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What is "
New Source Review"?

In 1977, the U.S. Congress established the New Source Review (NSR) permitting program as part of the 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments.  The New Source Review is a pre-construction permitting program that serves two important purposes.

1. The
New Source Review ensures that air quality is not significantly degraded from the addition of new and modified factories, industrial boilers and power plants. In areas with unhealthy air, the New Source Review assures that new emissions do not slow progress toward cleaner air. In areas with clean air, especially pristine areas like national parks, the New Source Review assures that new emissions do not significantly worsen air quality.

2. The
New Source Review program assures people that any large new or modified industrial source in their neighborhoods will be as clean as possible, and that advances in pollution control occur concurrently with industrial expansion. New Source Review permits are legal documents that the facility owners/operators must abide by. The permit specifies what construction is allowed, what emission limits must be met, and often how the emissions source must be operated.

 


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The New Source Review or "NSR" requires owners of stationary sources of air pollution to obtain permits before the start of construction. The New Source Review is also referred to as; construction permitting or pre-construction permitting. 

There are three categories of New Source Review permitting requirements (a source may have to meet one or more of these permitting requirements). 

The three categories of New Source Review requirements are:

What are New Source Review Permits? 

New Source Review Permits are the legal documents that the owners/operators of the source must follow. 

NSR Permits specify what construction is allowed, what the emissions limits are, and must be complied with and often how the source must be operated.  NSR Permits may contain conditions to make sure that the source is built to match parameters in the application that the permit agency relied on in their analysis. For example, the permit may provide specification relating to stack heights that the permit agency used in their analysis of the source. Some limits in the permit may be present at the request of the source to keep them out of other requirements, i.e. the source may take limits in a minor NSR permit to keep the source out of PSD. To assure that sources follow the permit requirements, permits also contain monitoring, record-keeping, and reporting requirements.


Who Issues the NSR Permits? 

Typically, New Source Review permits are issued by the state or local air pollution control agencies the source is located in.

The EPA issues the permit in some cases. State and local air pollution control agencies may have their own permit programs that are approved by EPA in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) or they may be delegated the authority to issue permits on behalf of EPA.  (See the permit agency contacts page for more information.)

Latest Developments

On November 9, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized technical corrections and other clarifying amendments to seven subparts under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting (40 CFR part 98). In this action, EPA amended 40 CFR part 98 to correct technical and editorial errors and to address certain issues identified as a result of working with entities required to report during rule implementation and outreach. In general, these amendments do not change the overall requirements of the rule but improve clarity and ensure consistency across the calculation, monitoring and data reporting requirements. In addition, EPA has provided a one-time extension of the reporting deadline to September 28, 2012 for the 12 source categories (I, L, T, W, DD, FF, II, QQ, RR, SS, TT, UU) that began collecting data in 2011 to ensure sufficient time for development and stakeholder testing of the electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting tool for these subparts.

 

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