EPA's delay revising its boiler and other combustion rules - likely until after the November elections - is putting regulated entities in regulatory limbo, industry sources say, stalling job-creating projects and upgrades at industrial facilities due to uncertainty over what combustion pollution limits they will have to meet. The package of rules includes a boiler maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics standard, a more-stringent commercial and industrial solid waste incinerator (CISWI) emissions rule and a nonhazardous secondary material (NHSM) waste definition rule that determines under which air rule facilities are regulated. Industry groups sued over the original rules, published in the Federal Register in March 2011, claiming that they are unachievable and unnecessarily strict.
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