EPA PROPOSES AMENDMENTS TO TOXICS RULE FOR IRON, STEEL PLANTS

EPA has proposed amending the maximum achievable control technology rule for iron and steel manufacturing to address concerns the industry has raised over the final rule. An agency source says the revisions would actually subject more facilities to the rule, but without requiring them to undertake new emissions controls. EPA and an industry source say that the amendments, proposed in the Aug. 30 Federal Register , address relatively minor interpretations of the rule, which is still being challenged by environmentalists...