EPA Guidance On PALs Marks Latest Piecemeal Step To Ease NSR Permits

EPA has issued guidance encouraging industrial sources of air pollution to use “plantwide applicability limits" (PALs) to ease their Clean Air Act new source review (NSR) permitting obligations, the latest step in the agency’s piecemeal approach to reforming the NSR program but which environmentalists say will help facilities avoid strict permits. The agency announced the “ Guidance on Plantwide Applicability Limitation Provisions Under the New Source Review Regulations ” in an Aug. 4 memo to all 10 regional air division...