Proposed Toxics Rule RIA - latest version (as of 3/11/2011) 

 Larry Sorrels 

 to: cortney_higgins 

 03/11/2011 06:57 PM 

 Cc: Gina McCarthy, Janet McCabe, Joseph Goffman, Peter Tsirigotis, 

Lydia Wegman, Sam Napolitano, Wendy Blake, Paul Versace, RobertJ 

Wayland, Ron Evans, Bryan Hubbell, Jeb Stenhouse, Marc Houyoux, Tyler 

Fox, Larry Sorrels, Erich Eschmann, Barrett Parker, Reynaldo Forte, 

Robert Vollaro, Neal Fann, Ellen Kurlansky, Nick Hutson, Mary Johnson, 

Elliott Zenick, Rick Vetter, Christian Fellner, Kevin Culligan, 

Christine Davis, Kirk Baker, Madeleine Strum, Jeb Stenhouse, Erich 

Eschmann, Mikhail Adamantiades, Al McGartland, DavidA Evans, Peter 

Nagelhout, Bill Maxwell 

Cortney: 

Attached are the chapters to the current version of the toxics rule RIA. 

These chapters are in redline/strikeout and clean versions. Chapter 7 

and Appendix D are not in this email because no changes have been made 

from the version of the RIA that you have for these files. There is also 

a new Appendix to Chapter 8 (Appendix E) that contains results of energy 

efficiency policy sensitivity analyses. 

In addition, we have reviewed your extensive comments on the employment 

impacts that are in Chapter 9. We have developed a revised edition 

incorporating the spirit of most of your comments, hopefully we have 

moved in a direction where subsequent significant comments, if any, are 

more targeted because we now have an acceptable general framework in 

place. 

As I see it, we are making progress, there seems to be support for 

including not only the Morgenstern estimate (for the regulated industry, 

annual employment impacts) and the pollution control industry estimate 

(outside the regulated industry, one time, short term to build 

equipment). These would not be added together but called out separately. 

The rest of the newer estimates (changes due to coal retirements, 

additional reagent usage among others) are not included in either 

category, rather we call them out as specific endpoints (recognizing it 

is not a complete list) which some stakeholders may be interested in. 

We want to maintain all these estimates in a separate chapter rather than 

folding them in to the cost chapter. I consider these to be akin to a 

small business assessment, it is a separate economic impact analysis 

which is not part of the more classic cost benefit framework. 

 We have deleted the direct/indirect characterization. We have tried to 

clarify the language talking about jobs versus employment impacts and 

being consistent in our terminology. We have also reduced the precision 

of our estimates.. 

Thank you. 
Chapter1Exec SummaryToxicsRuleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter1Exec SummaryToxicsRuleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter2IntroductionToxicsRuleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter2IntroductionToxicsRuleRIA3-11OMBreviewcleanf.docx 

Chapter3_EmissionstoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter3_EmissionstoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter4AQmodelingtoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter4AQmodelingtoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter5mercuryHAPbenefitstoxicsruleRIA3-

11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter5mercuryHAPbenefitstoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter6co-benefitstoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter6co-benefitstoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter8ToxicsRuleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter 8ToxicsRuleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter 9economicimpactstoxicsruleRIA3-

11OMBreviewredllinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter 9economicimpactstoxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Chapter10toxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

Chapter10toxicsruleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

CHAPTER 11benefit-costcomparisonToxicsRuleRIA_3-

11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 

CHAPTER 11benefit-costcomparisonToxicsRuleRIA_3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

AppendixFToxics RuleRIA3-11OMBreviewredlinestrikeout.docx 
AppendixFToxics RuleRIA3-11OMBreviewclean.docx 

Larry Sorrels 

US EPA/OAQPS/HEID/AEG 

RTP, NC 27711 

919-541-5041 

919-541-0839 (fax) 

C439-02 

Room No. C445-A