...within such categories or classes. Factors relating to the assessment of best available technology shall take into account the age of equipment and facilities...various types of control techniques, process changes, the cost of achieving such effluent reduction, non-water quality environmental impact (including energy...

...limitations, the Act requires that the factors relating to "best practicable" controls include the "consideration of the total cost of application of...reduction benefits to be achieved from such application." " Senator Muskie agreed § 3<Mib) 304<bl. 304lb»l«Bi 30*b»2«Bl < SOftbXUBl. . \irlland Cement Aa'n...

...classes and categories of point sources . . . ." In assessing the BPT the Administrator is to consider "the total cost of application of technology in relation...reduction benefits to be achieved from such application, . . . the age of equipment and facilities involved, the process employed, the engineering aspects of...

...Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Congress directed the Administrator to consider "the total cost of application of technology in relation...reduction benefits to be achieved from such application." 33 USC § 1314 (b) (1) ("BPT" limitations). With regard to 1987 effluent limitations, the Administrator...

...DEFINED 98 BY THE ADMINISTRATOR." - 9 IN SETTING THOSE STANDARDS, THE ADMINISTRATOR WAS TO CONSIDER "THE TOTAL COST OF APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN RELATION...TO THE EFFLUE.NT REDUCTION BENEFITS TO BE ACHIEVED 29 FROM SUCH APPLICATION ...." IN RULING ON APPLICATIONS FOR VARIANCES FROM THE STANDARDS, HOWEVER,...

...with Its standard-setting deadlines). * Section 304 (b) of the Clean Hater Act told EPA to consider "the age of equipment and facilities involved, the...various types of control techniques, process changes, the cost of achieving such effluent reduction, non-water quality environmental impact (including energy...

...effluent. In determining the control measures and practices to be applicable to point sources, EPA must take into account: the age of equipment and facilities...the process employed; the engineering aspects of the various types of control technologies; process changes; nonwater quality environmental impacts (including...

...Administrator deems appropriate* in setting BAT-level standards. In addition, the Administrator had to consider 'the total cost of application of technology in relation...to the effluent reduction benefits to be achieved* when setting BPT-level standards. EPA claimed that the variance would cone Into play Where either information...

...factors relating to the assessment of BAT standards, set out in § 304(b)(2)(B) of the Act, include the age of equipment and facilities involved, the...application of various types of control techniques, the cost of achieving effluent reduction, and nonwater-quality environmental impacts. 33 USC § 1314(b)(2XB)....

...The act (section 304bl(B)) states that determination of the BPT requires the regulator to consider the "total cost of application of technology in relation...to the effluent reduction benefits to be achieved and to take into account the age of equipment and facilities involved, the process employed, the engineering...