Louisville Adopts Strictest Air Toxics Regulations in the Nation
WASHINGTON - On June 21, the Louisville (Ky.) Metro Air Pollution Control District adopted what the NPCA reports to be the strictest air-toxics regulations in the United States. The package is known as the Strategic Toxic Air Reduction (STAR) program.
When fully implemented, the regulations will require companies with Title V or FEDOP permits to assess their use of 191 chemicals or compound categories. If the risk from exposure exceeds one-in-a-million additional cancer deaths for any one chemical, the company will be required to install T-BAT (best available control technology for toxics). T-BAT would also apply if the aggregate risk from all chemicals exceeds 7.5 in a million. Title V sources have until the end of 2006 to perform this analysis on the first category of emissions.