Nov 20, 2025
NSR “Second Guessing” Departs – Again – Update from Hiser Burggraff Curtis
Posted by Eric Hiser
On September 15, 2025, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin issued a memorandum, ” EPA Policy on Enforceability and Use of the Actual-to-Projected-Actual Applicability Test in Determining Major Modification Applicability in New Source Review Preconstruction Permitting: Reinstatement of 2017 Memorandum ,” (2025 Memo) which reinstated Administrator Pruitt’s December 7, 2017 memorandum ” New Source Review Preconstruction Permitting Requirements: Enforceability and Use of the Actual-to-Projected-Actual…