The News
CSAPR Implementation Delayed
December 30, 2011 - The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its ruling to stay the Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) pending judicial review. Consistent with this decision, EPA will not be taking action to implement the rule pending further order of the court. If market participants wish to use the CAMD Business System to record transfers of the CSAPR allowances or to record other CSAPR related information, they may do so although they are not required to at this time. EPA will not take any further action to implement the rule, such as allocating allowances or conducting annual reconciliation, while the stay is in effect.
The Court directed EPA to continue implementing the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). To do so, they have returned the vintage 2012 CAIR allowances to allowance accounts of affected facilities. The EPA will continue operating the CAIR trading programs until instructed otherwise by the Court.
Boiler MACT Reconsideration Proposal and Proposed Amendments
December 2, 2011 - The EPA issued the Boiler MACT reconsideration proposal for 40 CFR 63, subpart DDDDD, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Major Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters. The EPA also issued proposed amendments to the rule 40 CFR 63, Subpart JJJJJJ, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Area Sources: Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional Boilers. Comments on the reconsideration proposal and proposed amendments will be accepted for 60 days following publication in the Federal Register. Additional information on these rules and updates, as they become available, can be found at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/boiler/boilerpg.html#DOC.
Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting
August 10, 2011 - The Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting deadline of September 30, 2011 is fast approaching for power generation facilities. With the e-GGRT tool not yet fully functional and very little communication from the EPA, facilities may be wondering how the details of this initial report are going to work. There are two ways in which facilities will be able to report their GHG emissions for the 2010 calendar year: importing XML reports generated from an XML reporting tool or manually reporting via web forms. For facilities planning to use their CEMS DAHS to generate the XML reports, Southshore recommends contacting your CEMS DAHS vendor to verify that 40 CFR 98, Subpart C emission units will also be included in the XML reports. For manual reporting, facilities will be required to calculate GHG emissions from each applicable emissions unit as outlined in their GHG Monitoring Plan.
For more information or support with your GHG reporting, please contact us at (813) 500-5247 or (720) 568-0074.
Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR)
July 6, 2011 - The EPA issued the final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) to replace the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). The CSAPR affects 27 eastern states by reducing power plant emissions that cross state lines and contribute to ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter pollution. The rule also includes a supplemental proposal to include six states to be regulated for ozone season NOx emissions, which would bring the total number of affected states to 28. The first phase of compliance begins on January 1, 2012. The CSAPR is also establishing four allowance trading programs and will not allow the use of banked NOx or SO2 allowances under the Acid Rain Program or CAIR for CSAPR compliance purposes.
Read the final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) 
Major Source Boiler MACT
May 18, 2011 - The EPA has delayed the effective date of May 20, 2011 for the Major Source Boiler MACT rule while the rule is under judicial review and EPA reconsideration.
Read the Federal Register posting regarding this delay.
