[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 96 (Monday, May 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29711-29712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10515]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-10009-57-OAR]
Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New
Unit Set-Asides for 2020 Control Periods
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of data availability.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice
of the availability of data on emission allowance allocations to
certain units under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading
programs. EPA has completed preliminary calculations for the first
round of allocations of allowances from the CSAPR new unit
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set-asides (NUSAs) for the 2020 control periods and has posted
spreadsheets containing the calculations on EPA's website. EPA will
consider timely objections to the preliminary calculations (including
objections concerning the identification of units eligible for
allocations) before determining the final amounts of the first-round
allocations.
DATES: Objections to the information referenced in this notice must be
received on or before June 17, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your objections via email to [email protected].
Include ``2020 NUSA allocations'' in the email subject line and include
your name, title, affiliation, address, phone number, and email address
in the body of the email.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this action
should be addressed to Jason Kuhns at (202) 564-3236 or
[email protected] or Andrew Reighart at (202) 564-0418 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under each CSAPR trading program where EPA
is responsible for determining emission allowance allocations, a
portion of each state's emissions budget for the program for each
control period is reserved in a NUSA (and in an additional Indian
country NUSA in the case of states with Indian country within their
borders) for allocation to certain units that would not otherwise
receive allowance allocations. The procedures for identifying the
eligible units for each control period and for allocating allowances
from the NUSAs and Indian country NUSAs to these units are set forth in
the CSAPR trading program regulations at 40 CFR 97.411(b) and 97.412
(NOX Annual), 97.511(b) and 97.512 (NOX Ozone
Season Group 1), 97.611(b) and 97.612 (SO2 Group 1),
97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO2 Group 2), and 97.811(b) and 97.812
(NOX Ozone Season Group 2). Each NUSA allowance allocation
process involves up to two rounds of allocations to eligible units,
termed ``new'' units, followed by the allocation to ``existing'' units
of any allowances not allocated to new units.
This notice concerns preliminary calculations for the first round
of NUSA allowance allocations for the 2020 control periods. Generally,
the allocation procedures call for each eligible unit to receive a
first-round 2020 NUSA allocation equal to its 2019 control period
emissions as reported under 40 CFR part 75 unless the total of such
allocations to all eligible units would exceed the amount of allowances
in the NUSA, in which case the allocations are reduced on a pro-rata
basis. EPA notes that, under 40 CFR 97.406(c)(3), 97.506(c)(3),
97.606(c)(3), 97.706(c)(3), and 97.806(c)(3), a unit's emissions
occuring before its monitor certification deadline are not considered
to have occurred during a control period and consequently are not
included in the emission amounts used to determine NUSA allocations.
The detailed unit-by-unit data and preliminary allowance allocation
calculations are set forth in Excel spreadsheets titled
``CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_Annual_1st_Round_Prelim_Data'',
``CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_OS_1st_Round_Prelim_Data'', and
``CSAPR_NUSA_2020_SO2_1st_Round_Prelim_Data,'' available on
EPA's website at https://www.epa.gov/csapr/new-unit-set-aside-notices-data-availability-nusa-noda-cross-state-air-pollution-rule. Each of the
spreadsheets contains a separate worksheet for each state covered by
that program showing, for each unit identified as eligible for a first-
round NUSA allocation, (1) the unit's emissions in the 2019 control
period (annual or ozone season as applicable), (2) the maximum first-
round 2020 NUSA allowance allocation for which the unit is eligible
(typically the unit's emissions in the 2019 control period), (3)
various adjustments to the unit's maximum allocation, many of which are
necessary only if the NUSA pool is oversubscribed, and (4) the
preliminary calculation of the unit's first-round 2020 NUSA allowance
allocation.
Each state worksheet also contains a summary showing (1) the
quantity of allowances initially available in that state's 2020 NUSA,
(2) the sum of the first-round 2020 NUSA allowance allocations that
will be made to new units in that state, assuming there are no
corrections to the data, and (3) the quantity of allowances that would
remain in the 2020 NUSA for use in second-round allocations to new
units (or ultimately for allocation to existing units), again assuming
there are no corrections to the data.
Objections should be strictly limited to the data and calculations
upon which the NUSA allowance allocations are based and should be
emailed to the address identified in ADDRESSES. Objections must
include: (1) Precise identification of the specific data and/or
calculations the commenter believes are inaccurate, (2) new proposed
data and/or calculations upon which the commenter believes EPA should
rely instead to determine allowance allocations, and (3) the reasons
why EPA should rely on the commenter's proposed data and/or
calculations and not the data referenced in this notice.
EPA notes that an allocation or lack of allocation of allowances to
a given unit does not constitute a determination that CSAPR does or
does not apply to the unit. EPA also notes that, under 40 CFR
97.411(c), 97.511(c), 97.611(c), 97.711(c), and 97.811(c), allocations
are subject to potential correction if a unit to which allowances have
been allocated for a given control period is not actually an affected
unit as of the start of that control period.
(Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), 97.611(b), 97.711(b), and
97.811(b).)
Reid P. Harvey,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs,
Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 2020-10515 Filed 5-15-20; 8:45 am]
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