Review of the EPA's economic analysis of final water quality standards for nutrients for lakes and flowing waters in Florida / Committee to Review EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Water Science and Technology Board.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water quality management--Florida.

Water quality management.

Water quality--Standards--Florida.

Water quality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered "newly impaired" as a result of the new criteria-not the total cost of improving water quality in Florida. The incremental approach is appropriate for this type of assessment, but the Environmental Protection Agency's cost analysis would have been more accurate if it better described the differences between the new numeric criteria rule and the narrative rule it would replace, and how the differences affect the costs of implementing nutrient reductions over time, instead of at a fixed time point. Such an analysis would have more accurately described which pollutant sources, for example municipal wastewater treatment plants or agricultural operations, would bear the costs over time under the different rules and would have better illuminated the uncertainties in making such cost estimates.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Assessment and Commentary on EPA's Analysis""; ""3 A Framework for Incremental Cost Analysis of a Rule Change""; ""Acronyms""; ""Appendix A: Narrative, Numeric, and Proposed Florida Nutrient Criteria Processes Illustrated""; ""Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613721457

9780309254960

0309254965

9781280880148

1280880147

9780309254946

0309254949

OCLC:

932320474