| Main Title |
Regulatory impact analysis of the final Clean Air Mercury Rule. |
| Other Authors |
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| CORP Author |
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. |
| Publisher |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Air Quality Strategies and Standards Division, Innovative Strategies and Economics Group ; |
| Year Published |
2005 |
| Report Number |
EPA-452/R-05-003 |
| Stock Number |
PB2005-106246 |
| OCLC Number |
59007835 |
| Subjects |
Coal-fired power plants--Environmental aspects--Law and Legislation--United States ;
Coal-fired power plants--Pollution control devices
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| Additional Subjects |
Mercury ;
Toxicity ;
Air quality ;
Regulations ;
Air pollution sources ;
Health effects ;
Environmental exposure pathways ;
Environmental effects ;
Emissions ;
Trace amounts ;
Methylmercury ;
Dose-response relationships ;
Fossil-fuel power plants ;
Fishes ;
Health hazards ;
Air pollution effects ;
Food chains ;
Public health ;
Ecological concentration ;
Ecosystems ;
Cost benefit analysis ;
Risk assessment ;
Regulatory Impact Analysis ;
Clean Air Mercury Rule(CAMR)
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| Internet Access |
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EKBD |
EPA-452/R-05-003 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
04/15/2005 |
| ELBD ARCHIVE |
EPA 452/R-05-003 |
Received from HQ |
AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
10/04/2023 |
| NTIS |
PB2005-106246 |
Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. |
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07/26/2022 |
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| Collation |
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
| Abstract |
This report provides an analysis of the benefits and costs of the final Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR). In Section 2, we discuss the potential health effects of mercury. Section 3 provides a detailed discussion of mercury in the environment, including how mercury deposited to water bodies transforms into methylmercury in fish tissue. This section also provides an assessment of the response time for systems after a change in mercury deposition. Because fish consumption is the primary pathway for exposure to methylmercury, Section 4 provides a profile of fishing activity in the United States. Section 5 presents information on concentrations of mercury in fish. Because this regulation requires control on coal-fired power plants, Section 6 provides a profile of the power sector in the United States, while Section 7 describes the emissions, control requirements, control options considered for CAMR, and the regulatory costs of the final CAMR. Section 8 describes the resulting change in mercury deposition from air quality modeling of the CAMR regulatory options. Section 9 presents a derivation of a dose-response function that relates mercury consumption in women of childbearing with changes in IQ seen in children that were exposed prenatally. Chapter 10 presents exposure modeling and benefit methodologies applied to a no-threshold model. Chapter 11 presents the final benefit analysis numbers of CAMR giving consideration to established health benchmarks. Finally, Chapter 12 presents a benefit analysis of reductions in PM as a result of controls applied for mercury. |
| Notes |
Project Officer: Lisa Conner. "March 2005." Includes bibliographical references. "EPA-452/R-05-003." |
