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Update on Greenhouse Gas Rules Affecting the Lead Industry
1. Update on
Greenhouse Gas Rules
Affecting the Lead Industry
Neal Lebo
All4 Inc.
ABR Spring Meeting
Longboat Key, FL
May 20, 2011
2. Agenda
Terms of Art
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Rule
• Amendments
• Confidential Business Information (CBI)
• Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool
GHG Tailoring Rule
• Implementation
• Impact on Permit Application Process
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3. Terms of Art
What gases are considered GHG?
• Six (6) recognized greenhouse gases (GHG)
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Methane (CH4)
Nitrous oxide (N2O)
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFC)
Perfluorocarbons (PFC)
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)
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4. Terms of Art
Global Warming Potential (GWP)
A measure of how much a given mass of GHG is
estimated to contribute to global warming. It is a relative
scale which compares the gas in question to CO2.
GHG GWP
CO2 1
Methane 21
N2O 310
HFC-32 650
PFC-14 6,500
SF6 23,900
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5. Terms of Art
Emissions measured in CO2 equivalency (CO2e).
Each gas placed on CO2e basis by multiplying GWP.
For GHG Reporting Rule emissions are measured in
metric tons.
1 metric ton = 2,204.62 lbs
For GHG Tailoring Rule emissions are measured in
short tons.
1 short ton = 2,000 lbs
1 short ton = 0.907186 metric tons
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6. GHG Reporting Rule
Effective Date – December 29, 2009.
Established 40 CFR Part 98 – Mandatory Greenhouse Gas
Reporting.
• Subpart A - General Provisions
• Subparts C to PP - Specific Source Categories
Data monitoring and recordkeeping requirements began
January 1, 2010.
Annual GHG emissions must be reported by March 31 of
each year (except this year).
Lead smelters that emit ≥ 25,000 mtCO2e/yr combined
from all listed sources must report.
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7. GHG Reporting Rule
Amendments Since Promulgation
7/12/2010 – Added new source categories and amended
General Provisions.
9/22/2010 – Added reporting of corporate parent, NAICS
Code, and co-generation information.
10/28/2010 – Made technical corrections, clarifications,
and other amendments to various provisions of Part 98.
11/30/2010 – Added new source category and amended
General Provisions.
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8. GHG Reporting Rule
Amendments Since Promulgation
12/1/2010 – Added new source categories and
amended General Provisions.
12/17/2010 – Revisions to various provisions of Part
98.
12/27/2010 – Deferral of the reporting date for certain
data elements.
3/18/2011 – Extension of reporting deadline for year
2010 data.
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9. GHG Reporting Rule
CBI
Proposed Confidential Business Information (CBI)
Determinations – July 2010.
• “Inputs to emission equations” are not CBI. This
includes data on production, throughput, raw material
consumption.
In response to comments, in December 2010 U.S. EPA:
• Issued interim rule to defer reporting of inputs to
emission equations until August 31, 2011.
• Proposed a rule to further defer reporting of inputs to
emission equations until March 31, 2014.
• Issued a Call for Information (CFI) on Inputs to
Emission Equations Under the GHG Reporting Rule.
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10. GHG Reporting Rule
CBI
ABR submitted a response to the CFI:
• Designation of inputs as “emission data” is legally
improper.
• Public availability of inputs to emission equations
causes harm.
• Inputs to emission equations are kept confidential.
• No comparable additional calculation or measurement
approaches exist that do not use sensitive information.
• There are alternative verification approaches not
requiring release of sensitive business information.
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11. GHG Reporting Rule
When To Report?
March 18, 2011 – U.S. EPA extended the deadline for
reporting 2010 GHG data to September 30, 2011.
• Allow U.S. EPA to further test the reporting system.
• Give industry the opportunity to test the reporting tool,
provide feedback, and become familiar with it prior to
reporting.
Action Initial Deadline New Deadline
User Registration January 30, 2011 August 1, 2011
Data Entry – 2010 March 31, 2011 September 30, 2011
Emissions
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12. GHG Reporting Rule
How To Report?
U.S. EPA’s Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool
• User registration.
• Certificate of Representation.
• Data entry and submittal.
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13. GHG Reporting Rule
e-GGRT Unveiled
U.S. EPA webinars throughout May.
• Instruction on how to use e-GGRT to report under
different source category subparts.
• Webinars focused on 13 of the 25 source category
subparts that report 2010 emissions.
In June there will be an opportunity to test-drive e-GGRT.
• A “sandbox” test environment in which users can play,
uploading test data in the reporting screens for the
various subparts covered by 40 CFR Part 98.
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15. GHG Reporting Rule
No Time to Rest
An accurate, written GHG Monitoring Plan is a rule
requirement.
• If you wrote your Plan based on the original rule, it
needs to be updated.
• Addressing all the amendments means making a lot
of revisions throughout the Plan.
If you developed a calculation tool based on the original
rule it will probably need to be updated.
