57952 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 163 / Thursday, August 24, 2023 / Notices 

1Federal ‘‘Good Neighbor Plan’’ for the 2015 

Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards, 88 

FR 36654 (June 5, 2023). 

2The CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 3 Trading 

Program was originally established in the Revised 

CSAPR Update (86 FR 23054, April 30, 2021) as a 

mechanism for EGUs in 12 states to reduce ozone 

season emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX) starting 

in 2021. 

3Some courts have issued preliminary orders 

partially staying the effectiveness of a separate EPA 

action (88 FR 9336, February 13, 2023) which 

disapproves state implementation plans addressing 

good neighbor obligations for several states, and 

EPA is taking measures to comply with those 

orders. The description of the Good Neighbor Plan 

in this NODA reflects the rule as published, without 

regard to the stay orders and the measures EPA is 

taking to comply with them. However, EPA will not 

record allocations of CSAPR NOX Ozone Season 

Group 3 allowances to any EGUs that are not 

currently participating in the CSAPR NOX Ozone 

Season Group 3 Trading Program because of the 

measures EPA is taking to comply with the stay 

orders. Consequently, the spreadsheet referenced in 

this NODA has been edited to remove information 

on unit-level allocations of CSAPR NOX Ozone 

Season Group 3 allowances to units in any state 

covered by a stay order when the NODA was 

signed. 

4See 40 CFR 52.38(b)(10) through (12). 

5See 40 CFR 97.1011. 

6See 40 CFR 97.1010(b). 

7See 40 CFR 97.1010(c) and 97.1012. Allocations 

from a state’s new unit set-aside for a given control 

period are made after the respective control period 

and are not addressed in this notice. 

8See 40 CFR 97.1010(a)(1)(ii). 

9See 88 FR 36811–13. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 9/8/23. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/ 

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene, to 

protest, or to answer a complaint in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rules 211, 214, or 206 

of the Commission’s Regulations (18 

CFR 385.211, 385.214, or 385.206) on or 

before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the 

specified comment date. Protests may be 

considered, but intervention is 

necessary to become a party to the 

proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at:http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202)502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: August 18, 2023. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–11350–01–OAR] 

Availability of Data on Allocations of 

Cross-State Air Pollution Rule 

Allowances to Existing Electricity 

Generating Units 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability. 

SUMMARY: Under the Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading program 

regulations, EPA allocates emission 

allowances to existing electricity 

generating units (EGUs) as provided in 

notices of data availability (NODAs). 

Through this NODA, EPA is providing 

notice of the availability of data on new 

or revised default allocations of CSAPR 

NOX Ozone Season Group 3 allowances 

to existing units for the 2023–2025 

control periods, as well as the data upon 

which the allocations are based. 

DATES: August 24, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Garrett Powers, Clean Air Markets 

Division, Office of Atmospheric 

Protection, Office of Air and Radiation, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mail Code 6204A, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; 

telephone: 202–564–2300; email: 

powers.jamesg@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

Good Neighbor Plan,1 EPA expanded 

the CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 3 

Trading Program 2 to include EGUs in 

10 additional states and updated the 

program’s provisions to achieve further 

emissions reductions.3 The rule’s 

required emissions control stringencies 

are reflected in new or revised state 

emissions budgets which in turn 

necessitate new or revised unit-level 

allowance allocations. Beginning with 

the 2024 control period, each covered 

state has the option to determine how 

the CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 3 

allowances in its state emissions budget 

should be allocated among the state’s 

units through a state implementation 

plan (SIP) revision.4 However, for the 

2023 control period, and by default for 

subsequent control periods for which a 

state has not provided EPA with the 

state’s own allocations pursuant to an 

approved SIP revision, the unit-level 

allocations are determined by EPA. 

