Technical Background Document for the Report to Congress on Remaining Wastes from Fossil Fuel Combustion :

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000000469
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.2 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Technical Background Document for the Report to Congress on Remaining Wastes from Fossil Fuel Combustion :
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


Citation APA MLA Chicago Agency, E. P. (n.d.). Technical Background Document for the Report to Congress on Remaining Wastes from Fossil Fuel Combustion :. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Excerpt: This document provides findings of an analysis of cost and economic impacts associated with alternative disposal and management practices for mitigating human health risks from fossil fuel combustion (FFC) wastes. The document is divided into sections covering the following four FFC sectors: C Comanaged wastes at coal-fired utilities C Non-utility coal combustion wastes (CCWs) C Fluidized bed combustion (FBC) wastes C Oil combustion wastes (OCWs). It concludes with a section summarizing overall conclusions and presenting industry-level economic impacts. The remainder of this introduction details the approach and methodology used, outlines assumptions, and describes limitations to the analysis.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 1.1 APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 1.2 COST ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSUMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 1.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 2.0 COMANAGED WASTES AT COAL-FIRED UTILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 2.1 DATA SOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 2.2 DESIGN, OPERATION, AND COST-ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 2.2.1 Waste Management Unit Size Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 2.2.2 Population and Waste Generation Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 2.2.3 Comanaged Waste Management Unit Design Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6 2.2.4 Mill Rejects Management Unit Design Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6 2.3 ANNUALIZED BASELINE, COMPLIANCE, AND INCREMENTAL COSTS . . . . . . 2-8 2.4 IMPACTS AS A FUNCTION OF PLANT SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9 3.0 NON-UTILITY COAL COMBUSTION WASTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 3.1 DATA SOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 3.2 DESIGN, OPERATION, AND COST-ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 3.2.1 Waste Management Unit Size Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 3.2.2 Population and Waste Generation Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 3.2.3 Waste Management Unit Design Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4 3.3 ANNUALIZED BASELINE, COMPLIANCE, AND INCREMENTAL COSTS . . . . . . 3-4 3.4 IMPACTS AS A FUNCTION OF PLANT SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4 4.0 FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION WASTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.1 DATA SOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.2 DESIGN, OPERATION, AND COST-ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.2.1 Waste Management Unit Size Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 4.2.2 Population and Waste Generation Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 4.3 ANNUALIZED BASELINE, COMPLIANCE, AND INCREMENTAL COSTS . . . . . . 4-4 4.4 IMPACTS AS A FUNCTION OF SIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 4.4.1 Electric Power Sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 4.4.2 Industrial/Institutional Sectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 5.0 OIL COMBUSTION WASTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1 5.1 DATA SOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1 5.2 DESIGN, OPERATION, AND COST-ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 5.2.1 Waste Management Unit Size Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 5.2.2 Population and Waste Generation Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 5.2.3 Waste Management Unit Design Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 5.3 ANNUALIZED BASELINE, COMPLIANCE, AND INCREMENTAL COSTS . . . . . . 5-3 5.4 IMPACTS AS A FUNCTION OF PLANT SIZE . . . . . . .