W. Joseph Hatley, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | Filed under: Environmental Compliance
In early 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to finalize its "Area Source" boiler rule which will require first-time controls on air emissions from existing and new institutional boilers at schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education, as well as other commercial and institutional boilers.
EPA estimates there are 183,000 existing boilers at 92,000 separate facilities that will be covered by the Area Source final rule. "Institutional boilers" are combustion units that burn coal, oil, biomass, or natural gas as a means to generate steam or hot water for heat.
If your school has a boiler, now is the time to begin considering how these new rules will impact operations. For more information on any of these rules, or other recent environmental developments, please contact Andrew Brought at abrought@spencerfane.com, any other member of the Environmental Law Practice Group or Education Law Group, or your regular Spencer Fane contacts, at 1-800-526-6529. (Thanks to Drew for alerting us to this development, and authoring this post!)