OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION NESHAP PROPOSAL

摘要

On July 8,2005,the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA;Washington,DC;www.epa.gov)proposed a new rule supplementing a 1998 regulation issued under the Clean Air Act Amendments to control hazardous air pollutant(HAP)emissions from oil and natural gas production facilities.The proposal would reduce air toxics emissions from as many as 2,200 facilities(nationwide)to as few as 1,050 facilities(in urban counties only)that produce oil and natural gas.If implemented nationwide,EPA estimates that emissions of air toxics and volatile organic compounds(VOCs)would drop by 16,400 ton/yr and 31,400 ton/yr,respectively.