Cost Reports and Guidance for Air Pollution Regulations

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EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual

EPA's Control Cost Manual provides guidance for the development of accurate and consistent costs for air pollution control devices. The Control Cost Manual focuses on point source and stationary area source air pollution controls for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and some acid gases (primarily SO2 and HCl).

EPA is currently updating the Control Cost Manual. This update will be the Seventh Edition and is required under the authority of the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act. EPA expects to complete the Seventh Edition by January 2022. Below is a listing of EPA's Cost Manual chapters as well as other files related to the Cost Manual. The files are in PDF format unless noted otherwise and can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

Timeline for Updating Chapters

Timeline for chapter revisions - updated as of September 2024 (pdf) (2 pp, 151 KB)

Updated Chapters and Related Documents

Status and Updated Chapters for the Seventh Edition:

Section 1 – Introduction
Chapter 1 - Background (update expected at completion of Seventh Edition)
Chapter 2 - Cost Estimation: Concepts and Methodology (Note: This is the final version of this chapter, replacing a draft version on 2/1/2018.) (pdf) (45 pp, 908 KB)

Section 2 – Generic Equipment and Devices
Chapter 1 - Hoods, Ductwork, and Stacks (expected completion 2029)
Chapter 2 - Fans, Pumps, and Motors (expected completion 2029)
Chapter 3 - Permanent Total Enclosures (expected completion 2028)
Chapter 4 - Monitors (expected completion 2029)

Section 3 – VOC Controls; Section 3.1 – VOC Recapture Controls
Chapter 1 - Carbon Adsorbers, 10/2018 (pdf) (51 pp, 1 MB)
Chapter 2 - Refrigerated Condensers, 11/2017 (pdf) (44 pp, 736 KB)
Section 3 – VOC Controls; Section 3.2 – VOC Destruction Controls
Chapter 1 - Flares, 8/2019 (pdf) (71 pp, 863 KB)
Chapter 2 - Incinerators and Oxidizers (pdf) (70 pp, 1.2 MB)
Section 4 - NOx Controls
Chapter 1 - Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (Note: updated on 4/25/2019) (pdf) (71 pp, 963 KB)
Chapter 2 - Selective Catalytic Reductio (Note: updated on 06/12/2019) (pdf) (107 pp, 1.3 MB)
Chapter 3 - Low NOx Burners/Ultra-low NOx Burners (expected completion 2026)
Section 5 - SO2 and Acid Gas Controls
Chapter 1 - Wet and Dry Scrubbers for Acid Gas Control (pdf) (122 pp, 1.2 MB)
Chapter 2 - Dry Sorbent Injection (expected completion 2025)
Section 6 – Particulate Matter Controls
DRAFT - Chapter 1 – Fabric Filters (pdf) (125 pp, 2.6 MB) (Note: The draft file can be downloaded at this link.)
Chapter 2 - Wet Scrubbers for Particulate Matter (expected completion 2028)
Chapter 3 - Electrostatic Precipitators (expected completion 2026)
Section 7 – Mercury Controls
Chapter 1 - Activated Carbon Injection (expected completion 2027)

Previous Version of the Cost Manual

The previous version of the Control Cost Manual is the Sixth Edition, January 2002:

EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual - Sixth Edition (EPA 452/B-02-001)
Read Me File (pdf) (4 pp, 26 KB)
Table of Contents (pdf) (4 pp, 31 KB)
Entire Document (pdf) (752 pp, 6 MB)

Individual chapters of the Control Cost Manual Sixth Edition are listed below:

Section 1 - Introduction
Chapter 1 - Background (pdf) (11 pp, 49 KB)
Chapter 2 - Cost Estimation: Concepts and Methodology (pdf) (46 pp, 310 KB)
Section 2 - Generic Equipment and Devices
Chapter 1 - Hoods, Ductwork, and Stacks (pdf) (59 pp, 467 KB)
Chapter 3 - Permanent Total Enclosures (PTEs) (pdf) (37 pp, 273 KB)
Chapter 4 - Monitors (pdf) (41 pp, 313 KB)
Section 3 - VOC Controls; Section 3.1 - VOC Recapture Controls
Chapter 1 - Carbon Adsorber, 9/1999 (pdf) (4 pp, 671 KB)
Chapter 2 - Refrigerated Condensers (pdf) (4 pp, 336 KB) 12/1995
Section 3 - VOC Controls; Section 3.2 - VOC Destruction Controls
Chapter 1 - Flares (pdf) (46 pp, 281 KB)
Chapter 2 - Incinerators (pdf) (64 pp, 358 KB)
Section 4 - NOx Controls; Section 4.2 - NOx Post-Control
Chapter 1 - Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (pdf) (51 pp, 350 KB)
Chapter 2 - Selective Catalytic Reduction (pdf) (66 pp, 457 KB)
Section 5 - SO2 and Acid Gas Controls; Section 5.2 - Post-Combustion Controls
Chapter 1 - Wet Scrubbers for Acid Gas (pdf) (6 pp, 604 KB)
Section 6 - Particulate Matter Controls
Chapter 1 - Baghouses and Filters (pdf) (60 pp, 475 KB)
Chapter 2 - Wet Scrubbers for Particulate Matter (pdf) (62 pp, 1 MB)
Chapter 3 - Electrostatic Precipitators (pdf)  (70 pp, 858 KB)

Cost Reports

Cost reports provide details on the capital and annual costs of regulations that EPA prepares as well as the necessary information to determine how these costs are estimated. More information on how costs are estimated can be found by consulting the EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual (see above).

Below is a list of cost reports prepared by EPA. The cost reports are generally available in PDF format (unless otherwise noted) and can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

Cost Reports
11/2015
04/2000

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Last updated on March 25, 2025