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WSR 08-14-064
[ Filed June 25, 2008, 9:43 a.m. , effective July 26, 2008 ]
�����Purpose: The purpose of adopting chapters 463-80 and 463-85 WAC is to adopt, as directed in chapters 80.70 and 80.80 RCW, carbon dioxide mitigation and greenhouse gases emissions performance standard for baseload electric generation and establish criteria to implement and enforce the emissions performance standard.
�����Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapters 80.70 and 80.80 RCW.
����� Adopted under notice filed as WSR 08-06-033 on February 26, 2008.
�����Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: Chapter 463-85 WAC includes clarifying changes within several sections in response to public comments. Examples include adding modifying text throughout the document to ensure consistent and correct usage of "baseload electric generation facility or unit" and "baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit."
���� The Administrative Procedure Act (chapter 34.05 RCW) requires the energy facility site evaluation council (EFSEC) to provide reasons for changing language in the rules between the proposed rule text published in the Washington state register with the CR-102 and the text of the rules as adopted. This section of the concise explanatory statement fulfills this requirement.
���� The changes are listed in the order that they appear within the rule text. Deletions appear as strike-through text and additions appear as underlined text. The reason for each change, as well as the source of the change, is provided. Minor editing changes (i.e. punctuation or grammatical corrections) are not included.
Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Program, for Thermal
���� 1. WAC 463-80-030 Carbon dioxide mitigation program applicability.
���� (2)(a) An application was received after July 1, 2004; and
���� (b) The station-generating capability is 350 MWe or greater; or
���� (c) The facility is a fossil-fueled floating thermal electric generation facility subject to regulation by EFSEC.
���� Reason: The change is for clarification.
���� 2. WAC 463-80-100 Independent qualified organization use of funds.
���� (4) An organization found by EFSEC to have violated subsections (21) or (32) of this section and removed from EFSEC's list of independent qualified organizations may not apply or request listing on EFSEC's list for a period of four years after removal from the list.
���� Reason: These changes were made to correct the citation.
Greenhouse Gases Emissions Performance Standard and Sequestration Plans and Programs for Thermal Electric Generating Facilities
���� 3. WAC 463-85-110 Definitions.
���� The following definitions are applicable apply when these terms are used in the provisions of for this chapter.
���� 4. WAC 463-85-110 Definitions.
���� "Baseload electric generation" means electric generation from a power plant that is designed and intended to provide electricity at an annualized plant capacity factor of at least sixty percent. For a cogeneration facility, the sixty percent annual capacity factor applies to only the electrical production intended to be supplied for sale. For purposes of this rule, designed means originally specified by the design engineers for the power plant or generating units (such as simple cycle combustion turbines) installed at a power plant; and intended means allowed for by the current permits for the power plant, recognizing the capability of the installed equipment or intent of the owner or operator of the power plant.
���� Reason: The additional text related to design and intent is added in response to a request by commenter W-23 to clarify the meaning of this phrase. The clarification is in line with EFSEC's and ecology's understanding of the language as used in the law and as we have used it within the proposed rule.
���� 5. WAC 463-85-110 Definitions.
���� "Baseload electric generation facility" means the power plant that provides baseload electric generation.
���� Reason: This definition was added to conform to the ecology rule in response to a request by commenter W-20.
���� 6. WAC 463-85-110 Definitions.
���� "Electric generating unit" (EGU) is the equipment required to convert the thermal energy in a fuel into electricity. In the case of a steam electric generation unit, it is comprised the EGU consists of all equipment from involved in fuel delivery to the plant site, through an as well as individual boilers, any installed emission control equipment, and ending with the generation of electricity in a dedicated any steam turbine/generators dedicated to generating electricity. Where a steam turbine generator is supplied by two or more boiler units, all boilers contributing to that steam turbine/generator comprise a single electric generating unit. All combustion units/boilers/combined cycle turbines that produce steam for use in a single steam turbine/generator unit are part of the same electric generating unit.
