EPA Plans To Lower Priority Of NSR Enforcement Cases

EPA is overhauling its enforcement policy to place a lower priority on future action to prosecute power plants for violations of new source review (NSR) rules, and instead concentrate on other enforcement issues, agency officials say. While the agency will continue to pursue cases it has already brought against utilities, one activist charges that the change in enforcement policy is "carefully calculated to sabotage" future NSR enforcement. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson in an Oct. 13 teleconference said he was directing...