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## Chapter **12 Miscellaneous**  **Contents 12.1 GENERAL S**  **UPPORT** ................................ ................................ ................................ ................. 2 **12.2 GENERAL O PPOSITION**  ................................ ................................ ................................ ........... 2 **12.3 REQUESTS FOR EXTENSION**  ................................ ................................ ................................ . 2 **12.4 OTHER DOC UMENTS SUBMITTED**  ................................ ................................ ...................... 212
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### 1 **2 .1**  **GENERAL SUPPORT Comment 12.1**  **- 1**  **:** Multiple commenters generally supported the proposed standards for modified and reconstructed electric utility generating units (0080, 0082, 0083, 0084, 0086, 0088, 0096, 0104, 0123, 0129, 0133, 0134, and 0137). **Response 12.1 -**  **1:** The EPA acknowledges the co mmenters’ support for this rule. 

### 1 **2.2 GENERAL OPPOSITION**  **Comment 12.2 -**  **1:** Multiple commenters generally opposed the proposed standards for modified and reconstructed electric utility generating units (0058, 0059, 0065, 0066, 0067, 0068, 0069, 0070, 0071, 0073, 0074, 0076, 0077, 0078, 0081, 0085, 0087, 0090, 0091, 0093, 0094, 00 95, 0097, 0098, 0099, 0100, 0101, 0102, 0103, 0105, 0106, 0107, 0108, 0109, 0110, 0111, 0112, 0113, 0116, 0117, 0118, 0120, 0121, 0122, 0124, 0125, 0126, 0127, 0128, 0130, 0131, 0132, 0135, 0139, 0140, 0141, 0142, 0205, and 0246). **Response 12.2 -**  **1:** The EPA acknowledges the commenters’ general opposition to the proposed rule. Our responses to specific comments from organizations opposing the rule are provided throughout this document. 

### 1 **2.3 REQUESTS FOR EXTENSI**  **ON Comment 12.3**  **- 1:**  Multiple commenters reque sted an extension of the comment period (0079, 0089, 0092, 0119, 0136, and 0251). **Response 12.3 -**  **1:** The proposal date for this rule was June 18 th , 2014
. Inthe proposal, the comment deadline was set to October 16, 2014. The EPA felt that this 120 day comment period was adequate for addressing comments to this rule and did not grant commenters an extension. 

### 1 **2.4 OTHER DOCUMENTS SUBM**  **ITTED Comment**  **12.4 -**  **1 :**  Commenter 0225 attached a report, " Thermal Efficiency of Gas
-Fired Generation in California: 2014 Update ." Commenter 0247 attached a technical bulletin titled " Greenhouse Gas and Fossil Fuel Reduction Benefits or Using Biomass Manufacturing Residu als for Energy Production in Forest Products Facilities. " Commenter 0282 attached the following files: 1. Article on "Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets"12
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2. Article on "Assessing 'Dangerous Climate Change': Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations, and Nature" 3. Article on "Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production" 4. Air Construction Permit Application for Florida Crushed Stone Company 5. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2013 Article 6. The Emissions Gap Report 2013 by UNEP 7. Article on "Assessing 'Dangerous Climate Change': Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature" 8. Energy

Relate d Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source, United States 9. Excel Spreadsheet on Energy
- Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source 10. Energy
- Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source, United States 11. Excel Spreadsheet on Energy
- Relat ed Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source, United States 12. USEPA 5
- 13 Base Case Study Emissions Projections 13. Excel Spreadsheet on EPA 5
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- State Emissions Projections 14. Memorandum from the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards of the U SEPA 15. 2011 GTW Combined Cycle Specs 16. Excel Spreadsheet on 2011 GTW Combined Cycle Specs 17. Clean Air Task Force Presentation on Technical Options for Lo wering Carbon Emissions from Power Plants. 18. "Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential Proximity to Natural Ga s Development in Rural Colorado" 19. "H ydraulic Fracturing and Water Stress" 20. Center for Biological Diversity Comments on the Environmental Impact Report Pursuant to Senate Bill 4 21. NETLreport on Improving Domestic Energy Security and Lowering CO2 Emissions with "Next Generation" CO2
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
. 22. IC F International Article on "Integrating Variable Renewable Electric Power Generators and the Natural Gas Infrastructure" 23. California I SA "Fast Facts" 24. California I SA presentation "Building a Sustainable Energ y Future 25. Clean Coalition Rens
- Integr- Power 26. US EPA IPM Run Results for the EPA 5
- 13 Base Case 27. Excel Spreadsheet of U.S. EPA IPM Run Results for the EPA 5
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28. Golder Associates Memo "Application for a Minor Source Air Construction Permit Florida Crushed Stone Company " 29. GCB Bioenergy

Article "Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production 30. GCB Bioenergy

Article "Large
- Scale bioenergy from addi tional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral" 31. Environmental Science Technology article "Forest Bioenergy or Forest Carbon? Assessing Trade
- offs in Greenhouse gas mitigation with Wood
- Based Fuels" 32. GCB Bioenergy

Article "Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Producing Bioenergy from Forest Harvest Residues." 33. DOE/EIA Annual Energy Outlook for 2013 34. GCB Bioenergy

Article "The outcome is in the assumptions: analy zing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass" 35. USEPA SAB review of EPA's accounting framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources 36. Article "Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error" 37. Environmental Science Technology Article: "Forest Bioenergy or Forest Car

bon? Assessing Trade
- offs in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation with Wood
- Based Fuels" 38. GCB Bioenergy

Article "Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Producing Bioenergy from Forest Harvest Residues" 39. DOI "Integrating tipping points into climate impact assessments" 40. G CB Article: "Large
- scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral" 41. The Journal of Economic Literature article "The Structure Of Economic Modeling of The Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk Onto Already Narrow Science Models" 42. GCB Bioenergy : "The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass" 43. The UNEP Emissions Gap report for 20 13 44. USEPA SAB Review of EPA's Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 from stationary sources. **Response 12.4**  **- 1**  **:** The EPA acknowledges receipt of the documents submitted by the commenters and thanks the commenters for providing copies of this information. **Comm ent**  **12.4 -**  **2 :**  Multiple commenters (0131, 0152, 0170, 0171, 0181, 0192, 0193, 0201, 0214, 0225, 0237, 0244, 0260, 0262, and 0282) attached comments submitted in response to the January 2014 EGU NSPS proposal.12
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**Response 12.4**  **- 2**  **:** The EPA acknowledges receipt of c opies of comments submitted in response to the January

8, 2014 NSPS proposal. These comments are addressed in this document, as applicable, in the preamble to the final rule, and in the response
- to - comments document for the new source standards.