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Section 112 Rule Making


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This page now only contains the archived information on the regulatory finding and the MACT development project. Mercury is of greatest interest from electric utility steam generating units, and further information be found on the EPA website, Mercury Information.


Technical Documents

File Description

File Date

File Types

Errata Sheet, Final Report to Congress
Mar 1999

Final Report to Congress, Volume 1
Feb 1998

Final Report to Congress, Volume 2
Feb 1998

Final Report to Congress, Executive Summary
Feb 1998
 
Final Report to Congress, Fact Sheet
Feb 1998
 

Regulatory Finding Development

Information Collection Request

Supporting Information

The following files contain the draft and approved versions of the supporting information presented to the Office of Management and Budget for the Information Collection Request.

File Description

File Date

File Types

Final Supporting Statement 11/19/98  
Questionnaire 11/19/98  
List of Plants 11/19/98  
Draft Documents

Background

The following information presents the data submitted by utilities on Part I of the ICR, the listing of coal-fired units believed to meet the section 112(a)(8) definition of "electric utility steam generating unit," the procedure used to select units for the speciated mercury emissions testing, the list of plants selected, and the data files of plants sorted by matrix category (see the "Final Supporting Statement" above for a discussion of the matrix categories).

File Description

File Date

File Types

Part I information submitted by utilities 3/8/99
Coal-fired units meeting definition (Part II) June 2001
List of plants selected for emissions testing (Part III) 3/8/99
Selection procedure for units to be tested Mar 1999
Section 114 Testing Letter Mar 1999
Matrix Selection Categories

Public Outreach

File Description

File Date

File Types

Solicitation of additional information 5/23/00
Notice of public meeting 6/2/00
Agenda for June 13 Public Meeting 6/01/00
Minutes of June 13 Public Meeting 7/17/00
NWF meeting presentation 9/8/00

Regulatory finding announcement

File Description

File Date

File Types

Federal Register Notice 2000
Fact Sheet 2000
Mercury White Paper 10/00/00
Press Release 12/14/00

MACT Regulation Development

Federal Registers

January 30, 2004 Proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants; and, in the Alternative, Proposed Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Steam Generating Units; Proposed Rule

Public Outreach

File Description

File Date

File Types

March 12, 2001 Meeting
Opening remarks by John Seitz 03/12/01
State/local/tribal 03/12/01 stakeholder meeting summary April 2001  
Industry 03/12/01 stakeholder meeting summary April 2001  
Environmental 03/12/01 stakeholder meeting summary April 2001  
NTEC conference presentation 4/24/01
WI DNR CAC presentation February 2002
EPA/AWMA Information Exchange December 2002

CAAAC


Working Group distribution materials

File Description

File Date

File Types

General
ORD Control of Mercury Emissions Report April 2002
List of oil-fired utilities June 2002
Draft oil update memo February 2002
Cogeneration Table January 2002
Working group membership June 2002
Draft "charge and process" document August 2001  
Trace metal HAPs from oilfired units December 2001
Notes December 2001
Coal Hg data January 2002
Units Blending coal January 2002
Non-ICR HAP data June 2002
Subcategorization examples January 2002
"Winter" coal mercury data January 2002
"Spring" coal mercury data January 2002
"Summer" coal mercury data January 2002
"Autumn" coal mercury data January 2002
EPRI nickel-in-oil data June 2002
August 1, 2001 meeting
Summary of Meeting August 2001
Attendees August 2001
Presentation August 2001
Part I Part II Part III
November 5, 2001 meeting
Summary of Meeting November 5, 2001
Attendees November 2001
Presentation November 5 2001
December 18, 2001 Meeting
Summary of Meeting January 2002
Attendees January 2002
EPA Presentation January 2002
Working Group presentation 1 January 2002
Working Group presentation 2 January 2002
Working Group presentation 3 January 2002
Working Group presentation 4 January 2002
February 5, 2002 Meeting
Summary of Meeting February 2002
Attendees February 2002
EPA Presentation February 2002
Ranking mini-group presentation 1 February 2002
Ranking mini-group presentation 2 February 2002
Subcategorization mini-group presentation 1 February 2002
Subcategorization mini-group presentation 2 February 2002
Subcategorization mini-group presentation 3 February 2002
March 4/5, 2002 meeting
Summary of Meeting March 2002
Attendees March 2002
EPA Presentation on non-mercury HAP March 2002
Ranking mini-group Paper March 2002
Subcategorization mini-group Industry Paper March 2002
Coal mini-group Presentation March 2002
EPA Presentation on Oil-fired Units March 2002
NRECA Presentation March 2002
April 3, 2002 meeting
Agenda April 2002
EPA Presentation on IPM model April 2002
EPA Presentation on negative removals April 2002
Summary of meeting April 2002
Attendees April 2002
EPA draft IPM run suggestions April 2002
UARG draft IPM run suggestions April 2002
EPRI presentation on variability April 2002
UARG presentation on variability April 2002
May 13, 2002 meeting
Summary of meeting May 2002
Attendees May 2002
ADA Presentation June 2002
NJ Presentation May 2002
EPA Presentation on initial IPM runs May 2002
UARG comments on IPM model 1 May 2002
UARG comments on IPM model 2 May 2002
May 30, 2002 workshop
List of attendees June 2002
EPA IPM Presentation 1 June 2002
EPA IPM Presentation 2 June 2002
June 3, 2002 meeting
Summary of meeting June 2002
Attendees June 2002
Envir. Def. oil-fired units memo June 2002
CATF non-mercury HAP memo June 2002
CATF non-mercury HAP memo data June 2002
UARG/EPRI SCR presentation June 2002
UARG IPM comments June 2002
Summary of May 30 IPM workshop June 2002
CINERGY/L&W IPM comments summary June 2002
CINERGY/L&W IPM comments paper June 2002
EPA IPM follow-up June 2002
ICF IPM follow-up memo June 2002
EPA IPM assumption response June 2002
CEG IPM comments June 2002
EPA summary of June 27 meeting July 2002
July 9, 2002 meeting
Summary of meeting July 2002
Attendees July 2002
Enviro non-mercury HAP paper July 2002
Industry non-mercury HAP presentation July 2002  
Enviro IPM assumptions comment paper July 2002
EPA statistical variability presentation July 2002  
EPA issues for advice/recommendations July 2002
August 8, 2002 meeting
Summary of meeting August 2002
Attendees August 2002
L & W non-mercury HAP paper August 2002
EPA variability presentation August 2002
ADA testing presentation August 2002
EPRI western fuel presentation August 2002
Oil mini-group issue summary August 2002
EPA statistical variability memo August 2002
September 9, 2002, meeting
Summary of meeting September 2002
Attendees September 2002
State/local advice paper September 2002
State/local presentation September 2002
ICAC advice paper September 2002
Industry advice paper September 2002
Clean Energy Group advice paper September 2002
Oil-fired generators advice paper September 2002
Environmental caucus advice paper September 2002
Industry group advice presentation 1 September 2002
Industry group advice presentation 2 September 2002
Industry group advice presentation 3 September 2002
CEG advice presentation September 2002
October 17, 2002 meeting
Summary of meeting October 2002
Attendees October 2002
Hogan and Hartson statistical memo October 2002
UARG statistical memo October 2002
October 30, 2002 meeting
Working Group Final Report October 2002
Working Group Final Report Presentation October 2002
CAAAC Stakeholder Memo October 2002
March 4, 2003 meeting
Summary of Meeting March 2003  
Attendees March 2003  
ADA presentation on carbon injection tests March 2003
Presention on Massachusetts rule March 2003
WEST Assoc. presentation on variability analyses March 2003
ED presentation on mercury deposition March 2003
ED list of Western fish consumption advisories March 2003
EPA presentation on mercury CEM March 2003
UARG presentation on CEM March 2003
WEST Associates Report March 2003
CATF white paper on non-mercury HAP March 2003

