[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38702-38703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-14042]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341; FRL-9947-17-OAR]
Notice of Availability of the Environmental Protection Agency's
Two Updated Chapters in the EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability (NOA).
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice
that two chapters of the EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual (Control
Cost Manual) have been finalized and are available to the public. These
chapters, titled ``Chapter 1--Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction'' and
``Chapter 2--Selective Catalytic Reduction'' are components of
``Section 4--Nitrogen Oxide Controls'' and incorporate comments
received on draft versions made available in a Notice of Data
Availability (NODA) published on June 12, 2015. A response to comment
(RTC) document summarizing comments and agency responses is available
for each chapter. In addition, cost calculation information is provided
electronically for each chapter enabling estimation of costs for
installing and operating NOx control measures. The final chapters, RTC
and cost calculation documents are available at https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/ecas/cost_manual.html. In addition, all public comments received by
the agency are available in the docket for this Notice of Availability
(EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341).
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., Confidential Business
Information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be
publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket
materials are available either electronically in www.regulations.gov or
in hard copy at the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center,
EPA/DC, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone
number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone
number for the Air Docket is (202) 566-1742.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions on the EPA Air Pollution
Control Cost Manual update, contact Larry Sorrels, Health and
Environmental Impacts Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, C439-02, 109 T.W.
Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; telephone number:
(919) 541-5041; fax number: (919) 541-0839; email address:
[email protected].
Information Available From This Notice
The EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual provides guidance for the
development of accurate and consistent costs for air pollution control
devices. The Control Cost Manual focuses on point source and stationary
area source air pollution controls for volatile organic compounds,
particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen (NOX), and certain
acid gases (primarily sulfur dioxide and hydrochloric acid). The EPA is
currently updating the Control Cost Manual. This update will be the
Seventh Edition and is required under the authority of the 2014
Consolidated Appropriations Act.
The Control Cost Manual contains individual chapters on control
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measures, including data and equations to aid users in estimating
capital costs for installation and annual costs for operation and
maintenance of these measures. The Control Cost Manual is used by the
EPA for estimating the impacts of rulemakings, and serves as a basis
for sources to estimate costs of controls that are Best Available
Control Technology under the New Source Review Permitting Program and
Best Available Retrofit Technology under the Regional Haze Program and
for other programs.
The two Control Cost Manual chapters that have been revised include
``Chapter 1--Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction'' and ``Chapter 2--
Selective Catalytic Reduction.'' These two chapters are the first two
chapters to be released for the Seventh Edition of the Control Cost
Manual and replace the Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction and Selective
Catalytic Reduction chapters in the current Control Cost Manual Sixth
Edition. A response to comment (RTC) document summarizing comments and
agency responses is available for each chapter. In addition, cost
calculation information is provided electronically for each chapter
enabling estimation of costs for installing and operating NOx control
measures. The final chapters, RTC and cost calculation documents are
available at https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/ecas/cost_manual.html. In
addition, all public comments received by the agency are available in
the docket for this Notice of Availability (EPA-HQ-OAR-2015-0341).
The Control Cost Manual was last updated in 2003. The development
of the Control Cost Manual Seventh Edition is in response to the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014, which requested that the EPA
begin development of a seventh edition of the Control Cost Manual.
Dated: June 8, 2016.
Stephen Page,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2016-14042 Filed 6-13-16; 8:45 am]
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