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9See § 97.812(a)(1)(i), (ii), and (iii), respectively. 

10See 81 FR at 74564–65. 11See 81 FR at 74565; 40 CFR 97.810(a)(17)(ii). 

rulemaking process in which 

regulations may be revised. 

EPA has confirmed that the units in 

question are not eligible to receive 

allocations of NUSA allowances under 

the regulations for the CSAPR NOX

Ozone Season Group 2 Trading 

Program. Under § 97.812(a)(3), firstround allocations are determined for 

‘‘each CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 

2 unit described in paragraph (a)(1) of 

this section’’—i.e., § 97.812(a)(1). This 

paragraph of the regulations identifies 

three categories of units eligible for firstround allocations: First, units that have 

not been allocated allowances as 

existing units pursuant to § 97.811(a)(1); 

second, units that have been allocated 

allowances as existing units from a 

given state’s budget for a given control 

period but have lost those allocations 

under the trading program’s correction 

provisions (because the units either are 

not located in that state or are not 

subject to the program at the start of that 

control period); and third, units that 

have ceased operation for a sufficient 

length of time to lose their allocations 

as existing units and have subsequently 

resumed operation.9 As discussed 

above, the units in question meet the 

criteria established in the CSAPR 

Update rulemaking to be considered 

existing units for purposes of the 

CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 2 

Trading Program, and the units 

accordingly have been allocated 

allowances as existing units pursuant to 

§ 97.811(a)(1). The units do not fall 

within one of the categories of units 

eligible for NUSA allocations as set 

forth in § 97.812(a)(1), and the 

regulations do not provide us with the 

authority either to grant exceptions for 

individual units or to identify 

additional categories of eligible units 

beyond those set forth in § 97.812(a)(1). 

As an alternative to having the 

facility’s units reclassified as new units 

for purposes of the CSAPR NOX Ozone 

Season Group 2 Trading Program, the 

third written objection also seeks 

modifications to the data used to 

compute the units’ allocations of 

allowances as existing units under that 

program. However, like the January 1, 

2015 cutoff date, EPA’s determinations 

of which data should be used to 

determine allowance allocations to 

existing units were made in the CSAPR 

Update rulemaking 10 and can be revised 

only through another rulemaking, not 

through the administrative process of 

allocating NUSA allowances. The 

objection is therefore outside the scope 

of the June 21 NODA. 

Finally, the fourth written objection 

seeks modifications to the total amount 

of the NUSA for Oklahoma under the 

CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 2 

Trading Program. Again, EPA’s 

determinations regarding the NUSA 

total amounts were made in the CSAPR 

Update rulemaking; further, the actual 

amounts are codified in the CSAPR 

regulations.11 The total amount of the 

NUSA for Oklahoma can be revised only 

through another rulemaking, not 

through the administrative process of 

allocating NUSA allowances, so the 

objection is outside the scope of the 

June 21 NODA. 

In addition to the written objections 

discussed above, EPA also received a 

telephone inquiry that led to the 

discovery of an error in the preliminary 

calculations for NUSA allocations of 

CSAPR SO2 Group 2 allowances. 

Specifically, because of incorrect 

processing of a change in the plant code 

used to identify certain existing units at 

the Wansley power plant in Georgia, 

Wansley CC units 6A, 6B, 7A, and 7B 

were incorrectly identified as new units 

eligible to receive NUSA allocations. We 

have corrected the error and these units 

are not allocated allowances as new 

units in the final calculations. 

The final unit-by-unit data and 

allowance allocation calculations are set 

forth in Excel spreadsheets titled 

‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2017_NOx_Annual_

1st_Round_Final_Data’’, ‘‘CSAPR_

NUSA_2017_NOx_OS_1st_Round_

Final_Data’’, and ‘‘CSAPR_NUSA_2017_

SO2_1st_Round_Final_Data’’, available 

on EPA’s Web site at https://

www.epa.gov/csapr/csapr-complianceyear-2017-nusa-nodas. The three 

spreadsheets show our final 

determinations of first-round 2017 

NUSA allocations under the CSAPR 

NOX annual, CSAPR NOX ozone season 

(Group 1 and Group 2), and CSAPR SO2

(Group 1 and Group 2) trading 

programs, respectively. 

EPA notes that an allocation or lack 

of allocation of allowances to a given 

unit does not constitute a determination 

that CSAPR does or does not apply to 

the unit. We also note that allocations 

are subject to potential correction. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), 

97.611(b), 97.711(b), and 97.811(b).) 

Dated: July 27, 2017. 

Karen L. Orehowsky, 

Acting Director, Clean Air Markets Division, 

Office of Atmospheric Programs, Office of 

Air and Radiation. 

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Plans for Nitrate/Nitrite, Chloroform, 

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EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–0497. 

The IRIS Assessment Plan for 

Ethylbenzene will be available via the 

Internet on IRIS’ Recent Additions at 

http://www.epa.gov/iris/iris-recentadditions and in the public docket at 

http://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID: 

EPA–HQ–ORD–2014–0526. 

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epa.gov. 

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Assessment Plans, contact Dr. James 

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8668; or email: avery.james@epa.gov. 

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I. Background Information on IRIS 

Assessment Plans 

EPA’s IRIS Program is a human health 

assessment program that evaluates 

quantitative and qualitative risk 

information on effects that may result 

from exposure to chemicals found in the 

environment. Through the IRIS 

Program, EPA provides the highest 

quality science-based human health 

assessments to support the Agency’s 

regulatory activities and decisions to 

protect public health. As part of scoping 

and initial problem formulation 

activities prior to the development of a 

draft assessment, the IRIS Program 

carries out a broad, preliminary 

literature survey to assist in identifying 

health effects that have been studied in 

relation to the chemical or substance of 

interest as well as science issues that 

may need to be considered when 

evaluating its toxicity. This information, 

in conjunction with scoping needs 

identified by EPA program and regional 

offices, are used to inform the 

development of an IRIS Assessment 

Plan (IAP). 

The IAP communicates to the public 

the plan for reviewing each individual 

chemical assessment and includes 

summary information on the IRIS 

Program’s scoping and initial problem 

formulation, objectives and specific 

aims for the assessment, and a PECO 

(Population, Exposure, Comparators, 

and Outcomes) framework for the 

systematic review. The PECO provides 

the framework for developing literature 

search strategies and inclusion/ 

exclusion criteria, particularly with 

respect to evidence stream (i.e., human, 

animal, mechanistic), exposure 

measures and outcome measures. The 

IAP serves to inform the subsequent 

development of chemical specific 

systematic review protocols, which will 

be made publicly available. For more 

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Web site at https://www.epa.gov/iris. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2017– 

0496 for Nitrate/Nitrite, EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2017–0497 for Chloroform, and EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2014–0526 for Ethylbenzene, 

by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

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• Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is 

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The EPA Docket Center Public 

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excluding legal holidays. The telephone 

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accepted during the docket’s normal 

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Instructions: Direct your comments to 

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Nitrite, EPA–HQ–ORD–2017–0497 for 

Chloroform, and EPA–HQ–ORD–2014– 

0526 for Ethylbenzene. Please ensure 

that your comments are submitted 

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including any personal information 

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the ORD Docket in the EPA 

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Dated: August 30, 2017. 

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Director, National Center for Environmental 

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