Over the next year, states will be working with stakeholders to submit plans to implement the new federal Clean Power Plan and submit comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed
federal implementation plan and model rules.
Must, or should, declarations also expressly be given «force of law» in provincial law, or in the federal statute
for federal implementation?
Neither the final CPP, the CEIP fact sheet, nor EPA's proposed
CPP federal implementation plan discusses the CEIP's statutory basis.
A history of the Clean Air Act shows that when states fail to implement an adequate plan, the EPA proposes
a federal implementation plan as a default, which it will finalize by summer 2016.
This is the 54th such federal takeover, or «
federal implementation plan» («FIP»), imposed by the Obama Administration.
Contained
a Federal Implementation Plan that EPA would use in states that did not implement adequate implementation plans.
The groups are challenging EPA's decision to approve
a federal implementation plan for emissions of haze - forming pollutants from the Danskammer coal - fired power plant under the Clean Air Act's regional haze rule.