[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40330-40331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-13784]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7935-3]


Receipt of Requests for Initial Certification of Predictive 
Emission Monitoring Systems

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of data availability; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of receipt of requests for initial 
certification of alternative monitoring systems for nitrogen oxides 
emissions under the Acid Rain Program or the NOX Budget 
Program. The emissions monitoring regulations require EPA to provide 
notice of each request in the Federal Register and, following a public 
comment period of 60 days, to approve or disapprove the request. EPA 
has recently received requests for initial certification of nine 
alternative monitoring systems. All of these are predictive emission 
monitoring systems (PEMS). In order to be considered equivalent to a 
continuous emission monitoring system, each of these PEMS must meet the 
regulatory requirements for approval of an alternative monitoring 
system. EPA has conditionally approved three of these PEMS and is still 
reviewing the other six PEMS petitions.

DATES: Written comments on the proposed consent decree must be received 
by September 12, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket ID number OAR-
2005-0099, online at http://www.epa.gov/edocket (EPA's preferred 
method); by e-mail to [email protected]; mailed to EPA Docket 
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; or by hand delivery 
or courier to EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room B108, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20004, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday 
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Comments on a disk or CD-ROM 
should be formatted in Wordperfect or ASCII file, avoiding the use of 
special characters and any form of encryption, and may be mailed to the 
mailing address above.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Schakenbach, Clean Air Markets 
Division (6204J), Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, 
telephone: (202) 343-9158.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Additional Information About the Certification Requests

    Requests for initial certification of nitrogen oxides 
(NOX) PEMS have been received from the following sources, 
each subject to either the Acid Rain Program or the NOX 
Budget Program, or both:

MeadWestvaco (Alabama)

--1 gas-fired combustion turbine (conditionally approved); and
--1 gas-fired, pressurized furnace industrial boiler (conditionally 
approved)

Dearborn Industrial Generation (Michigan)

--3 gas-fired boilers; and
--3 gas-fired combustion turbines (one conditionally approved)

Braintree Electric Light Department (Massachusetts)

--1 gas- and oil-fired combustion turbine (Potter II Station)

    Pursuant to Sec.  75.20(f) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, for a period of sixty (60) days following the date of 
publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments 
relating to the requests for initial certification of the nine PEMS. 
EPA may disapprove a request for initial certification of a PEMS if the 
comments disclose facts or considerations that indicate that such 
approval is inappropriate, improper, inadequate, or inconsistent with 
the requirements of the Act or if the request otherwise fails to meet 
the requirements of part 75, subpart E, available at: http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/monitoring/consolidated then click on Volume 1.

II. Additional Information About Commenting on the Requests

A. How Can I Get a Copy of the Requests?

    EPA has established an official public docket for this action under 
Docket ID No. OAR-2005-0099, which contains a copy of the requests. The 
official public docket is available for public viewing at the Air 
Docket in the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room B108, 1301 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20004. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading 
Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading 
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is 
(202) 566-1742.
    An electronic version of the public docket is available through 
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may 
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to submit or view public 
comments, access the index listing of the contents of the official 
public docket, and access those documents in the public docket that are 
available electronically. Once in the system, select ``search'', and 
then key in the appropriate docket identification number.
    It is important to note that EPA's policy is that public comments, 
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available 
for public viewing in EPA's electronic public docket as EPA receives 
them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted 
material, confidential business information, or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Information claimed as 
confidential business information and other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute is not included in the official 
public docket or in EPA's electronic public docket. EPA's policy is 
that copyrighted material, including copyrighted material contained in 
a public comment, will not be placed in EPA's electronic public docket 
but will be available only in printed, paper form in the official 
public docket. Although not all docket materials may be available 
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available 
docket materials through the EPA Docket Center.

B. How and to Whom Do I Submit Comments?

    You may submit comments as provided in the ADDRESSES section. 
Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the specified 
comment period. Comments received after the close of the comment period 
will be marked ``late.'' EPA is not required to consider these late 
comments.
    If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you 
include your name, mailing address, and an e-mail address or other 
contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or 
CD-ROM you submit. This ensures that you can be identified as the 
submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact you in case EPA 
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties or needs further 
information on the substance of your comment. Any identifying or 
contact information provided in the body of a comment will be included 
as part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket, 
and made available in EPA's electronic public docket. If EPA cannot 
read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you 
for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
    Your use of EPA's electronic public docket to submit comments to 
EPA electronically is EPA's preferred method for receiving comments. 
The electronic public docket system is an ``anonymous access'' system, 
which means EPA will not know your identity, e-mail address, or other 
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. 
In contrast to EPA's electronic public docket, EPA's electronic mail 
(e-mail) system is not an ``anonymous access'' system. If you send an 
e-mail comment directly to the Docket without going through EPA's 
electronic public docket, your e-mail address is automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the official 
public docket, and made available in EPA's electronic public docket.

    Dated: June 14, 2005.
Sam Napolitano,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Air and Radiation.
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