Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 27.12.1999

Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects

EPA is today requesting comments on a draft Project XL Final Project Agreement (FPA) for the City of Denton. The FPA is a voluntary agreement developed collaboratively by Denton, stakeholders, the state of Texas, and EPA. Project XL, announced in the Federal Register on May 23, 1995 (60 FR 27282), gives regulated sources the flexibility to develop alternative strategies that will replace or modify specific regulatory requirements on the condition that they produce greater environmental benefits. Between 1996-1998, the City of Denton Environmental Services Division and the University of North Texas (UNT) Institute of Applied Sciences conducted an 18 month study to assess the feasibility of integrating the industrial pretreatment program activities with those required under the Phase II Stormwater regulations. Funding was made possible by an EPA 104 (b)(3) grant. If implemented, the Denton's draft FPA and a site specific rulemaking would allow Denton to continue implementation of recommendations resulting from that study, which was completed in April of 1998. Denton would like to reduce its monitoring and annual inspections for certain individually approved facilities and focus on po