Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495-11826
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2015-10-23T04:00Z

Chapter 12
                                 Miscellaneous
Contents
12.1       GENERAL SUPPORT	2
12.2       GENERAL OPPOSITION	2
12.3       REQUESTS FOR EXTENSION	2
12.4       OTHER DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED	2

                                       
                                       
12.1       GENERAL SUPPORT
Comment 12.1-1: Multiple commenters generally supported the proposed standards for modified and reconstructed electric utility generating units (0080, 0082, 0083, 0084, 0086, 0088, 0096, 0104, 0123, 0129, 0133, 0134, and 0137).
Response 12.1-1: The EPA acknowledges the commenters' support for this rule.
12.2       GENERAL OPPOSITION
Comment 12.2-1: Multiple commenters generally opposed the proposed standards for modified and reconstructed electric utility generating units (0058, 0059, 0065, 0066, 0067, 0068, 0069, 0070, 0071, 0073, 0074, 0076, 0077, 0078, 0081, 0085, 0087, 0090, 0091, 0093, 0094, 0095, 0097, 0098, 0099, 0100, 0101, 0102, 0103, 0105, 0106, 0107, 0108, 0109, 0110, 0111, 0112, 0113, 0116, 0117, 0118, 0120, 0121, 0122, 0124, 0125, 0126, 0127, 0128, 0130, 0131, 0132, 0135, 0139, 0140, 0141, 0142, 0205, and 0246).
Response 12.2-1: The EPA acknowledges the commenters' general opposition to the proposed rule. Our responses to specific comments from organizations opposing the rule are provided throughout this document.
12.3       REQUESTS FOR EXTENSION
Comment 12.3-1: Multiple commenters requested an extension of the comment period (0079, 0089, 0092, 0119, 0136, and 0251).
Response 12.3-1: The proposal date for this rule was June 18[th], 2014. In the proposal, the comment deadline was set to October 16, 2014. The EPA felt that this 120 day comment period was adequate for addressing comments to this rule and did not grant commenters an extension.
12.4       OTHER DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED
Comment 12.4-1: Commenter 0225 attached a report, "Thermal Efficiency of Gas-Fired Generation in California: 2014 Update."
Commenter 0247 attached a technical bulletin titled "Greenhouse Gas and Fossil Fuel Reduction Benefits or Using Biomass Manufacturing Residuals for Energy Production in Forest Products Facilities."
Commenter 0282 attached the following files:
   1. Article on "Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets"
   2. Article on "Assessing 'Dangerous Climate Change': Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations, and Nature"
   3. Article on "Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production"
   4. Air Construction Permit Application for Florida Crushed Stone Company
   5. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2013 Article
   6. The Emissions Gap Report 2013 by UNEP
   7. Article on "Assessing 'Dangerous Climate Change': Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature"
   8. Energy Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source, United States
   9. Excel Spreadsheet on Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source
   10. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source, United States  
   11. Excel Spreadsheet on Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Sector and Source, United States
   12. USEPA 5-13 Base Case Study Emissions Projections
   13. Excel Spreadsheet on EPA 5-13 Base Case - State Emissions Projections
   14. Memorandum from the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards of the USEPA
   15. 2011 GTW Combined Cycle Specs
   16. Excel Spreadsheet on 2011 GTW Combined Cycle Specs
   17. Clean Air Task Force Presentation on Technical Options for Lowering Carbon Emissions from Power Plants.  
   18. "Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential Proximity to Natural Gas Development in Rural Colorado"
   19. "Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Stress"
   20. Center for Biological Diversity Comments on the Environmental Impact Report Pursuant to Senate Bill 4
   21. NETL report on Improving Domestic Energy Security and Lowering CO2 Emissions with "Next Generation" CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery.  
   22. ICF International Article on "Integrating Variable Renewable Electric Power Generators and the Natural Gas Infrastructure"
   23. California ISA "Fast Facts"
   24. California ISA presentation "Building a Sustainable Energy Future
   25. Clean Coalition Rens-Integr-Power
   26. US EPA IPM Run Results for the EPA 5-13 Base Case
   27. Excel Spreadsheet of  U.S. EPA IPM Run Results for the EPA 5-13 Base Case
   28. Golder Associates Memo "Application for a Minor Source Air Construction Permit Florida Crushed Stone Company"
   29. GCB Bioenergy Article "Carbon debt and carbon sequestration parity in forest bioenergy production
   30. GCB Bioenergy Article "Large-Scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral"
   31. Environmental Science Technology article "Forest Bioenergy or Forest Carbon? Assessing Trade-offs in Greenhouse gas mitigation with Wood-Based Fuels"
   32. GCB Bioenergy Article "Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Producing Bioenergy from Forest Harvest Residues."
   33. DOE/EIA Annual Energy Outlook for 2013
   34. GCB Bioenergy Article "The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass"
   35. USEPA SAB review of EPA's accounting framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources 
   36. Article "Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error"
   37. Environmental Science Technology Article: "Forest Bioenergy or Forest Carbon? Assessing Trade-offs in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation with Wood-Based Fuels"
   38. GCB Bioenergy Article "Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Producing Bioenergy from Forest Harvest Residues"
   39. DOI "Integrating tipping points into climate impact assessments"
   40. GCB Article: "Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral"
   41. The Journal of Economic Literature article "The Structure Of Economic Modeling of The Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk Onto Already Narrow Science Models"
   42. GCB Bioenergy: "The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass"
   43. The UNEP Emissions Gap report for 2013
   44. USEPA SAB Review of EPA's Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 from stationary sources. 
Response 12.4-1: The EPA acknowledges receipt of the documents submitted by the commenters and thanks the commenters for providing copies of this information.
Comment 12.4-2: Multiple commenters (0131, 0152, 0170, 0171, 0181, 0192, 0193, 0201, 0214, 0225, 0237, 0244, 0260, 0262, and 0282) attached comments submitted in response to the January 2014 EGU NSPS proposal.
Response 12.4-2: The EPA acknowledges receipt of copies of comments submitted in response to the January 8, 2014 NSPS proposal. These comments are addressed in this document, as applicable, in the preamble to the final rule, and in the response-to-comments document for the new source standards.