(Download) "Big Rivers Electric Corp. V. Environmental Protection Agency" by United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Big Rivers Electric Corp. V. Environmental Protection Agency
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 04, 1975
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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The underlying question in this case is whether the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) properly disapproved a state regulation promulgated under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1857a-j (Supp. 1975), which would have authorized coal-burning plants ("sources" in the Act) to employ "alternate control strategies" for the control of air pollution by sulfur oxide gases without showing that constant emission controls of such pollutants are unavailable. Constant emission controls are achieved primarily by the installation of "scrubbers." The alternate control method employed by the petitioners consists principally of the use of intermittent emission limitations systems. The separate petitions for review filed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and several electrical utilities companies operating in Kentucky (the Utilities) were consolidated for hearing. At issue is the action of the Administrator in disapproving a portion of the Kentucky " Implementation Plan for the Attainment and Maintenance of the National and State Ambient Air Quality Standards" (Kentucky Plan). The portion which was disapproved provided as follows: