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The EPA
Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) requires that all
coal-fired electric generation units monitor and
report mercury emissions by January, 2009.
CAMR
will build on EPA’s Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR)
to significantly reduce emissions from coal-fired
power plants – the largest remaining sources of
mercury emissions in the country.
When
fully implemented, these rules will reduce utility
emissions of mercury from 48 tons a year to 15 tons,
a reduction of nearly 70 percent. In order to
determine compliance levels and develop control
strategies, utilities need to obtain accurate and
reliable mercury emissions data.
Power
generators must use Continuous Mercury Monitoring
Systems (CMMS). Sorbent trap monitoring is a
low-cost proven technology that can accomplish
continuous mercury monitoring.
The
required frequency of testing will be determined by
the pounds per year output of the combustion source.
For example, Low mercury emitters (LME), less than
29 lbs. per year, are allowed to perform periodic
testing rather than doing continuous monitoring.
For the
EPA Web site page about the Clean Air Mercury Rule
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