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Extension of Period for Objection for the Notice of Data Availability for EGU NOX Annual and NOX Ozone Season Allocations for the Clean Air Interstate Rule Federal Implementation Plan Trading Programs

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  [Federal Register: January 9, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 5)]
[Notices]
[Page 965]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr09ja07-44]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0076; FRL-8267-2]

Extension of Period for Objection for the Notice of Data Availability
for EGU NOX Annual and NOX Ozone Season Allocations for the Clean Air
Interstate Rule Federal Implementation Plan Trading Programs

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice to extend period for objections.

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SUMMARY: EPA is extending the period for submission of objections
concerning the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) for EGU
NOX Annual and NOX Ozone Season Allocations for
the Clean Air Interstate Rule Federal Implementation Plan Trading
Programs (CAIR FIP) published on August 4, 2006 for an additional 45
days with regard to cogeneration units combusting biomass (biomass
cogeneration units). The period had previously been extended to October
5, 2006 for all objections, and further extended to January 3, 2007 for
objections concerning biomass cogeneration units. This notice further
extends the period for objections concerning biomass cogeneration units
an additional 45 days from January 3 to February 20, 2007. Certain
biomass cogeneration unit owners and operators requested the additional
time to submit objections because of difficulties in collection of
information relating to the application of efficiency standards for
cogeneration units (as defined in the CAIR FIP) to biomass cogeneration
units. For all other objections, the deadline was October 5, 2006.

DATES: The EPA is establishing a period ending on February 20, 2007
only for objections (including data) related to biomass cogeneration
units. Objections must be postmarked by the last day of the period for
objection and sent directly to the Docket Office listed in ADDRESSES
(in duplicate form if possible).

ADDRESSES: Submit your objections, identified by Docket Number OAR-
2004-0076 by one of the following methods:
    A. Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. The NODA
is not a rulemaking, but you may use the Federal Rulemaking Portal to
submit objections to the NODA. To submit objections, follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
    B. Mail: Air Docket, ATTN: Docket Number OAR-2004-0076,
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460
    C. E-mail: A-AND-R-Docket@epa.gov.
    D. Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Room 3334, Washington, DC. Such deliveries are only accepted during the
Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be
made for deliveries of boxed information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: General questions concerning today's
action and technical questions concerning heat input or fuel data
should be addressed to Brian Fisher, USEPA Headquarters, Ariel Rios
Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Mail Code 6204 J, Washington, DC
20460. Telephone at (202) 343-9633, e-mail at fisher.brian@epa.gov. If
mailing by courier, address package to Brian Fisher, 1310 L St., NW.,
RM #713G, Washington, DC 20005.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
http://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 http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the EPA Docket Center,
EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, 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.

Extension of Period for Objections

    In the August 4, 2006 NODA (71 FR 44283), EPA provided notice that
it had placed in the CAIR FIP docket allocation tables for EGU
NOX annual and EGU NOX ozone season allocations
for control periods 2009-2014. The allocation tables also included
inventories of heat input and inventories of potentially exempt units.
In addition, EPA also placed in the docket a Technical Support Document
describing the allocation table data fields.
    The EPA originally provided a 30-day period for the unit owners,
unit operators, and the public to submit objections regarding
individual units' treatment as potentially covered or not covered by
CAIR and, for units treated as potential CAIR units, the data used in
the allocation calculations and the allocations resulting from such
calculations. In response to a request from the American Forest and
Paper Association, EPA extended the period for all objections an
additional 30 days to October 5, 2006.
    In requesting an additional extension of the period, certain
biomass cogeneration unit owners noted the unique nature of the fuels
utilized by biomass cogeneration units and the difficulties encountered
in collecting data necessary to apply the efficiency standard to this
type of cogeneration unit. In light of these circumstances, the EPA
extended the period an additional 90 days only for objections
(including data) related to any biomass cogeneration units, and extends
it another 45 days in this notice. For all other objections, the
deadline was October 5, 2006.
    EPA believes the addition of 45 days will provide the Agency more
adequate time to receive and evaluate necessary data and, if
appropriate, address the concerns raised about application of the
efficiency standard to biomass cogeneration units.

    Dated: January 3, 2007.
Edward Callahan,
Acting Director, Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. E7-91 Filed 1-8-07; 8:45 am]
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