Opinion ID: 519994
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Cost of Compliance with the BPT Limitations

Text: 155 Finally, having concluded that the EPA construed the statute reasonably in declining to subject the BPT limitations to the BCT cost test, we find that the Administrator did not act arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the costs of the limitations were justified by the significant amount of pollutants that would be removed. 156 Although the cost per pound of 71 cents required to meet the BPT limitations is almost double the 38 cents per pound that the OCPSF industry presently spends to remove conventional pollutants, the 71-cents-per-pound figure is not so high as to make the EPA's decision arbitrary and capricious: 103 The selection of the point of diminishing returns is a matter for agency determination. 104 157