Proposed Rule2022-17515
Air Plan Approval; Indiana; Opacity Rule
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Published
August 17, 2022
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP), authorizing temporary alternative opacity limitations at the BP Products North America, Inc. (BP) facility in Whiting, Indiana during startup and shutdown. This proposed action is consistent with the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA regulations regarding emissions during these periods in the refinery sector.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 17, 2022)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 50594-50596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17515]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2021-0936; FRL-9859-01-R5]
Air Plan Approval; Indiana; Opacity Rule
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a revision to the Indiana State Implementation Plan (SIP),
authorizing temporary alternative opacity limitations at the BP
Products North America, Inc. (BP) facility in Whiting, Indiana during
startup and shutdown. This proposed action is consistent with the Clean
Air Act (CAA) and EPA regulations regarding emissions during these
periods in the refinery sector.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 16, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2021-0936 at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, or via email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#12707e73797e776b3c62737f777e73527762733c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84e6e8e5efe8e1fdaaf4e5e9e1e8e5c4e1f4e5aae3ebf2">[email protected]</span></a>. For comments submitted at <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>,
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted,
comments cannot be edited or removed from <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>. For either
manner of submission, 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. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be
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accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the
official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish
to make. 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, please
contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section. For the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI
or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective
comments, please visit <a href="https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matt Rau, Environmental Engineer,
Control Strategies Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6524, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4c3e2d3962212d383824293b0c293c2d622b233a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="235142560d4e4257574b4654634653420d444c55">[email protected]</span></a>. The EPA Region 5
office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding Federal holidays and facility closures due to COVID-19.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA.
I. Background
On December 14, 2021, the Indiana Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM) submitted a request to EPA to approve an addition to
its SIP to allow BP a temporary alternative opacity limitation (TAOL)
measurement for its Whiting, Indiana facility under 326 Indiana
Administrative Code (IAC) 5-1-3, a revision that is codified at 326 IAC
5-1-8 and part of the State's SIP for opacity. At 326 IAC 5-1-3(d), the
rule provides the IDEM Commissioner authority to approve a TAOL where
they determine it is necessary that alternate TAOL is submitted to EPA
as a SIP revision.
BP's Whiting facility currently employs electrostatic precipitators
(ESPs) as part of its opacity control technology for two fluidized
catalytic cracking units (FCUs), FCU 500 and FCU 600, used in
production. BP has demonstrated to the IDEM Commissioner that use of
these ESPs during periods of startup, shutdown, or hot standby present
a safety hazard from coke residues on a solid catalyst within the FCUs.
To address the safety hazard, BP proposed and demonstrated the efficacy
of control technology borrowed from the National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Petroleum Refineries: Catalytic
Cracking Units, Catalytic Reforming Units, and Sulfur Recovery Units,
which is found at 40 CFR part 63, subpart UUU. BP will maintain the
inlet velocity to the primary internal cyclones of the FCU catalyst
regenerator at or above 20 feet per second. Indiana revised 326 IAC 5-
1-8 to include the NESHAP control option as a TAOL for BP's FCU 500 and
FCU 600 to ease the safety concerns when operating the ESP during these
nonroutine operations.
Indiana provided a demonstration of compliance with CAA 110(l),
which prohibit SIP revisions from interfering with attaining air
quality standards and reasonable further progress requirements. The
demonstration notes it is difficult for BP's FCU 500 and FCU 600 to
meet the opacity limits in 326 IAC 5-1-8 during startup, shutdown, and
hot standby \1\ events with safety concerns when FCU emissions are
routed through an active ESP. The demonstration notes that EPA refinery
rules approved on December 1, 2015 (80 FR 75177), provide work
practices for FCU startup, shutdown, and hot standby events. BP expects
these events could occur a few times per year. BP provided data that
shows it can meet the refinery rules work practice requirements. EPA
regulations on the refinery sector will limit emissions from BP's FCU
500 and FCU 600 during periods of startup, shutdown, or hot standby.
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\1\ Hot standby as defined in the NESHAP at 40 CFR 63.1579.
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II. Analysis of Indiana's Revision
EPA agrees that the TAOL for BP's Whiting facility follows the
requirements in the 40 CFR part 63, subpart UUU, NESHAP, that this
alternative technology conforms to 326 IAC 5-1-3, and that the revision
to the Indiana SIP is appropriate. This opacity rule revision applies
to BP's FCU 500 and FCU 600, and BP will be required to follow the same
requirements contained in the NESHAP for the TAOL. Specifically, BP
must maintain the inlet velocity to the primary internal cyclones of
the FCUs at or above 20 feet per second during periods of startup,
shutdown, or hot standby. This TAOL reflects an established option of a
relevant NESHAP, which is at least as stringent as the general opacity
rule. The records and calculations specified in the source specific
TAOL will be sufficient to show BP Whiting's FCUs are complying with
the TAOL.
III. What action is EPA taking?
EPA is proposing to approve Indiana's opacity rule section 326 IAC
5-1-8 as a revision to the Indiana SIP. The rule revision provides BP's
FCU 500 and FCU 600 with a TAOL consistent with the requirements of 40
CFR part 63, subpart UUU.
IV. Incorporation by Reference
In this rule, EPA is proposing to include in a final EPA rule
regulatory text that includes incorporation by reference. In accordance
with requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, EPA is proposing to incorporate by
reference Indiana Rule 326 IAC 5-1-8, effective December 8, 2021, as
discussed in Section I of this preamble. EPA has made, and will
continue to make, these documents generally available through
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> and at the EPA Region 5 Office (please contact the
person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this preamble for more information).
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this
action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and
does not impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by state
law. For that reason, this action:
<bullet> Is not a significant regulatory action subject to review
by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders 12866 (58
FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21, 2011);
<bullet> Does not impose an information collection burden under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
<bullet> Is certified as not having a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
<bullet> Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or
uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
<bullet> Does not have federalism implications as specified in
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
<bullet> Is not an economically significant regulatory action based
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997);
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<bullet> Is not a significant regulatory action subject to
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
<bullet> Is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent
with the CAA; and
<bullet> Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to
address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental
effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, the SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian
reservation land or in any other area where EPA or an Indian tribe has
demonstrated that a tribe has jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian
country, the proposed rule does not have tribal implications and will
not impose substantial direct costs on tribal governments or preempt
tribal law as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November
9, 2000).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Particulate matter, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: August 9, 2022.
Debra Shore,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2022-17515 Filed 8-16-22; 8:45 am]
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