Using alternatives to implement economic and effective NSPS/EG landfill gas control systems
The new source performance standards (NSPS) for {open_quotes}new{close_quotes} municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills and emission guidelines (EG) for {open_quotes}existing{close_quotes} MSW landfills were finalized on March 1, 1996. This concludes an arduous rule development process which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began in the 1980`s. The rule evolved from rigidly prescriptive requirements to the present combination of goal oriented design guidance and performance standards. The SWANA Landfill Gas Management Division strongly encouraged this evolution. The flexibility in the final rule provides opportunities for states to facilitate, and landfill operators to develop, landfill gas systems that are both economic in their design, operation, and monitoring as well as effective in their control of gas emissions. The purpose of this paper is to describe those opportunities. The NSPS rule applies to {open_quotes}new{close_quotes} municipal solid waste landfills that began construction, reconstruction or modification, or began accepting waste on or after May 30, 1991. The emission guidelines (EG) apply to {open_quotes}existing{close_quotes} landfills for which construction, reconstruction, or modification was commenced before May 30, 1991 and has accepted waste at any time since November 8, 1987 or has additional future capacity. The nomograph based method had never been field tested and the area-of-influence method was widely regarded as being either unnecessary or inappropriate for design purposes. Subsequently, on June 21, 1993, the EPA published in the Federal Register (58 FR 33791) a notice providing information on additional data used in developing the final NSPS and EG which improved the reasonableness of some rule aspects but notably added a performance standard while retaining prescriptive design requirements.
- OSTI ID:
- 381447
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9603165--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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