[Federal Register: July 13, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 133)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Receipt of Requests for Initial Certification of Predictive
Emission Monitoring Systems
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of data availability; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of receipt of requests for initial
certification of alternative monitoring systems for nitrogen oxides
emissions under the Acid Rain Program or the NOX Budget
Program. The emissions monitoring regulations require EPA to provide
notice of each request in the Federal Register and, following a public
comment period of 60 days, to approve or disapprove the request. EPA
has recently received requests for initial certification of nine
alternative monitoring systems. All of these are predictive emission
monitoring systems (PEMS). In order to be considered equivalent to a
continuous emission monitoring system, each of these PEMS must meet the
regulatory requirements for approval of an alternative monitoring
system. EPA has conditionally approved three of these PEMS and is still
reviewing the other six PEMS petitions.
DATES: Written comments on the proposed consent decree must be received
by September 12, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket ID number OAR-
2005-0099, online at http://www.epa.gov/edocket (EPA's preferred method); by e-mail to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov; mailed to EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; or by hand delivery
or courier to EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room B108, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20004, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Comments on a disk or CD-ROM
should be formatted in Wordperfect or ASCII file, avoiding the use of
special characters and any form of encryption, and may be mailed to the
mailing address above.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Schakenbach, Clean Air Markets
Division (6204J), Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460,
telephone: (202) 343-9158.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Additional Information About the Certification Requests
Requests for initial certification of nitrogen oxides
(NOX) PEMS have been received from the following sources,
each subject to either the Acid Rain Program or the NOX
Budget Program, or both:
MeadWestvaco (Alabama)
--1 gas-fired combustion turbine (conditionally approved); and
--1 gas-fired, pressurized furnace industrial boiler (conditionally
approved)
Dearborn Industrial Generation (Michigan)
--3 gas-fired boilers; and
--3 gas-fired combustion turbines (one conditionally approved)
Braintree Electric Light Department (Massachusetts)
--1 gas- and oil-fired combustion turbine (Potter II Station)
Pursuant to Sec. 75.20(f) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, for a period of sixty (60) days following the date of
publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments
relating to the requests for initial certification of the nine PEMS.
EPA may disapprove a request for initial certification of a PEMS if the
comments disclose facts or considerations that indicate that such
approval is inappropriate, improper, inadequate, or inconsistent with
the requirements of the Act or if the request otherwise fails to meet
the requirements of part 75, subpart E, available at: http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/monitoring/consolidated
then click on Volume 1.
II. Additional Information About Commenting on the Requests
A. How Can I Get a Copy of the Requests?
EPA has established an official public docket for this action under
Docket ID No. OAR-2005-0099, which contains a copy of the requests. The
official public docket is available for public viewing at the Air
Docket in the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room B108, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20004. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading
Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is
(202) 566-1742.
An electronic version of the public docket is available through
EPA's electronic public docket and comment system, EPA Dockets. You may
use EPA Dockets at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to submit or view public
comments, access the index listing of the contents of the official
public docket, and access those documents in the public docket that are
available electronically. Once in the system, select ``search'', and
then key in the appropriate docket identification number.
It is important to note that EPA's policy is that public comments,
whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available
for public viewing in EPA's electronic public docket as EPA receives
them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted
material, confidential business information, or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Information claimed as
confidential business information and other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute is not included in the official
public docket or in EPA's electronic public docket. EPA's policy is
that copyrighted material, including copyrighted material contained in
a public comment, will not be placed in EPA's electronic public docket
but will be available only in printed, paper form in the official
public docket. Although not all docket materials may be available
electronically, you may still access any of the publicly available
docket materials through the EPA Docket Center.
B. How and to Whom Do I Submit Comments?
You may submit comments as provided in the ADDRESSES section.
Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the specified
comment period. Comments received after the close of the comment period
will be marked ``late.'' EPA is not required to consider these late
comments.
If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name, mailing address, and an e-mail address or other
contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or
CD-ROM you submit. This ensures that you can be identified as the
submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact you in case EPA
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties or needs further
information on the substance of your comment. Any identifying or
contact information provided in the body of a comment will be included
as part of the comment that is placed in the official public docket,
and made available in EPA's electronic public docket. If EPA cannot
read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you
for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
Your use of EPA's electronic public docket to submit comments to
EPA electronically is EPA's preferred method for receiving comments.
The electronic public docket system is an ``anonymous access'' system,
which means EPA will not know your identity, e-mail address, or other
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
In contrast to EPA's electronic public docket, EPA's electronic mail
(e-mail) system is not an ``anonymous access'' system. If you send an
e-mail comment directly to the Docket without going through EPA's
electronic public docket, your e-mail address is automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the official
public docket, and made available in EPA's electronic public docket.
Dated: June 14, 2005.
Sam Napolitano,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Air and Radiation.
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