Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources

In 1995, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) issued a memo known as the Once-in-Always-In (OIAI) policy that effectively made all major source designations permanent regardless of whether emission reductions lowered facility emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) to less than major source thresholds. On January 25, 2018, the US EPA released another memo that ultimately reversed the OIAI policy to allow major source facilities to reclassify as area sources. This new memo became known as the Major MACT to Area (MM2A) policy memo.

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