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1The latest spreadsheet of CSAPR FIP allowance 

allocations to existing units, updated in 2014 to 

reflect changes to CSAPR’s implementation 

schedule but with allocation amounts unchanged 

since June 2012, is available at http://www.epa.gov/ 

crossstaterule/actions.html. See Availability of Data 

on Allocations of Cross-State Air Pollution Rule 

Allowances to Existing Electricity Generating Units, 

79 FR 71674 (December 3, 2014). 

2The NUSA amounts range from two percent to 

eight percent of the respective state budgets. The 

variation in percentages reflects differences among 

states in the quantities of emission allowances 

projected to be required by known new units at the 

time the budgets were set or amended. 

energy conservation standards. DOE 

actively encourages the participation 

and interaction of the public during the 

comment period in each stage of the 

rulemaking process. Interactions with 

and between members of the public 

provide a balanced discussion of the 

issues and assist DOE in the rulemaking 

process. Anyone who wishes to be 

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future notices and information about 

this rulemaking should contact Mr. 

Joseph Hagerman at (202) 586–4549, or 

via e-mail at joseph.hagerman@

ee.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 4, 

2015. 

Kathleen B. Hogan, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency, Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy. 

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Correction 

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30694 beginning on page 75955 in the 

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make the following correction: 

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the second paragraph, in the fifth and 

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participant code is 4816474’’ should 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 97 

[FRL–9940–10–OAR] 

Allocations of Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule Allowances From New 

Unit Set-Asides for 2015 Control 

Periods 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability 

(NODA). 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the 

availability of preliminary lists of units 

eligible for allocations of emission 

allowances under the Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Under the 

CSAPR federal implementation plans 

(FIPs), portions of each covered state’s 

annual emissions budgets for each of the 

four CSAPR emissions trading programs 

are reserved for allocation to electricity 

generating units that commenced 

commercial operation on or after 

January 1, 2010 (new units) and certain 

other units not otherwise obtaining 

allowance allocations under the FIPs. 

The quantities of allowances allocated 

to eligible units from each new unit setaside (NUSA) under the FIPs are 

calculated in an annual one- or tworound allocation process. EPA 

previously completed the first round of 

NUSA allowance allocations for the 

2015 control periods for all four CSAPR 

trading programs, as well as the second 

round of allocations for the CSAPR NOX

Ozone Season Trading Program, and is 

now making available preliminary lists 

of units eligible for allocations in the 

second round of the NUSA allocation 

process for the CSAPR NOX Annual, 

SO2 Group 1, and SO2 Group 2 Trading 

Programs. EPA has posted spreadsheets 

containing the preliminary lists on 

EPA’s Web site. EPA will consider 

timely objections to the lists of eligible 

units contained in the spreadsheets and 

will promulgate a notice responding to 

any such objections no later than 

February 15, 2016, the deadline for 

recording the second-round allocations 

of CSAPR NOX Annual, SO2 Group 1, 

and SO2 Group 2 allowances in sources’ 

compliance accounts. This notice of 

availability may concern CSAPRaffected units in the following states: 

Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, 

Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, 

Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, 

Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North 

Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South 

Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, 

West Virginia, and Wisconsin. 

DATES: Objections to the information 

referenced in this notice of availability 

must be received on or before January 

14, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your objections via 

email to CSAPR_NUSA@epa.gov. 

Include ‘‘2015 NUSA allocations’’ in the 

email subject line and include your 

name, title, affiliation, address, phone 

number, and email address in the body 

of the email. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning this action should 

be addressed to Robert Miller at (202) 

343–9077 or miller.robertl@epa.gov or 

Kenon Smith at (202) 343–9164 or 

smith.kenon@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

CSAPR FIPs, the mechanisms by which 

initial allocations of emission 

allowances are determined differ for 

‘‘existing’’ and ‘‘new’’ units. For 

‘‘existing’’ units—that is, units 

commencing commercial operation 

before January 1, 2010—the specific 

amounts of CSAPR FIP allowance 

allocations for all control periods have 

been established through rulemaking. 

