes the reforms, initiated under the Bush administration.rnSeveral good ideas from NSR reform died in the courts. Two of these had a common goal of making it easier for units to increase efficiency and add control devices.