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Notice of Availability of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s
2018 Emissions Modeling Platform
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
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Notice of data availability
(NODA).
ACTION:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is providing notice that
the 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform
data are available for public review and
comment. The 2018 Emissions
Modeling Platform consists of emission
inventory data, supporting data used to
develop the 2018 emission inventories,
and methods and data that are used to
process emission inventories
representing the year 2018 into a form
that can be used for air quality
modeling. The platform, or portions of
the data that make up the platform, may
be used by the Office of Air and
Radiation in several contexts, including
the development of rules related to the
transport of air pollution and the
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards. The EPA is requesting
comment on the 2018 Emissions
Modeling Platform, including the
emission inventories, the supporting
data, and the methods used to develop
and process the 2018 emission
inventories. A docket has been
established to facilitate public review of
the data and to track comments.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before June 30, 2014. Please refer to
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for
additional information on submitting
comments and on the provided data.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2013–0809, by one of the
following methods:
• www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Fax: (202) 566–9744. Attention
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–
0809.
• Mail: EPA Docket Center, WJC West
(Air Docket), Attention Docket ID No.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0809, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
Please include a total of 2 copies.
• Hand Delivery: U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, WJC West (Air
Docket), 1301 Constitution Avenue
NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC
20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–OAR–2013–0809. Such deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket’s
normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–
0809. The EPA’s policy is that all
comments received will be included in
the public docket without change and
may be made available online at
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www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through www.regulations.gov
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web
site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system,
which means the EPA will not know
your identity or contact information
unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an email
comment directly to the EPA without
going through www.regulations.gov,
your email address will be
automatically captured and included as
part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, the EPA recommends that
you include your name and other
contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD–ROM
you submit. If the EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification,
the EPA may not be able to consider
your comment. Electronic files should
avoid the use of special characters, any
form of encryption, and be free of any
defects or viruses. For additional
information about the EPA’s public
docket, visit the EPA Docket Center
homepage at https://www.epa.gov/
epahome/dockets.htm.
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., CBI 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
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the Air and Radiation Docket and
Information Center, EPA/DC, WJC West
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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
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(202) 566–1744, and the telephone
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on the 2018 Emissions
Modeling Platform and on how to
submit comments, contact Alison Eyth,
Air Quality Assessment Division,
Environmental Protection Agency,
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telephone number: (919) 541–2478; fax
number: (919) 541–0684; email address:
eyth.alison@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA
is requesting comment on the 2018
platform emission inventories;
supporting ancillary files used to
allocate emissions temporally, spatially,
and by species; and on the emissions
modeling methods used to develop the
2018 emission inventories, including
but not restricted to, the projection,
control and closure data, activity data,
and model input databases used to
develop projected emission levels in
2018. Summaries of the emission
inventories and data are provided to aid
in the review of the data, but comments
are sought on the actual inventories,
model inputs, and data used to develop
the projected 2018 emissions.
I. Additional Information on
Submitting Comments
A. What should I consider as I prepare
my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this
information to the EPA through
EDOCKET, www.regulations.gov, or
email. Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI.
For CBI information in a disk or CD–
ROM that you mail to the EPA docket
office specified in the Instructions, mark
the outside of the disk or CD–ROM as
CBI and then identify electronically
within the disk or CD–ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI.
Information so marked will not be
disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
In addition to one complete version of
the comment that includes information
claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment
that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI must be submitted for
inclusion in the public docket.
2. Tips for preparing your comments.
When submitting comments, remember
to:
i. Identify the notification by docket
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date and page number).
ii. Explain your comments, why you
agree or disagree; suggest alternatives
and substitute data that reflect your
requested changes.
iii. Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
iv. Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns, and suggest
alternatives.
v. Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
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vi. Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
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B. Instructions for Submitting
Comments and Alternative Data
The EPA can most effectively use
comments on data that provide specific
alternative values to those in the EPA
data sets, and for which accompanying
documentation supports the alternative
values. Commenters should provide the
alternative data at a level of detail
appropriate to the data set into which it
will be incorporated, thereby including
all key fields needed to substitute the
old data with the new. For example, any
data provided as an alternative to EPA’s
point source emissions data should
include all key fields used to identify
point source data such as facility, unit,
release point, process, and pollutant,
along with alternative emissions values.
If a commenter were to provide a new
set of county total emissions as an
alternative to detailed point source
emissions data, the EPA would be
unable to use the new data. Commenters
should also include documentation that
describes methods for development of
any alternative values and relevant
references supporting the alternative
approach.
