FGD and DeNOx
NEWSLETTER       

                                                                                                         September 2005
                                                                                                             No. 329

EPA Proposes FIP for CAIR

EPA is proposing a federal implementation plan (FIP) to require power plants in CAIR states to participate in one or more of three separate cap-and-trade programs. As part of this action, EPA is also responding to North Carolina's March 2004 petition under section 126 of the Clean Air Act. The proposed FIP would require power plants in the 28 CAIR states and the District of Columbia to participate in cap-and-trade programs to reduce annual SO₂ emissions, annual NO_x emissions, and ozone season NO_x emissions. EPA also is proposing the FIP for New Jersey and Delaware, based on a proposal to include those states in CAIR for fine particulate. The FIP would not limit states' flexibility in meeting their CAIR requirements. EPA would withdraw the federal plan for any state once that state's own SIP for meeting CAIR requirements is in place.

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