G/TBT/N/USA/1532  
27 September 2019  
(19-6256) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AME RICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [1559]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated i f different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Emissions; 
Environmental protection (ICS 13.020), Air quality (ICS 13.040), Environmental testing 
(ICS 19.040), Industrial process meas urement and control (ICS 25.040.40), Production in 
the chemical industry (ICS 71.020), Equipment for the chemical industry (ICS 71.120), 
Paper production processes (ICS 85.020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  National E mission 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Paper and Other Web Coating Residual Risk and 
Technology Review (52 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
is conducting the residual r isk and technology review (RTR) of the National Emission 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the Paper and Other Web Coating 
(POWC) source category that is required under the Clean Air Act (CAA). We are proposing 
to find the risks due to em issions of air toxics to be acceptable from this source category 
and that the current NESHAP provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health. 
Further, we identified no new cost -effective controls under the technology review that 
would achieve s ignificant further emissions reductions, and, thus, are proposing to find 
that no revisions are necessary based on developments in practices, processes, or control 
technologies. In addition to performing the RTR, we are proposing certain amendments to 
the POWC NESHAP. Specifically, the EPA is proposing to add a compliance demonstration 
equation that accounts for retained volatiles in the web coating; to amend provisions 
addressing periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM); to add repeat testing an d 
electronic reporting requirements; and to make technical and editorial changes. The EPA is 
proposing these amendments to improve the effectiveness of the NESHAP.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of the environment  G/TBT/N/USA/1532  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• 84 Federal Register (FR) 49382, 19 September 2019; Title 40 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Part 63:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-09-19/html/2019 -19101.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-09-19/pdf/2019 -19101.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  4 November 2019  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/USA/19_5303_00_e.pdf