The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has for the first time imposed nationwide monitoring requirements and enforceable numeric limits on the amount of sediment that can run off any construction site that impacts 10 or more acres of land at any one time, despite 澳门六合彩开奖预测's years-long effort to explain the detrimental effect on the construction industry.
The rule, finalized on November 23, specifies the exact types of erosion and sediment controls that contractors must use, at a bare minimum, to control stormwater runoff on all construction sites that disturb one or more acres of land. 聽The rule will take effect in February 2010 and be phased in over four years.聽Specific requirements and other details .
EPA's ruling comes as 澳门六合彩开奖预测 urges the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to reconsider plans to require the state's construction companies to replace billions of dollars worth of construction equipment as part of their "off-road diesel retrofit" rule.聽 澳门六合彩开奖预测 has worked with CARB for several months to show that the economic downturn has already done more to reduce construction-related diesel emissions than regulators predicted.聽 In fact, CARB previously estimated 147,000 pieces of construction equipment would be present in California in 2009, but have only located 103,000 pieces, indicating that thousands of pieces have been sold for pennies on the dollar.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 will continue making the case for construction companies nationwide on the harmful impact of poorly-planned environmental mandates.
For more information, contact Leah Pilconis at (703) 837-5332 or pilconisl@agc.org.
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