EPA has announced the availability of 

spreadsheets showing the CSAPR FIP 

allowance allocations to existing units 

in previous notices.1

‘‘New’’ units—that is, units 

commencing commercial operation on 

or after January 1, 2010—as well as 

certain older units that would not 

otherwise obtain FIP allowance 

allocations do not have pre-established 

allowance allocations. Instead, the 

CSAPR FIPs reserve a portion of each 

state’s total annual emissions budget for 

each CSAPR emissions trading program 

as a new unit set-aside (NUSA) 2 and 

establish an annual process for 

allocating NUSA allowances to eligible 

units. States with Indian country within 

their borders have separate Indian 

country NUSAs. The annual process for 

allocating allowances from the NUSAs 

and Indian country NUSAs to eligible 

units is set forth in the CSAPR 

regulations at 40 CFR 97.411(b) and 

97.412 (NOX Annual Trading Program), 

97.511(b) and 97.512 (NOX Ozone 

Season Trading Program), 97.611(b) and 

97.612 (SO2 Group 1 Trading Program), 

and 97.711(b) and 97.712 (SO2 Group 2 

Trading Program). Each NUSA 

allowance allocation process involves 

up to two rounds of allocations to new 

units followed by the allocation to 

existing units of any allowances not 

allocated to new units. EPA provides 

public notice at certain points in the 

process. 


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77592 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 240 / Tuesday, December 15, 2015 / Proposed Rules 

3 80 FR 30988 (June 1, 2015); 80 FR 44882 (July 

28, 2015); 80 FR 55061 (September 14, 2015); 80 FR 

69883 (November 12, 2015). 

4At this time, EPA is not aware of any unit 

eligible for a second-round allocation from any 

Indian country NUSA. 

5The quantities of allowances to be allocated 

through the NUSA allowance allocation process 

may differ slightly from the NUSA amounts set 

forth in §§ 97.410(a), 97.510(a), 97.610(a), and 

97.710(a) because of rounding in the spreadsheet of 

CSAPR FIP allowance allocations to existing units. 6See 40 CFR 97.411(c), 97.611(c), and 97.711(c). 

EPA has already completed the first 

round of allocations of 2015 NUSA 

allowances for all four CSAPR trading 

programs, as well as the second round 

of 2015 NUSA allocations to units 

subject to the CSAPR Ozone Season 

Trading Program, as announced in 

notices previously published in the 

Federal Register.3 The first and secondround NUSA allocation process was 

discussed in those previous notices. 

This notice of availability concerns the 

second round of NUSA allowance 

allocations for the CSAPR NOX Annual, 

SO2 Group 1, and SO2 Group 2 Trading 

Programs for the 2015 control period.4

The units eligible to receive secondround NUSA allocations for the CSAPR 

NOX Annual, SO2 Group 1, and SO2

Group 2 Trading Programs are defined 

in §§ 97.411(b)(1)(iii) and 97.412(a)(9)(i), 

97.611(b)(1)(iii) and 97.612(a)(9)(i), and 

97.711(b)(1)(iii) and 97.712(a)(9)(i), 

respectively. Generally, eligible units 

include any CSAPR-affected unit that 

commenced commercial operation 

between January 1 of the year before the 

control period in question and 

November 30 of the year of the control 

period in question. In the case of the 

2015 control period, an eligible unit 

therefore must have commenced 

commercial operation between January 

1, 2014 and November 30, 2015 

(inclusive). 

The total quantity of allowances to be 

allocated through the 2015 NUSA 

allowance allocation process for each 

state and emissions trading program—in 

the two rounds of the allocation process 

combined—is generally the state’s 2015 

emissions budget less the sum of (1) the 

total of the 2015 CSAPR FIP allowance 

allocations to existing units and (2) the 

amount of the 2015 Indian country 

NUSA, if any.5 The amounts of CSAPR 

NOX Annual, SO2 Group 1, and SO2

Group 2 NUSA allowances may be 

increased in certain circumstances as set 

forth in §§ 97.412(a)(2), 97.612(a)(2), 

and 97.712(a)(2), respectively. 