Calculate your 2010 GHG emissions now and have them
ready to report.
• You will want to find out if you have any data gaps
now before the deadline approaches.
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16. GHG Tailoring Rule
Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Title V
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Tailoring Rule.
• Amends 40 CFR Parts 51, 52, 70, and 71.
• Effective Date – August 2, 2010.
• Sets timing and thresholds for addressing GHG
emissions from stationary sources under Clean Air Act
(CAA) permitting programs.
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17. GHG Tailoring Rule
How Did We Get Here?
2007 Supreme Court Decision in Massachusetts vs. EPA.
The Light Duty Vehicle Rule (April 2010) established GHG
emission standards.
GHGs become “subject to regulation” under the CAA on
January 2, 2011.
U.S. EPA concludes that regulating GHG tailpipe
emissions triggers regulating GHG under major source
permitting programs (PSD and Title V).
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18. GHG Tailoring Rule
What Does It Do?
Major source permitting program emission thresholds are
100 and 250 tons per year (tpy).
Without the GHG Tailoring Rule:
• Tens of thousands of new PSD permits.
• Millions of new Title V permits.
GHG Tailoring Rule “tailors” these requirements to limit
facilities required to get permits for GHG emissions.
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19. GHG Tailoring Rule
Implementation
GHG Tailoring Rule is implemented for the largest sources
of GHG emissions in two (2) steps.
• Step 1 – January 2, 2011 to June 30, 2011.
• Step 2 – July 1, 2011 to at least June 30, 2013.
U.S. EPA will begin rulemaking in 2011 to establish
requirements for smaller sources. Any new requirements
will be effective July 1, 2013.
In general, sources with GHG emissions below 50,000 tpy
of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) will not be regulated
for at least six (6) years.
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20. GHG Tailoring Rule
Implementation - PSD
PSD Applicability for GHG emission sources.
• Projects adding new or modifying emission units.
Step 1 – January 2, 2011 to June 30, 2011.
• No sources become major for PSD based solely on GHG emissions.
• Sources major for any PSD pollutant other than GHG will also be
major for GHG if the project increases GHG emissions by 75,000 tpy
CO2e or more.
Step 2 – July 1, 2011 to at least June 30, 2013.
• Regardless of other PSD pollutants, the following must meet PSD
permitting requirements:
New sources that emit GHGs at or above 100,000 tpy CO2e.
Modifications that increase GHG emissions by at least 75,000 tpy
CO2e.
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21. GHG Tailoring Rule
Implementation – Title V
Title V Applicability for GHG emission sources.
• Applications for new permits, renewals or revisions.
Step 1 – January 2, 2011 to June 30, 2011.
• No sources become major requiring a Title V permit based solely
on GHG emissions.
• Sources currently subject to Title V program for pollutants other
than GHG must apply applicable Title V requirements to their GHG
emissions.
Step 2 – July 1, 2011 to at least June 30, 2013.
• Facilities with GHG emissions of 100,000 tpy CO2e or more must
obtain a Title V Operating Permit if they do not already have one.
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22. GHG Tailoring Rule
Implementation – Title V
What are Title V requirements for GHG emissions?
• GHG currently “subject to regulation” but not a
“regulated pollutant” (e.g., regulated under Section 111
or 112 of the CAA).
• No current Title V requirements to control GHG.
• No other current CAA requirements (e.g., NESHAP,
NSPS) applicable to GHG.
• State rules may have requirements (e.g., monitoring,
recordkeeping and reporting).
• Federal GHG Reporting Rule is not a Title V
requirement.
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23. GHG Tailoring Rule
Impact on Permit Application Process
Emission inventories for PSD applicability must include
GHG pollutants for comparison to thresholds.
Permit applications pending may have to be reopened
or amended to address GHG pollutants.
Even minor applications will need to demonstrate that
thresholds are not exceeded.
Title V renewal or modification applications should
explain GHG applicable requirements.
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24. Future GHG Rulemaking Impacts
U.S. EPA plans to issue NSPS for Fossil Fuel-Fired
Electric Generating Units (EGU) with GHG as a pollutant in
May 2012.
GHG will become a “regulated pollutant” for Title V
purposes.
Title V applications will need to be updated with GHG
information including:
• GHG emission information for existing emission units.
• Add new emission units that emit only GHG.
• Reclassify insignificant units as significant due to GHG
emissions.
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25. Future GHG Legislative & Legal Impacts
Proposed legislation in both U.S. House of
Representatives and U.S. Senate to postpone or pre-empt
U.S. EPA regulation of GHG emissions under the CAA.
Numerous legal challenges to U.S. EPA GHG Regulations
are proceeding through the courts.
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26. Questions?
nlebo@all4inc.com
(610) 933-5246, extension 13
All4 Inc.
2393 Kimberton Road
P.O. Box 299
Kimberton, PA 19442
www.all4inc.com
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