EPA Seeks Small Entity Participation on Air Rules for Secondary Aluminum Production Facilities (HQ)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is
inviting small businesses, governments and not-for-profit
organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs)
for a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel to review risk
and technology standards for secondary aluminum production
facilities.
The panel for the Secondary Aluminum Production
Risk and Technology Reviewwill focus on developing
amendments to air toxic emissions standards for secondary aluminum
production facilities. Secondary aluminum plants recover aluminum
from scrap such as beverage cans and process aluminum combined with
other materials to produce alloys that are made into new products.
There are many small businesses included in this industry and this
process gives these entities a voice early in the regulatory
process.
The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires agencies
to establish a federal panel for rules that may have a significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The
panels will include federal representatives from the Small Business
Administration, the Office of Management and Budget, and EPA. The
panel members ask a selected group of SERs to provide advice and
recommendations on behalf of their company, community, or
organization to inform the members about the potential impacts of
the proposed rule on small entities.
EPA seeks self-nominations directly from small
entities that may be subject to the rules’ requirements.
Other representatives, such as trade associations that exclusively
or at least primarily represent potentially regulated small entities, may
also serve as SERs.
Self-nominations may be submitted through the
links below and must be received by May 20, 2011.
EPA is under court order to propose standards
for these sources in November 2011 and finalize them in August
2012.
Nominate yourself as a SER for the
panel:
https://www.epa.gov/reg-flex