Regulation & law · 30/12/2013

EPA Proposes to Disapprove Washington State's Exemption of Alcoa Wenatchee Facility from Clean Air Act Requirements

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to partially disapprove a Washington Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (RH SIP) element that exempted Alcoa's Wenatchee Works aluminum smelting facility from the Clean Air Act's Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) requirements, after receiving adverse comments regarding the dispersion modeling used for the determination.