RE: Partial Response B Zalph - Types of Techniques

[patricia bonner <bonner.patricia@epa.gov>]

Tomorrow is the day when our agenda focuses on permits and rules, but I sent your message on to a few people and have a partial response.   A team of Air people will host tomorrow's discussion and the site will also be monitored for Water permitting questions.  

meantime....here is a small start on permitting....

In your message there's a statement about EPA's role being the "final decision maker" in most permit decisions.  In the case of RCRA that's completely not true--the states have the final say on permit approvals.  My understanding in the water in air programs is that this is mostly but not all delegated to the states there too.   EPA does not review RCRA permit applications -- the states do.    There are few permit programs where EPA sits and reviews individual applications--mostly we review the states permitting programs -make sure the program meets the legal requirements--and then the states have final say on air, water- waste -permits.  EPA's Permits Guide makes clear all these distinctions.  See the Guide and several other resource tools at http://www.info-ren.org/network-democracy/epa-pip/bb/pr.shtml in the Dialogue briefing book.           

pat