MP&M victory. (Environmentally Speaking).(Environmental Protection Agency signs final regulation on Metal Products and Machinery effluent limitation guidelines)

CircuiTree, April, 2003 by Abrams, Fern

On Feb. 14, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman signed a final regulation on Metal Products and Machinery (MP&M) effluent limitation guidelines. The final regulation is substantially different from the regulations discussed in the January 2001 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), and does not contain any new regulations for the PWB or EMS industries. The rule, as originally proposed, would have applied to 87,000 facilities in 16 industry sectors that manufacture and maintain metal products, including PWB/PCB facilities. In the final rule, EPA establishes limitations and standards for only 2,400 facilities that discharge oily wastewater directly to surface waters and streams.

The final rule was scaled back after industry...

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