Any alternative emission inventory or
ancillary data provided should be
compatible with the formats used by the
Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel
Emissions (SMOKE) modeling system
version 3.5.1, which is used by the EPA
to process emission inventories into a
format that can be used for air quality
modeling. Formats are defined in the
SMOKE Version 3.5.1 User’s Manual
available from https://www.smokemodel.org. Only the rows of data that
have changed from those provided by
the EPA should be included in the
alternative data sets. Alternative data
that are not an input to SMOKE, such
as model input databases for mobile
source models, should be provided in a
format in which it could be directly
input to the model.
To comment on inventory projection
methods, submit comments to the
docket that describe an alternative
approach to the existing methods, along
with documentation describing why
that method is an improvement over the
existing method.
II. Information Available for Public
Comment
The 2018 Emissions Modeling
Platform consists of emission
inventories that represent projected
emissions into the atmosphere of
criteria and some hazardous air
pollutants in the year 2018, additional
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ancillary data files that are used to
convert the National Emissions
Inventory (NEI) emissions into a form
that can be used for air quality
modeling, and methods used to prepare
the air quality model inputs and to
develop projections of emissions in the
year 2018. The platform includes
emission inventories for sources at
specific locations called point sources;
emissions from fire events; and countylevel emissions of onroad mobile
sources, nonroad mobile sources, and
other nonpoint sources.
In the modeling platform, emission
sources are split into categories called
modeling sectors. For example, locationspecific point emission sources are split
into peaking electric generating units
(EGUs), other EGUs, oil and gas point
sources, and other point sources.
Nonpoint emission sources are split into
agricultural ammonia sources,
residential wood sources, oil and gas
nonpoint sources, and other nonpoint
sources.
The 2018 emissions modeling
platform is named for the year of the
data that it represents. The emission
inventories in the 2018 modeling
platform have been developed using
projection methods that are specific to
the type of emission source. Emission
projections for EGUs for 2018 are
developed using the Integrated Planning
Model (IPM), which is further described
below. Most non-EGU source emissions
are projected based on the EPA’s 2011
emissions modeling platform, which the
EPA has also made available for public
comment under a November 27, 2013,
Federal Register notice titled 2011
Emissions Modeling Platform;
Availability. The relevant 2011 data files
are available in docket number EPA–
HQ–OAR–2013–0743. Future emissions
are projected from this base case either
by running models to estimate
emissions in the future year (i.e., EGUs,
and onroad and nonroad mobile
sources), or by adjusting the base year
emissions according to the best estimate
of changes expected to occur in the
intervening years (i.e., non-EGU point
and nonpoint sources).
For some sectors, the same emissions
are used in the base and future years,
such as biogenic emissions, point source
fire emissions, and Canadian emissions.
For all other sectors, rules and specific
legal obligations that go into effect in
the intervening years, along with
changes in activity for the sector, are
considered when possible.
Documentation of the methods used for
each sector is provided in the Technical
Support Document Preparation of
Emissions Inventories for the Version
6.0, 2011 Emissions Modeling Platform,
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which can be found in the docket for
this notice.
In order to project future EGU
emissions, the EPA uses the IPM. The
National Electric Energy Data System
(NEEDS) database contains the
generation unit records used for the
model plants that represent existing and
planned/committed units in the EPA
modeling applications of IPM. NEEDS
includes basic geographic, operating, air
emissions, and other data on these
generating units and was completely
updated for the EPA’s new power sector
modeling platform. The EGU emission
projections included in this 2018
emissions modeling platform are
reported in an air quality modelingready flat file taken from EPA Base Case
v.5.13, developed using IPM. 2018 EGU
emission projections in the flat file
format, the corresponding NEEDS
database, and user guides and
documentation are available in the
docket for this notice, and they are also
available on the Internet at https://
www.epa.gov/powersectormodeling.
To project future emissions from
onroad and nonroad mobile sources, the
EPA uses MOVES and the National
Mobile Inventory Model (NMIM),
respectively. The 2018 projections were
obtained by running these models to
represent the year 2018 using yearspecific information about fuel
mixtures, activity data, and the impacts
of national and state-level rules and
control programs. The mobile model
input databases and future year activity
data are provided at https://
www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/emch/
index.html#2011.
