Memo to Docket ID. No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234 

Date: May 20,2015 

RECEIVED 

MAY ~,1 2015 

EPA DOCKer CENTER 

Due to staff turnover, this item was iuadvertently omitted from the materials submitted to the 

docket supporting the Denial of Petitions for Reconsideration of Certain Issues: MATS and 

Utility NSPS. Each of the studies cited in this submission are available in the peer-reviewed 

scientific literature, and the data files are available on EPA's website. 

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RECEIVED 

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Studies Cited in the Response to Reconsideration Petitions Regarding the Appropriate and 

Necessary Finding 

December, 2014 

(point of contact: Amy Lamson, U.S. EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, email: lamson.amy@epa.gov) 

EPA has placed in the docket a CD containing .pdf copies of the additional studies that EPA 

cited in the Response to Reconsideration Petitions regarding the Appropriate and Necessary 

Finding in support of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. This memo and CD supplement the 

studies provided in docket for the final rule (docket #EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234-1987). Full 

citations for these studies are provided in this memo below. 

Many of the cited studies are under copyright. Copyrighted material is not available in 

Regulations.gov since it may not be reproduced without consent of the copyright holder. These 

studies can be viewed in the public reading room at the U.S. EPA Docket Center. In addition, we 

did not include .pdf copies of any cited presentations, books, or software on this disk drive. 

In addition, we include several data files related to the non-mercury risk assessment on this CD, 

which are cited in the petition responses and available on the Internet at 

<http ://www.epa. gov /ttn/atw/utility /utili typg.html>. 

• a5 _oil_mact_floor_analysis_l216ll.xlsx (labeled as the "MACT Floor analysis --oil" in 

the MATS ICR Data section of the website) 

• eu__partiii.mbd (labeled as "EGU ICR Partiii" in the MATS ICR Data section of the 

website) 

• mats_final_current_base_hap.inven.xlsx (labeled as the "Emissions Spreadsheet" in the 

Technical Support Documents section of the website). 

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