Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology: Install Commercially Compliant Engines on National Security Exempted Vessels?

Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) national security exemption (NSE) status can be applied to new and existing U.S. flagged vessels having a national defense mission and meeting associated criteria. Benefits of installing noncompliant marine engines on NSE vessels may include preserving a vessel class primary defense mission capability and engine configuration control. The drawback is increased emissions. An objective and versatile methodology framework was developed to quantify the cost-benefit tradeoff for NSE vessels, vehicles, and equipment. The parametric-based comparison of one-time and ongoing costs with monetized health benefit (utilized in conventional regulatory impact analyses) satisfactorily encompasses the fundamentals of environmental health risk and can be applied to all mobile and stationary equipment types.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 05, 2015
Accession Number
ADA625927

Entities

People

  • And Stephen Luzzi William Remley
  • Jonathan Dehart
  • Kimberly Nastase

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Compression Ignition
  • Compression Ignition Engines
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Costs
  • Diesel Engines
  • Engineers
  • Engines
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Protection
  • Marine Engines
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security