PFI comments on boiler MACT-GACT
The Pellet Fuels Institute submits comments defending the biomass boiler industry against this precarious rule.
EPA has proposed a rule under the Clean Air Act (CAA) – the Area Source Boiler Rule, 75 Fed. Reg. 31,896 (June 4, 2010) – that will affect emissions of hazardous air pollutants from institutional, commercial, and industrial boilers and process heaters burning biomass and other fuels. The stringent hazardous air pollutant limits in this proposed rule will have significant cost impacts on biomass boilers and it will also have the effect of discouraging the future use of biomass in these boilers.
PFI is concerned primarily with EPA’s proposed treatment of biomass boilers with design capacity below 10 mmBtu/hr, especially those units below 3 mmBtu/hr.
