Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 03/12/1999

Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects

EPA is today requesting comments on a draft Project XL Final Project Agreement (FPA) for the City of Albuquerque. The FPA is a voluntary agreement developed collaboratively by Albuquerque, stakeholders, the State of New Mexico, 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. If implemented, the draft FPA and a site specific rulemaking would allow Albuquerque to conduct pollution prevention outreach and implementation at up to 50 new businesses per year, and integrate stormwater pollution prevention aspects with its pretreatment program. Albuquerque would attempt to initially reduce loadings of 13 pollutants of concern, and optimize resources to achieve competitive institutional integration of pollution prevention and pretreatment program work. Albuquerque would start the project by conducting sewer sub-basin monitoring to determine where 13 pollutants predominate within the collection system. Through this approach, Albuquerque will focus its effo