80 FR 33515 - Notice of Availability of the Environmental Protection Agency's Update of Two Chapters in the EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 113 (June 12, 2015)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice that two chapters of the current EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual (``Control Cost Manual'') have been revised and updated. The EPA is requesting comment on the update of these two chapters, both of which deal with oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions control measures, and the supporting data and methods applied.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33515-33517]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14470]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341; FRL-9929-15-OAR]


Notice of Availability of the Environmental Protection Agency's 
Update of Two Chapters in the EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of data availability.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice 
that two chapters of the current EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual 
(``Control Cost Manual'') have been revised and updated. The EPA is 
requesting comment on the update of these two chapters, both of which 
deal with oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions control measures, and the 
supporting data and methods applied.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 11, 2015. Please 
refer to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for additional information on 
submitting comments on the provided data.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2015-0341, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
     Email: [email protected]. Include docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2015-0341 in the subject line of the message.
     Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2015-0341.
     Mail: EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, Attention 
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341, U.S.

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Environmental Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460. Please include a total of 2 copies.
     Hand Delivery: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, WJC 
West Building, 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC 
20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341. Such deliveries 
are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and 
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed 
information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2015-0341. The 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 whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov 
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means the EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through 
www.regulations.gov, your email 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, the 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 the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical 
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, the 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 the EPA's public 
docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Air and Radiation Docket 
and Information Center, EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 
566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is (202) 566-
1742.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on the EPA Air Pollution 
Control Cost Manual update and on how to submit comments, contact Larry 
Sorrels, Health and Environmental Impacts Division, Environmental 
Protection Agency, C439-02, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle 
Park, NC 27709; telephone number: (919) 541-5041; fax number: (919) 
541-0839; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA is requesting comment on the EPA Air 
Pollution Control Cost Manual update; in particular, on the specific 
Control Cost Manual chapters included in this notice.

I. Additional Information on Submitting Comments

A. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for the EPA?

    1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to the EPA 
through www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark the part or all of 
the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk 
or CD-ROM that you mail to the EPA docket office specified in the 
Instructions, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as CBI and then 
identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the specific 
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version 
of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the 
comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI must be 
submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so marked 
will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 
40 CFR part 2.
    2. Tips for preparing your comments. When submitting comments, 
remember to:
    a. Identify the notification by docket number and other identifying 
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
    b. Explain your comments, why you agree or disagree; suggest 
alternatives and substitute data that reflects your requested changes.
    c. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information 
and/or data that you used.
    d. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and 
suggest alternatives.
    e. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of 
profanity or personal threats.
    f. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline 
identified.

II. Information Available for Public Comment

    The EPA is requesting comment on two revised chapters of the EPA 
Air Pollution Control Cost Manual. The Control Cost Manual contains 
individual chapters on control measures, with data and equations 
available to aid users to estimate the capital costs for installation 
and annual costs for operation and maintenance of these measures. The 
Control Cost Manual is used by the EPA for estimating the impacts of 
rulemakings, and serves as a basis for sources to estimate costs of 
controls that are best available control technology (BACT) under the 
New Source Review (NSR), and best available retrofit technology (BART) 
under the Regional Haze Program, and for other programs.
    The two revised Control Cost Manual chapters are the selective non-
catalytic reduction (SNCR) and the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) 
chapters (Section 4, Chapters 1 and 2, respectively). The current Cost 
Manual version (sixth edition) is available at http://epa.gov/ttn/catc/products.html#cccinfo, and was last updated in 2003. The Consolidated 
Appropriations Act of 2014 requested that the EPA begin development of 
a seventh edition of the Cost Manual. The EPA has met with state, 
local, and tribal officials to discuss plans for the Control Cost 
Manual update as called for under the Consolidated Appropriations Act 
of 2014. The EPA has met with other groups as well at their request.
    To help focus review of the SNCR and SCR chapters, we offer the 
following list of questions that the agency is particularly interested 
in addressing through this notice, although commenters are welcome to 
address any aspects of these chapters. Please provide supporting data 
for responses to these questions, and other aspects of the chapters, as 
mentioned above.
    For the SNCR chapter:
    (1) What is a reasonable estimate of equipment life (defined as 
design or operational life) for this control measure?

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    (2) How do the costs of SNCR installation and operation differ 
between the electric power sector and industrial sources?
    (3) What is a reasonable estimate of contingency, whether it be for 
one or more types, for this control measure?
    For the SCR chapter:
    (1) What is a reasonable estimate of equipment life (defined as 
design or operational life) for this control measure?
    (2) How do the costs of SCR installation and operation differ 
between the electric power sector and industrial sources?
    (3) What are typical SCR costs for catalyst replacement? In 
particular, please comment on the two different approaches for 
estimating catalyst replacement costs in this chapter. What are typical 
SCR costs for catalyst regeneration?
    (4) What is a reasonable estimate of contingency, whether it be for 
one or more types, for this control measure?

    Dated: June 5, 2015.
Stephen D. Page,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
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