Draft EPA Plan Seeks Sharp Limits On EAB, Sparking Litigation Warning

July 15, 2019
A draft plan circulating within EPA would sharply curtail the role of the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) in a bid to speed permit reviews -- including possible elimination of the current administrative appeals process -- prompting warnings from critics that it could backfire by scaling back EAB’s role in building an administrative record that EPA can use to defend permits in court. “I am not sure it is going to achieve the benefits they think,” says an agency source. The...


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