Final rule affects: Industrial boilers, institutional and commercial boilers and process heaters. If you own or operate a boiler/ process heater located at a major source, you fall under compliance.

Sources (defined):

• New or existing
• Large, small, and limited use (solid, liquid & gas fired units)
  • Large: water tube boilers with heat input capacities greater than 10 million BTU/hr.
  • Small: fire tube boilers or any boiler with heat input less than or equal to 10 million BTU/hr.
  • Limited Use: large units with capacity utilizations less than or equal to 10% as required in federally enforceable permit.

4 categories of HAP (Hazardous Air Pollutants)

• Mercury - Hg
• Non-Mercury metallic HAP - PM (particulate matter)
  • Sources will appear in the flue gas fly-ash
• Inorganic HAP- HCL
• Organic HAP - CO (Carbon Monoxide)

Opacity Limits:

• Existing sources - 20% (6-minute average)
• New Sources - 10% (6-minute average)

3-years for compliance

• There will be a case-by-case expansion for a 1-year expansion

The Clean Power and Clean Smokestacks Acts cut power plants' toxic mercury pollution to 5 tons per year by 2008.

The Bush administration plan delays any mercury reductions to 2010. It allows power plants to spew more than 5 times more mercury pollution each year from 2010 through 2017, and 3 times more mercury emissions every year after.

The Clean Power and Clean Smokestacks Acts cut power plants' soot-forming sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution to 2.25 million tons per year by 2009.

The administration plan delays reductions to 2010. It then allows twice as much sulfur pollution each year through 2017, and one third more every year after.

The Clean Power and Clean Smokestacks Acts cut power plants' smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution to just over 1.5 million tons per year by 2009.

While starting NOx cuts in 2008, the administration plan allows 40% more NOx pollution each year from 2009 through 2017, and 200,000 tons more NOx each year after.

The Clean Power and Clean Smokestacks Acts cut carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution to 1990 levels, just over 2 billion tons per year, by 2009.

The administration plan ignores carbon pollution, and would let emissions of this heat-trapping pollutant keep growing every year.