EPA Moves To Reinstate Startup, Shutdown ‘SIP Call’ For Three States

EPA is readying a plan to bar three states -- Texas, North Carolina and Iowa -- from exempting emissions during periods of facility startup, shutdown and malfunction (SSM) in their Clean Air Act state implementation plans (SIPs) as the agency seeks to catch up on long-delayed implementation of the policy that the Trump administration stalled. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed interagency review of the plan Feb. 13, according to OMB’s website, clearing the way for...