EPA Seeks Input on New Clean Air Standards for Solid Waste Landfills

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives for a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel that will focus on the agency’s review of its New Source Performance Standards for municipal solid waste landfills.

The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review new source performance standards every eight years and revise them if necessary, and the agency is under a court-ordered deadline to complete its review and propose how to address the results by Feb. 4, 2014. Final is expected by Dec. 17, 2014.

Municipal solid waste landfills are disposal facilities in or on land for household waste and may receive certain other types of waste, such as non-hazardous sludge and commercial solid waste. Emissions from municipal solid waste landfills, known as “landfill gas,” occur from decomposition of wastes.

The panel will include federal representatives from the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as the EPA. Panel members will ask a selected group of representatives to provide advice and recommendations on behalf of their company, community, or organization to inform the panel about potential impacts of the proposed rule on small businesses.

Other representatives, such as trade associations that exclusively or at least primarily represent potentially regulated small groups, may also serve.

The EPA seeks self-nominations directly from the small groups that may be subject to the requirements of the regulations and those nominations must be received by July 5, 2013 and may be submitted through the link below.

Click here to nominate yourself.

For more information on the New Source Performance Standards, click here.