���� (a) For an integrated gasification combined cycle combustion turbine plant, the EGU consists it is comprised of all equipment from involved in fuel delivery to the unit, as well as all equipment used in the fuel conversion and through the combustion processes, any installed emission control equipment, and all equipment used for ending with the generation of electricity.
���� (b) For a combined cycle natural gas fired combustion turbine, it is the EGU begins at the point where natural gas is delivered to the plant site and ends with the generation of electricity from the combustion turbine and from steam produced and used on a steam turbine.
���� (c) An EGU also includes Ffuel cells fueled by hydrogen produced (1) in a reformer utilizing nonrenewable fuels or (2) by a gasifier producing hydrogen from nonrenewable fuels.
���� Reason: Clarification by EFSEC and ecology staff. The meaning and intent of the section is not changed.
���� 7. WAC 463-85-110 Definitions.
���� "Renewable resources" means a electricity generation facilities fueled by renewable fuels plus electricity generation facilities fueled by:
���� Reason: Clarification by ecology staff. The meaning and intent of the section is not changed.
���� 8. WAC 463-85-110 Definitions.
���� Reason: Clarification. The text is deleted in response to a suggestion by commenters W-8 and W-9 that the sentence is confusing and is not needed. Based on comments received, the definition was modified to have a structure more like that of the law. This change does not change the determination that a change that increases fuel input would trigger the need to comply with the emission performance standard.
���� 9. WAC 463-85-120 Facilities subject to the Ggreenhouse gases emissions performance standard applicability.
���� (1) This rule is applicable to all baseload electric generation facilities and units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities and units that:
���� (2) This rule is not applicable to any baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit that is designed and intended to utilize a renewable fuel to provide at least ninety percent of its total annual heat input.
���� (a) The new baseload electric cogeneration facility or new baseload electric cogeneration unit is issued a notice of construction approval or a site certification agreement;
���� (5) A new baseload electric generation facility or unit or new baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit becomes an existing baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit the day it commences commercial operation.
���� Reason: The word "new" is added to WAC 463-85-120(5) as suggested by commenter W-9 to increase clarity of when an existing facility is required to meet the GHG EPS.
���� Commenter W-9 also noted that "cogeneration facilities and units" was used interchangeably with "baseload cogeneration facility or unit." We have edited this section, as well as the remaining sections in the rule, to consistently use "baseload electric generation facility" and "baseload electric cogeneration facility." We also edited the rule to ensure consistent use of "facility" and "unit."
���� 10. WAC 463-85-130 Emissions performance standard.
���� (1) Beginning July 1, 2008, all baseload electric generation facilities and units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities and units subject to WAC 463-85-120 are not allowed to emit to the atmosphere total regulated greenhouse gases at a rate greater than one thousand one hundred pounds per megawatt-hour, annual average.
���� Reason: Commenter W-9 recommended adding "subject to WAC 463-85-120["] to ensure that certain regulatory requirements in WAC 463-85-130 to 463-85-240 apply to "all baseload electric generation and cogeneration facilities and units." Commenter W-9 recommended changing "total" to "regulated" to be consistent with the definition of regulated greenhouse gases. EFSEC and ecology agreed with these clarifications.
���� 11. WAC 463-85-130 Emissions performance standard.
���� (3) All baseload electric cogeneration facilities and units in operation on or before June 30, 2008, and operating exclusively on natural gas, waste gas, a combination of natural and waste gases, or a renewable fuel, are deemed to be in compliance with the emissions performance standard until the facility or unit is subject to a new ownership interest or is upgraded. For purposes of WAC 463-85-130, exclusive use of renewable fuel shall mean at least ninety percent of total annual heat input by a renewable fuel.
���� Reason: In response to commenter W-7, new text in subsection (3) clarifies that the reference to operating exclusively on renewable fuels in WAC 463-85-130(3) is intended to be consistent with WAC 463-85-120(2).
���� 12. WAC 463-85-140 Calculating greenhouse gases emissions and determining compliance for baseload electric generation facilities.
���� (1) The owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit that must demonstrate compliance with the emissions performance standard in WAC 463-85-130(1) shall demonstrate compliance annually, using the data identified below collect the following data:
���� (ii) Fuel usage and heat content, which are is to be monitored, and reported as directed by WAC 463-85-230.