Relevant Technical Data

Coal Analysis Results

The coal information presented below contains the mercury, chlorine, Btu, ash, sulfur, and moisture content data, as well as the fuel use data, submitted by utilities on Part II of the ICR. Each "zip" file contains 3 documents: (1) a large text file containing all quarterly data received; (2) a small text file showing which units are not included in the larger text file, along with the reason for not being included; and (3) a small text file containing field descriptions for the field headers in the larger text file.

These files are best viewed in spreadsheet or database format, rather than word processing, notepad, etc. When importing these files into spreadsheet or database programs, please use tab delimited with a double quote text modifier.

File Description

First quarter data-- USGS added June 2002
Second quarter data-- USGS added June 2002
Third quarter data-- USGS added June 2002
Fourth quarter data-- USGS added June 2002
Fuel use data June 2001

Speciated Mercury Testing

The speciated mercury emission test reports are provided in Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) format for the convenience of the user. Each report is divided into the main report and the appendices.

File Description

Speciated mercury emission test reports
Extracted data June 2001  

Preliminary Data Analysis

The "control device analysis" file contains analyses conducted on the data to determine the performance of the tested emission control devices on the various forms of mercury. The "nationwide mercury emission estimate" file contains a down-loadable, executable file used to estimate nationwide mercury emissions from the industry in 1999. This file may be sorted by the user by plant, State, etc. Extracted tables are also provided for plant-by-plant and State mercury emission estimates. The posted files dated June 2001 reflect revisions made to earlier versions based on additional QA/QC of the emissions test reports and the data extracted from them.

File Description

Control device analysis June 2001
Nationwide mercury emission estimate June 2001
State mercury emission estimates June 2001
Plant-by-plant mercury emission estimates June 2001
Unit by unit mercury emission estimates December 2003  
Summary documentation memo June 2001
Control device documentation Dec 2000
Control device cost analysis Dec 2000
Control device cost summary Dec 2000

Case-by-Case Tool

The EPA has developed a tool that Title V permitting authorities may find useful in evaluating applications for case-by-case MACT determinations which are submitted by affected facilities within their jurisdictions. The tool will allow permitting authorities and others to evaluate the impact on mercury emissions if certain parameters including type of coal, boiler, or pollution control device are changed. The basis for the tool is the information gathered from the industry during calendar year 1999 on their plants, the coal they burned, and their mercury emissions. The tool has been provided to assist permitting authorities in making the required case-by-case determinations, but no permitting authority is required to utilize it for that purpose. The tool does not include or represent any EPA determination of presumptive MACT, nor does it reflect any decision(s) by the Agency on MACT floors, subcategorization, or other aspects of the MACT standard.

File Description

Memo to EPA Regional Offices August 2001
Case-by-case tool August 2001

Docket Index

The current version of the docket index for Docket A-92-55 is available here to aid in searching for specific items in the Docket.

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