Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida
Title | Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2012-06-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309254965 |
The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered "newly impaired" as a result of the new criteria-not the total cost of improving water quality in Florida. The incremental approach is appropriate for this type of assessment, but the Environmental Protection Agency's cost analysis would have been more accurate if it better described the differences between the new numeric criteria rule and the narrative rule it would replace, and how the differences affect the costs of implementing nutrient reductions over time, instead of at a fixed time point. Such an analysis would have more accurately described which pollutant sources, for example municipal wastewater treatment plants or agricultural operations, would bear the costs over time under the different rules and would have better illuminated the uncertainties in making such cost estimates.
Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida
Title | Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2012-07-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0309254930 |
The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered "newly impaired" as a result of the new criteria-not the total cost of improving water quality in Florida. The incremental approach is appropriate for this type of assessment, but the Environmental Protection Agency's cost analysis would have been more accurate if it better described the differences between the new numeric criteria rule and the narrative rule it would replace, and how the differences affect the costs of implementing nutrient reductions over time, instead of at a fixed time point. Such an analysis would have more accurately described which pollutant sources, for example municipal wastewater treatment plants or agricultural operations, would bear the costs over time under the different rules and would have better illuminated the uncertainties in making such cost estimates.
Federal Register
Title | Federal Register PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2012-12 |
Genre | Delegated legislation |
ISBN |
Oversight Hearing to Examine the Impact of EPA Regulation on Agriculture
Title | Oversight Hearing to Examine the Impact of EPA Regulation on Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Agricultural pollution |
ISBN |
Running Roughshod Over States and Stakeholders
Title | Running Roughshod Over States and Stakeholders PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual
Title | Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Eutrophication |
ISBN |
EPA's Takeover of Florida's Nutrient Water Quality Standard Setting
Title | EPA's Takeover of Florida's Nutrient Water Quality Standard Setting PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781981682256 |
EPA's takeover of Florida's nutrient water quality standard setting : impact on communities and job creation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, August 9, 2011.