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Ms. Jezebele Alicea-Virella 

USEPA Headquarters 

Mr. James Covington 

USEPA Headquarters 

Urgent: Resubmitted Request for Release of Information 

From Docket No. EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819 

***PROMPT RESPONSE REQUESTED*** 

Dear Ms. Alicea-Virella and Mr. Covington: Per Ms. Alicea-Virella's July 24 email, Duke Energy is resubmitting its request for release of 

information from Docket No. EPA-HQ-PW-2009-0819. The requisite certification regarding 

confidential business information is included. 

Duke Energy's facilities provided information that is being used to inform EPA's development of 

the proposed revision of the effluent limitations guidelines and standards for the steam electric 

power generating point source (ELG Rule). The facilities listed below either responded to 

earlier ELG Rule questionnaires to the industry or provided information to you through other 

means, such as site visits or separate information requests. Please note the operating 

company name listed below is the station's operating company at the time the ELG Rule 

questionnaire was completed. The specific facilities in question are as follows: 

Operating Company Name Facility Name NPDES Number 

Duke Energy Corporation Allen Steam Station NC0004979 

Duke Energy Corporation Belews Creek Steam Station NC0024406 

Duke Energy Corporation Buck Steam Station NC0004774 

Duke Energy Corporation Catawba Nuclear Station SC0004278 

Duke Energy Corporation Cliffside Steam Station NC0005088 

Duke Energy Corporation Oconee Nuclear Station SC0000515 

Duke Energy Corporation Dan River Steam Station NC0003468 Duke Energy Corporation W.S. Lee Steam Station SC0002291 

Duke Energy Corporation Marshall Steam Station NC0004987 

Duke Energy Corporation McGuire Nuclear Station NC0024392 

Duke Energy Corporation Riverbend Steam Station NC0004961 

Duke Energy Corporation East Bend Station KY0040444 
Duke Energy Corporation Walter C. Beckjord Station OH0009865 

Duke Energy Corporation Miami Fort Station OH0009873 

Duke Energy Corporation Cayuga Generating Station IN0002763 

Duke Energy Corporation Edwardsport Generating Station IN0002780 

Duke Energy Corporation R. Gallagher Generating Station IN0002798 

Duke Energy Corporation Gibson Generating Station N/A 

Duke Energy Corporation Noblesville Generating Station IN0002801 

Duke Energy Corporation Wabash River Generating Station IN0002810 

Duke Energy Corporation Hanging Rock Energy Facility OH0127931 

Duke Energy Corporation Washington Energy Facility II OH0127841 

Duke Energy Corporation Fayette Energy Facility PA0218863 

Progress Energy, Inc Asheville Steam Electric Plant NC0000396 

Progress Energy, Inc Brunswick Steam Electric Plant NC0007064 

Progress Energy, Inc Cape Fear Steam Electric Plant NC0003433 

Progress Energy, Inc Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant NC0039586 

Progress Energy, Inc H.F. Lee/Wayne County NC0003417 

Progress Energy, Inc Mayo Electric Generating Plant NC0038377 

Progress Energy, Inc LV Sutton Steam Electric Plant NC0001422 

Progress Energy, Inc W H Weatherspoon Plant NC0005363 

Progress Energy, Inc Roxboro Steam Plant NC0003425 

Progress Energy, Inc Sherwood Smith Energy Complex NA 

Progress Energy, Inc H.B. Robinson SC0002925 

Progress Energy, Inc Anclote FL0002992 

Progress Energy, Inc P.L. Bartow FLOOOOI32 

Progress Energy, Inc Crystal River - Units 1, 2 and 3 FL00001 59 

Progress Energy, Inc Crystal River - 4 and 5 FL0036366 

Progress Energy, Inc Hines Energy Complex NA 

Progress Energy, Inc Suwannee Steam Plant FL0000183 

We have identified certain record documents which we believe contain information reported by, 

or derived from data or information reported by, one or more of our facilities. EPA has redacted 

all or portions of these documents as "confidential business information" (CBI). 

We are requesting that you provide to us all information related to the facilities listed above 

(including information that EPA has derived from information obtained from our facilities and 
EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819 Doc. Short Description ID No. (DCN No.) 

