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Coastal Power Plants
On July 9, 2004, the United State Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA), under a consent decree, published
the revised, Phase II Rule, aimed to minimize the environmental
impacts from impingement and entrainment from existing coastal
power plants cooling water intake structure (CWIS). Further,
the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) recently
reclassified five (5) of the Los Angeles region nine (9) coastal
power plants from ocean discharge to discharge into enclosed
bays and estuaries (under the CTR and the SIP).
As a decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit, Riverkeeper v. EPA, precludes USEPA from applying
the Phase II rule unless and until USEPA takes further action.
On July 9, 2007, in the Federal Register, the USEPA took a
final action to suspend federal Phase II 316(b) requirements.
(updated January 24, 2008)
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Press Release: Boeing
Pays $471,000 Fine For Pollution Violations
Los Angeles-$471,190 in
fines has been paid by The Boeing Company in response to a
complaint issued on behalf of the Los Angeles Regional Water
Quality Control Board. The penalties were for 79 violations
of Boeing's permit,...
(posted Sept 12, 2007)
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