From: Sargeant, Kathryn

To: "Whiteman, Chad"

Cc: Stewart, Lori; Charmley, William; Ghanta, Venu; Machiele, Paul; Olechiw, Michael; Wysor, Tad; Yanca,

Catherine; Davidson, Ken; Moran, Robin; Zawacki, Margaret; Helfand, Gloria; hannon, john; Kataoka, Mark;

Okoye, Winifred; Nam, Ed; Beardsley, Megan; Brunner, Christine

Subject: Part 2 of EPA Response to 2/13 Interagency Comments on Tier 3

Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:23:36 AM

Attachments: EPA response part 2 to EO_12866_Tier 3_Summary Comments_2_13_2013.docx

EPA Response to EO_12866_ Tier 3_Summary Comments_2_13_2013.docx

EO_12866_ Tier 3_Summary Comments_2_13_2013.docx

Chad, in response to our phone conversation on February 25, attached please find our

further response to the comments from February 13 (specifically related to analysis of

proposed Tier 3 fuel sulfur standards in isolation of the proposed Tier 3 vehicle standards).

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From: Sargeant, Kathryn

Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 4:48 PM

To: Whiteman, Chad

Cc: Stewart, Lori; Charmley, William; Ghanta, Venu; Machiele, Paul; Olechiw, Michael; Wysor, Tad;

Yanca, Catherine; Davidson, Ken; Moran, Robin; Zawacki, Margaret; Helfand, Gloria; hannon, john;

Kataoka, Mark; Okoye, Winifred; Nam, Ed; Beardsley, Megan; Brunner, Christine

Subject: EPA Response to 2/13 Interagency Comments on Tier 3

Chad, I'm attaching EPA's response to your written comments from Feb. 13. Hope you have a good long weekend.

From: "Whiteman, Chad" <Chad_S_Whiteman@omb.eop.gov>

To: Kathryn Sargeant/AA/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: Lori Stewart/DC/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 02/13/2013 05:55 PM

Subject: RE: Follow-up to Feb. 11 Tier 3 call

Kathryn,

 Thank you for the follow-up to our conversation on Monday. I’ve attached a follow-up

request. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Chad
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Subject: Follow-up to Feb. 11 Tier 3 call

In response to a question during the Feb. 11 call, I wanted to follow up with the following information:

Of the 35 small refineries, 5 of them are projected to require the installation of a grassroots FCC posttreater to

comply with Tier 3, which is the same proportion as we project are required for the larger refineries. Those that are

small, however, would be provided with a 3-year delay in their compliance deadline.

I also understand that you passed along some additional questions, which we answer below:

1) Do the Tier 3 benefits include California's LEV III program?

A. Yes. EPA granted the waiver for California's program in December 2012, and the Tier 3 analysis was initiated

and completed before that time.

2) Are the benefits of PM versus NOx reductions broken out in the rule?

A: The PM, NOx, and other emission reductions are presented in preamble section III.B (see pp. 64-66). The

photochemical air quality modeling conducted for the NPRM estimates the total changes in ambient PM, ozone and

air toxics that result from changes in their emission precursors (and directly emitted PM). We are not able to

present air quality impacts and related health impacts separately for these precursors. We model the entire

program's impacts simultaneously to accurately characterize the total air quality impact of the proposal. We do

have health-related benefits broken out by ambient PM versus ambient ozone in preamble section VIII (p. 359 -

367)

3) What emission reductions are achievable from the existing fleet with the Tier 3 gasoline sulfur requirements?

A: See preamble section III.B (pp. 64-68). Tables III-2 through III-7 present the emissions reductions that result

from the pre-Tier 3 fleet due to the sulfur standard.