Under EPA’s default unit-level 

allocation methodology for the Good 

Neighbor Plan, most EGUs within a 

covered state’s borders are treated as 

‘‘existing’’ units and receive allocations 

of allowances for a given control period 

in advance of the control period.5 If any 

of the existing units are located in areas 

of Indian country within the state’s 

borders that are not subject to the state’s 

SIP authority, the default allocations to 

those existing units are made through an 

‘‘Indian country existing unit set-aside’’ 

in parallel with the default allocations 

to the other existing units.6 The EGUs 

that EPA identified in the rulemaking as 

eligible to receive default allocations as 

existing units for the 2023–2025 control 

periods in the states covered by this 

NODA are listed in the spreadsheet 

referenced later in this notice. EGUs 

located anywhere within a state’s 

borders that do not receive allocations 

of CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 3 

allowances as ‘‘existing’’ units and that 

report emissions subject to allowance 

holding requirements for a given control 

period are eligible to receive allowance 

allocations as ‘‘new’’ units from the 

state’s new unit set-aside for that control 

period.7

EPA determined new and revised 

state emissions budgets for the 2023– 

2025 control periods on a full-season 

basis in the Good Neighbor Plan 

rulemaking. However, because the 

Agency anticipated that the rule’s 

effective date could fall after the start of 

the 2023 ozone season, the final 

regulations include a procedure for 

prorating the 2023 state emissions 

budgets to ensure that the enhanced 

control stringency reflected in the Good 

Neighbor Plan’s full-season 2023 state 

emissions budgets will apply only after 

the rule’s effective date.8 The Good 

Neighbor Plan provided that the 2023 

unit-level allocations would be 

computed by applying the rule’s unitlevel allocation methodology to the 

2023 state emissions budgets 

determined through the prorating 

procedure.9

Through this NODA, EPA is providing 

notice of the availability of data 

concerning the default unit-level 

allocations of CSAPR NOX Ozone 

Season Group 3 allowances to existing 

units for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 

control periods. The allocations are 

shown in an Excel spreadsheet entitled 

‘‘Unit-level Allocations and Underlying 

Data for the Final Rule’’ posted on 


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10See Allowance Allocation under the Final Rule 

TSD, EPA–HQ–OAR–2021–0668–1079, available at 

www.regulations.gov and www.epa.gov/csapr/goodneighbor-plan-2015-ozone-naaqs; see also 88 FR 

36805–07. 

11See 40 CFR 97.1021(d) and (g). 

12See 40 CFR 97.1021(e). 

13See 40 CFR 97.1021(m); see also 40 CFR 

97.811(e). 

14See 40 CFR 97.1021(f) and (h). 

15See 40 CFR 97.1011(a)(3). 16See 40 CFR 97.1011(c). 

EPA’s website at www.epa.gov/csapr/ 

good-neighbor-plan-2015-ozone-naaqs. 

The spreadsheet also contains the data 

upon which the allocations are based, 

including the 2023 state emissions 

budgets that EPA has computed 

according to the prorating procedure in 

the regulations. The spreadsheet is an 

update of an earlier version included in 

the docket for the final Good Neighbor 

Plan which showed the allocations for 

the 2024 and 2025 control periods as 

well as illustrative allocations for the 

2023 control period. All allocations 

have been determined according to the 

allocation methodology finalized in the 

Good Neighbor Plan rulemaking.10 EPA 

is not requesting comment on the 

allocations, the underlying data, or the 

allocation methodology. 

