ACTIVISTS SEE IG STUDY AIDING ARGUMENTS IN EPA NSR RECONSIDERATION

Environmentalists say a recent inspector general's (IG) report that concludes EPA's new source review (NSR) routine maintenance rule hampered enforcement of the program could help critics pressure the agency to amend the rule as part of its ongoing administrative reconsideration process. Environmentalists and other critics of the rule believe key conclusions in the IG report, which finds flaws in both the agency's regulatory impact analysis and its selection of a cost threshold for exempting facilities' modifications from environmental review, expose...