���� (d) Adjustments for use of renewable resources. The owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit may adjust its greenhouse gases emissions to account for the usage of renewable resources. If the owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit adjusts its greenhouse gases emissions to account for the use of renewable resources, greenhouse gases emissions are reduced based on the ratio of the annual heat input from all fuels and fuel feed stocks and the annual heat input from use of nonrenewable fuels and fuel feed stocks. Such adjustment will be based on records of fuel usage and representative heat contents approved by ecology.
���� (a) Use the data collected under subsection (1) above to cCalculate the pounds of regulated greenhouse gases emissions emitted per MWh of electricity produced during the prior calendar year by dividing the regulated greenhouse gases emissions by the total MWh produced in that year; and
���� Reason: Clarification by EFSEC and ecology staff. The meaning and intent of the section is not changed. To be consistent, similar changes were made to WAC 463-85-150 Calculating greenhouse gases emissions and determining compliance for baseload electric cogeneration facilities, but are not listed in the responsiveness summary.
���� 13. WAC 463-85-200 Requirement for and timing of sequestration plan or sequestration program submittals.
���� (2) A sequestration program for a source that begins sequestration on or before the start of commercial operation is required to be submitted when:
���� Reason: Clarification by EFSEC and ecology staff. This text was added to clarify when this section is applicable and to be consistent with the wording in the introduction in subsection (1) of WAC 463-85-200.
���� 14. WAC 463-85-210 Requirements for geologic Types of permanent sequestration plans.
���� Reason: Change of section title to be consistent with ecology rules.
���� 15. WAC 463-85-220 Requirements for nongeologic permanent sequestration plans and sequestration programs.
���� In order to meet the emissions performance standard, all baseload electric generation facilities or individual units that are subject to this rule, and must use nongeologic sequestration of sequester greenhouse gases to meet the emissions performance standard, will submit sequestration plans or sequestration programs for approval to EFSEC or ecology, as appropriate.
���� (1) Sequestration plans and sequestration programs must include:
���� (a) Financial requirements. As a condition of plant operation, eEach owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit utilizing other nongeologic sequestration as a method to comply with the emissions performance standard in WAC 173-407-130 is required to provide a letter of credit as a condition of plant operation sufficient to ensure successful implementation, closure, and post-closure activities identified in the sequestration plan or sequestration program, including construction and operation of necessary equipment, and any other significant costs.
���� (1)(a)(ii) Closure and post-closure financial assurances. The owner or operator shall establish a closure and a post-closure letter of credit to cover all closure and post-closure expenses respectively. The owner or operator must designate EFSEC as the beneficiary to carry out the closure and post-closure activities. The value of the closure and post-closure accounts shall cover all costs of closure and post-closure care identified in the closure and post-closure plan. The closure and post-closure cost estimates shall be revised annually to include any changes in the sequestration project and to include cost changes due to inflation. The obligation to maintain the account for closure and post-closure care survives the termination of any permits and the cessation of injection. The requirement to maintain the closure and post-closure accounts is enforceable regardless of whether the requirement is a specific condition of the permit.
���� (1)(b) The application for approval of a sequestration plan or sequestration program shall include (but is not limited to) the following:
���� (1)(c) In order to monitor the effectiveness of the implementation of the sequestration plan or sequestration program, the owner or operator shall submit a detailed monitoring plan that will ensure detection of be able to detect failure of the sequestration method to place the greenhouse gases into a sequestered state. The monitoring plan will be sufficient to detect losses of sequestered greenhouse gases at a level of no greater than twenty percent of the leakage rate allowed in to provide reasonable assurance that the project meets the definition of permanent sequestration. The monitoring shall continue for the longer of twenty years beyond either the end of placement of the greenhouse gases into a sequestration containment system, or twenty years beyond the date upon which it is determined that all of the greenhouse gases has have achieved a state at which it is they are now stably sequestered in that environment.
