Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0708-0517
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
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Posted Date: 2010-08-12T04:00Z

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  |"Bromberg, Kevin L." <kevin.bromberg@sba.gov>                                                                                             
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  |08/09/2010 09:23 AM                                                                                                                       
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  |Limited Use Discussion - For your review - RICE SI                                                                                        
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Limited Use Engines:

For limited use engines, the cost/ton for engines of less than 28 hours or 
less are 100X higher than the respective major or area source engines.  It 
clearly would not be GACT or MACT to require catalysts AND testing, or testing 
alone.

I suggested that EPA could do anything that was reasonable - here's my 
reasonable suggestion for discussion.

From July 27th MACT Floor Memo:

For MACT:

EPA can make the SAME work practices finding that it made for Emergency SI 
Engines at Major Sources (numbered text below are quotes from July 27
memo):
1. EPA determined it was not feasible to prescribe or enforce an emission 
standard because the application of measure methodology to this class of 
engine is impracticable due to the technological and economic limitations.
2.  Emergency engines typically operate only during emergencies or during 
periods of routine testing and maintenance.
3.  It is impracticable to test emissions during [either of these periods] 
because it would increase the required number of hours of operation of the 
engine beyond the routinely scheduled reliability testing and maintenance 
operation, thereby increasing emissions.
4. It would be costly to test existing SI emergency engines at major sources.
5. Consequently, work practices are the MACT floor for existing stationary 
emergency SI engines located at major sources.

AND it can make similar findings as black start engines (with an adjustment of 
the hours):
1. The short time of operation makes testing of black start engines using the 
required procedures impracticable.
2. The limited operating time also makes applying aftertreatment to black 
start engines not effective.
3. Therefore, MACT is equivalent to the MACT floor for these engines.

For GACT:

EPA can make the same work practices finding it made for Emergency SI Engines 
at Area Sources.  FYI - GACT means  "generally available control technologies 
or management practices by such sources to reduce emissions of hazardous air 
pollutants" - EPA doesn't even need to start the analysis with MACT standards, 
although it could do so.

EPA can make the SAME work practices finding that it made for Emergency SI 
Engines at Area Sources:
1.For existing SI emergency engines located at area sources, EPA believes that 
it is appropriate to set GACT to the same requirements as is required for 
emergency engines at major sources because the same issues that were discussed 
above for stationary emergency SI engines at major sources apply to emergency 
SI engines at area sources.
[See other major source findings above]

Suggestion: EPA should set the number of limited use hours to include an 
appropriate amount of time for routine reliability testing and maintenance, 
just as it did for emergency engines.  That might mean 50 hours plus time for 
reliability testing and maintenance, in the CI rule
– this was 100 hours.  (See below text for CI emergency engines)   I
assume EPA put aside no limit on the reliability testing and maintenance on 
black start engines – but these limited use engines, I submit, should get the 
same treatment as CI emergency , by some explicit figures for testing and 
maintenance, in addition to the non-emergency allocation of hours.

CI Emergency Engine Rule:

As finalized, NESHAPs has three different hourly limits for emergency 
generators (40 CFR 63.6640 (f) (4)). First, there is an overall limit of 100 
hours per year for testing and maintenance. Second, within that 100 hour 
limit, there is an allowance for up to 50 hours of "non-emergency operation" 
(not to include peak shaving).  Third, of the 50 hours for non-emergency 
operation, only 15 can be used for emergency DR.