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Applicability Tool for 2010-2013

Does your facility have any of the source categories/segments listed below?

Instructions. In the list below, select each source category/segment located at your facility by clicking the checkbox. For a definition of the source category/segment, click on the name of the source category/segment or use the glossary of terms link at the bottom of the page.

Note. The reporting rule applies at the facility level and not the corporate level. As a result, an owner or operator must assess applicability separately for each facility in the United States. The tool will use information that you enter to assess applicability, but the information is not stored. Therefore, users are advised to enter facility information below. Information provided will appear on your results page for you to print/save for your records.

General Information (Optional. See note above.)




Source Category/Segment Selection List (Select all that apply.)

Caution: Do not use the browser's Back button when running an applicability assessment with this tool. Doing so will risk arriving at an incorrect assessment.

Does your facility also have stationary fuel combustion? Yes No

Do your facility operations also involve miscellaneous uses of carbonate? Yes No

Important Consideration. Subpart W industry segments may be co-located or operate dual purpose equipment. For the purposes of determining applicability, please select all applicable source categories/segments for your assessment. OK

Important Consideration. The miscellaneous uses of carbonates source category includes facilities only if they consume at least 2,000 tons per year of carbonates heated to a temperature sufficient to allow the calcination reaction to occur.

This source category does not include equipment that uses carbonates or carbonate containing minerals that are consumed in the production of cement, glass, ferroalloys, iron and steel, lead, lime, phosphoric acid, pulp and paper, soda ash, sodium hydroxide, or zinc.

Do you still want to select miscellaneous uses of carbonates as a source category?

Yes No

Important Consideration. For facilities that contain only stationary fuel combustion sources and miscellaneous uses of carbonates, emissions from the miscellaneous use of carbonates are not considered for determining applicability or reporting.

Ok

Important Consideration. The electricity generation source category comprises electricity generating units that are subject to the requirements of the Acid Rain Program and any other electricity generating units that are required to monitor and report to EPA CO2 emissions year-round according to 40 CFR part 75.

This source category does not include portable equipment, emergency equipment, or emergency generators, as defined in §98.6. Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment?
Yes No

Important Consideration. This source category should be assessed if not co-located with an HCFC-22 production facility and it destroys more than 2.14 metric tons of HFC-23 per year.

Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment?
Yes No

Important Consideration. The underground coal mine source category comprises underground coal mines subject to quarterly or more frequent sampling of ventilation systems by the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA).

Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment?
Yes No

EPA will not be implementing subpart JJ of the Mandatory GHG Reporting Rule due to a Congressional restriction prohibiting the expenditure of funds for this purpose.

Ok

Important Consideration. The industrial wastewater treatment source category only applies to industrial wastewater and industrial wastewater treatment sludge co-located with one or more of the following processes:

pulp and paper manufacturing, food processing, ethanol production, petroleum refining

Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment?
Yes No

Important Consideration. Does the electrical equipment manufacturing and refurbishing facility have total annual purchases of SF6 and PFCs that exceed 23,000 pounds?

Yes No

Important Consideration. Part 98 treats electrical transmission and distribution equipment use as an independent facility (see definition below). If your electrical transmission and distribution equipment use facility is co-located with any GHG-emitting equipment on the pick list, you must conduct an assessment to determine applicability for the electrical transmission and distribution equipment use facility, and the other GHG-emitting equipment would be assessed as a separate facility as defined in Section 98.6 of Subpart A.

Facility, with respect to an electric power system, means the electric power system as defined in this paragraph. An electric power system is comprised of all electric transmission and distribution equipment insulated with or containing SF6 or PFCs that is linked through electric power transmission or distribution lines and functions as an integrated unit, that is owned, serviced, or maintained by a single electric power transmission or distribution entity (or multiple entities with a common owner), and that is located between: (1) the point(s) at which electric energy is obtained from an electricity generating unit or a different electric power transmission or distribution entity that does not have a common owner, and (2) the point(s) at which any customer or another electric power transmission or distribution entity that does not have a common owner receives the electric energy. The facility also includes servicing inventory for such equipment that contains SF6 or PFCs.

Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment? (If "Yes," your other pick-list selections will be deselected and will need to be assessed separately.)

Yes No

Important Consideration. Part 98 treats natural gas distribution as an independent facility (see definition below). Therefore, if you own or operate a natural gas distribution system and other GHG-emitting equipment on the pick list (except Stationary Fuel Combustion sources, which are included under subpart W, not subpart C), you must conduct an assessment to determine applicability for the natural gas distribution facility as defined below. The other GHG-emitting equipment would be assessed as a separate facility as defined in Section 98.6 of Subpart A.

Facility with respect to natural gas distribution for purposes of reporting under this subpart and for the corresponding subpart A requirements means the collection of all distribution pipelines and metering-regulating stations that are operated by a Local Distribution Company (LDC) within a single state that is regulated as a separate operating company by a public utility commission or that are operated as an independent municipally-owned distribution system.

Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment? (If "Yes," your other pick-list selections will be deselected and will need to be assessed separately.)

Yes No

Important Consideration. Part 98 treats onshore petroleum and natural gas production as an independent facility (see definition below). Therefore, if you own or operate onshore petroleum and natural gas production equipment that is co-located with any GHG-emitting equipment on the pick list (except Stationary Fuel Combustion sources, which are included under subpart W, not subpart C), you must conduct an assessment to determine applicability for the onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility, as defined below. The other GHG-emitting equipment would be assessed as a separate facility, as defined in Section 98.6 of Subpart A.

Facility with respect to onshore petroleum and natural gas production for purposes of reporting under this subpart and for the corresponding subpart A requirements means all petroleum or natural gas equipment on a single well-pad or associated with a single well-pad and CO2 enhanced oil recovery operations that are under common ownership or common control including leased, rented, or contracted activities by an onshore petroleum and natural gas production owner or operator and that are located in a single hydrocarbon basin as defined in §98.238. Where a person or entity owns or operates more than one well in a basin, then all onshore petroleum and natural gas production equipment associated with all wells that the person or entity owns or operates in the basin would be considered one facility.

Do you want to keep this source category checked for your assessment? (If "Yes," your other pick-list selections will be deselected and will need to be assessed separately.)

Yes No

Important Consideration. Offshore petroleum and natural gas production includes only the equipment located on the platform. If you continue with offshore petroleum and natural gas production as a source category (an industry segment under the subpart W source category), the applicability tool will automatically include stationary fuel combustion as a selected source category for entering your estimated GHG emissions.

Do you want to keep offshore petroleum and natural gas production checked for your assessment?
Yes No

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