Notice2025-03197
Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New Unit Set-Asides for 2024 Control Periods
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Published
February 28, 2025
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Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the availability of data on emission allowance allocations to certain units under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading programs. EPA has completed preliminary calculations for the allocations of allowances from the new unit set-asides (NUSAs) for the 2024 control periods and has posted spreadsheets containing the calculations on EPA's website. EPA will consider timely objections to the preliminary calculations (including objections concerning the identification of units eligible for allocations) before determining the final amounts of the allocations.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 39 (Friday, February 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10899-10900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03197]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9542-07-OAR]
Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New
Unit Set-Asides for 2024 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 emission allowance allocations to
certain units under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading
programs. EPA has completed preliminary calculations for the
allocations of allowances from the new unit set-asides (NUSAs) for the
2024 control periods and has posted spreadsheets containing the
calculations on EPA's website. EPA will consider timely objections to
the preliminary calculations (including objections concerning the
identification of units eligible for allocations) before determining
the final amounts of the allocations.
DATES: Objections to the information referenced in this notice
concerning NUSA allocations must be received on or before March 31,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your objections via email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d1928290818391b4a1b0ffb6bea7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b4f7e7f5e4e6f4d1c4d59ad3dbc2">[email protected]</span></a>. Include
``2024 NUSA allocations'' in the email subject line and include your
name, title, affiliation, address, phone number, and email address in
the body of the email.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this notice
should be addressed to Morgan Riedel at (202) 564-1144 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1a68737f7e7f76347775687d7b745a7f6a7b347d756c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="62100b0706070e4c0f0d1005030c220712034c050d14">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under each CSAPR trading program where EPA
is responsible for determining emission allowance allocations, a
portion of each state's emissions budget for the program for each
control period is reserved in a NUSA (and, under most of the trading
programs, in an additional Indian country NUSA in the case of states
with Indian country within their borders) for allocation to certain
units that would not otherwise receive allowance allocations. The
procedures for identifying the eligible units for each control period
and for allocating allowances from the NUSAs and Indian country NUSAs
to these units are set forth in the CSAPR trading program regulations
at 40 CFR 97.411(b) and 97.412 (NO<INF>X</INF> Annual), 97.511(b) and
97.512 (NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 1), 97.611(b) and 97.612
(SO<INF>2</INF> Group 1), 97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO<INF>2</INF> Group
2), and 97.811(b) and 97.812 (NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2,
including units using Original Group 2 allowances and units using
Expanded Group 2 allowances).\1\ Each NUSA allowance allocation process
involves allocations to eligible units, termed ``new'' units, followed
by the allocation to ``existing'' units of any allowances not allocated
to new units.
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\1\ EPA has no current plans to determine NUSA allowance
allocations for the 2024 control period under the CSAPR
NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 3 Trading Program regulations at
40 CFR 97.1012. In response to judicial stay orders, implementation
of that program has been administratively stayed for all sources for
the 2024 control period and will remain stayed for future control
periods unless and until provided otherwise in a future rulemaking.
See 88 FR 49295 (July 31, 2023); 88 FR 67102 (September 29, 2023);
89 FR 87960 (November 6, 2024).
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This notice concerns preliminary calculations for the NUSA
allowance allocations for the 2024 control periods. Generally, the
allocation procedures call for each eligible ``new'' unit to receive a
2024 NUSA allocation equal to its 2024 control period emissions as
reported under 40 CFR part 75 unless the total of such allocations to
all such eligible units would exceed the amount of allowances in the
NUSA, in which case the allocations are reduced on a pro-rata basis.
(EPA notes that, under 40 CFR 97.406(c)(3), 97.506(c)(3), 97.606(c)(3),
97.706(c)(3), and 97.806(c)(3), a unit's emissions occurring before its
monitor certification deadline are not considered to have occurred
during a control period and consequently are not included in the
emission amounts used to determine NUSA allocations). Any allowances
not allocated to eligible ``new'' units are allocated to the state's
``existing'' units in proportion to such existing units' previous
allocations from the portion of the respective state's emissions budget
for the control period that was not reserved in a NUSA (or Indian
country NUSA).
The detailed unit-by-unit data and preliminary allowance allocation
calculations for ``new'' units are set forth in Excel spreadsheets
titled ``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NO<INF>X</INF>_Annual_Prelim_Data_New_Units'',
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NO<INF>X</INF>_OS_Prelim_Data_New_Units'', and
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_SO<INF>2</INF>_Prelim_Data_New_Units'', available on
EPA's website at <a href="http://www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-allowance-allocations#nusa">www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-allowance-allocations#nusa</a>.
Each of the spreadsheets contains a separate worksheet for each state
covered by that program showing, for each unit identified as eligible
for a NUSA allocation, (1) the unit's emissions in the 2024 control
period (annual or ozone season as applicable), (2) the maximum 2024
NUSA allowance allocation for which the unit is eligible (typically the
unit's emissions in the 2024 control period), (3) various adjustments
to the unit's maximum allocation if the NUSA pool is oversubscribed,
and (4) the preliminary calculation of the unit's 2024 NUSA allowance
allocation.
Each state worksheet for ``new'' units also contains a summary
showing (1) the quantity of allowances initially available in that
state's 2024 NUSA, (2) the sum of the 2024 NUSA allowance allocations
that will be made to new units in that state, assuming there are no
corrections to the data, and (3) the quantity of allowances that would
remain in the 2024 NUSA for allocation to existing units, again
assuming there are no corrections to the data.
The preliminary calculations of allocations of the remaining
unallocated allowances to ``existing'' units are set forth in Excel
spreadsheets titled
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NO<INF>X</INF>_Annual_Prelim_Data_Existing_Units'',
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NO<INF>X</INF>_OS_Prelim_Data_Existing_Units'', and
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_SO<INF>2</INF>_Prelim_Data_Existing_Units'',
available at the same location.
Objections should be strictly limited to the data and calculations
upon which the NUSA allowance allocations are based and should be
emailed to the address identified in ADDRESSES. Objections must
include: (1) precise identification of the specific data and/or
calculations the commenter believes are inaccurate, (2) new proposed
data and/or calculations upon which the commenter believes EPA should
rely
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instead to determine allowance allocations, and (3) the reasons why EPA
should rely on the commenter's proposed data and/or calculations and
not the data referenced in this notice.
EPA notes that an allocation or lack of allocation of allowances to
a given unit under a given CSAPR trading program does not constitute a
determination that the trading program does or does not apply to the
unit. EPA also notes that, under 40 CFR 97.411(c), 97.511(c),
97.611(c), 97.711(c), and 97.811(c), allocations are subject to
potential correction if a unit to which allowances have been allocated
for a given control period is not actually an affected unit as of the
start of that control period.
(Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), 97.611(b), 97.711(b), and
97.811(b).)
Rona Birnbaum,
Director, Clean Air and Power Division, Office of Atmospheric
Protection, Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 2025-03197 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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