Oil & Gas Journal: The US Environmental Protection Agency required fenceline monitoring for the first time as it issued a final rule updating refinery emissions control requirements. Refiners will be required to install the monitors to measure benzene at the edges of their plant sites to better protect and inform nearby communities, EPA said.
The fenceline monitors must encircle the facility to detect benzene at very low levels, and the monitoring data will be posted on EPA’s web site, the agency said. In response to public feedback, the rule also provides room for alternative monitoring methods in the future as technology advances, EPA said.
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