Second-round NUSA allocations for a 

given state, trading program, and control 

period are made only if the NUSA 

contains allowances after completion of 

the first-round allocations. 

The amounts of second-round 

allocations of CSAPR NOX Annual, SO2

Group 1, and SO2 Group 2 allowances 

to eligible new units from each NUSA 

are calculated according to the 

procedures set forth in §§ 97.412(a)(9), 

(10) and (12), 97.612(a)(9), (10), and 

(12), and 97.712(a)(9), (10), and (12), 

respectively. Generally, the procedures 

call for each eligible unit to receive a 

second-round 2015 NUSA allocation 

equal to the positive difference, if any, 

between its emissions during the 2015 

annual control periods (i.e., January 1, 

2015 through December 31, 2015) as 

reported under 40 CFR part 75 and any 

first-round allocation the unit received, 

unless the total of such allocations to all 

eligible units would exceed the amount 

of allowances in the NUSA, in which 

case the allocations are reduced on a 

pro-rata basis. 

Any allowances remaining in the 

CSAPR NOX Annual, SO2 Group 1, or 

SO2 Group 2 NUSA for a given state and 

control period after the second round of 

NUSA allocations to new units will be 

allocated to the existing units in the 

state according to the procedures set 

forth in §§ 97.412(a)(10) and (12), 

97.612(a)(10) and (12), and 97.712(a)(10) 

and (12), respectively. 

EPA notes that an allocation or lack 

of allocation of allowances to a given 

EGU does not constitute a determination 

that CSAPR does or does not apply to 

the EGU. EPA also notes that allocations 

are subject to potential correction if a 

unit to which NUSA allowances have 

been allocated for a given control period 

is not actually an affected unit as of the 

start of that control period.6

The preliminary lists of units eligible 

for second-round 2015 NUSA allowance 

allocations for the three CSAPR annual 

trading programs are set forth in Excel 

spreadsheets titled ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_

2015_NOx_Annual_2nd_Round_

Prelim_Data,’’ ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2015_

SO2_Group_1_2nd_Round_Prelim_

Data,’’ and ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2015_SO2_

Group_2_2nd_Round_Prelim_Data’’ 

available on EPA’s Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/crossstaterule/

actions.html. Each spreadsheet contains 

a separate worksheet for each state 

covered by that program showing each 

unit preliminarily identified as eligible 

for a second-round NUSA allocation. 

Each state worksheet also contains a 

summary showing (1) the quantity of 

allowances initially available in that 

state’s 2015 NUSA, (2) the sum of the 

2015 NUSA allowance allocations that 

were made in the first-round to new 

units in that state (if any), and (3) the 

quantity of allowances in the 2015 

NUSA available for distribution in 

second-round allocations to new units 

(or ultimately for allocation to existing 

units). 

Objections should be strictly limited 

to whether EPA has correctly identified 

the new units eligible for second-round 

2015 NUSA allocations of CSAPR NOX

Annual, SO2 Group 1, and SO2 Group 2 

allowances according to the criteria 

described above and should be emailed 

to the address identified in ADDRESSES. 

Objections must include: (1) Precise 

identification of the specific data the 

commenter believes are inaccurate, (2) 

new proposed data upon which the 

commenter believes EPA should rely 

instead, and (3) the reasons why EPA 

should rely on the commenter’s 

proposed data and not the data 

referenced in this notice of availability. 

Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.611(b), 

and 97.711(b). 

Dated: December 7, 2015. 

Reid P. Harvey, 

Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office 

of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and 

Radiation. 

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RIN 0660–AA30 

Proposed Scope of NTIA’s Authority 

Regarding FirstNet Fees 

AGENCY: National Telecommunications 

and Information Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The National 

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notice of proposed rulemaking to 

request public comment as it develops 

rules related to its review and approval 

of fees imposed by the First Responder 

Network Authority (FirstNet) as 

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Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (the 

Act). 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

January 14, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: The public is invited to 

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proposed rule. Written comments may 

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