For non-EGU point and nonpoint
sources, projections of 2018 emissions
are developed by starting with the
emissions inventories in the 2011
emissions modeling platform and
applying adjustments that represent the
impact of rules coming into effect in the
years 2012 through 2018, along with the
impacts of planned shutdowns, the
construction of new plants, specific
information provided by states, and
specific legal obligations, such as
consent decrees resolving alleged
environmental violations. Changes in
activity are considered for sectors such
as oil and gas, residential wood
combustion, cement kilns, livestock,
aircraft, commercial marine vessels and
trains. Data files used to represent the
changes due to national, state and local
rules as well as other specific legal
obligations, are provided along with
summaries that quantify the emission
changes resulting from each program at
a state and national-level.
The 2018 Emissions Modeling
Platform also includes 2006 emissions
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inventories for Canada and projected
2018 emissions inventories for Mexico,
along with ancillary data files used to
allocate annual emissions to the hourly,
gridded emissions of chemical species
used by an air quality model (AQM).
The types of ancillary data files include
temporal profiles that allocate annual
and monthly emissions down to days
and hours, spatial surrogates that
allocate county-level emissions onto the
grid cells used by an AQM, and
speciation profiles that allocate the
pollutants in the NEI to the chemical
species used by an AQM. In addition,
there are temporal, spatial, and
speciation cross-reference files that map
the emission sources in the emission
inventories to the appropriate profiles
based on their location, emissions
source classification code (SCC), and in
some cases the specific facility or unit.
With the exception of some speciation
profiles, the ancillary data files are
unchanged from the data files associated
with the 2011 emissions modeling
platform. The EPA provided an
opportunity for comment on the data
files for the 2011 platform in a notice
published on November 27, 2013, and
those files are available in docket
number EPA–HQ–OAR–2013–0743.
The 2018 emissions modeling
platform, or portions of the data that
make up the platform, may be used by
the Office of Air and Radiation in
several contexts including the
development of rules related to the
transport of air pollution and the
National Ambient Air Quality
Standards. Air quality modeling results
that are based on the outputs of the
emissions modeling platform are
typically used in support of Regulatory
Impact Analyses (RIAs) and sometimes
support other aspects of rulemaking
efforts.
The EPA has placed key information
related to the 2018 Emissions Modeling
Platform into the electronic docket
available at www.regulations.gov.
However, many of the detailed data files
are too large to be directly uploaded into
the electronic docket and/or are not in
formats accepted by that docket.
Therefore, the information placed in the
electronic docket, associated detailed
data, and summaries to help with
interpretation of the data are available
for public review on the EPA’s
Clearinghouse for Inventories and
Emissions Factors (CHIEF) Web site at
https://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/emch/
index.html#2011.
The emissions inventories, along with
many of the ancillary files, are provided
in the form of flat files that can be input
to SMOKE. Flat files are commaseparated value style text files with
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columns and rows that can be loaded
into spreadsheet or database software.
The columns of interest in the emission
inventory files are specified in each
subsection below. The EPA requests
comment on the following components
of the 2018 emissions modeling
platform data:
• Emissions values and supporting
data for EGUs. The EPA requests
comment on the IPM version 5.13 input
assumptions, NEEDS database, 2018
unit-level parsed files, 2018 flat file
inputs and outputs, and cross references
and matching between IPM and NEI.
The EPA also requests comment on the
specific units that are expected to be
used as peaking units in the future year
and on the nature of the expected 2018
emissions from those units.
• Emission values for non-EGU
sources. The EPA requests comment on
the criteria air pollutant (CAP) 2018
emission projections in the modeling
inventories, with the focus on ozone
and particulate matter precursors such
as nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulfur dioxide
(SO2), particulate matter less than 2.5
micrometers (PM2.5), particulate matter
less than 10 micrometers (PM10),
volatile organic compounds (VOC), and
ammonia (NH3). The EPA will also
accept comments on 2018 projections of
hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), as they
are included in the outputs of models
used to develop 2018 emission
projections, but HAPs are not the focus
of this effort. The annual emissions
values are located in the ANN_VALUE
column of emission inventory files in
the Flat File 2010 (FF10) format. Some
emission inventories (e.g., nonroad) may
also have values filled in to the monthly
value columns (e.g., JAN_VALUE, FEB_
VALUE, . . ., DEC_VALUE). The EPA
requests comment on both the annual
and monthly emissions values, where
applicable. Summaries of emissions by
state and county are provided to aid in
the review of emissions values.
• Model inputs and activity data used
to develop mobile source emission
inventories. The EPA requests comment
on the mobile source model input data
used to develop the projected future
mobile source emission inventories.
