New Plants May Be Built in Prevention of Significant Deterioration

question 370

Multiple Choice

New plants may be built in Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) areas if the:

• A) government has a national defense need for the plant
• B) plant installs Best Available Control Technology
• C) plant owner demonstrates the plant will not cause the area's maximum allowable increase to be exceeded
• D) plant installs Best Available Control Technology and the plant owner demonstrates the plant will not cause the area's maximum allowable increase to be exceeded
• E) government has a national defense need for the plant and the plant installs Best Available Control Technology and the plant owner demonstrates the plant will not cause the area's maximum allowable increase to be exceeded

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Definitions:

P-value

A statistical measure that indicates the probability of observing the data, or something more extreme, under the null hypothesis.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, used as a benchmark to decide whether an observed result is statistically significant.

Hypotheses Testing

In statistics, a method that utilizes information from a sample group to evaluate a presumption about a population's parameter.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A nonparametric test used to compare three or more independent samples to determine if there is a significant difference between their medians.