Mats Compliance Costs

Aecom process technologies can reduce operating costs increase mercury control system reliability and improve the flexibility of plant operations.

Mats compliance costs.

The total reduction in capital over 5 years at these facilities including 275 million for. B table 3 5 of the 2011 mats ria shows annualized compliance costs for mats in 2015 2020 and 2030. The rule includes a provision that allows state environmental permitting agencies to grant one year compliance exemptions. And we continue to look for ways to refine and perhaps further reduce our expected mats compliance costs.

The mats requires that coal fired power plants incorporate the maximum achievable control technologies mact in order to control the emissions of acid gases toxic metals and mercury by april 2015. In section 5 of the executive summary the 2011 mats ria discussed several factors. After primarily considering compliance costs relative to the hap benefits of mats epa is concluding that it is not appropriate and necessary to regulate electric utility steam generating units under section 112 of the clean air act caa. The mercury air and toxics standard mats which was finalized by the environmental protection agency last.

As a result of these closures our mats compliance costs are expected to decrease from around 925 million to approximately 650 million. Annualized compliance costs over the time frame range from 7 4 to 9 6 billion 2007. Issue 10 and volume 117.