EPA Eyes End To NSR Compliance Priority, Adding Water And Lead Goals

EPA is proposing new compliance initiatives (NCIs) for fiscal years 2020-2023 that include eliminating the agency’s priority on enforcing the Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) permit program, while adding new priorities on noncompliance with drinking water standards and reducing children’s exposures to lead. The move to end NSR enforcement as a compliance priority follows efforts by the agency's air office to ease industry requirements under the permitting program, and is likely to exacerbate environmentalists' concerns about an apparent...