Metalcasting Group to Work With EPA on New Area Source Rule
Posted on: Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 06:00 CDT
By Anonymous
The 1990 Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) from non-major (i.e. area) sources in certain industry sectors. All iron and steel metalcasting facilities not covered by the MACT requirements could be subject to these new area source regulations. The agency has more flexibility in how it structures the area source rules and how it addresses the HAPs emissions from these facilities. EPA began work in mid-2005 on the development of the area source emission standards for iron and steel metalcasting facilities and plans to have draft regulatory rule language drawn up by the fall of 2006.
AFS recently formed the Area Source Working Group with the primary goal of developing industry input on the rulemaking. Any interested facilities, especially smaller operations, can join this group. Metalcasting representatives within the Area Source Working Group met on Feb. 1 to discuss the framework for the rule, identify ways to limit the rule's applicability to smaller facilities and suggest potential cost-effective methods for non-major sources to control HAPs. The group also began development of the industry's strategy for ensuring the rule has the lowest impact on non-major metalcasting facilities as possible. The metalcasting representatives met again on March 9 before bringing industry recommendations to EPA.
For more information on the area source rule, visit EPA's Air Toxics website at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/urban/arearules.html.
Copyright American Foundrymen's Society Mar 2006
Source: Modern Casting
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