Manufacturing Industry

EPA Planning Tougher Requirements For Heavy Construction.

Underground Construction, September, 2001 by Barlas, Stephen

Companies who do underground construction will probably have to take additional soil and sediment control measures as a result of the effluent standards the EPA is working on. The agency held two national meetings in late July to give interested construction associations a look at some of the technology controls the agency is considering. Those controls would go into effect no earlier than 2004.

The EPA has a regulatory timetable to meet because of a consent decree the agency signed with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

The EPA plans to publish a proposed rule later this fall, or in the early winter, according to Eric Strassler, an official in the agency's engineering and analysis division.

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