EPA faces 'intense' workload for air toxics rule reviews

EPA faces an “intense” workload for undertaking dozens of Clean Air Act-mandated reviews of existing air toxics regulations, agency officials say, but they are vowing to meet legally binding deadlines for performing the overdue risk and technology reviews (RTRs) to determine whether to revise any of the rules. At a Dec. 12 meeting of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee (CAAAC) in Washington, D.C., EPA air official Bill Harnett outlined the daunting schedule facing EPA to complete dozens of risk-and-technology-reviews...