Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/08/17/E7-16171/approval-and-promulgation-of-state-plan-for-designated-facilities-and-pollutants-louisiana-clean-air
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This rule will be effective on October 16, 2007 unless the EPA receives adverse comments by September 17, 2007. If we receive such comments, we will publish a timely withdrawal in the Federal Register to notify the public that this direct final rule will not take effect.
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V. Analysis of Louisiana's CAMR State Plan Submittal
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E7-16171
EPA is taking direct final action to approve the State Plan submitted by Louisiana on October 25, 2006. The plan addresses the requirements of EPA's Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR), promulgated on May 18, 2005 and subsequently revised on June 9, 2006. EPA is taking direct final action determining that the submitted State Plan fully implements the CAMR requirements for Louisiana.
CAMR requires States to regulate emissions of mercury (Hg) from large coal-fired electric generating units (EGUs). CAMR establishes State budgets for annual EGU Hg emissions and requires States to submit State Plans that ensure that annual EGU Hg emissions will not exceed the applicable State budget. States have the flexibility to choose which control measures to adopt in order to achieve the budgets, including participating in the EPA-administered CAMR cap-and-trade program. In the State Plan that EPA is approving, Louisiana would meet CAMR requirements by participating in the EPA administered cap-and-trade program addressing Hg emissions.
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R06-OAR-2006-1028, by one of the following methods:Start Printed Page 46162
E-mail: Matthew Loesel at loesel.matthew@epa.gov.
Fax: Mr. Matthew Loesel, Air Permits Section (6PD-R), at fax number 214-665-7263.
Mail: Mr. Matthew Loesel, Air Permits Section (6PD-R), Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733.
Hand or Courier Delivery: Mr. Matthew Loesel, Air Permits Section (6PD-R), Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733. Such deliveries are accepted only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays except for legal holidays. Special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R06-OAR-2006-1028. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information the disclosure of which is restricted by statute. Do not submit information through www.regulations.gov, or e-mail information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an “anonymous access” system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center at http://www.epa.gov/​epahome/​dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Air Permitting Section (6PD-R), Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 700, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733. The file will be made available by appointment for public inspection in the Region 6 FOIA Review Room between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays except for legal holidays. Contact the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT paragraph below to make an appointment. If possible, please make the appointment at least two working days in advance of your visit. There will be a 15 cent per page fee for making photocopies of documents. On the day of the visit, please check in at the EPA Region 6 reception area at 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 700, Dallas, Texas.
If you have questions concerning today's proposal, please contact Mr. Matthew Loesel, Air Permitting Section (6PD-R) U.S. EPA, Region 6, Multimedia Planning and Permitting Division (6PD), 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75202-2733, telephone (214) 665-8544; fax number 214-665-7263; or electronic mail at loesel.matthew@epa.gov.
EPA is taking direct final action to approve Louisiana's State Plan, submitted on October 25, 2006. In its State Plan, Louisiana would meet CAMR requirements by requiring certain coal-fired EGUs to participate in the EPA-administered cap-and-trade program addressing Hg emissions. EPA is taking direct final action on all of the provisions in the State Plan.
EPA is publishing this rule without prior proposal because we view this as a non-controversial amendment and anticipate no adverse comments. However, in the “Proposed Rules” section of today's Federal Register, we are publishing a separate document that will serve as the proposed rule to approve the State Plan if relevant adverse comments are received on this direct final rule. We will not institute a second comment period on this action. Any parties interested in commenting must do so at this time. For further information about commenting on this rule, see the ADDRESSES section of this document.
CAMR was published by EPA on May 18, 2005 (70 FR 28606, “Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Steam Generating Units; Final Rule”). In this rule, acting pursuant to its authority under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7411(d), EPA required that all States and the District of Columbia (all of which are referred to herein as States) meet Statewide annual budgets limiting Hg emissions from coal-fired EGUs (as defined in 40 CFR 60.24(h)(8)) under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(d). EPA required all States to submit State Plans with control measures that ensure that total, annual Hg emissions from the coal-fired EGUs located in the respective States do not exceed the applicable statewide annual EGU mercury budget. Under CAMR, Start Printed Page 46163States may implement and enforce these reduction requirements by participating in the EPA-administered cap-and-trade program or by adopting any other effective and enforceable control measures.