These include both the databases used
to create emission factors and the
vehicle miles traveled and vehicle
population activity data used to
compute the emissions. Of particular
interest are county total vehicle miles
traveled, the mixture of vehicle types in
2018, and changes to the inspection and
maintenance programs. Alternative
activity data may be provided in the
form of MOVES county databases or in
SMOKE FF10 activity data format.
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• Projection data and methods. The
EPA seeks comment on the data used to
project point and nonpoint source
emissions from 2011 to 2018, and on the
methods and assumptions used to
implement the projections. In this
context, nonpoint source emissions are
inclusive of commercial marine vessel,
railroad, and other nonpoint emissions.
In particular, the EPA seeks comment
on its assumptions regarding the
manner in which specific consent
decrees and state- or locality-specific
control programs will be implemented.
Summaries are provided to illustrate the
EPA’s current assumptions regarding
the implementation of consent decrees
and other programs.
• Existing control techniques. The
emission inventories include
information on emissions control
techniques listed in terms of control
codes submitted to the EIS. These are
listed in the CONTROL_IDS and
CONTROL_MEASURES columns in the
emission inventory flat files, with levels
of reduction in the ANN_PCT_RED
column. Projection of non-EGU point
source emissions to future years is
dependent on this information. The EPA
seeks comment on whether information
on existing controls given in the
inventory flat files is incomplete or
erroneous. The flat files must be
consulted for details of control
techniques by pollutant.
• Emissions modeling methods. The
EPA is using the SMOKE version 3.5.1
to prepare data for air quality modeling.
The EPA requests comment on the
methods by which SMOKE is used to
develop air quality model-ready
emissions, as illustrated in the scripts
provided with the modeling platform
and as described in the Technical
Support Document Preparation of
Emissions Inventories for the Version
6.0, 2011 Emissions Modeling Platform.
• Temporal allocation. Annual
emission inventories must be allocated
to hourly values prior to air quality
modeling. This may be done with
temporal profiles in several steps, such
as annual-to-month, month-to-day, and
day-to-hour. The exact method used
depends on the type of emissions being
processed. The EPA seeks comment on
the allocation of the emission
inventories to month, day, and hour for
all types of emission processes. In
particular, the EPA seeks information
that could help improve the temporal
allocation in 2018 of emissions from
EGUs, nonroad mobile sources,
residential wood combustion sources,
and the temporal allocation of vehicle
miles traveled needed to model onroad
sources. The EPA seeks local- and
region-specific data that can be used to
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improve the temporal allocation of
emissions data.
• Spatial surrogates. Spatial
surrogates are used to allocate countylevel emissions to the grid cells used for
air quality modeling. The EPA requests
comment on the spatial surrogates used
in the 2018 Emissions Modeling
Platform. The same spatial surrogates
are used in the base and future years.
• Chemical speciation. Prior to air
quality modeling, the pollutants in the
emission inventories must be converted
into the chemical species used by the air
quality model using speciation profiles.
The speciation profiles in the 2018
emissions modeling platform are
consistent with version 4.3 of the
SPECIATE database. The EPA requests
comment on the speciation profiles used
in the 2018 modeling platform, as well
as any information that could help
improve the speciation of oil and gas
emissions in both the eastern and
western United States in 2018. Oil and
gas speciation information, along with
VOC to TOG adjustment factors that are
used to compute methane emissions,
would be of the most use at the county
or oil/gas basin level of detail and also
for each distinct process at oil and gas
drilling/production facilities (e.g., glycol
dehydrators).
To aid in the interpretation of the
provided data files and how they relate
to the aspects of the data on which the
EPA is requesting comment, the EPA
has provided in the docket a document
describing the information included in
the data files.
Dated: January 8, 2014.
Mary E. Henigin,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and
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Information Collection Request
Submitted to OMB for Review and
Approval; Comment Request;
Notification of Episodic Releases of Oil
and Hazardous Substances (Renewal)
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency has submitted an information
collection request (ICR), ‘‘Notification of
Episodic Releases of Oil and Hazardous
Substances (Renewal)’’ to the Office of
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Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This is a
proposed extension of the ICR, which is
currently approved through March 31,
2014. Public comments were previously
requested via the Federal Register (78
FR 49265) on August 13, 2013, during
a 60-day comment period. This notice
allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments. A fuller description
of the ICR is given below, including its
estimated burden and cost to the public.
