Federal Boiler Regulation

[Tom]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a set of regulatory proposals under the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from boilers, process heaters, and certain solid waste incinerators.

National Association of State Foresters

[mad murdock]

Their link to the submit comments page is not working, here is the direct page on the regulations.gov site
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480afdfb4
I think that the only way for people to survive the coming tidal wave of "regulation" will be for people and businesses to downsize, and have more local manufacturing.  These new regs serve one purpose, to continue to put us all in a box, until we have nowhere to go.  Soon, there will be an outright ban on wood burning, unless you are a federal land manager, then you can let your whole forest burn, with wanton disregard as to the particulates that your burning forest are spewing into the atmosphere.....this country (the gubment) is MAD!(as in crazy in the head).

[Shagy]

In 2012 the EPA is set to reregulate wood stoves as it did in 1989. The biggest concerns are indoor wood stoves do not list the highest output of smoke on any test runs. The manufactures do not want to list this. The anti wood burners want it.... So here we go!!! The new EPA testing for outdoor models require this info to be listed.

[scsmith42]

The document states "industrial, Commercial sources", not homeowners.

[Kansas]

So is it safe to buy a wood burner unit, instead of a gasification unit? We have plans to put up a building to house all our sawmill equipment plus kiln dried inventory on a piece of property we bought across the road of where we are now. My plan is to use hot water heat in the floor thats heated by a wood burner. After talking to a few people at the Richmond show, I gathered wood burners would burn greener wood than a gasification system. And be less trouble. The one guy representing the wood burners said the only regulations were on the east coast, and Kansas was safe. Is he telling me the truth?

[Ironwood]

That is one step (or word) away from homeowners as well.  >:(

Ironwood

[Gary_C]

So is it safe to buy a wood burner unit, instead of a gasification unit?

It is right now but:

"No man's life, liberty, or property [and the stock market] are safe when the legislature is in session."
– Judge Gideon Tucker, 1866 New York Circuit Court

And you could change "legislature" to "congress" and still be correct.

[OneWithWood]

Don't forget the local government and commissions  :(