CAA section 111(d) requires States, and, along with CAA section 301(d) and the Tribal Air Rule (40 CFR part 49), allows Tribes granted treatment as States (TAS), to submit State Plans to EPA that implement and enforce the standards of performance. CAMR explains what must be included in State Plans to address the requirements of CAA section 111(d). The State Plans were due to EPA by November 17, 2006. Under 40 CFR 60.27(b), the Administrator will approve or disapprove the State Plans.
In today's action, EPA is taking direct final action to approve Louisiana's State Plan that adopts the annual EGU Hg budgets established for the State in CAMR, 0.601 tons for EGU Hg emissions in 2010-2017 and 0.237 tons for EGU Hg emissions in 2018 and thereafter. Louisiana's State Plan sets these budgets as the total amount of allowances available for allocation for each year under the EPA-administered CAMR cap-and-trade program.
The Louisiana State Plan requires coal-fired EGUs to participate in the EPA-administered CAMR cap-and-trade program. The State Plan incorporates by reference the EPA model Hg trading rule (40 CFR part 60, subpart HHHH) in its entirety.
Louisiana's State Plan requires coal-fired EGUs to comply with the monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting provisions of 40 CFR part 75 concerning Hg mass emissions. Louisiana's State Plan also demonstrates that the State has the legal authority to adopt emission standards and compliance schedules necessary for attainment and maintenance of the State's annual EGU Hg budget and to require the owners and operators of coal-fired EGUs in the State to meet the monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements of 40 CFR part 75. As part of its State Plan, Louisiana provided a demonstration through citation of legal authority to adopt and implement the regulations.
The public was provided the opportunity to comment at public hearings on June 28, 2006, August 24, 2006 and September 25, 2006, on Louisiana's adoption of 40 CFR part 60—Subpart HHHH, and Louisiana's Proposed Section 111(d) Plan for Coal-Fired Electric Steam Generating Units prior to submittal to EPA for approval. EPA specifically stated at 40 CFR 60.24(h)(6)(i) that if a State adopts regulations substantively identical to 40 CFR part 60—subpart HHHH or incorporates the subpart by reference into its State regulations, that the allowance system under the State plan is automatically approved as meeting the requirements of establishing emissions standards and compliance schedules of the CAMR requirements. The State must also demonstrate that it has the legal authority to take such action and to implement its responsibilities under the regulations. Louisiana has adopted regulations substantively identical to 40 CFR part 60—subpart HHHH, and provided a demonstration of legal authority in the section 111(d) plan submittal, therefore EPA finds that the plan may be automatically approved. This action will be effective on October 16, 2007 without further notice.
Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this action is not a “significant regulatory action” and therefore is not subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget. For this reason, this action is also not subject to Executive Order 13211, “Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use” (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001). This action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and imposes no additional requirements beyond those imposed by state law. Accordingly, the Administrator certifies that this rule Start Printed Page 46164will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Because this rule approves pre-existing requirements under State law and does not impose any additional enforceable duty beyond that required by state law, it does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4).
In reviewing State plans, EPA's role is to approve State choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act. In this context, in the absence of a prior existing requirement for the State to use voluntary consensus standards (VCS), EPA has no authority to disapprove a State plan for failure to use VCS. It would thus be inconsistent with applicable law for EPA, when it reviews a State plan to use VCS in place of a State plan that otherwise satisfies the provisions of the Clean Air Act. Thus, the requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) do not apply. This rule does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
This action is issued under the authority of section 111 of the Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 7412.
Start Amendment Part2. Section 62.4620 is amended by adding paragraphs (b)(7) and (c)(8) to read as follows:End Amendment Part
§ 62.4620 Identification of plan.
Start Amendment Part3. Subpart T is amended by adding a new undesignated center heading followed by new §§ 62.4680 and 62.4681 to read as follows:End Amendment Part
§ 62.4680 Identification of sources.
(a) Big Cajun 2 (Unit 1) at New Roads, LA.
(b) Big Cajun 2 (Unit 2) at New Roads, LA.
(c) Big Cajun 2 (Unit 3) at New Roads, LA.
(d) Rodemacher (Unit 2) at Lena, LA.
(e) R.S. Nelson (Unit 6) at Westlake, LA.
(f) Dolet Hills at Mansfield, LA.
§ 62.4681 Effective date.
[FR Doc. E7-16171 Filed 8-16-07; 8:45 am]