An Agency may not conduct or sponsor
and a person is not required to respond
to a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
DATES: Additional comments may be
submitted on or before February 13,
2014
Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID Number EPA–
HQ–SFUND–2013–0549, to (1) EPA
online using www.regulations.gov (our
preferred method), by email to
superfund.docket@epa.gov, or by mail
to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental
Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460, and (2) OMB via
email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Address comments to OMB Desk Officer
for EPA.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynn M. Beasley, Office of Emergency
Management, (5104A), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: 202–564–1965; fax
number: 202–564–8222; email address:
beasley.lynn@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
WJC West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW., Washington,
DC. The telephone number for the
Docket Center is 202–566–1744. For
additional information about EPA’s
public docket, visit https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
EPA ICR #: 1049.13.
OMB Control #: 2050–0046.
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Abstract: Section 103(a) of CERCLA,
as amended, requires the person in
charge of a facility or vessel to
immediately notify the National
Response Center (NRC) of a hazardous
substance release into the environment
if the amount of the release equals or
exceeds the substance’s reportable
quantity (RQ) limit. The RQ of every
hazardous substance can be found in
Table 302.4 of 40 CFR 302.4.
Section 311 of the CWA, as amended,
requires the person in charge of a vessel
to immediately notify the NRC of an oil
spill into U.S. navigable waters if the
spill causes a sheen, violates applicable
water quality standards, or causes a
sludge or emulsion to be deposited
beneath the surface of the water or upon
adjoining shorelines.
The reporting of a hazardous
substance release that is at or above the
substance’s RQ allows the Federal
government to determine whether a
Federal response action is required to
control or mitigate any potential adverse
effects to public health or welfare or the
environment. Likewise, the reporting of
oil spills allows the Federal government
to determine whether cleaning up the
oil spill is necessary to mitigate or
prevent damage to public health or
welfare or the environment.
Form numbers: None.
Respondents/affected entities: Private
entities.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory CERCLA section 103(a);
CWA section 311.
Estimated number of respondents:
23,864.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Total estimated burden: 97,842 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $3,320,485 (per
year), includes $0 annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in the estimates: There is a
decrease of 726 hours in the total
estimated respondent burden compared
with the ICR currently approved by
OMB. This decrease is because the
projected number of release
notifications per annum in this ICR is
less than the number of release
notifications per annum in the previous
ICR. Projections are based on the
number of actual releases reported in
the prior three year period.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Notice of Availability of the Environmental Protection Agency's
2018 Emissions Modeling Platform
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice
that the 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform data are available for public
review and comment. The 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform consists of
emission inventory data, supporting data used to develop the 2018
emission inventories, and methods and data that are used to process
emission inventories representing the year 2018 into a form that can be
used for air quality modeling. The platform, or portions of the data
that make up the platform, may be used by the Office of Air and
Radiation in several contexts, including the development of rules
related to the transport of air pollution and the National Ambient Air
Quality Standards. The EPA is requesting comment on the 2018 Emissions
Modeling Platform, including the emission inventories, the supporting
data, and the methods used to develop and process the 2018 emission
inventories. A docket has been established to facilitate public review
of the data and to track comments.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 30, 2014. Please
refer to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for additional information on
submitting comments and on the provided data.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2013-0809, by one of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2013-0809.
Mail: EPA Docket Center, WJC West (Air Docket), Attention
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0809, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC
20460. Please include a total of 2 copies.
Hand Delivery: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, WJC
West (Air Docket), 1301 Constitution Avenue NW., Room 3334, Washington,
DC 20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0809. Such deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and
special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed
information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2013-0809. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access''
system, which means the EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, the EPA recommends that you include your name and other
contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or
CD-ROM you submit. If the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, the EPA may not
be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use
of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any
defects or viruses. For additional information about the EPA's public
docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
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., CBI 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 2018 Emissions
Modeling Platform and on how to submit comments, contact Alison Eyth,
Air Quality Assessment Division, Environmental Protection Agency, C339-
02, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709;
telephone number: (919) 541-2478; fax number: (919) 541-0684; email
address: eyth.alison@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA is requesting comment on the 2018
platform emission inventories; supporting ancillary files used to
allocate emissions temporally, spatially, and by species; and on the
emissions modeling methods used to develop the 2018 emission
inventories, including but not restricted to, the projection, control
and closure data, activity data, and model input databases used to
develop projected emission levels in 2018. Summaries of the emission
inventories and data are provided to aid in the review of the data, but
comments are sought on the actual inventories, model inputs, and data
used to develop the projected 2018 emissions.