1959 (DCN SE01825A53) FGD Input Table Current Systems 

1959 (DCN SE01825A54) FGD Input Table Planned Systems 1959 (DCN SE01825A55) FGD HiQh Flow Analysis 

1959 (DCN SE01825A73) Bottom Ash MDS Conveyance O&M Costs 

1959 (DCN SE01825A74) Bottom Ash Intermediate Storage O&M Costs 

1959 (DCN SE01825A75) Bottom Ash Wet Sluicing O&M Costs 

1959 (DCN SE01825A76) Bottom Ash Remote MDS Capital Costs 

1959 (DCN SE01825A77) Bottom Ash Wet Sluicing O&M Costs 1959 (DCN SE01825A78) Bottom Ash Remote MDS Capital Costs 1977 (SE02900) CBI Steam Electric Pollutant Loading Model for FGD 

Wastewater 

1984 (SE02899) CBI Steam Electric Pollutant Loadings Model for Ash 

Transport Water 

1986 (SE01756) CBI Future Profile FGD Loads 

2104 (SE02897) CBI Steam Electric Cost Model (FGD and Ash 

Transport Water) 

2105 (SE02898) CBI Steam Electric Cost Model (FGD and Leachate) 

2121 (5E03804) CBI Data Dictionary for the FGD and Ash Cost Model 

2157 (SE02988) CBI Loads Calculation Database for Options 1, 2, 3, 

4, and 5 

2159 (SE03508) CBI Loads Calculation Database Future Profile - IPM 

Only 

2191 (SE03879) CBI Bottom Ash Management Determination 

Calculations 

2195 (SE03507) Loads Calculation Database - Questionnaire and 

IPM 

2197 (SE03552) CBI EA Report Calculations Database 

2201 (SE03895) CBI Loads Calculation Database for Options 3a, 3b 

and 4a 

2210 (SE02129) CBI Memorandum to the Steam Electric Rulemaking 

Record: New Source Performance Standards Costing 

Memorandum and Attachment 

2252, 2252.1 (SE01957, CBI Incremental Costs and Pollutant Removals for 

SE1957A1) Proposed ELGs Report and Attachment 

2256 (SE01957) CBI Incremental Costs and Pollutant Removals 
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control technologies information about our facilities derived from other sources, as well as all 

EPA-developed information relating to our control technologies, including EPA's assessments of 

future technology choices for our facilities based on the various rule options. 

For each document, as appropriate, please also include: (1) a legend which explains each 

column heading and each abbreviation used throughout the entire document; and (2) a list of all 

formulas applied in the document and a legend for any abbreviations used in the formulas. The 

legend and formula information is key to understanding these documents. 

We make this request without waiving any of our CBI designations. Because you are providing 

the information only to us, there is no breach of confidentiality and no waiver of CBI protections. 

Furthermore, we are not requesting CBI information, or CBI-derived information, from other 

companies that may have furnished data or information appearing in the listed documents. We 

are requesting only information related to our own facilities. 

I certifi; under penalty of lnw that I nm a responsible corporate official of Duke Energt; and nm 

authorized to request confidential business information Oil behalf of my company. I certifi; that 

Duke Energtj is the majority owner or tlze operator for eaclz facility (and for each unit at each 

fncilihJ) for wl1ich we are requesting confidential business infonnation. I nm nware that there 

may be significant penalties for submitting false information including the possibility of fines 

and imprisonment, pursuant to 18 U.S. C. § 1001. 

We have done our best to be selective in asking for facility-specific information. The information 

we are seeking, however, is vital to our review of, and preparation of comments on, the 

proposed ELG Rule. 

Please forward all requested information to the following address: 

Mr. Nathan Craig 

Duke Energy 

526 South Tryon Street 

Charlotte, NC 28202 

Mailing Address: 

EC13K I P.O. Box 1006 

Charlotte, NC 28201-1006 

If you have any questions about this request, please call or email me. I look forward to your 

prompt response. Thank you very much for your help. 
Cari Boyce 

Vice President, Environmental & Energy Policy