���� (1)(d) If the sequestration plan or sequestration program fails to sequester greenhouse gases as provided in the plan or program, the owner or operator of the baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit is no longer in compliance with the emissions performance standard.
���� (2) Public notice and comment. EFSEC must provide public notice and a public comment period before approving or denying any sequestration plan or sequestration program plan.
���� (a) Public notice. Public notice shall be made only after all information required by the permitting authority has been submitted and after applicable preliminary determinations, if any, have been made. The applicant or other initiator of the action must pay the cost of providing public notice. Public notice shall include analyses of the effects on the local, state and global environment in the case of failure of the sequestration plan or sequestration program plan. The sequestration plan or sequestration program must be available for public inspection in at least one location near the proposed project.
���� (2)(b)(i) The public comment period must be at least thirty days long or may be longer as specified in the public notice.
���� Reasons: Changes in the first paragraph of WAC 463-85-220 and in subsection (1)(a) were made by EFSEC and ecology staff to clarify that this section applies only to nongeologic sequestration, as described in the section title. "Baseload electric" is added in response to commenter W-9.
���� Clarifying changes in subsection (1)(a)(ii) are made in response to suggestions from commenter W-25.
���� Several commenters expressed concern about the use of "twenty percent" in WAC 463-85-220 (1)(c). EFSEC and ecology agree that this leak detection rate should be determined at the time of the permit issuance and is deleting the reference to twenty percent and adding the "reasonable assurance" text. The other text changes are made to clarify poorly written text in the proposed rule.
���� Clarification by EFSEC and ecology staff in subsection (2)(b)(i) are to make it clear that the minimum length of a comment period is thirty days but that a longer comment period may be specified in the public notice.
���� EFSEC and ecology staff added references to sequestration plan and/or sequestration program throughout this section, as appropriate, to clarify that this section applies to both sequestration plans and sequestration programs.
���� 16. WAC 463-85-230 Emissions and electrical production monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
���� (1)(b) Useful thermal energy output: Determine qQuantity of energy supplied to nonelectrical production uses through determined by monitoring of both the energy supplied and the unused energy returned by the thermal energy user or uses. The required monitoring This can be accomplished through:
���� (i) Measurement of the mass, pressure, and temperature of the supply and return streams of the mass pressure and temperature of the steam or thermal fluid.; or
���� (i) The regulated greenhouse gases emissions are the emissions of regulated greenhouse gases from the main plant exhaust stack and any bypass stacks or flares. For baseload electric generation facilities or units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units utilizing CO2 controls and sequestration to comply with the greenhouse gases emissions performance standard, direct and fugitive CO2 emissions from the CO2 separation and compression process are included.
���� (A) For baseload electric generation facilities or units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 463-85-120, producing 350 MW or more of electricity, CO2 emissions will be monitored by a continuous emission monitoring system meeting the requirements of 40 CFR PartSections 75.10, and 75.13 and 40 CFR Part 75 Appendix F. If allowed by the requirements of 40 CFR Part 72, a facility may estimate CO2 emissions through fuel carbon content monitoring and methods meeting the requirements of 40 CFR Part Sections 75.10 and 75.13 and 40 CFR Part 75 Appendix G.
���� (B) When the monitoring data from a continuous emission monitoring system does not meet the completeness requirements of 40 CFR Part 75, the baseload electric generation facility operator or operator will substitute data according to the process in 40 CFR Part 75.
���� (D) Continuous emission monitors for CO2 will be installed at a location meeting the requirements of 40 CFR Part 75, Appendix A. The CO2 and flow monitoring equipment must meet the quality control and quality assurance requirements of 40 CFR Part 75, Appendix B.
���� (iii) Nitrous oxide (N2O).
���� (A) For baseload electric generation facilities or units or baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 173-407-120 producing 25 MW or more of electricity, N2O emissions shall be determined as follows:.
���� (I) For the first year of operation, N2O emissions are estimated by use of emission factors as published by the Environmental Protection Agency, the federal Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency, or other authoritative source as approved by ecology for use by the facility.
