California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 10 - Climate Change › Article 2 - Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting › Subarticle 6 - Reporting Requirements and Calculation Methods for Electricity Generating Units Subject to the Clean Power Plan › Section 95160 - Definition of Source Category and Applicability

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) U.S. EPA Clean Power Plan Rule. This
						subarticle incorporates the following specific provisions of the U.S. EPA Clean
						Power Plan Final Rule, Subpart UUUU-Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas
						Emissions and Compliance Times for Electric Utility Generating Units; 40 Code
						of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 60, Subpart UUUU:
						40 CFR sections
						60.5845,
						60.5850, and
						60.5880, published in the Federal
						Register on October 23, 2015.
(b)
						Each of the provisions of this subarticle become effective starting with 2021
						data submitted in 2022, if U.S. EPA has approved, as memorialized by
						publication in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, that
						provision as part of California's plan for compliance with the Clean Power
						Plan.
(c) For the purposes of this
						article, the Clean Power Plan electricity generating unit source category
						consists of any affected EGU, which is a steam generating unit, integrated
						gasification combined cycle facility (IGCC), or stationary combustion turbine
						that commenced construction on or before January 8, 2014, and meets the
						relevant applicability conditions specified in Subpart UUUU of
						40 CFR Part 60, §
													60.5845 paragraphs (b)(1)-(b)(3). EGUs
						excluded from being affected EGUs are specified in
						40 CFR Part 60, §
													60.5850.
(d) Any affected EGU is also subject to all
						other applicable requirements of this article, including but not limited to
						sections 95101 through
						95108 and section
						95112, except as modified in this
						subarticle. All affected EGUs are subject to the full verification provisions
						of this article.
(e) Any affected
						EGU must comply with the emission estimation provisions of this subarticle, and
						must not use other emission calculation methods, such as those specified in
						section 95115.
(f) Any affected EGU must separately monitor
						and report emissions and other data for each affected EGU, except as provided
						under section
						95162(a)(4) of
						this subarticle. The provisions allowing unit aggregation specified elsewhere
						in this article do not apply to affected EGUs.
(g) Affected EGUs remain subject to the
						provisions of this subarticle unless they undergo a complete and permanent
						shutdown, with a full cessation of all GHG-emitting processes and operations as
						specified in section
						95101(h).
1. New
						  subarticle 6 (sections
						  95160-95163) and section filed
						  9-1-2017; operative 1-1-2018 (Register 2017, No.
						  35).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
							 38510,
							 38530,
							 39600,
							 39601,
							 39602,
							 39607,
							 39607.4
							 and
							 41511,
							 Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
							 38530,
							 39600
							 and
							 41511,
							 Health and Safety Code.