Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 27 / Thursday, February 11, 2021 / Notices 9059 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–10020–15–OAR] 

Allocations of Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule Allowances From New 

Unit Set-Asides for 2020 Control 

Periods 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the 

availability of data on emission 

allowance allocations to certain units 

under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule 

(CSAPR) trading programs. EPA has 

completed final calculations for the 

second round of allocations of 

allowances from the CSAPR new unit 

set-asides (NUSAs) for the 2020 control 

periods and has posted spreadsheets 

containing the calculations on EPA’s 

website. EPA has also completed 

calculations for allocations of the 

remaining 2020 NUSA allowances to 

existing units and has posted 

spreadsheets containing those 

calculations on EPA’s website as well. 

DATES: February 11, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning this action should 

be addressed to Jason Kuhns at (202) 

564–3236 or kuhns.jason@epa.gov or 

Andrew Reighart at (202) 564–0418 or 

reighart.andrew@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

each CSAPR trading program where 

EPA is responsible for determining 

emission allowance allocations, a 

portion of each state’s emissions budget 

for the program for each control period 

is reserved in a NUSA (and in an 

additional Indian country NUSA in the 

case of states with Indian country 

within their borders) for allocation to 

certain units that would not otherwise 

receive allowance allocations. The 

procedures for identifying the eligible 

units for each control period and for 

allocating allowances from the NUSAs 

and Indian country NUSAs to these 

units are set forth in the CSAPR trading 

program regulations at 40 CFR 97.411(b) 

and 97.412 (NOX Annual), 97.511(b) and 

97.512 (NOX Ozone Season Group 1), 

97.611(b) and 97.612 (SO2 Group 1), 

97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO2 Group 2), and 

97.811(b) and 97.812 (NOX Ozone 

Season Group 2). Each NUSA allowance 

allocation process involves up to two 

rounds of allocations to eligible units, 

termed ‘‘new’’ units, followed by the 

allocation to ‘‘existing’’ units of any 

allowances not allocated to new units. 

In a notice of data availability (NODA) 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 21, 2020 (85 FR 83078), EPA 

provided notice of the preliminary 

identification of units eligible to receive 

second-round NUSA allocations for the 

2020 control periods and described the 

process for submitting any objections. 

EPA received no objections in response 

to the December 21, 2020 NODA. This 

NODA provides notice of EPA’s 

calculations of the amounts of the 

second-round 2020 NUSA allocations to 

the previously identified eligible new 

units and the allocations of the 

remaining allowances to existing units. 

The detailed unit-by-unit data and 

final allowance allocation calculations 

are set forth in Excel spreadsheets titled 

‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_Annual_

2nd_Round_Final_Data_New_Units,’’ 

‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOx_OS_2nd_

Round_Final_Data_New_Units,’’ 

‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2020_SO2_2nd_

Round_Final_Data_New_Units,’’ 

‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_Annual_

2nd_Round_Final_Data_Existing_

Units,’’ ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2020_NOX_

OS_2nd_Round_Final_Data_Existing_

Units,’’ and ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2020_SO2_

2nd_Round_Final_Data_Existing_

Units’’, available on EPA’s website at 

https://www.epa.gov/csapr/csaprcompliance-year-2020-nusa-nodas. 

EPA notes that an allocation or lack 

of allocation of allowances to a given 

unit does not constitute a determination 

that CSAPR does or does not apply to 

the unit. EPA also notes that under 40 

CFR 97.411(c), 97.511(c), 97.611(c), 

97.711(c), and 97.811(c), allocations are 

subject to potential correction if a unit 

to which allowances have been 

allocated for a given control period is 

not actually an affected unit as of the 

start of that control period. 

Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), 

97.611(b), 97.711(b), and 97.811(b). 

Dated: February 2, 2021. 

Reid P. Harvey, 

Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office 

of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and 

Radiation. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2021–0044; FRL–10020–30– 

OAR] 

Notice of Data Availability Relevant to 

the United States Hydrofluorocarbon 

Baselines and Mandatory Allocations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability. 

SUMMARY: This Notice of Data 

Availability is to alert stakeholders of 

information from the Environmental 

Protection Agency regarding 

hydrofluorocarbon consumption and 

production in the United States for the 

years 2011, 2012, and 2013 and solicit 

stakeholder input. The Agency is 

providing this information in 

preparation for upcoming regulatory 

actions under the American Innovation 

and Manufacturing Act of 2020, 

included in the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2021. Among other 

provisions, the Act directs the 

Environmental Protection Agency to 

develop production and consumption 

baselines and to phase down 

hydrofluorocarbon production and 

consumption relative to those baselines. 

This notice provides information related 

to total annual hydrofluorocarbon 

production and consumption between 

2011 and 2013 reported to the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program as of 

March 30, 2020, which was the last 

reporting deadline for reporting year 

2019 data. The notice identifies possible 

data gaps and requests comment on 

areas where additional information 

could improve the Agency’s data on 

hydrofluorocarbon consumption and 

production in the United States for 

those three years. This notice also 

provides the Agency’s initial 

information on hydrofluorocarbon use 

in applications that would receive 

mandatory allocations under the Act. 

DATES: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is interested in receiving 

comments on the data in this notice of 

data availability (NODA) to inform the 

Agency’s regulatory process. To ensure 

that comments can be accounted for in 

an upcoming EPA proposed rule, please 

submit comments to the Agency by 

February 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2021–0044, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov/ (our 

preferred method). Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, 

Air and Radiation Docket, Mail Code 

28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20460. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier (by 

scheduled appointment only): EPA 

Docket Center, WJC West Building, 

Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket 

Center’s hours of operations are 8:30 


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