���� (II) For succeeding years, N2O emissions will be estimated through use of generating unit specific emission factors derived through use of emissions testing using ecology or Environmental Protection Agency approved methods. The emission factor shall be derived through testing N2O emissions from the stack at varying loads and through at least four separate test periods spaced evenly throughout the first year of commercial operation.
���� (2)(a) Facilities or units subject to the reporting requirements of 40 CFR Part 75. Annual emissions of CO2, N2O and CH4 will be reported to ecology EFSEC and the air quality permitting authority with jurisdiction over the facility by January 31 of each calendar year for emissions that occurred in the previous calendar year. The report may be an Excel� or CSV format copy of the report submitted to EPA per 40 CFR Part 75 with the emissions for N2O and CH4 appended to the report.
���� Reason: Clarification by EFSEC and ecology staff. The meaning and intent of these sections were not changed. Similar edits were made to subsection (1)(c)(iv) and (v), but are not repeated here.
�����A final cost-benefit analysis is available by contacting Cathy Carruthers, Department of Ecology, P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600, phone (360) 407-6564, fax (360) 407-6989, e-mail catc461@ecy.wa.gov.
�����Date Adopted: June 24, 2008.
OTS-1296.4
���� (a) An application was received after July 1, 2004; and
���� (4) An organization found by EFSEC to have violated subsections (1) or (2) of this section and removed from EFSEC's list of independent qualified organizations may not apply or request listing on EFSEC's list for a period of four years after removal from the list.
OTS-1297.3
WAC 463-85-100 Policy and purpose. It is the intent of the legislature, under chapter 80.80 RCW, to establish statutory goals for the statewide reduction of greenhouse gases emissions. The legislature further intends by chapter 80.80 RCW to authorize immediate actions in the electric power generation sector for the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions.
WAC 463-85-110 Definitions. The following definitions apply when these terms are used in the provisions of this chapter.
���� "Baseload electric generation facility" means a power plant that provides baseload electric generation.
���� "Electric generating unit (EGU)" is the equipment required to convert the thermal energy in a fuel into electricity. In the case of a steam electric generation unit, the EGU consists of all equipment involved in fuel delivery to the plant site, as well as individual boilers, any installed emission control equipment, and any steam turbine/generators dedicated to generating electricity. Where a steam turbine/generator is supplied by two or more boiler units, all boilers contributing to that steam turbine/generator comprise a single electric generating unit. All combustion units/boilers/combined-cycle turbines that produce steam for use in a single steam turbine/generator unit are part of the same electric generating unit.
���� (a) For an integrated gasification combined-cycle combustion turbine plant, the EGU consists of all equipment involved in fuel delivery to the unit, as well as all equipment used in the fuel conversion and combustion processes, any installed emission control equipment, and all equipment used for the generation of electricity.
���� (b) For a combined-cycle natural gas fired combustion turbine, the EGU begins at the point where natural gas is delivered to the plant site and ends with the generation of electricity from the combustion turbine and from steam produced and used on a steam turbine.
���� (c) An EGU also concludes fuel cells fueled by hydrogen produced:
���� (i) In a reformer utilizing nonrenewable fuels; or
���� (ii) By a gasifier producing hydrogen from nonrenewable fuels.
���� "Permanent sequestration" means the retention of greenhouse gases in a containment system using a method that is in accordance with standards approved by the department of ecology and that creates a high degree of confidence that substantially ninety-nine percent of the greenhouse gases will remain contained for at least one thousand years.
���� "Renewable resources" means electricity generation facilities fueled by renewable fuels plus electricity generation facilities fueled by:
���� "Sequestration program" means a comprehensive plan describing how a baseload electric generation plant's owner or operator will demonstrate compliance with the emissions performance standard at start of commercial operation and continuing unchanged into the future. The program is a description of how the facility meets the emissions performance standard based on the characteristics of the baseload electric generation facility or unit or by sequestering greenhouse gases emissions to meet the emissions performance standard with the sequestration starting on or before the start of commercial operation.