I. Additional Information on Submitting Comments
A. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to the EPA
through EDOCKET, www.regulations.gov, or email. Clearly mark the part
or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information
in a disk or CD-ROM that you mail to the EPA docket office specified in
the Instructions, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as CBI and
then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. Information so marked will not be
disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part
2. In addition to one complete version of the comment that includes
information claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain
the information claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the
public docket.
2. Tips for preparing your comments. When submitting comments,
remember to:
i. Identify the notification by docket number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
ii. Explain your comments, why you agree or disagree; suggest
alternatives and substitute data that reflect your requested changes.
iii. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
iv. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and
suggest alternatives.
v. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats.
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vi. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
B. Instructions for Submitting Comments and Alternative Data
The EPA can most effectively use comments on data that provide
specific alternative values to those in the EPA data sets, and for
which accompanying documentation supports the alternative values.
Commenters should provide the alternative data at a level of detail
appropriate to the data set into which it will be incorporated, thereby
including all key fields needed to substitute the old data with the
new. For example, any data provided as an alternative to EPA's point
source emissions data should include all key fields used to identify
point source data such as facility, unit, release point, process, and
pollutant, along with alternative emissions values. If a commenter were
to provide a new set of county total emissions as an alternative to
detailed point source emissions data, the EPA would be unable to use
the new data. Commenters should also include documentation that
describes methods for development of any alternative values and
relevant references supporting the alternative approach.
Any alternative emission inventory or ancillary data provided
should be compatible with the formats used by the Sparse Matrix
Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) modeling system version 3.5.1, which
is used by the EPA to process emission inventories into a format that
can be used for air quality modeling. Formats are defined in the SMOKE
Version 3.5.1 User's Manual available from https://www.smoke-model.org.
Only the rows of data that have changed from those provided by the EPA
should be included in the alternative data sets. Alternative data that
are not an input to SMOKE, such as model input databases for mobile
source models, should be provided in a format in which it could be
directly input to the model.
To comment on inventory projection methods, submit comments to the
docket that describe an alternative approach to the existing methods,
along with documentation describing why that method is an improvement
over the existing method.
II. Information Available for Public Comment
The 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform consists of emission
inventories that represent projected emissions into the atmosphere of
criteria and some hazardous air pollutants in the year 2018, additional
ancillary data files that are used to convert the National Emissions
Inventory (NEI) emissions into a form that can be used for air quality
modeling, and methods used to prepare the air quality model inputs and
to develop projections of emissions in the year 2018. The platform
includes emission inventories for sources at specific locations called
point sources; emissions from fire events; and county-level emissions
of onroad mobile sources, nonroad mobile sources, and other nonpoint
sources.
In the modeling platform, emission sources are split into
categories called modeling sectors. For example, location-specific
point emission sources are split into peaking electric generating units
(EGUs), other EGUs, oil and gas point sources, and other point sources.
Nonpoint emission sources are split into agricultural ammonia sources,
residential wood sources, oil and gas nonpoint sources, and other
nonpoint sources.
The 2018 emissions modeling platform is named for the year of the
data that it represents. The emission inventories in the 2018 modeling
platform have been developed using projection methods that are specific
to the type of emission source. Emission projections for EGUs for 2018
are developed using the Integrated Planning Model (IPM), which is
further described below. Most non-EGU source emissions are projected
based on the EPA's 2011 emissions modeling platform, which the EPA has
also made available for public comment under a November 27, 2013,
Federal Register notice titled 2011 Emissions Modeling Platform;
Availability. The relevant 2011 data files are available in docket
number EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0743. Future emissions are projected from this
base case either by running models to estimate emissions in the future
year (i.e., EGUs, and onroad and nonroad mobile sources), or by
adjusting the base year emissions according to the best estimate of
changes expected to occur in the intervening years (i.e., non-EGU point
and nonpoint sources).
For some sectors, the same emissions are used in the base and
future years, such as biogenic emissions, point source fire emissions,
and Canadian emissions. For all other sectors, rules and specific legal
obligations that go into effect in the intervening years, along with
changes in activity for the sector, are considered when possible.
Documentation of the methods used for each sector is provided in the
Technical Support Document Preparation of Emissions Inventories for the
Version 6.0, 2011 Emissions Modeling Platform, which can be found in
the docket for this notice.
