G/TBT/N/USA/1143  
 
15 June 2016  
(16-3268)  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 AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [1162] 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if 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 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], other: 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS: numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Hydrogen chloride 
emission monitoring. Environmental protection  (ICS: 13.020), Air quality (ICS: 13.040), 
Products of the chemical industry (ICS: 71.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document: Technical 
Amendments to Performance Specification 18 and Procedure 6 (5 pages, in English)  
6. Description of content: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to make 
several minor technical amendments to the performance specifications and test procedures 
for hydrogen chloride (HCl) continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS). The EPA is also proposing to make several minor amendments to the quality assurance (QA) 
procedures for HCl CEMS used for compliance determination at stationary sources. The 
performance specification (Performance Specification 18) and the QA procedures (Procedure 6) were published in the Federal Register on 7 July 2015. These proposed amendments make several minor corrections and clarify several aspects of these 
regulations. In the "Rules and Regulations" section of this Federal Register, the EPA is 
amending Performance Specification 18 and Pr ocedure 6 as a direct final rule without a 
prior proposed rule. If we receive no adverse comment, we will not take further action on 
this proposed rule.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  
 81 Federal Register (FR) 31577, 19 May 2016; Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 60. Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted. 
 Technical Amendments to Performance Specification 18 and Procedure 6; Direct Final 
Rule will be published as Add.1: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-05-
19/pdf/2016-10989.pdf   
 Performance Specification 18--Performance Specifications and Test Procedures for 
Hydrogen Chloride Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems at Stationary 
Sources: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/ FR-2015-07-07/pdf/2015-16385.pdf  G/TBT/N/USA/1143 
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: To be determined 
Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined   
10. Final date for comments: 5 July 2016 
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/crnattachm ents/2016/TBT/USA/16_2329_00_e.pdf