EPA Water Official Suggests Likely Delay For Utility Cooling Water Rule

摘要

An EPA water official is suggesting that the agency is likely to miss a looming June 27 deadline for issuing its final cooling water intake rule for power plants - a delay that some have previously said could be attributed in part to the lack of a Senate-confirmed permanent administrator of EPA. Julie Hewitt, branch chief of Office of Water's economic and environmental assessment branch within its science and technology office, told a June 19 Science Advisory Board (SAB) panel that while EPA plans on issuing the final rule "at least on paper" by the deadline, "I'm here, so that tells you something."