In accordance with the deadlines set 

forth in the regulations, EPA will record 

allocations of CSAPR NOX Ozone 

Season Group 3 allowances to existing 

units for the 2023 control period by 

September 5, 2023.11 EPA will also 

record allocations to existing units for 

the 2024 control period by that same 

date except in instances where a state 

has provided EPA with timely notice of 

the state’s intent to submit a SIP 

revision with state-determined 

allowance allocations replacing EPA’s 

default allocations for the 2024 control 

period.12 However, in the case of any 

source that has not yet fully complied 

with the Good Neighbor Plan’s 

requirements concerning the recall of 

CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 2 

allowances allocated for control periods 

after 2022, recordation of CSAPR NOX

Ozone Season Group 3 allowances will 

be deferred until the source has fully 

complied with the recall 

requirements.13 EPA will record 

allocations of CSAPR NOX Ozone 

Season Group 3 allowances to existing 

units for the 2025 control period by July 

1, 2024.14

EPA notes that an allocation or lack 

of allocation of emission allowances to 

a given unit under a CSAPR trading 

program does not constitute a 

determination that the trading program 

does or does not apply to the unit.15

EPA also notes that allocations are 

subject to potential correction or 

termination under the regulations.16

Authority: 40 CFR 97.1011(a)(1) and 

(2). 

Rona Birnbaum, 

Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office 

of Atmospheric Protection, Office of Air and 

Radiation. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–11116–01–OMS] 

Good Neighbor Environmental Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) gives notice of 

a public meeting of the Good Neighbor 

Environmental Board (GNEB). The 

purpose of this meeting is for the board 

to continue developing its working draft 

of the 20th comprehensive report on 

water and wastewater infrastructure 

issues and challenges along the U.S.- 

Mexico border region. 

DATES: September 21, 2023, from 9:00 

a.m.–5:00 p.m. (PDT). A copy of the 

agenda will be posted at www.epa.gov/ 

faca/gneb. 

The meeting will be conducted in a 

hybrid environment and is open to the 

public with limited access available on 

a first-come, first-served basis. Members 

of the public wishing to participate 

should contact Eugene Green at 

green.eugene@epa.gov by September 

14th. 

Requests to make oral comments or 

submit written public comments to the 

board, should also be directed to Eugene 

Green at least five business days prior 

to the meeting. Requests for accessibility 

and/or accommodations for individuals 

with disabilities should be directed to 

Eugene Green at the email address or 

phone number listed below. To ensure 

adequate time for processing, please 

make requests for accommodations at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GNEB 

is an independent federal advisory 

committee chartered under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 

92–463. Its mission is to advise the 

President and Congress of the United 

States on good neighbor practices along 

the U.S. border with Mexico. Its 

recommendations are focused on 

environmental infrastructure needs 

within the U.S. states contiguous to 

Mexico. 

For further information regarding the 

GNEB meeting, please contact Eugene 

Green at (202) 564–2432 or via email at 

green.eugene@epa.gov. 

Dated: August 18, 2023. 

Eugene Green, 

Program Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18265 Filed 8–23–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

[Public Notice: EIB–2023–0011] 

Application for Final Commitment for a 

Long-Term Loan or Financial 

Guarantee in Excess of $100 Million: 

AP755224XX 

AGENCY: Export-Import Bank of the 

United States. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is to inform the 

public the Export-Import Bank of the 

United States (‘‘EXIM’’) has received an 

application for final commitment for a 

long-term loan or financial guarantee in 

excess of $100 million. Comments 

received within the comment period 

specified below will be presented to the 

EXIM Board of Directors prior to final 

action on this Transaction. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 18, 2023 to be 

assured of consideration before final 

consideration of the transaction by the 

Board of Directors of EXIM. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through Regulations.gov at 

WWW.REGULATIONS.GOV. To submit 

a comment, enter EIB–2023–0011 under 

the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID’’ and 

select Search. Follow the instructions 

provided at the Submit a Comment 

screen. Please include your name, 

company name (if any) and EIB–2023– 

0011 on any attached document. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Reference: AP755224XX. 

Purpose and Use: 

Brief description of the purpose of the 

transaction: The construction of bridges 

and associated infrastructure at 186 

sites, distributed throughout eighteen 

provinces in Angola. 

Brief non-proprietary description of 

the anticipated use of the items being 

exported: This project will repair and 

modernize water crossings to improve 

the quality of life, increase productivity, 

and facilitate economic development in 

Angola. Due to this project, many 

Angolans will no longer have to rely on 


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