Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article III - Air Resources › Chapter 145 - INTERSTATE POLLUTION TRANSPORT REDUCTION › Subchapter E - CO[2] BUDGET TRADING PROGRAM › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 145.302 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Account number
-The identification
							 number given by the Department or its agent to each CO2
							 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) account.
Acid rain emissions limitation
-A
							 limitation on emissions of sulfur dioxide or NOx under
							 the Acid Rain Program under Title IV of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.A. §§
														7651-7651o).
Acid Rain Program
-A multi-state
							 sulfur dioxide and NOx air pollution control and
							 emission reduction program established by the Administrator under Title IV of
							 the Clean Air Act and 40 CFR
							 Parts 72-78.
Adjustment for banked allowances
-An
							 adjustment that may be applied to the Pennsylvania CO2
							 Budget Trading Program base budget for an allocation year to address
							 CO2 allowances held in general and compliance accounts,
							 including compliance accounts established under the CO2
							 Budget Trading Program, but not including accounts opened by participating
							 states, that are in addition to the aggregate quantity of emissions from all
							 CO2 budget sources in all of the participating states at
							 the end of the control period immediately preceding the allocation year and as
							 reflected in the CO2 Allowance Tracking System on March
							 15 of the year following the control period.
Administrator
-The Administrator of
							 the EPA or the Administrator's authorized representative.
Agent
-A qualified entity that may
							 assist the Department with technical and administrative support functions in
							 accordance with the requirements of this subchapter.
Air pollution reduction account
-The
							 general account established by the Department from which
							 CO2 allowances will be sold or distributed to provide
							 funds for use in the elimination of air pollution in accordance with the act
							 and Chapter 143 (relating to disbursements from the clean air fund) and the
							 administration of the Pennsylvania component of the CO2
							 Budget Trading Program.
Allocate
or
allocation
-The determination by the Department of the number
							 of CO2 allowances to be recorded in the compliance
							 account of a CO2 budget source, the waste coal set-aside
							 account, the strategic use set-aside account, the combined heat and power
							 set-aside account, the air pollution reduction account, or the general account
							 of the sponsor of an approved CO2 emissions offset
							 project.
Allocation year
-A calendar year for
							 which the Department allocates or awards CO2 allowances
							 under §§
													145.341 and
							 145.391-145.397 (relating to Pennsylvania
							 CO2 Budget Trading Program base budget; and
							 CO2 emissions offset projects). The allocation year of
							 each CO2 allowance is reflected in the unique
							 identification number given to the allowance under § 145.354(c) (relating
							 to recordation of CO2 allowance allocations).
Allowance auction
or
auction
-A bidding process in which the Department or its agent
							 offers CO2 allowances for sale.
Ascending price, multiple-round
							 auction
-A bidding process that starts with an opening price that
							 increases each round by predetermined increments. In each round, a bidder
							 offers the quantity of CO2 allowances the bidder is
							 willing to purchase at the posted price. Rounds continue as long as demand
							 exceeds the quantity of CO2 allowances offered for sale.
							 At the completion of the final round, CO2 allowances
							 will be allocated by one of three methods:
(i) At the final price to remaining bidders
						  and unsold CO2 allowances to be withheld for a future
						  auction.
(ii) At the penultimate
						  price, first to final round bidders and then to bidders in the penultimate
						  round in chronological order of bid during the penultimate round for all
						  remaining CO2 allowances.
(iii) According to an alternative mechanism
						  designed to effectuate the objectives of this subchapter.
Attribute
-A characteristic
							 associated with electricity generated using a particular renewable fuel, such
							 as its generation date, facility geographic location, unit vintage, emissions
							 output, fuel, state program eligibility, or other characteristic that can be
							 identified, accounted for and tracked.
Attribute credit
-A unit that
							 represents the attributes related to 1 MW-hour of electricity
							 generation.
Automated Data Acquisition and Handling
							 System
-The component of the continuous emissions monitoring system, or
							 other emissions monitoring system approved for use under §
													145.371 (relating to general
							 monitoring requirements), designed to interpret and convert individual output
							 signals from pollutant concentration monitors, flow monitors, diluent gas
							 monitors and other component parts of the monitoring system to produce a
							 continuous record of the measured parameters in the measurement units required
							 by § 145.371.
Award
-The determination by the
							 Department of the number of CO2 offset allowances to be
							 recorded in the general account of a project sponsor under §
													145.397 (relating to award and
							 recordation of CO2 offset allowances). Award is a type
							 of allocation.
Beneficial interest
-A profit,
							 benefit or advantage resulting from the ownership of a
							 CO2 allowance.
Bidder
-A qualified participant who
							 has met the requirements of §§
													145.405 and
							 145.406 (relating to auction
							 participant requirements; and auction participant qualification) and has been
							 determined by the Department to be eligible to participate in a specified
							 CO2 allowance auction under §
													145.406.
Boiler
-An enclosed fossil or other
							 fuel-fired combustion device used to produce heat and to transfer heat to
							 recirculating water, steam or other medium.
CEMS-continuous emissions monitoring
							 system
-The equipment required under §
													145.371 to sample, analyze,
							 measure and provide, by means of readings recorded at least once every 15
							 minutes, using an automated data acquisition and handling system, a permanent
							 record of stack gas volumetric flow rate, stack gas moisture content, and
							 oxygen or carbon dioxide concentration, as applicable, in a manner consistent
							 with 40 CFR Part 75 (relating to continuous emission monitoring) and §
							 145.371. The following systems are types of continuous emissions monitoring
							 systems required under § 145.371:
(i) A flow monitoring system, consisting of a
						  stack flow rate monitor and an automated data acquisition and handling system
						  and providing a permanent, continuous record of stack gas volumetric flow rate,
						  in standard cubic feet per hour.
(ii) A nitrogen oxides emissions rate (or
						  NOx-diluent) monitoring system, consisting of a
						  NOx pollutant concentration monitor, a diluent gas
						  (CO2 or O2) monitor, and an
						  automated data acquisition and handling system and providing a permanent,
						  continuous record of NOx concentration, in parts per
						  million, diluent gas concentration, in percent CO2 or
						  O2; and NOx emissions rate, in
						  pounds per million British thermal units (lb/MMBtu).
(iii) A moisture monitoring system, as
						  defined in 40 CFR
						  75.11(b)(2) (relating to
						  specific provisions for monitoring SO2 emissions) and
						  providing a permanent, continuous record of the stack gas moisture content, in
						  percent H2O.
(iv) A carbon dioxide monitoring system,
						  consisting of a CO2 pollutant concentration monitor (or
						  an oxygen monitor plus suitable mathematical equations from which the
						  CO2 concentration is derived) and an automated data
						  acquisition and handling system and providing a permanent, continuous record of
						  CO2 emissions, in percent
						  CO2.
(v) An
						  oxygen monitoring system, consisting of an O2
						  concentration monitor and an automated data acquisition and handling system and
						  providing a permanent, continuous record of O2, in
						  percent O2.
COATS-CO2 allowance
							 tracking system
-
(i) A system
						  by which the Department or its agent records allocations, deductions and
						  transfers of CO2 allowances under the
						  CO2 Budget Trading Program.
(ii) The system may also be used to track all
						  of the following:
(A)
						  CO2 emissions offset projects.
(B) CO2 allowance
						  prices.
(C) Emissions from affected
						  sources.