Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Applicability Tool for 2010-2013
Does your facility have any of the source categories listed below?
Instructions. In the list below, select each source category located at your facility by clicking the checkbox. For a definition of the source category, click on the name of the source category 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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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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).
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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.
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
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Important Consideration. Does the electrical equipment manufacturing and refurbishing facility have total annual purchases of SF6 and PFCs that exceed 23,000 pounds?
Important Consideration. Does the total nameplate capacity of SF6 and PFC containing equipment located at the facility or another facility under common ownership or control exceed 17,820 pounds (7,838 kilograms) of SF6 and PFCs for all equipment combined?
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.)
Important Consideration. Part 98 treats onshore petroleum and natural gas production as an independent facility (see definition below). If your onshore petroleum and natural gas production facility 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, 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 onshore petroleum and natural gas production for purposes of this subpart and for subpart A means all petroleum or natural gas equipment on a well pad or associated with a well pad and CO2 EOR 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.)