EPA Rejects Bid For ‘Retroactive’ Use Of Weaker NSR Aggregation Policy

EPA Region 3 has rejected a chemical producer’s request to overturn its facility’s prior status as a single “source” of emissions for air permitting when combined with other companies’ adjacent facilities, and instead apply a revised softer policy that could allow the facility to claim its plant is a separate source subject to less-stringent air controls. The decision, outlined in a Feb. 12 letter from EPA Region 3 Air & Radiation Division Director Christina Fernandez to the Eastman Chemical Company,...