[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 18]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR96.88]

[Page 706-707]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 96--NOX Budget Trading Program for State Implementation 
Plans--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart I--Individual Unit Opt-ins
 
Sec. 96.88  NOX allowance allocations to opt-in units.

    (a) NOX allowance allocation. (1) By December 31 
immediately before the first control period for which the NOX 
Budget opt-in permit is effective, the permitting authority will 
allocate NOX allowances to the NOX Budget opt-in 
source and submit to the Administrator the allocation for the control 
period in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section.
    (2) By no later than December 31, after the first control period for 
which the NOX Budget opt-in permit is in effect, and December 
31 of each year thereafter, the permitting authority will allocate 
NOX allowances to the NOX Budget opt-in source, 
and submit to the Administrator allocations for the next control period, 
in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section.
    (b) For each control period for which the NOX Budget opt-
in source has an approved NOX Budget opt-in permit, the 
NOX Budget opt-in source will be allocated NOX 
allowances in accordance with the following procedures:
    (1) The heat input (in mmBtu) used for calculating NOX 
allowance allocations will be the lesser of:
    (i) The NOX Budget opt-in source's baseline heat input 
determined pursuant to Sec. 96.84(c); or
    (ii) The NOX Budget opt-in source's heat input, as 
determined in accordance with subpart H of this part, for the control 
period in the year prior to the year of the control period for which the 
NOX allocations are being calculated.
    (2) The permitting authority will allocate NOX allowances 
to the NOX Budget opt-in source in an amount equaling the 
heat input (in mmBtu) determined under paragraph (b)(1) of this section 
multiplied by the lesser of:

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    (i) The NOX Budget opt-in source's baseline 
NOX emissions rate (in lb/mmBtu) determined pursuant to 
Sec. 96.84(c); or
    (ii) The most stringent State or Federal NOX emissions 
limitation applicable to the NOX Budget opt-in source during 
the control period.

Subpart J--Mobile and Area Sources [Reserved]