[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 49020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22873]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9969-79-OAR]
Acid Rain Program: Notification of Annual Adjustment Factors for
Excess Emissions Penalty
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Annual adjustment factors for excess emissions penalty.
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SUMMARY: The Acid Rain Program under title IV of the Clean Air Act
provides for automatic excess emissions penalties in dollars per ton of
excess emissions for sources that do not meet their annual Acid Rain
emissions limitations. This document states the dollars per ton excess
emissions penalty amounts, which must be adjusted for each compliance
year commensurate with changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), for
compliance years 2017 and 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert L. Miller, Clean Air Markets
Division (6204M), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460, at (202) 343-9077 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Acid Rain Program under title IV of the
Clean Air Act limits annual sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions
of fossil fuel-fired utility units. Under the Acid Rain Program,
affected sources must hold enough allowances to cover their sulfur
dioxide emissions, and certain coal-fired sources must meet an emission
limit for nitrogen oxides. Under 40 CFR 77.6, sources that do not meet
these requirements must pay a penalty without demand to the
Administrator based on the number of excess tons emitted times $2,000
as adjusted by an annual adjustment factor, which must be published in
the Federal Register.
The annual adjustment factor for adjusting the penalty for excess
emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides under 40 CFR part
77.6(b) for compliance year 2017 is 1.9330. This value is derived using
the CPI for 1990 and 2016 (defined respectively at 40 CFR 72.2 as the
CPI for August of the year before the specified year for all urban
consumers) and results in an automatic penalty of $3,866 per excess ton
of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides emitted for 2017.
The annual adjustment factor for adjusting the penalty for such
excess emissions under 40 CFR 77.6(b) for compliance year 2018 is
1.9705. This value is derived using the CPI for 1990 and 2017 and
results in an automatic penalty of $3,941 per excess ton of sulfur
dioxide or nitrogen oxides emitted for 2018.
Dated: October 10, 2017.
Reid P. Harvey,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs,
Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 2017-22873 Filed 10-20-17; 8:45 am]
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