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...EPA is required by law to make regulatory decisions without regard to the cost of implementing them, and Browner, in her typical up-front fashion, acknowledged from the start that the cost of the new standards will be high--up to $8.5 billion a year, according to agency estimates. Yet the cleanup will, by her calculations, also save 15,000 lives, cut hospital admissions for respiratory illness by 9,000 and reduce chronic bronchitis cases by 60,000 each year. Surely that is worth a few billion...
...Moraff, assistant to the EPA's regional administrator and one of the agency's lead lawyers for water quality standards said that the MWRA program is a step in the right direction, but that it is just a start...
...Even if you eliminated the CSOs, it would not meet EPA standards [for swimming]," Zimmerman said...
Zimmerman said that the MWRA feels that because runoff problems are impossible to eliminate, EPA standards are impossible to achieve...
...while officials at the EPA and CRWA acknowledge that the Deer Island plant will be helpful, they are skeptical about the MWPA's proposal to kill remaining bacteria flowing into the river with chlorine...