Industries Urge EPA To Narrow NSR 'Adjacency' Test Beyond Draft Guide

Major industry groups are praising EPA's draft guidance narrowing when the agency will “aggregate” pollution sources as one source for new source review (NSR) permitting purposes, but are urging EPA to further reduce the scope of aggregation by creating a more-limited definition of when sources are deemed “adjacent” for NSR. A coalition of 10 industry groups including the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and National Mining Association (NMA) in comments obtained by Inside EPA say the guidance fails to resolve...