Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 27.10.1997

Regulatory Reinvention (XL) Pilot Projects

EPA, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, and OSi Specialties, Inc. (a subsidiary of Witco Corporation) signed a proposed Project XL Final Project Agreement (FPA) for OSi in Sistersville, West Virginia. The FPA is a voluntary agreement developed collaboratively by OSi, stakeholders, and state and federal regulators. The availability of the draft FPA and related documents was announced in the Federal Register on June 27, 1997 (FRL-5849-5). Project XL, announced in the Federal Register on May 23, 1995 (FRL-5197-9), 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. EPA has set a goal of implementing a total of fifty projects undertaken in full partnership with the states. Under the FPA, OSi will install an incinerator and route the process vents from its polyether methyl capper production unit to that incinerator for control of organic air emissions. OSi estimates this will reduce the facility's organic air emissions by about 309,000 pounds per year for substantially lower cost than compliance with regulations to b