[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 5, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47372-47373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-17065]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341; FRL-10012-94-OAR]
Notice of Availability of One Updated Chapter in the
Environmental Protection Agency's Air Pollution Control Cost Manual
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability and public comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice
that one chapter of the current EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual
(Control Cost Manual) has been updated. The EPA is requesting comment
on: Chapter 1, Section 5, ``Wet Scrubbers for Acid Gas.'' This Control
Cost Manual chapter covers control measures for sulfur dioxide
(SO2) and acid gas emissions.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before November 3, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2015-0341, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: [email protected]. Include the Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341 in the subject line of the message.
Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center, Air and Radiation Docket, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
Hand Delivery or Courier (by scheduled appointment only):
EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket Center's hours of
operations are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (except
Federal Holidays).
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. for this document. Comments received may be posted without change
to https://www.regulations.gov/, including any personal information
provided. For detailed instructions on sending comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process, see the ``Public Participation''
heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. Out
of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff, the
EPA Docket Center and Reading Room are closed to the public, with
limited exceptions, to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. Our
Docket Center staff will continue to provide remote customer service
via email, phone, and webform. We encourage the public to submit
comments via https://www.regulations.gov/ or email, as there may be a
delay in processing mail and faxes. Hand deliveries and couriers may be
received by scheduled appointment only. For further information on EPA
Docket Center services and the current status, please visit us online
at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Sorrels, Health and
Environmental Impacts Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, Environmental Protection Agency, C439-02, 109 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; telephone number: (919) 541-
5041; fax number: (919) 541-0839; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA is requesting comment on the
specific Control Cost Manual chapter included in this document.
I. General Information
A. Written Comments
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-
0341, at https://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), or the
other methods identified in the ADDRESSES section. Once submitted,
comments cannot be edited or removed from the docket. The EPA may
publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute. Clearly mark the part or all of the information that you
claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or CD-ROM that you mail
to the EPA docket office, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as CBI
and then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version
of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the
comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI must be
submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so marked
will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in
40 Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) part 2. Multimedia submissions
(audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written comment. The
written comment is considered the official comment and should include
discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA will generally not
consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary
submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing system). For
additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance
on making effective comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
The EPA is temporarily suspending its Docket Center and Reading
Room for public visitors, with limited exceptions, to reduce the risk
of transmitting COVID-19. Our Docket Center staff will continue to
provide remote customer service via email, phone, and webform. We
encourage the public to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov/ as there may be a delay in processing mail and
faxes. Hand deliveries or couriers will be received by scheduled
appointment only. For further information and updates on EPA Docket
Center services, please visit us online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
The EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area
health departments, and our Federal partners so that we can respond
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID-19.
B. Tips for Preparing Your Comments
When submitting comments, remember to: Identify the notification by
docket number and other identifying information (subject heading,
Federal Register date and page number).
Follow directions--The agency may ask you to respond to
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a CFR part or
section number.
Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives
and substitute language/data for your requested changes.
Describe any assumptions and provide any technical
information and/or data that you used.
If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how
you arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and
suggest alternatives.
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Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the
use of profanity or personal threats.
Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Information Available for Public Comment
The EPA is requesting comment on one updated chapter of the EPA Air
Pollution Control Cost Manual. The Control Cost Manual contains
individual chapters on control measures, including data and equations
to aid users in estimating capital costs for installation and annual
costs for operation and maintenance of these measures. The Control Cost
Manual is used by the EPA for estimating the impacts of rulemakings,
and serves as a basis for sources to estimate costs of controls that
are Best Available Control Technology under the New Source Review
Program, and Best Available Retrofit Technology under the Regional Haze
Program and for other programs.
The one updated Control Cost Manual chapter is: Chapter 1, Section
5, ``Wet Scrubbers for Acid Gas'' (to be renamed ``Wet and Dry
Scrubbers for Acid Gas''). This chapter in the Control Cost Manual
will, for the first time, include cost and performance data for dry
scrubbers as well as wet scrubbers. This revised Control Cost Manual
chapter can be found in the docket for the Control Cost Manual update
(Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341). The current Control Cost Manual
version (sixth edition) including the current chapter is available at
http://epa.gov/ttn/catc/products.html#cccinfo, and last updated in
2003. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 requested that the
EPA begin development of a seventh edition of the Control Cost Manual.
The EPA has met with state, local, and tribal officials to discuss
plans for the Control Cost Manual update as called for under the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014. The EPA has met with other
groups as well at their request. The EPA has updated the selective non-
catalytic reduction (SNCR) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR)
chapters, the first two chapters (Chapter 1, Section 4; Chapter 2,
Section 4, respectively) completed for the seventh edition of the
Control Cost Manual, and made them available to the public in May 2016
(81 FR 38702, June 14, 2016) and also updated these chapters again in
May 2019. In addition, the EPA has updated the Refrigerated Condensers
(Chapter 1, Section 3 and Section 3.1) and Incinerators (Chapter 2,
Section 3, Section 3.2, now Incinerators/Oxidizers) chapters in
November 2017, the Cost Estimation: Concepts and Methodology chapter
(Chapter 2, Section 1) as of November 2017, and also the Carbon
Adsorbers (Chapter 1, Section 3, Section 3.1) and Flares (Chapter 1,
Section 3, Section 3.2) chapters in October 2018.
To help focus review of the Wet Scrubbers for Acid Gas (or Wet and
Dry Scrubbers) chapter, we offer the following list of questions that
the EPA is particularly interested in addressing in the updated
chapter. Commenters are welcome to address any aspects of this chapter.
Please provide supporting data for responses to these questions and for
other comments on the chapter.
For the Wet and Dry Scrubbers for Acid Gas Chapter
(1) What is a reasonable and up-to-date estimate of equipment life
(defined as design or operational life) for wet scrubbers (FGD)? Dry
scrubbers? Please provide data, if possible, on accurate estimates of
equipment life.
(2) Are the descriptions of wet FGD scrubbers complete, up-to-date,
and accurate with regard to control of SO2 and acid gases?
Dry scrubbers? Please provide information, if possible, on descriptions
of wet and dry scrubbers' control of SO2 and acid gases if
you do not believe that the descriptions in the draft chapter are
complete, up-to-date, and accurate.
(3) Is the applicability of wet FGD scrubbers to various types of
emissions sources complete, up-to-date, and accurate? Dry scrubbers?
(4) Are the cost correlations, factors, and equations for wet FGD
scrubbers accurate and up-to-date? For dry scrubbers? If not, how
should they be revised? Please provide data, if possible, to address
inaccuracies.
(5) Are the estimates of SO2 removal or control
efficiency for wet FGD scrubbers accurate and up-to-date? For dry
scrubbers? If not, what are more accurate estimates? Please provide
data, if possible, to address inaccuracies.
Dated: July 30, 2020.
Erika N. Sasser,
Director, Health and Environmental Impacts Division.
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