In order to project future EGU emissions, the EPA uses the IPM. The
National Electric Energy Data System (NEEDS) database contains the
generation unit records used for the model plants that represent
existing and planned/committed units in the EPA modeling applications
of IPM. NEEDS includes basic geographic, operating, air emissions, and
other data on these generating units and was completely updated for the
EPA's new power sector modeling platform. The EGU emission projections
included in this 2018 emissions modeling platform are reported in an
air quality modeling-ready flat file taken from EPA Base Case v.5.13,
developed using IPM. 2018 EGU emission projections in the flat file
format, the corresponding NEEDS database, and user guides and
documentation are available in the docket for this notice, and they are
also available on the Internet at https://www.epa.gov/powersectormodeling.
To project future emissions from onroad and nonroad mobile sources,
the EPA uses MOVES and the National Mobile Inventory Model (NMIM),
respectively. The 2018 projections were obtained by running these
models to represent the year 2018 using year-specific information about
fuel mixtures, activity data, and the impacts of national and state-
level rules and control programs. The mobile model input databases and
future year activity data are provided at https://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/emch/#2011.
For non-EGU point and nonpoint sources, projections of 2018
emissions are developed by starting with the emissions inventories in
the 2011 emissions modeling platform and applying adjustments that
represent the impact of rules coming into effect in the years 2012
through 2018, along with the impacts of planned shutdowns, the
construction of new plants, specific information provided by states,
and specific legal obligations, such as consent decrees resolving
alleged environmental violations. Changes in activity are considered
for sectors such as oil and gas, residential wood combustion, cement
kilns, livestock, aircraft, commercial marine vessels and trains. Data
files used to represent the changes due to national, state and local
rules as well as other specific legal obligations, are provided along
with summaries that quantify the emission changes resulting from each
program at a state and national-level.
The 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform also includes 2006 emissions
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inventories for Canada and projected 2018 emissions inventories for
Mexico, along with ancillary data files used to allocate annual
emissions to the hourly, gridded emissions of chemical species used by
an air quality model (AQM). The types of ancillary data files include
temporal profiles that allocate annual and monthly emissions down to
days and hours, spatial surrogates that allocate county-level emissions
onto the grid cells used by an AQM, and speciation profiles that
allocate the pollutants in the NEI to the chemical species used by an
AQM. In addition, there are temporal, spatial, and speciation cross-
reference files that map the emission sources in the emission
inventories to the appropriate profiles based on their location,
emissions source classification code (SCC), and in some cases the
specific facility or unit. With the exception of some speciation
profiles, the ancillary data files are unchanged from the data files
associated with the 2011 emissions modeling platform. The EPA provided
an opportunity for comment on the data files for the 2011 platform in a
notice published on November 27, 2013, and those files are available in
docket number EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0743.
The 2018 emissions modeling platform, or portions of the data that
make up the platform, may be used by the Office of Air and Radiation in
several contexts including the development of rules related to the
transport of air pollution and the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards. Air quality modeling results that are based on the outputs
of the emissions modeling platform are typically used in support of
Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) and sometimes support other aspects
of rulemaking efforts.
The EPA has placed key information related to the 2018 Emissions
Modeling Platform into the electronic docket available at
www.regulations.gov. However, many of the detailed data files are too
large to be directly uploaded into the electronic docket and/or are not
in formats accepted by that docket. Therefore, the information placed
in the electronic docket, associated detailed data, and summaries to
help with interpretation of the data are available for public review on
the EPA's Clearinghouse for Inventories and Emissions Factors (CHIEF)
Web site at https://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/emch/#2011.
The emissions inventories, along with many of the ancillary files,
are provided in the form of flat files that can be input to SMOKE. Flat
files are comma-separated value style text files with columns and rows
that can be loaded into spreadsheet or database software. The columns
of interest in the emission inventory files are specified in each
subsection below. The EPA requests comment on the following components
of the 2018 emissions modeling platform data:
Emissions values and supporting data for EGUs. The EPA
requests comment on the IPM version 5.13 input assumptions, NEEDS
database, 2018 unit-level parsed files, 2018 flat file inputs and
outputs, and cross references and matching between IPM and NEI. The EPA
also requests comment on the specific units that are expected to be
used as peaking units in the future year and on the nature of the
expected 2018 emissions from those units.
