New Rules for Incinerators

Guideline A-7: Air Pollution Control, Design and Operation Guidelines for Municipal Waste Thermal Treatment Facilities, has been revised and renamed as "Air Pollution Control, Design and Operation Guidelines for Municipal Waste Thermal Treatment Facilities". Guideline A-7 was updated to revise references to legislation and other documents that have changed since the Guideline was last revised and provide specific updates as follows.

For thermal treatment facilities (except cement and lime kilns burning municipal waste):

• more stringent emission limits for cadmium, lead, nitrogen oxides, organic matter and particulate matter to reflect requirements in other jurisdictions as well as capability of current technologies;