Detailed Costing Document for the Final Effluent Limitations Guidelines andStandards for the Centralized Waste Treatment Industry

摘要

In this document, EPA presents the costs estimated for compliance with theproposed centralized waste treatment (CWT) effluent limitations guidelines and standards. Section 1 provides a general description of how the individual treatment technology and regulatory option costs were developed. In Sections 2 through 4, EPA describes the development of costs for each of the wastewater and sludge treatment technologies. In Section 5, EPA presents additional compliance costs to be incurred by facilities, which are not technology specific. These additional items are retrofit costs, monitoring costs, RCRA permit modification costs, and land costs.