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- From: bg055@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stewart Rowe)
- Subject: Emission Permit Adjustments
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:39:47 GMT
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- OK, who knows anything about this:
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- The conservation literature and bbs's have been full of comments about
- one (or maybe it's two) regulations forced on EPA by OMB and Council
- on Competitiveness.
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- First I read about _utilities_ being allowed to increase their emissions,
- without re-applying for their permit, whenever they make a process
- or equipment change which _increases_ their output (or their capacity?).
- In this story, there was no limit on the amount of the increase,
- and they were required to notify the state; no public notice;
- modification of the permit is automatic if the state does not object
- within _seven_ days.
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- Now I read that _any_ polluter may be allowed to increase his emissions
- by "up to" 245 tons annually, again without public notice. He must
- notify the state, can start immediately with the increased emissions,
- and the change is permanent unless the state objects in _90 days_,
- or the EPA within 45 days. Is this a new version of the previously-
- mentioned proposal, or a different one?
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- We probably cannot affect the US regs, but it seems that local action
- could make sure that the state publishes whatever notices they receive,
- or at least make them available to the public in a timely manner and
- a convenient location. Then, while the public may have no _regulatory_
- right to object, there is always the political right, as in the
- East Liverpool incinerator case, to make a stink and maybe get some
- action.
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- Can you resolve my confusion noted above? Have these rules actually
- issued, or are even they "frozen"? If necessary, I can spend a
- half day at the library with the Federal Register and get the details,
- but I'm hoping someone knows.
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