[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 194 (Monday, October 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81076-81077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23143]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0430; FRL-12197-01-OAR]


Notice of Data Availability Relevant to Data Reported Under the 
American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of data availability.

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SUMMARY: This Notice of Data Availability is to alert stakeholders that 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released data on 
production, consumption and other activity related to 
hydrofluorocarbons regulated under the American Innovation and 
Manufacturing Act of 2020. The Agency has published these data in the 
Protecting Our Climate by Reducing Use of HFCs web area.

DATES: October 7, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo Cosgrove, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Stratospheric Protection Division, telephone number: 
202-564-2870; or email address: [email protected]. You may also 
visit EPA's website at https://www.epa.gov/climate-hfcs-reduction for 
further information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    EPA has published information collected under mandatory reporting 
requirements in 40 CFR part 84 that support the hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) 
phasedown specified in the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 
2020 (AIM Act or Act), codified at 42 U.S.C. 7675. This includes 
information regarding entities' HFC allowance usage.

II. What information is available?

    EPA is providing notice that the Agency has published the following 
data in the Protecting Our Climate by Reducing Use of HFCs web area for 
calendar year 2023.

    Per entity:

 Unused consumption allowances
 Unused production allowances
 Administrative consequences and acquisitions
 Requests for additional consumption allowances
 Number of allowances transferred
 Number of offset allowances deducted from transferor balance
 Number of consumption allowances expended
 Number of production allowances expended

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 Quantity of material received for reclamation

    Per facility:

 Amount of HFC-23 generated
 Emissions of HFC-23

    By regulated HFC:

 Amount destroyed
 Amount exported
 Total amount imported
 Amount imported and not used as feedstock
 Total amount produced (gross)
 Amount produced for feedstock use
 Calculated consumption consistent with the AIM Act
 Calculated consumption consistent with reporting requirements 
under the Montreal Protocol
 Total end of year inventory

Cynthia A. Newberg,
Director, Stratospheric Protection Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-23143 Filed 10-4-24; 8:45 am]
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