���� "Upgrade" means any modification made for the primary purpose of increasing the electric generation capacity of a baseload electric generation facility or unit. Upgrade does not include:
���� (a) That is made available to and used in an industrial or commercial process (minus any heat contained in condensate return and/or makeup water);
WAC 463-85-120 Greenhouse gases emissions performance standard applicability. (1) This rule is applicable to all baseload electric generation facilities and units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities and units that:
���� (a) Are new and are permitted for construction and operation after June 30, 2008, and that utilize fossil fuel or nonrenewable fuels for all or part of their fuel requirements.
���� (c) The existing facility or a unit is subject to a new baseload electric long-term financial commitment.
WAC 463-85-130 Emissions performance standard. (1) Beginning July 1, 2008, all baseload electric generation facilities or units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities and units subject to WAC 463-85-120 are not allowed to emit to the atmosphere regulated greenhouse gases at a rate greater than 1100 pounds per megawatt-hour, annual average.
WAC 463-85-140 Calculating greenhouse gases emissions and determining compliance for baseload electric generation facilities. (1) The owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit that must demonstrate compliance with the emissions performance standard in WAC 463-85-130(1) shall collect the following data:
���� (ii) Fuel usage and heat content, which are to be monitored, and reported as directed by WAC 463-85-230.
���� (d) Adjustments for use of renewable resources. If the owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit adjusts its greenhouse gases emissions to account for the use of renewable resources, greenhouse gases emissions are reduced based on the ratio of the annual heat input from all fuels and fuel feed stocks and the annual heat input from use of nonrenewable fuels and fuel feed stocks. Such adjustment will be based on records of fuel usage and representative heat contents approved by EFSEC or ecology as appropriate.
���� (a) Use the data collected under subsection (1) of this section to calculate the pounds of regulated greenhouse gases emissions emitted per MWh of electricity produced during the prior calendar year by dividing the regulated greenhouse gases emissions by the total MWh produced in that year; and
���� (b) Submit that calculation and all supporting information to EFSEC.
WAC 463-85-150 Calculating greenhouse gases emissions and determining compliance for baseload cogeneration facilities. (1) To use this section for determining compliance with the greenhouse gases emissions performance standard, a facility must have certified to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the provisions of 18 CFR 292 Subpart B as a qualifying cogeneration facility.
���� (2) The owner or operator of a baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit that must demonstrate compliance with the emissions performance standard in WAC 463-85-130(1) shall collect the following data:
���� (ii) Fuel and fuel feed stocks usage and heat content, which are to be monitored, and reported as directed by WAC 463-85-230.
���� (c) All useful thermal energy and useful energy used for nonelectrical generation uses converted to units of megawatts energy equivalent (MWeq) using the conversion factor of 3.413 million British thermal units per megawatt hour (MMBtu/MWh).
���� (e) Adjustments for use of renewable resources. If the owner or operator of a baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit adjusts its greenhouse gases emissions to account for the use of renewable resources, the greenhouse gases emissions are reduced based on the ratio of the annual heat input from all fuels and fuel feed stocks and the annual heat input from use of nonrenewable fuels and fuel feed stocks. Such adjustment will be based on records of fuel usage and representative heat contents approved by ecology.
���� (3) Bottoming-cycle cogeneration facilities. The formula to determine compliance of a bottoming-cycle cogeneration facility or unit with the emissions performance standard will be jointly developed by ecology and the facility. To the extent possible, the facility-specific formula must be based on the one for topping-cycle facilities identifying the amount of energy converted to electricity, thermal losses, and energy from the original fuel(s) used to provide useful thermal energy in the industrial process. The formula should be specific to the installed equipment, other thermal energy uses in the facility, and specific operating conditions of the facility.
���� (4) Topping-cycle cogeneration facilities. To demonstrate compliance with the emissions performance standard, a topping-cycle facility or unit must:
���� (a) A site certification application is submitted to EFSEC for a new baseload electric generation facility or baseload electric cogeneration facility or new unit at an existing baseload electric generation or baseload electric cogeneration facility;
���� (c) A baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit enters a new long-term financial commitment with an electric utility to provide baseload power and the facility or unit does not comply with the emissions performance standard in effect at the time the new long-term financial commitment occurs; or
WAC 463-85-210 Types of permanent sequestration. Specific requirements for permanent geologic sequestration of greenhouse gases can be found in WAC 173-218-115. Requirements for approval of sequestration plans or sequestration programs for other (nongeologic) types of permanent sequestration containment systems are found in WAC 463-85-220.
