From: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov> 

To: Melanie King/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA 

Cc: RobertJ Wayland/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Paula VanLare/DC/USEPA/US@EPA 

Date: 01/14/2013 12:16 PM 

Subject: RE: Suggested Edits to the Impacts Memo and Preamble regarding Reporting

Hi Melanie, 

Attached are additional interagency comments on the regulatory text. Please let me know if you have questions 

about these suggestions. 

Regards, 

Cortney(See attached file: Comments on the RICE Rule14Jna2013_InteragencycommentsunderEO13563.docx)
63.6640(f)(4) 

 (i) For existing emergency stationary RICE located at area 

sources, prior to May 3, 2014, the 50 hours per year for nonemergency situations can be used for peak shaving or nonemergency demand response to generate income for a facility, or 

to otherwise supply power as part of a financial arrangement 

with another entity if the engine is operated as part of a peak 

shaving (load management program) with the local distribution 

system operator and the power is provided only to the facility 

itself or to support the local distribution system. 

 (ii) For existing emergency stationary RICE located at area 

sources, the 50 hours per year for non-emergency situations can 

be used to supply power as part of a financial arrangement with 

another entity if all of the following conditions are met: 

 (A) The engine is dispatched by the local balancing 

authority or local transmission and distribution system 

operator. 

 (B) The dispatch is intended to mitigate local transmission 

and/or distribution limitations so as to avert potential voltage 

collapse or line overloads that could lead to the interruption 

of power supply in a local area or region. 

Comment [A1]: For clarity you might want to 

add the following text, shown in read and 

underlined. 
§63.6585 Am I subject to this subpart?

* * * * * 

(f) The emergency stationary RICE listed in paragraphs 

(f)(1) through (3) of this section are not subject to this 

subpart. The stationary RICE must meet the definition of an 

emergency stationary RICE in §63.6675, which includes operating 

according to the provisions specified in §63.6640(f). 

(1) Existing residential emergency stationary RICE located at an 

area source of HAP emissions that do not operate or are not 

contractually obligated to be available for more than 15 hours 

per calendar year for the purposes specified in 

§63.6640(f)(2)(ii) and (iii) and that do not operate for the 

purpose specified in §63.6640(f)(4)(ii). 

§63.6675 What definitions apply to this subpart?

Backup power for renewable energy means an engine that provides 

backup power to a facility that generates electricity from the 

following renewable energy resources:

 (a) wind, solar, geothermal, wasteheat recovery, 

hydrothermal, wave, tidal, river in-stream, or hydropower;

 (b) low-emission nontoxic biomass based on solid or 

liquid organic fuels from wood, forest and field residues, or 

animal or fish products;

 (c) dedicated energy crops available on a renewable 

basis; or

 (d) landfill gas and digester gas.]

Deleted: , as that term is defined in 

Alaska Statute 42.45.045(l)(5) 

(incorporated by reference, see 

§63.14).

Comment [A2]: EPA should incorporate 

the text of the definition of renewable 

energy resources, particularly when it will 

apply to any RICE and not only to those 

located in Alaska. The Alaska Statue 

(“Sec. 42.45.045. Renewable energy 

grant fund and recommendation 

program.”) could change in the future if 

Alaska wants to add or exclude a 

renewable energy source from their 

renewable energy grant fund program.