Notice2022-20380
Administration of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Trading Program Assurance Provisions for 2021 Control Periods
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Published
September 21, 2022
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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 2021. Total emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) reported by Missouri units participating in the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program during the 2021 control period exceeded the state's assurance level under the program. Data demonstrating the exceedance and EPA's final calculations of the amounts of additional allowances that the owners and operators of certain Missouri units must surrender have been posted in a spreadsheet on EPA's website.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57695-57696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20380]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8956-03-OAR]
Administration of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Trading Program
Assurance Provisions for 2021 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 2021. Total emissions of nitrogen
oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) reported by Missouri units participating in the
CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program during the
2021 control period exceeded the state's assurance level under the
program. Data demonstrating the exceedance and EPA's final calculations
of the amounts of additional allowances that the owners and operators
of certain Missouri units must surrender have been posted in a
spreadsheet on EPA's website.
DATES: September 21, 2022.
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#2b5b445c4e595805414a464e584c6b4e5b4a054c445d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5d5cad2c0d7d68bcfc4c8c0d6c2e5c0d5c48bc2cad3">[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 2021 control period, Missouri units
participating in the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading
Program reported emissions that exceed the state's assurance level
under the program by 1,295 tons, resulting in a requirement for the
surrender of 2,590 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 July 15, 2022, EPA published a document in the Federal Register
providing notice of the data relied on to determine the amount of the
exceedance of the Missouri assurance level and the preliminary
calculations of the amounts of additional allowances that the owners
and operators of certain Missouri units must surrender as a result of
the exceedance and describing the process for submitting any objections
(87 FR 42459). 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 2,590 additional allowances for the
Missouri exceedance has been apportioned almost entirely to the group
of units operated by Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (2,570
allowances), with much smaller shares apportioned to the groups of
units operated by the municipal utilities of Chillicothe and
Higginsville (4 and 16 allowances, respectively). 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, 2022.
The data and final calculations are set forth in an Excel
spreadsheet entitled
``2021_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 2021 control period showing, for each
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 2021 control period showing the total
NO<INF>X</INF> emissions reported by all such units in the state and
the amount by which the total reported NO<INF>X</INF> emissions
exceeded the state's assurance level under the program. Finally, the
spreadsheet also includes calculations for the 2021 control period
showing, for each common designated representative for a group of such
units in the 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.
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(Authority: 40 CFR 97.825(b).)
Rona Birnbaum,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs,
Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 2022-20380 Filed 9-20-22; 8:45 am]
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