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New Power Plant Rules:Why Should They Matter?There has been a lot of recent media attention

focused on environmental standards for existingpower plants. While most folks understand thisproposal will make it harder to operate a coal-fired power plant in the United States, not manyunderstand why this rule generates so much con-troversy. After all, this administration has beenpretty clear all along it wants to wean our coun-try off coal.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) isupdating the New Source Performance Standards(NSPS) for existing and new power plants. Thesestandards kick in whenever you build a new facil-ity, or if you make a major update to an existingfacility. They have been around for many years,and are in place for many different industries.For example, grain elevators are subject to NSPSstandards if they have a storage capacity of morethan 2.5 MM bushels.

So the uproar is caused by the way EPA isapproaching the update, not the fact that they areupdating the standard. First, past stan-dards were updated based on actualinstallations. For example, if there was anew technology put into place on a newcoal power plant, and it worked well,there is a good chance this new technologywill be added into the NSPS standard at alater date. Second, past power plant stan-dards were specific to fuel burnedand power plant type. Coal-fired powerplants had one standard, natural gasplants another.

These two items are important prece-dents in past NSPS regulation, but EPA istrying to change the parameters. In thepast, the power company and state PublicUtility Commission (PUC) would deter-mine what type of power plant would needto be built, then EPA would get to dictatestate of the art controls when the environ-mental permit application was processed.The new NSPS standard proposed by EPAwould reduce average emission require-ments below anything that an actual newcommercial coal-fired plant could meet.

Kelley Green of the Texas Cotton GinnersAssociation contributed this article.Contact him at kelley@tcga.org or (512)476-8388.

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