As part of its regulatory support role for Clean Air Act (CAA) programs, the Innovative Strategies and Economics Group (ISEG) within the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (OAQPS) and analyzes the small entity and economic impact of sectors-specific and broad national emission reduction strategies. Such analyses are in accordance with statutory requirements (Section 317 of the Clean Air Act, and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA)), and are also designed to provide useful information on the impacts of this proposed standard on directly affected firms and on their consumers. This report provides an economic impact analysis for the dry cleaning residual risk standard as applied to all of the sources affected by this proposal: major source and area source dry cleaners. The area source dry cleaners include co-residential facilities, which are of particular interest in this rulemaking given the proximity of apartment residents to these sources and the risk exposure from perchloroethylene (PCE) emissions the experience. The analysis is a comparison of the annualized compliance costs to the annual revenues for known and potentially affected firms.

Project officer: Larry Sorrels. "December 2005." Includes bibliographical references (page 17). "EPA 452/B-05-001." Document available online at www.regulations.gov . See document ID number EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0155-0259.