Notice2021-20440
Administration of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Trading Program Assurance Provisions for 2020 Control Periods
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Published
September 22, 2021
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the availability of data on the administration of the assurance provisions of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading programs for the control periods in 2020. Total emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) reported by Mississippi and Missouri units participating in the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program during the 2020 control period exceeded the respective states' assurance levels under the program. Data demonstrating the exceedances and EPA's final calculations of the amounts of additional allowances that the owners and operators of certain Mississippi and Missouri units must surrender have been posted in a spreadsheet on EPA's website.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52674-52675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20440]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8956-01-OAR]
Administration of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Trading Program
Assurance Provisions 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 the administration of the assurance
provisions of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading
programs for the control periods in 2020. Total emissions of nitrogen
oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) reported by Mississippi and Missouri units
participating in the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading
Program during the 2020 control period exceeded the respective states'
assurance levels under the program. Data demonstrating the exceedances
and EPA's final calculations of the amounts of additional allowances
that the owners and operators of certain Mississippi and Missouri units
must surrender have been posted in a spreadsheet on EPA's website.
DATES: September 22, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this action
should be addressed to Garrett Powers at (202) 564-2300 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#81f1eef6e4f3f2afebe0ece4f2e6c1e4f1e0afe6eef7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9bebf4ecfee9e8b5f1faf6fee8fcdbfeebfab5fcf4ed">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The regulations for each CSAPR trading
program contain ``assurance provisions'' designed to ensure that the
emissions reductions required from each state covered by the program
occur within the state. If the total emissions from a given state's
affected units exceed the state's assurance level under the program,
then two allowances must be surrendered for each ton of emissions
exceeding the assurance level (in addition to the ordinary obligation
to surrender one allowance for each ton of emissions). In the quarterly
emissions reports covering the 2020 control period, Mississippi and
Missouri units participating in the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season
Group 2 Trading Program reported emissions that exceed the respective
states' assurance levels under the program. Mississippi units exceeded
that state's assurance level by 260 tons, resulting in a requirement
for the surrender of 520 additional allowances, and Missouri units
exceeded that state's assurance level by 2,438 tons, resulting
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in a requirement for the surrender of 4,876 additional allowances.
When a state's assurance level is exceeded, responsibility for
surrendering the required additional allowances is apportioned among
groups of units in the state represented by ``common designated
representatives'' based on the extent to which each such group's
emissions exceeded the group's share of the state's assurance level.
For the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program, the
procedures are set forth at 40 CFR 97.802 (definitions of ``common
designated representative,'' ``common designated representative's
assurance level,'' and ``common designated representative's share''),
97.806(c)(2), and 97.825.
On May 17, 2021, EPA published a document in the Federal Register
providing notice of the data relied on to determine the amount of the
exceedances of the Mississippi and Missouri assurance levels and the
preliminary calculations of the amounts of additional allowances that
the owners and operators of certain Mississippi and Missouri units must
surrender as a result of the exceedances and describing the process for
submitting any objections (85 FR 29445). EPA received no written
submissions objecting to the data and preliminary calculations.
In this document, EPA is providing notice of the final calculations
of the amounts of additional allowances that must be surrendered.
Responsibility for surrendering 520 additional allowances for the
Mississippi exceedance has been apportioned between the groups of units
operated by Entergy Corporation (302 allowances) and Mississippi Power
Company (218 allowances). Responsibility for surrendering 4,876
additional allowances for the Missouri exceedance has been apportioned
between the groups of units operated by Associated Electric
Cooperative, Inc. (4,862 allowances), the municipal utility of
Chillicothe (2 allowances), and the municipal utility of Higginsville
(12 allowances). Each set of owners and operators identified pursuant
to this notice of the final calculations must hold the required
additional allowances in an assurance account by November 1, 2021.
The data and final calculations are set forth in an Excel
spreadsheet entitled
``2020_CSAPR_assurance_provision_calculations_final.xlsx'' available at
<a href="http://www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-assurance-provision-nodas">http://www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-assurance-provision-nodas</a>. The
spreadsheet contains data for the 2020 control period showing, for each
Mississippi and Missouri unit identified as affected under the CSAPR
NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program, the amount of
NO<INF>X</INF> emissions reported by the unit and the amount of CSAPR
NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 allowances allocated to the unit,
including any allowances allocated from a new unit set-aside. The
spreadsheet also contains calculations for the 2020 control period
showing the total NO<INF>X</INF> emissions reported by all such units
in each state and the amounts by which the total reported
NO<INF>X</INF> emissions exceeded the respective states' assurance
levels under the program. Finally, the spreadsheet also includes
calculations for the 2020 control period showing, for each common
designated representative for a group of such units in each state, the
common designated representative's share of the total reported
NO<INF>X</INF> emissions, the common designated representative's share
of the state's assurance level, and the amount of additional CSAPR
NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 allowances that the owners and
operators of the units in the group must surrender.
(Authority: 40 CFR 97.825(b).)
Rona Birnbaum,
Acting Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric
Programs, Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 2021-20440 Filed 9-21-21; 8:45 am]
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