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Show The Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking (ICCR) was established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to address several rulemaking requirements mandated by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. The ICCR regulatory umbrella includes Section 129 Solid Waste Incineration, Section 112 Maximum Achievable Control Technology for Combustion Sources and Section 111 New Source Performance Standards for Combustion Sources. The Clean Air Act specifies 5 specific categories of combustion sources: process heaters stationary internal combustion engines, boilers, turbines, and incinerators. Workgroups were formed to address the vanous regulatory requirements for each of the 5 combustion sources. These workgroups were called source workgroups. The Process Heater Workgroup was one of the 5 source workgroups. Two additional workgroups were formed to provide assistance to all the source workgroups in the areas of testing and monitoring as well as economics. Besides the 7 workgroups, the U S EPA also formed an oversight committee known as the Coordinating Committee. The Coordinating Committee comprised stakeholders representing the US EPA, affected industries, state and local regulators, and various environmental organizations. The Coordinating Committee members were designated as members of the Federal Advisory Committee responsible for transmitting recommendations to the U S EPA Thus, the source workgroups reviewed existing information, collected additional information, collated and analyzed all the available information on each of the 5 source categories, and made recommendations to the Coordinating Committee for forwarding to the U S EPA regarding regulation development. The first issue to be resolved was a specific, working definition for each of the combustion sources. There was significant confusion on the part of several stakeholders whether they should be part of the boiler, process heater, or incinerator workgroup. A small ad-hoc workgroup was formed to recommend specific definitions for each of these 3 combustion sources. The definitions proposed by the small workgroup and adopted by the Coordinating Committee are presented in Table I. Once the definitions were adopted, the workgroups formed and began meeting. Every effort was made to ensure a cross-section of stakeholders as reflected by the Coordinating Committee on each of the workgroups. Due to the voluntary nature of workgroup participation, this was not possible in all cases. A list of the Process Heater Workgroup members is presented in Table II. |