ABSTRACT
This chapter utilises the model that is designed to evaluate the costs, benefits, uncertainties, and distributional effects of air pollution abatement techniques. In order to shed some light on these Issues, available scientific information is organized into an environmental simulation model. There are a number of basic assumptions in this model. One important assumption of the model is that it is possible to analyze a power plant or a single site independently of other emission sources. It is assumed that the effect of the power plant is the same regardless of the background level of air quality. Another assumption made in order to calculate the variance of the final outcomes is that each submodel is statistically independent of the other components of the model. It seems reasonable to assume that the errors in one component would be uncorrelated to the errors in another.
