Comments to the Small Business Advocacy Review Panel—Oil and Natural Gas Sector New Source Performance Standards

AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 13, 2021)—

Lanelle Wiggins, RFA/SBREFA
Team Leader EPA Office of Policy
202-566-2372
Delivered via: [email protected]

Ms. Wiggins:

Thank you for the opportunity to provide final comments to the Small Business Advocacy Review Panel—Oil and Natural Gas Sector New Source Performance Standards. We have expressed before, but it is worth reiterating that our association sincerely appreciates EPA’s work to listen to small businesses and small entity representatives to incorporate their concerns into the rulemaking process moving forward. As a representative of small businesses, the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers has an obligation to advocate for our clients when we see potentially negative regulatory burdens will make small businesses less competitive to larger competitors or worse make operations impossible due to regulatory requirements sized to larger companies. We fear without clear exception and a bifurcation of regulatory requirements for small operations, small business will be harmed.

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