Industry Braces For Final Legacy CCR Rule’s Swift Compliance Deadlines

Update Appended Industry lawyers are warning power-sector officials to prepare for speedy implementation deadlines under EPA’s final rule governing “legacy” coal combustion residual (CCR) surface impoundments and CCR management units (CCRMU), though the measure’s imminent publication will start the clock on lawsuits that will challenge the rule and likely seek to block it. EPA is slated to publish its final legacy CCR surface impoundment rule in the Federal Register on May 8, an action that gives litigants...