Review of the Epa's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida (Water Infrastructure) - Softcover

National Research Council; Division On Earth And Life Studies; Water Science And Technology Board

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309254930 ISBN 13: 9780309254939

Verlag: NATL ACADEMY PR, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NATL ACADEMY PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0309254930
• ISBN 13: 9780309254939
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
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