82 FR 33903 - Notice of Availability of Two Updated Chapters in the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Pollution Control Cost Manual

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 139 (July 21, 2017)

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 updated. The EPA is requesting comment on: Chapter 1, Section 3 and Section 3.1, ``Carbon Adsorbers,'' and Chapter 1, Section 3 and Section 3.2, ``Flares.'' These two Control Cost Manual chapters cover control measures for volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341; FRL-9962-92-OAR]


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

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability and public comment period.

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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 updated. The EPA is requesting comment 
on: Chapter 1, Section 3 and Section 3.1, ``Carbon Adsorbers,'' and 
Chapter 1, Section 3 and Section 3.2, ``Flares.'' These two Control 
Cost Manual chapters cover control measures for volatile organic 
compound (VOC) emissions.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 19, 2017. 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, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. The 
EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not 
submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential 
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is 
restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must 
be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered 
the official comment and should include discussion of all points you 
wish to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment 
contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the Web, 
Cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission 
methods, the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or 
multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective 
comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 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 
specific Control Cost Manual chapters included in this notice.

I. General Information

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, 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 Code of Federal Regulation 
(CFR) part 2.
    2. Tips for Preparing your Comments. When submitting comments, 
remember to: Identify the notification by docket number and other 
identifying information (subject heading, Federal Register date and 
page number).
     Follow directions--The agency may ask you to respond to 
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a CFR part or 
section number.
     Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives 
and substitute language/data for your requested changes.
     Describe any assumptions and provide any technical 
information and/or data that you used.
     If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how 
you arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be 
reproduced.
     Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and 
suggest alternatives.
     Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the 
use of profanity or personal threats.
     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 updated chapters of the EPA 
Air Pollution Control Cost Manual. The Control Cost Manual contains 
individual chapters on control measures, including data and equations 
to aid users in estimating 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 under the New Source Review 
Program, and Best Available Retrofit Technology under the Regional Haze 
Program and for other programs.
    The two updated Control Cost Manual chapters are: Chapter 1, 
Section 3 and Section 3.1, Carbon Adsorbers; Chapter 1, Section 3 and 
Section 3.2, Flares. These two revised Control Cost Manual chapters can 
be found in the docket for the Control Cost Manual update (Docket ID 
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341). The current Control 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 Control 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. The EPA has recently updated the selective non-catalytic 
reduction (SNCR) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) chapters, the 
first two chapters (Chapter 1, Section 4; Chapter 2, Section 4, 
respectively) completed for the seventh edition of the Control Cost 
Manual, and made them available to the public in May 2016 (81 FR 38702, 
June 14, 2016). In addition, the EPA has submitted updated draft 
versions of the Refrigerated Condensers (Chapter 1, Section 3 and 
Section 3.1) and Incinerators (Chapter 2, Section 3, Section 3.2, now 
Incinerators/Oxidizers) chapters and the Cost Estimation: Concepts and 
Methodology chapter (Chapter 2, Section 1) as part of a notice released 
on September 22, 2016 (81 FR 65352). The Agency is currently reviewing 
comments submitted in response to the NODA, and will finalize these 
three chapters in the near future.
    To help focus review of the Carbon Adsorbers (Chapter 1, Section 3, 
and Section 3.1) and Flares (Chapter 1, Section 3 and Section 3.2) 
chapters, we offer the following list of questions that the EPA is 
particularly interested in addressing in the updated chapters. 
Commenters are welcome to address any aspects of these chapters. Please

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provide supporting data for responses to these questions and for other 
comments on the chapters.
    For the Carbon Adsorbers chapter:

    (1) What is a reasonable estimate of equipment life (defined as 
design or operational life) for this control measure?
    (2) Is the description of carbon adsorbers complete, up to date, 
and accurate, particularly with regard to control of VOC?
    (3) Are the cost correlations, factors, and equations for carbon 
adsorbers accurate? If not, how should they be revised? Please provide 
data, if possible, to address inaccuracies.
    (4) Are the estimates of VOC removal or control efficiency for 
carbon adsorbers accurate? If not, what are more accurate estimates? 
Please provide data, if possible, to address inaccuracies.

    For the Flares chapter:

    (1) What is a reasonable estimate of equipment life (defined as 
design or operational life) for this control measure?
    (2) Is the description of flares technology complete, up to date, 
and accurate?
    (3) Are the cost correlations, factors, and equations for flares 
accurate? If not, how should they be revised? Please provide data, if 
possible, to address inaccuracies.
    (4) Are the estimates of flares VOC destruction efficiency 
accurate? If not, what are more accurate estimates? Please provide 
data, if possible, to address inaccuracies.


    Dated: May 23, 2017.
Stephen Page,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
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