WAC 463-85-220 Requirements for nongeologic permanent sequestration plans and sequestration programs. In order to meet the emissions performance standard, all baseload electric generation facilities or individual units that are subject to this rule, and must use nongeologic sequestration of greenhouse gases to meet the emissions performance standard, will submit sequestration plans or sequestration programs for approval to EFSEC or ecology, as appropriate.
���� (a) Financial requirements. As a condition of plant operation, each owner or operator of a baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit utilizing nongeologic sequestration as a method to comply with the emission performance standard in WAC 463-85-130 is required to provide a letter of credit sufficient to ensure successful implementation, closure, and post-closure activities identified in the sequestration plan and sequestration program, including construction and operation of necessary equipment, and any other significant costs.
���� (ii) Closure and post-closure financial assurances. The owner or operator shall establish a closure and a post-closure letter of credit to cover all closure and post-closure expenses, respectively. The owner or operator must designate EFSEC as the beneficiary to carry out the closure and post-closure activities. The value of the closure and post-closure accounts shall cover all costs of closure and post-closure care identified in the closure and post-closure plan. The closure and post-closure cost estimates shall be revised annually to include any changes in the sequestration project and to include cost changes due to inflation. The obligation to maintain the account for closure and post-closure care survives the termination of any permits and the cessation of injection. The requirement to maintain the closure and post-closure accounts is enforceable regardless of whether the requirement is a specific condition of the permit.
���� (b) The application for approval of a sequestration plan or sequestration program shall include (but is not limited to) the following:
���� (D) The proposed calculated maximum volume of greenhouse gases to be sequestered and areal extent of the location where the greenhouse gases will be stored using a method acceptable to and filed with EFSEC or ecology as appropriate; and
���� (c) In order to monitor the effectiveness of the implementation of the sequestration plan or sequestration program the owner or operator shall submit a detailed monitoring plan that will ensure detection of failure of the sequestration method to place the greenhouse gases into a sequestered state. The monitoring plan will be sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that the sequestration provided by the project meets the definition of permanent sequestration. The monitoring shall continue for the longer of twenty years beyond the end of placement of the greenhouse gases into sequestration containment system, or twenty years beyond the date upon which it is determined that all of the greenhouse gases have achieved a state at which they are now stably sequestered in that environment.
���� (d) If the sequestration plan or sequestration program fails to sequester greenhouse gases as provided in the plan or program, the owner or operator of the baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit is no longer in compliance with the emissions performance standard.
���� (2) Public notice and comment. ESFEC must provide public notice and a public comment period before approving or denying any sequestration plan or sequestration program.
���� (a) Public notice. Public notice shall be made only after all information required by the permitting authority has been submitted and after applicable preliminary determinations, if any, have been made. The applicant or other initiator of the action must pay the cost of providing public notice. Public notice shall include analyses of the effects on the local, state and global environment in the case of failure of the sequestration plan or sequestration program. The sequestration plan or sequestration program must be available for public inspection in at least one location near the proposed project.
���� (i) The public comment period must be at least thirty days long or may be longer as specified in the public notice.
WAC 463-85-230 Emissions and electrical production monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting requirements. (1) Monitoring and recordkeeping requirements. For all baseload electric generation facilities or units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 463-85-120, the following parameters shall be monitored and reported as explained below:
���� (b) Useful thermal energy output: Quantity of energy supplied to nonelectrical production uses determined by monitoring both the energy supplied and the unused energy returned by the thermal energy user or uses. The required monitoring can be accomplished through:
���� (i) Measurement of the mass, pressure, and temperature of the supply and return streams of the steam or thermal fluid; or
���� (A) For baseload electric generation facilities or units and baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 463-85-120, producing 350 MW or more of electricity, CO2 emissions will be monitored by a continuous emission monitoring system meeting the requirements of 40 CFR Sections 75.10 and 75.13 and 40 CFR Part 75 Appendix F. If allowed by the requirements of 40 CFR Part 72, a facility may estimate CO2 emissions through fuel carbon content monitoring and methods meeting the requirements of 40 CFR Sections 75.10 and 75.13 and 40 CFR Part 75 Appendix G.
