Notice2025-06871
Final Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule Allowances From New Unit Set-Asides for 2024 Control Periods
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Published
April 22, 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 final 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 has also completed calculations for allocations of the remaining 2024 NUSA allowances to existing units and has posted spreadsheets containing those calculations on EPA's website as well.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16874-16875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06871]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9542-08-OAR]
Final 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 final calculations for the allocations of
allowances from the new unit set-asides (NUSAs) for the 2024 control
periods and has posted
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spreadsheets containing the calculations on EPA's website. EPA has also
completed calculations for allocations of the remaining 2024 NUSA
allowances to existing units and has posted spreadsheets containing
those calculations on EPA's website as well.
DATES: April 22, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this action
should be addressed to Morgan Riedel at (202) 564-1144 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d7f64686968612360627f6a6c634d687d6c236a627b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bcced5d9d8d9d092d1d3cedbddd2fcd9ccdd92dbd3ca">[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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In a notice of data availability (NODA) published in the Federal
Register on February 28, 2025 (90 FR 10899), EPA provided notice of the
preliminary calculations of NUSA allowance allocations for the 2024
control periods and described the process for submitting any
objections. EPA received no objections in response to the February 28,
2025 NODA. This NODA concerns the final NUSA allowance allocations.
The detailed unit-by-unit data and final allowance allocation
calculations are set forth in Excel spreadsheets titled
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NOx_Annual_Final_Data_New_Units,''
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NOx_OS_Final_Data_New_Units,''
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_SO<INF>2</INF>_Final_Data_New_Units,''
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NOx_Annual_Final_Data_Existing_Units,''
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_NOx_OS_Final_Data_Existing_Units,'' and
``CSAPR_NUSA_2024_SO<INF>2</INF>_Final_Data_Existing_Units'', available
on EPA's website at <a href="http://www.epa.gov/Cross-State-Air-Pollution/csapr-compliance-year-2024-nusa-nodas">www.epa.gov/Cross-State-Air-Pollution/csapr-compliance-year-2024-nusa-nodas</a>.
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. 2025-06871 Filed 4-21-25; 8:45 am]
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