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Title: Economic analysis of effluent limitation guidelines and standards for the centralized waste treatment industry

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:339588

This report estimates the economic and financial effects and the benefits of compliance with the proposed effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the Centralized Waste Treatment (CWT) industry. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has measured these impacts in terms of changes in the profitability of waste treatment operations at CWT facilities, changes in market prices to CWT services, and changes in the quantities of waste management at CWT facilities in six geographic regions. EPA has also examined the impacts on companies owning CWT facilities (including impacts on small entities), on communities in which CWT facilities are located, and on environmental justice. EPA examined the benefits to society of the CWT effluent limitations guidelines and standards by examining cancer and non-cancer health effects of the regulation, recreational benefits, and cost savings to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) to which indirect-discharging CWT facilities send their wastewater.

Research Organization:
Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States); Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA (United States); Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, DC (United States); Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI ID:
339588
Report Number(s):
PB-99-130742/XAB; CNN: Contract EPA-68-C4-0060; TRN: 90882483
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: See also PB95-186821, PB99-129678 and PB99-130759.; PBD: Dec 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English