NSR Enforcement Litigation: What You Need to Know

摘要

>The New Source Review (NSR) program of the Clean Air Act requires major stationary sources to go through an extensive, time‐consuming, and expensive review and permitting process prior to construction. Among other requirements, such sources are required to install the best available control technologies (BACT) to reduce levels of specific regulated pollutants. The NSR program also applies to existing facilities if they are modified in substantial ways and if, as a result, emissions increase by significant amounts (these are known as “major modifications”).