BlueScape EPA's GHG Reporting Program - Are You Ready? Webinar 12-07-10

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The webinar by Joe Ritter at BlueScape describes what companies should be doing to prepare their first GHG emissions inventory for reporting under EPA's Monitoring Recordkeeping and Reporting program. Mr. Ritter can be reached at 858-735-3288 for more information. Also see www.bluescapeinc.com.

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EPA’s GHG Reporting Program:
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Are Your Ready?
Joseph Ritter
December 7 2010
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www.bluescapeinc.com

Agenda
• Mandatory Reporting Rule (MRR) Timeline

• What has changed in 2010 that affects you

• Introduction to

• The takeaways

• What can you do now

BlueScape, Inc.
 GHG inventory reporting and preparedness

 National PSD and Title V permitting experience

 Modeling – AERMOD, CALPUF

 Emissions inventories

Red-Line MRR Changes
• Ma 27th
May
 Subpart MM – Suppliers of Petroleum Products
 Denaturant that may be in ethanol products affecting calculations
 Treatment of products that enter the refinery, but are not processed
 Definition of a batch – API specific gravity and sulfur content
determination
 Must use OTAQREG to report to EPA for those operations not e GGRT
operations, e-GGRT

• July 20th
 Subpart A – General Provisions
 Changed the flow meter accuracy to 6% from 5%
 Relaxed the requirements for the location of pressure and temp
transmitters
 Fuel billing meters calibrations do not need to be included in the
Monitoring Plan and recordkeeping
 Startup fuel meters are exempt from calibration requirements
 Gave guidance on what to do if meter calibration failed
 Limited extension of BAMM into 2011 if shutdown is required

Red-Line MRR Changes
• July 20th, cont
cont.
 Subpart C – Stationary Combustion Sources
 Changed the methodology to calculate CO2 from natural gas combustion if
billing
billi records provide d t i th
d id data in therms
 Numerous additions to options and requirements under Tier 4 or CEMs
monitoring
 Provided options to obtaining moisture content using site-specific data
 Significant additions and clarification for facilities in the Acid Rain Program
and those that report under Part 75
 Provisions for blending of fuels
 Considerable change or clarification on acceptable fuel sampling frequency
and methods
 Biomass combustion

Red-Line MRR Changes
• J l 20th, cont.
July
 Subpart Y – Petroleum Refineries
 Added the requirement to calculate CH4 and N2O emissions from fuel gas
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 Added a new equation to calculate CO2 emissions from flares
 Amend equations to allow 2 alternatives for “standard condition” 60⁰F and
68 ⁰F
 Allo use of lo er tier methodologies for units < 350 scfm or heat rate <
Allow se lower nits
30 MMBtu/hr
 Clarified the calculation methodologies for on-site and off-site sulfur
recovery plants
 Many others

What Should I be Doing Now?
• Determine your DR, ADR, and Agents
– Understand DR responsibilities
• Prepare GHG inventory calculation tools
– Accumulate facility background information
• I would not assume e-GGRT will be easy to
use
• March 31, 2011 is coming soon ……

What Should I be Doing Now?
• Check for e-GGRT coming on-line
• Participate in EPA training sessions
• Remember submission deadlines
– Select DR – January 30 2011
30,
– Submit 2010 Inventory – March 31, 2011

Happy Holidays

Joseph Ritter
BlueScape Environmental
858 735 3288
858-735-3288
jritter@bluescapeinc.com
www.bluescapeinc.com
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