[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 201 (Thursday, October 17, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 55574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22696]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-10001-22-OAR]
Acid Rain Program: Excess Emissions Penalty Inflation Adjustments
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of annual adjustment factors.
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SUMMARY: The Acid Rain Program requires sources that do not meet their
annual Acid Rain emissions limitations for sulfur dioxide
(SO2) or nitrogen oxides (NOX) to pay inflation-
adjusted excess emissions penalties. This document provides notice of
the annual adjustment factors used to calculate excess emissions
penalties for compliance years 2019 and 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jason Kuhns at (202) 564-3236 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Acid Rain Program limits SO2
and NOX emissions from fossil fuel-fired electricity
generating units. All affected sources must hold allowances sufficient
to cover their annual SO2 mass emissions, and certain coal-
fired units must meet annual average NOX emission rate
limits. Under 40 CFR 77.6, any source that does not meet these
requirements must pay an excess emissions penalty without demand to the
EPA Administrator. The automatic penalty is computed as the number of
excess tons of SO2 or NOX emitted times a per-ton
penalty amount of $2,000 times an annual adjustment factor, which must
be published in the Federal Register.
The annual adjustment factor used to compute excess emissions
penalties for compliance year 2019 is 2.0236, resulting in an automatic
penalty amount of $4,047 per excess ton of SO2 or
NOX emitted in 2019. In accordance with 40 CFR 77.6(b) and
72.2, this annual adjustment factor is determined from values of the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for August 1989
and August 2018.
The annual adjustment factor used to compute excess emissions
penalties for compliance year 2020 is 2.0591, resulting in an automatic
penalty amount of $4,118 per excess ton of SO2 or
NOX emitted in 2020. This annual adjustment factor is
determined from values of the CPI-U for August 1989 and August 2019.
Dated: September 25, 2019.
Reid P. Harvey,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs,
Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 2019-22696 Filed 10-16-19; 8:45 am]
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