BNA's Web Watch - New Source Review (March 2007)

Federal Government
Environmental Protection Agency
Proposed Rule for EPA’s New Source Review Program: Reasonable Possibility In Recordkeeping February 28, 2007
Proposed Rule (PDF, 36 pp, 123 KB) http://www.epa.gov/nsr/documents/20070226reasonable.pdf
Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/nsr/fs20070226.html

Final Rule to Revise Nonattainment New source Review Regulations: Appendix S
February 28, 2007
Final Rule (PDF, 91 pp, 195 KB) http://www.epa.gov/nsr/documents/20070227final.pdf
Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/nsr/fs20070227.html

EPA to Hold Hearing on Proposed Steps to Improve New Source Review
October 18, 2006
Public hearing notice, including instructions for registering to speak http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-8842.pdf

EPA Proposes Steps to Improve New Source Review
September 8, 2006 –
Proposed Rule http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/E6-15248.pdf
Qualitative Environmental Analysis
http://www.epa.gov/nsr/documents/dapn_analysis_9-8-06.pdf
Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/nsr/documents/dapn_frn_fs_9-8-06.pdf

Proposed Changes to New Source Review for Electric Generating Units.
October 13, 2005
Proposed Rule (PDF, 23 pp, 190 KB) http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/05-20983.pdf
Fact Sheet http://www.epa.gov/nsr/documents/fs20051013.pdf

Court Decisions

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Clean Air Act New Source Review 'Equipment Replacement Rule' http://www.net.org/air/documents/nsr_decision.pdf (Decided March 17, 2006)

Cornell Law School – Legal Information Institute
liibulletin: Supreme Court Oral Argument Previews
Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. (05-848)
Oral argument: November 1, 2006 http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/05-848.html

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that severely limited the circumstances under which new source review applies (Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., U.S., No. 05-848, 5/15/06 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/4th/041763p.pdf

Oral Argument – Supreme Court – Duke Energy vs. US http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/05-848.pdf

Nongovernment Organizations

Center for Economic Development and Research
Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy: How a Supreme Court Reversal on the Interpretation of New Source Review Could Imperil Rural America http://www.unt.edu/cedr/NewSourceReviewUpdate.pdf (October 2006)

Cato Institute
Regulation
What's Old is New: New Source Review's grandfathering problem http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv29n1/v29n1-1.pdf (Spring 2006)

Environmental Defense
Pivotal Clean Air Case Before Supreme Court -Our suit says Duke Energy must clean up old, polluting plants when it refurbishes them (10/30/2006)
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentID=5569&linkID=100

Letter: See No Evil, Hear No Evil
by Eric Schaeffer
EPA ignores court order by failing to provide for enforcement of new Clean Air Act rule.
Aug 30, 2006 http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pubs/NSR%20Letter.pdf

Natural Resource Defense Council
Benchmarking Air Emissions from Top 100 U.S. Power Companies
http://www.nrdc.org/air/pollution/benchmarking/default.asp

National Research Council
New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11701 (2006)