���� (iii) Nitrous oxide (N2O). For baseload electric generation facilities or units or baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 463-85-120 producing 350 MW or more of electricity, N2O emissions shall be determined as follows:
���� (B) For succeeding years, N2O emissions will be estimated through use of generating unit specific emission factors derived through use of emissions testing using ecology or Environmental Protection Agency approved methods. The emission factor shall be derived through testing N2O emissions from the stack at varying loads and through at least four separate test periods spaced evenly throughout the first year of commercial operation.
���� (iv) Methane (CH4). For baseload electric generation facilities or units or baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 173-407-120 producing 350 MW or more of electricity, CH4 emissions shall be determined as follows:
���� (B) For succeeding years, CH4 emissions will be estimated through use of plant specific emission factors derived through use of emissions testing using ecology or Environmental Protection Agency approved methods. The emission factor shall be derived through testing CH4 emissions from the stack at varying loads and through at least four separate test periods spaced evenly through the first year of commercial operation.
���� (i) Fossil fuel usage will be monitored by measuring continuous fuel volume or weight as appropriate for the fuel used. Measurement will be on an hourly or daily basis and recorded in a form suitable for use in calculating greenhouse gases emissions.
���� (ii) Renewable energy fuel usage will be monitored by measuring continuous fuel volume or weight as appropriate for the fuel used. Measurement will be on an hourly or daily basis and recorded in a form suitable for use in calculating greenhouse gases emissions.
���� (iii) Heat content of fossil fuels shall be tested at least once per calendar year. The owner or operator of the baseload electric generation facility or unit shall submit a proposed fuel content monitoring program to EFSEC for EFSEC's approval. Upon request and submission of appropriate documentation of fuel heat content variability, EFSEC may allow a source to:
���� (iv) Renewable energy fuel heat content will be tested monthly or with a different frequency approved by EFSEC. A different frequency will be based on the variability of the heat content of the renewable energy fuel.
���� (A) If the baseload electric generation facilities or units or baseload electric cogeneration facilities or units subject to WAC 463-85-120 using a mixture of renewable and fossil fuels do not adjust their greenhouse gases emissions by accounting for the heat input from renewable energy fuels, monitoring of the heat content of the renewable energy fuels is not required.
���� (a) Facilities or units subject to the reporting requirements of 40 CFR Part 75. Annual emissions of CO2, N2O and CH4 will be reported to ecology and EFSEC by January 31 of each calendar year for emissions that occurred in the previous calendar year. The report may be an Excel� or CSV format copy of the report submitted to EPA per 40 CFR Part 75 with the emissions for N2O and CH4 appended to the report.
���� (b) For facilities or units not subject to the reporting requirements of 40 CFR Part 75, annual emissions of CO2, N2O and CH4 and supporting information will be reported to ecology and the air quality permitting authority with jurisdiction over the facility by January 31 of each calendar year for emissions that occurred in the previous calendar year.
���� (1) Penalties can include:
���� (a) Financial penalties, which shall be assessed after any year of failure to meet a sequestration benchmark established in the sequestration plan or sequestration program. Each pound of greenhouse gases above the emissions performance standard will constitute a separate violation, as averaged on an annual basis;
���� (2) If a new, modified or upgraded baseload electric generation facility or unit or baseload electric cogeneration facility or unit fails to meet a sequestration plan or sequestration program benchmark on schedule, a revised sequestration plan or sequestration program will be required to be submitted no later than one hundred fifty calendar days after the due date established under subsection (3)(c) of this section for reporting the failure. The revised sequestration plan or sequestration program is to be submitted to EFSEC, as appropriate, for approval.