Emission values for non-EGU sources. The EPA requests
comment on the criteria air pollutant (CAP) 2018 emission projections
in the modeling inventories, with the focus on ozone and particulate
matter precursors such as nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulfur
dioxide (SO2), particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers
(PM2.5), particulate matter less than 10 micrometers
(PM10), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and ammonia
(NH3). The EPA will also accept comments on 2018 projections
of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), as they are included in the outputs
of models used to develop 2018 emission projections, but HAPs are not
the focus of this effort. The annual emissions values are located in
the ANN--VALUE column of emission inventory files in the Flat File 2010
(FF10) format. Some emission inventories (e.g., nonroad) may also have
values filled in to the monthly value columns (e.g., JAN--VALUE, FEB--
VALUE, . . ., DEC--VALUE). The EPA requests comment on both the annual
and monthly emissions values, where applicable. Summaries of emissions
by state and county are provided to aid in the review of emissions
values.
Model inputs and activity data used to develop mobile
source emission inventories. The EPA requests comment on the mobile
source model input data used to develop the projected future mobile
source emission inventories. These include both the databases used to
create emission factors and the vehicle miles traveled and vehicle
population activity data used to compute the emissions. Of particular
interest are county total vehicle miles traveled, the mixture of
vehicle types in 2018, and changes to the inspection and maintenance
programs. Alternative activity data may be provided in the form of
MOVES county databases or in SMOKE FF10 activity data format.
Projection data and methods. The EPA seeks comment on the
data used to project point and nonpoint source emissions from 2011 to
2018, and on the methods and assumptions used to implement the
projections. In this context, nonpoint source emissions are inclusive
of commercial marine vessel, railroad, and other nonpoint emissions. In
particular, the EPA seeks comment on its assumptions regarding the
manner in which specific consent decrees and state- or locality-
specific control programs will be implemented. Summaries are provided
to illustrate the EPA's current assumptions regarding the
implementation of consent decrees and other programs.
Existing control techniques. The emission inventories
include information on emissions control techniques listed in terms of
control codes submitted to the EIS. These are listed in the CONTROL--
IDS and CONTROL--MEASURES columns in the emission inventory flat files,
with levels of reduction in the ANN--PCT--RED column. Projection of
non-EGU point source emissions to future years is dependent on this
information. The EPA seeks comment on whether information on existing
controls given in the inventory flat files is incomplete or erroneous.
The flat files must be consulted for details of control techniques by
pollutant.
Emissions modeling methods. The EPA is using the SMOKE
version 3.5.1 to prepare data for air quality modeling. The EPA
requests comment on the methods by which SMOKE is used to develop air
quality model-ready emissions, as illustrated in the scripts provided
with the modeling platform and as described in the Technical Support
Document Preparation of Emissions Inventories for the Version 6.0, 2011
Emissions Modeling Platform.
Temporal allocation. Annual emission inventories must be
allocated to hourly values prior to air quality modeling. This may be
done with temporal profiles in several steps, such as annual-to-month,
month-to-day, and day-to-hour. The exact method used depends on the
type of emissions being processed. The EPA seeks comment on the
allocation of the emission inventories to month, day, and hour for all
types of emission processes. In particular, the EPA seeks information
that could help improve the temporal allocation in 2018 of emissions
from EGUs, nonroad mobile sources, residential wood combustion sources,
and the temporal allocation of vehicle miles traveled needed to model
onroad sources. The EPA seeks local- and region-specific data that can
be used to
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improve the temporal allocation of emissions data.
Spatial surrogates. Spatial surrogates are used to
allocate county-level emissions to the grid cells used for air quality
modeling. The EPA requests comment on the spatial surrogates used in
the 2018 Emissions Modeling Platform. The same spatial surrogates are
used in the base and future years.
Chemical speciation. Prior to air quality modeling, the
pollutants in the emission inventories must be converted into the
chemical species used by the air quality model using speciation
profiles. The speciation profiles in the 2018 emissions modeling
platform are consistent with version 4.3 of the SPECIATE database. The
EPA requests comment on the speciation profiles used in the 2018
modeling platform, as well as any information that could help improve
the speciation of oil and gas emissions in both the eastern and western
United States in 2018. Oil and gas speciation information, along with
VOC to TOG adjustment factors that are used to compute methane
emissions, would be of the most use at the county or oil/gas basin
level of detail and also for each distinct process at oil and gas
drilling/production facilities (e.g., glycol dehydrators).
To aid in the interpretation of the provided data files and how
they relate to the aspects of the data on which the EPA is requesting
comment, the EPA has provided in the docket a document describing the
information included in the data files.
Dated: January 8, 2014.
Mary E. Henigin,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
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