Comments closed May 4
Oppose Standards for Air Curtain Incinerators That Only Burn
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
- What
- The EPA's proposing two regulatory changes for air curtain incinerators (ACIs) and commercial/industrial solid waste incinerators (CISWIs) under the Clean Air Act. The first action would consolidate existing opacity and monitoring rules for ACIs that burn wood waste, yard waste, and clean lumber into a single subpart, and it'd remove permitting requirements for ACIs not at major sources. The second action would allow CISWI units to temporarily burn disaster debris without meeting normal CAA section 129 requirements, matching flexibility that already exists for other solid waste incinerators.
- Where
- The notice names no place; see the agency’s own words under Case.
- How much
- We have no figure for this fight yet; the agency’s own words are under Case.
- Decided
- Comments closed May 4, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Federal Register ↗, read May 6, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur summary of the Federal Register 2026-05491 ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchNo verified figure is on the record for this fight.
- DecidedMay 4, 2026, from Federal Register, the document’s comment close date (federalregister.gov) ↗. Read May 6, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 10, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
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Affects public lands
The EPA's proposing two regulatory changes for air curtain incinerators (ACIs) and commercial/industrial solid waste incinerators (CISWIs) under the Clean Air Act. The first action would consolidate existing opacity and monitoring rules for ACIs that burn wood waste, yard waste, and clean lumber into a single subpart, and it'd remove permitting requirements for ACIs not at major sources. The second action would allow CISWI units to temporarily burn disaster debris without meeting normal CAA section 129 requirements, matching flexibility that already exists for other solid waste incinerators.
In the agency’s own words
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing two separate and distinct actions under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 129. In the first action, the EPA proposes to consolidate the existing provisions governing air curtain incinerators (ACI) that only burn wood wastes, yard wastes, and clean lumber into one new rule subpart. Specifically, we are proposing to consolidate the opacity limitations and associated monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements that currently exist across various subparts for CAA section 129 source categories: large municipal waste combustors (LMWC), small municipal wast…
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