The Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) recently gave Notice of Intended Action to amend Chapter 23, “Emission Standards for Contaminants,” Iowa Administrative Code. 

The Commission proposes to adopt by reference the federal air toxics standards for stationary engines commonly known as the RICE NESHAP. RICE NESHAP is the acronym for National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE).  The Commission proposes to adopt the RICE NESHAP by reference into state rules so that all compliance deadlines will be in accordance with federal time lines.

 

In 2010, the Commission adopted an earlier version of the RICE NESHAP. In Executive Order (EO) 72, Governor Branstad subsequently rescinded adoption of the RICE NESHAP.

 

Read the rest of the RICE NESHAP amendment.

 

A public hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 4, in the conference rooms at the DNR Air Quality Bureau offices.  The public comment deadline is 4:30 p.m. that day.

 

See the comments being submitted by the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter.