National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and Technology Review, 44960-44992 [2020-12588]
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40 CFR Part 63
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2017–0015; FRL–10009–60–
OAR]
RIN 2060–AT08
National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime
Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk
and Technology Review
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
This action finalizes the
residual risk and technology review
(RTR) conducted for the Lime
Manufacturing source category
regulated under national emission
standards for hazardous air pollutants
(NESHAP). In addition, we are taking
final action addressing periods of
startup, shutdown, and malfunction
(SSM). These final amendments include
new provisions requiring electronic
reporting. We are finalizing our
proposed determination that the risks
are acceptable and that the current
NESHAP provides an ample margin of
safety to protect public health. We
determined that there are no
developments in practices, processes, or
control technologies that necessitate
revisions to the standards.
DATES: This final rule is effective on July
24, 2020. The incorporation by reference
(IBR) of certain publications listed in
the rule is approved by the Director of
the Federal Register as of July 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has established
a docket for this action under Docket ID
No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2017–0015. All
documents in the docket are listed on
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions about this final action, contact
Jim Eddinger, Sector Policies and
Programs Division (D243–01), Office of
Air Quality Planning and Standards,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711; telephone number: (919) 541–
5426; and email address: eddinger.jim@
epa.gov. For specific information
regarding the risk modeling
methodology, contact James Hirtz,
Health and Environmental Impacts
Division (C539–02), Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711; telephone number: (919) 541–
0881; and email address: hirtz.james@
epa.gov. For information about the
applicability of the NESHAP to a
particular entity, contact Sara Ayres,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance
Assurance, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, U.S. EPA Region 5
(Mail Code E–19), 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604;
telephone number: (312) 353–6266; and
email address: ayres.sara@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Preamble acronyms and
abbreviations. We use multiple
acronyms and terms in this preamble.
While this list may not be exhaustive, to
ease the reading of this preamble and for
reference purposes, the EPA defines the
following terms and acronyms here:
ACI activated carbon injection
AEGL acute exposure guideline level
ASME American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
ASTM American Society for Testing and
Materials
CAA Clean Air Act
CDX Central Data Exchange
CEDRI Compliance and Emissions Data
Reporting Interface
CEMS continuous emission monitoring
system
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CRA Congressional Review Act
D/F dioxins and furans
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERPG emergency response planning
guideline
ESP electrostatic precipitator
FF fabric filter
FTIR Fourier-transform infrared
spectroscopy
HAP hazardous air pollutants(s)
HCl hydrochloric acid
HF hydrofluoric acid
HI hazard index
HQ hazard quotient
IBR incorporation by reference
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ICR Information Collection Request
km kilometer
MACT maximum achievable control
technology
MIR maximum individual risk
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality
Standards
NESHAP national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants
NTTAA National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OM&M operations, maintenance, and
monitoring
PB-HAP hazardous air pollutants known to
be persistent and bio-accumulative in the
environment
PM particulate matter
POM polycyclic organic matter
PRA Paperwork Reduction Act
PS Performance Specification
PSH processed stone handling
REL recommended exposure limit
RFA Regulatory Flexibility Act
RIN Regulatory Information Number
RTR Risk and Technology Review
SSM startup, shutdown, and malfunction
the Court United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
TOSHI target organ-specific hazard index
tpy tons per year
UMRA Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
VCS voluntary consensus standard
Background information. On
September 16, 2019, the EPA proposed
revisions to the Lime Manufacturing
Plants NESHAP based on our RTR. In
this action, we are finalizing decisions
and revisions for the rule. We
summarize some of the more significant
comments we timely received regarding
the proposed rule and provide our
responses in this preamble. A summary
of all other public comments on the
proposal and the EPA’s responses to
those comments is available in
Summary of Public Comments and
Responses for the Lime Manufacturing
Plants Residual Risk and Technology
Review, Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–
2017–0015. A ‘‘track changes’’ version
of the regulatory language that
incorporates the changes in this action
is available in the docket.
Organization of this document. The
information in this preamble is
organized as follows:
Table of Contents
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
B. Where can I get a copy of this document
and other related information?
C. Judicial Review and Administrative
Reconsideration
II. Background
A. What is the statutory authority for this
action?
B. What is the Lime Manufacturing source
category and how does the NESHAP
regulate HAP emissions from the source
category?
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C. What changes did we propose for the
Lime Manufacturing source category in
our September 16, 2019, proposal?
III. What is included in this final rule?
A. What are the final rule amendments
based on the risk review for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
B. What are the final rule amendments
based on the technology review for the
Lime Manufacturing source category?
C. What are the final rule amendments
addressing emissions during periods of
SSM?
D. What other changes have been made to
the NESHAP?
E. What are the effective and compliance
dates of the standards?
IV. What is the rationale for our final
decisions and amendments for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
A. Residual Risk Review for the Lime
Manufacturing Source Category
B. Technology Review for the Lime
Manufacturing Source Category
C. SSM for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category
D. Electronic Reporting Requirements for
the Lime Manufacturing Source Category
E. IBR
F. Technical and Editorial Changes for the
Lime Manufacturing source category
V. Summary of Cost, Environmental, and
Economic Impacts and Additional
Analyses Conducted
A. What are the affected facilities?
B. What are the air quality impacts?
C. What are the cost impacts?
D. What are the economic impacts?
E. What are the benefits?
F. What analysis of environmental justice
did we conduct?
G. What analysis of children’s
environmental health did we conduct?
VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
A. Executive Orders 12866: Regulatory
Planning and Review and Executive
Order 13563: Improving Regulation and
Regulatory Review
B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing
Regulations and Controlling Regulatory
Costs
C. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
D. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
E. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
(UMRA)
F. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
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G. Executive Order 13175: Consultation
and Coordination With Indian Tribal
Governments
H. Executive Order 13045: Protection of
Children From Environmental Health
Risks and Safety Risks
I. Executive Order 13211: Actions
Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use
J. National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act (NTTAA) and 1 CFR
part 51
K. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions
to Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations
L. Congressional Review Act (CRA)
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
Regulated entities. Categories and
entities potentially regulated by this
action are shown in Table 1 of this
preamble.
TABLE 1—NESHAP AND INDUSTRIAL SOURCE CATEGORIES AFFECTED BY THIS FINAL ACTION
NAICS1 code
NESHAP and source category
Lime Manufacturing Plants .........................................................................................................................
1 North
American Industry Classification System.
Table 1 of this preamble is not
intended to be exhaustive, but rather to
provide a guide for readers regarding
entities likely to be affected by the final
action for the source category listed. To
determine whether your facility is
affected, you should examine the
applicability criteria in the appropriate
NESHAP. If you have any questions
regarding the applicability of any aspect
of this NESHAP, please contact the
appropriate person listed in the
preceding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this preamble.
B. Where can I get a copy of this
document and other related
information?
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In addition to being available in the
docket, an electronic copy of this final
action will also be available on the
internet. Following signature by the
EPA Administrator, the EPA will post a
copy of this final action at: https://
www.epa.gov/lime-manufacturingplants-national-emission-standardshazardous-air. Following publication in
the Federal Register, the EPA will post
the Federal Register version and key
technical documents at this same
website.
Additional information is available on
the RTR website at https://
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national-emissions-standardshazardous. This information includes
an overview of the RTR program and
links to project websites for the RTR
source categories.
C. Judicial Review and Administrative
Reconsideration
Under Clean Air Act (CAA) section
307(b)(1), judicial review of this final
action is available only by filing a
petition for review in the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit (the Court) by
September 22, 2020. Under CAA section
307(b)(2), the requirements established
by this final rule may not be challenged
separately in any civil or criminal
proceedings brought by the EPA to
enforce the requirements.
Section 307(d)(7)(B) of the CAA
further provides that only an objection
to a rule or procedure which was raised
with reasonable specificity during the
period for public comment (including
any public hearing) may be raised
during judicial review. This section also
provides a mechanism for the EPA to
reconsider the rule if the person raising
an objection can demonstrate to the
Administrator that it was impracticable
to raise such objection within the period
for public comment or if the grounds for
such objection arose after the period for
public comment (but within the time
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specified for judicial review) and if such
objection is of central relevance to the
outcome of the rule. Any person seeking
to make such a demonstration should
submit a Petition for Reconsideration to
the Office of the Administrator, U.S.
EPA, Room 3000, WJC South Building,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460, with a copy to
both the person(s) listed in the
preceding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section, and the Associate
General Counsel for the Air and
Radiation Law Office, Office of General
Counsel (Mail Code 2344A), U.S. EPA,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460.
II. Background
A. What is the statutory authority for
this action?
Section 112 of the CAA establishes a
two-stage regulatory process to address
emissions of hazardous air pollutants
(HAP) from stationary sources. In the
first stage, we must identify categories
of sources emitting one or more of the
HAP listed in CAA section 112(b) and
then promulgate technology-based
NESHAP for those sources. ‘‘Major
sources’’ are those that emit, or have the
potential to emit, any single HAP at a
rate of 10 tons per year (tpy) or more,
or 25 tpy or more of any combination of
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HAP. For major sources, these standards
are commonly referred to as maximum
achievable control technology (MACT)
standards and must reflect the
maximum degree of emission reductions
of HAP achievable (after considering
cost, energy requirements, and non-air
quality health and environmental
impacts). In developing MACT
standards, CAA section 112(d)(2) directs
the EPA to consider the application of
measures, processes, methods, systems,
or techniques, including, but not limited
to, those that reduce the volume of or
eliminate HAP emissions through
process changes, substitution of
materials, or other modifications;
enclose systems or processes to
eliminate emissions; collect, capture, or
treat HAP when released from a process,
stack, storage, or fugitive emissions
point; are design, equipment, work
practice, or operational standards; or
any combination of the above.
For these MACT standards, the statute
specifies certain minimum stringency
requirements, which are referred to as
MACT floor requirements, and which
may not be based on cost
considerations. See CAA section
112(d)(3). For new sources, the MACT
floor cannot be less stringent than the
emission control achieved in practice by
the best-controlled similar source. The
MACT standards for existing sources
can be less stringent than floors for new
sources, but they cannot be less
stringent than the average emission
limitation achieved by the bestperforming 12 percent of existing
sources in the category or subcategory
(or the best-performing five sources for
categories or subcategories with fewer
than 30 sources). In developing MACT
standards, we must also consider
control options that are more stringent
than the floor under CAA section
112(d)(2). We may establish standards
more stringent than the floor, based on
the consideration of the cost of
achieving the emissions reductions, any
non-air quality health and
environmental impacts, and energy
requirements.
In the second stage of the regulatory
process, the CAA requires the EPA to
undertake two different analyses, which
we refer to as the technology review and
the residual risk review. Under the
technology review, we must review the
technology-based standards and revise
them ‘‘as necessary (taking into account
developments in practices, processes,
and control technologies)’’ no less
frequently than every 8 years, pursuant
to CAA section 112(d)(6). Under the
residual risk review, we must evaluate
the risk to public health remaining after
application of the technology-based
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standards and revise the standards, if
necessary, to provide an ample margin
of safety to protect public health or to
prevent, taking into consideration costs,
energy, safety, and other relevant
factors, an adverse environmental effect.
The residual risk review is required
within 8 years after promulgation of the
technology-based standards, pursuant to
CAA section 112(f). In conducting the
residual risk review, if the EPA
determines that the current standards
provide an ample margin of safety to
protect public health, it is not necessary
to revise the MACT standards pursuant
to CAA section 112(f).1 For more
information on the statutory authority
for this rule, see 84 FR 48708,
September 16, 2019.
B. What is the Lime Manufacturing
source category and how does the
NESHAP regulate HAP emissions from
the source category?
The EPA promulgated the Lime
Manufacturing Plants NESHAP on
January 5, 2004 (69 FR 394). The
standards are codified at 40 CFR part 63,
subpart AAAAA. The lime
manufacturing industry consists of
facilities that use a lime kiln to produce
lime product from limestone by
calcination. The source category
covered by this MACT standard
currently includes 35 facilities.
As promulgated in 2004, the NESHAP
regulates HAP emissions from all new
and existing lime manufacturing plants
that are major sources, co-located with
major sources, or are part of major
sources. However, lime manufacturing
plants located at pulp and paper mills
or at beet sugar factories are not subject
to the NESHAP. Other captive lime
manufacturing plants, such as (but not
limited to) those at steel mills and
magnesia production facilities, are
subject to the NESHAP. See 67 FR
78053 explaining the basis for these
determinations. A lime manufacturing
plant is defined as any plant which uses
a lime kiln to produce lime product
from limestone or other calcareous
material by calcination. However, the
NESHAP specifically excludes lime
kilns that use only calcium carbonate
waste sludge from water softening
processes as the feedstock.
The NESHAP defines the affected
source as follows: Each lime kiln and its
associated cooler and each individual
processed stone handling (PSH)
1 The Court has affirmed this approach of
implementing CAA section 112(f)(2)(A): NRDC v.
EPA, 529 F.3d 1077, 1083 (D.C. Cir. 2008) (‘‘If EPA
determines that the existing technology-based
standards provide an ‘ample margin of safety,’ then
the Agency is free to readopt those standards during
the residual risk rulemaking.’’).
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operations system. The PSH operations
system includes all equipment
associated with PSH operations
beginning at the process stone storage
bin(s) or open storage pile(s) and ending
where the process stone is fed into the
kiln. It includes man-made process
stone storage bins (but not open process
stone storage piles), conveying system
transfer points, bulk loading or
unloading systems, screening
operations, surge bins, bucket elevators,
and belt conveyors. The materials
processing operations associated with
lime products, lime kiln dust handling,
quarry or mining operations, limestone
sizing operations, and fuels are not
subject to the NESHAP. Finally, lime
hydrators and cooler nuisance dust
collectors are not included under the
definition of affected source under the
NESHAP.
The NESHAP established particulate
matter (PM) emission limits for lime
kilns, coolers, and PSH operations with
stacks. The NESHAP also established
opacity limits for PSH operations
without stacks and for kilns equipped
with electrostatic precipitators (ESP)
and fabric filters (FF). For kilns
equipped with wet scrubbers, the
NESHAP established scrubbing liquid
flow rate and exhaust gas stream
pressure drop limits. PM serves as a
surrogate for the non-volatile and semivolatile metal HAP. The NESHAP also
regulates opacity or visible emissions
from most of the PSH operations, with
opacity also serving as a surrogate for
non-volatile and semivolatile HAP
metals. Refer to section II.B of the
proposal preamble (84 FR 48711,
September 16, 2019) for additional
information on the HAP emissions
regulated by the NESHAP.
C. What changes did we propose for the
Lime Manufacturing source category in
our September 16, 2019, proposal?
On September 16, 2019, the EPA
published a proposed rule in the
Federal Register for the Lime
Manufacturing Plants NESHAP, 40 CFR
part 63, subpart AAAAA, that took into
consideration the RTR analyses. In the
proposed rule, we proposed:
• No revisions to the numerical
emission limits based on the RTR;
• revisions to the SSM provisions of
the NESHAP in order to ensure that they
are consistent with the Court decision in
Sierra Club v. EPA, 551 F. 3d 1019 (D.C.
Cir. 2008), which vacated two
provisions that exempted source owners
and operators from the requirement to
comply with otherwise applicable CAA
section 112(d) emission standards
during periods of SSM;
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• a requirement for electronic
submittal of notifications, semi-annual
reports, and compliance reports (which
includes performance test reports); and
• IBR of alternative test methods and
references.
III. What is included in this final rule?
This action finalizes the EPA’s
determinations pursuant to the RTR
provisions of CAA section 112 for the
Lime Manufacturing source category.
This action also finalizes other changes
to the NESHAP, including revising the
SSM provisions of the NESHAP; a
requirement for electronic submittal of
notifications, semi-annual reports,
compliance reports, and performance
test reports; adding an alternative test
method to EPA Method 320; and IBR of
alternative test methods and references
to updated alternative test methods.
This action also reflects several changes
to the September 2019 proposal in
consideration of comments received
during the public comment period
described in section IV of this preamble.
A. What are the final rule amendments
based on the risk review for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed no changes to 40
CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA NESHAP
based on the risk review conducted
pursuant to CAA section 112(f). In this
action, we are finalizing our proposed
determination that risks from the source
category are acceptable, the standards
provide an ample margin of safety to
protect public health, and more
stringent standards are not necessary to
prevent an adverse environmental
effect. The EPA received no new data or
other information during the public
comment period that causes us to
change that proposed determination.
Therefore, we are not making any
revisions to the existing standards under
CAA section 112(f), and we are
readopting the existing standards.
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B. What are the final rule amendments
based on the technology review for the
Lime Manufacturing source category?
We determined that there are no
developments in practices, processes,
and control technologies that necessitate
revisions to the MACT standards for this
source category. Therefore, we are not
finalizing revisions to the MACT
standards under CAA section 112(d)(6).
C. What are the final rule amendments
addressing emissions during periods of
SSM?
The EPA is finalizing, with some
revisions, the proposed amendments to
the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP
to remove and revise provisions related
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to SSM. In its 2008 decision in Sierra
Club v. EPA, 551 F.3d 1019 (D.C. Cir.
2008), the Court vacated portions of two
provisions in the EPA’s CAA section
112 regulations governing the emissions
of HAP during periods of SSM.
Specifically, the Court vacated the SSM
exemption contained in 40 CFR
63.6(f)(1) and (h)(1), holding that under
section 302(k) of the CAA, emissions
standards or limitations must be
continuous in nature and that the SSM
exemption violates the CAA’s
requirement that there must always be
a CAA section 112 standard that
applies. We are finalizing our proposal
to eliminate the SSM exemption in this
rule. As detailed in section IV.D of the
proposal preamble (84 FR 48727,
September 16, 2019), we proposed to
require that the emission limitations
apply at all times (see 40 CFR
63.7100(a)), consistent with the Court
decision in Sierra Club v. EPA, 551 F.
3d 1019 (D.C. Cir. 2008).
We have also revised Table 8 to
subpart AAAAA of part 63 (the General
Provisions applicability table) in several
respects, as is explained in more detail
below in section IV.C. For example, we
have eliminated the incorporation of the
General Provisions’ requirement that the
source develops an SSM plan. We have
also eliminated and revised certain
recordkeeping and reporting that is
related to the SSM exemption as
described in detail in the proposal and
summarized below in section IV.C. As
discussed in the proposal preamble,
these revisions are consistent with the
requirement in 40 CFR 63.7100(a) that
the standards apply at all times. Refer to
section IV.C of this preamble for a
detailed discussion of these
amendments.
The EPA is finalizing standards for
startup and shutdown that differ in
some respects from the startup and
shutdown standards that were
proposed. Changes from the proposal to
the standards for periods of startup and
shutdown being finalized reflect the
EPA’s re-evaluation of appropriate
startup and shutdown standards in light
of public comments. The EPA’s
rationale for those changes is discussed
in section IV.C. below.
The proposed definition of ‘‘Startup’’
has been revised by changing the
wording from ‘‘lime product’’ to ‘‘onspecification lime product’’ and adding
an alternate ending to startup.
Commenters stated that the term ‘‘lime
product’’ is not specific enough and that
off-specification product is discharged
almost simultaneously upon startup. In
addition, the EPA is not finalizing the
proposed work practices for periods of
startup. For periods of startup, the EPA
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has instead established opacity emission
limits for kilns equipped with FFs or
ESPs. The EPA is not establishing
different standards for kilns equipped
with wet scrubbers during periods of
startup and such kilns must comply
with the same standard that apply at all
other times. Also, during shutdown,
kilns equipped with FFs, ESPs, or wet
scrubbers must comply with the same
standards that apply during normal
operation. (See Table 2 of 40 CFR part
63, subpart AAAAA—Startup and
Shutdown Emission Limits).
Further, the EPA is not finalizing
different standards for malfunctions and
sources must meet applicable standards
during periods of malfunction. As
discussed in the September 16, 2018,
proposal preamble, the EPA interprets
CAA section 112 as not requiring
emissions that occur during periods of
malfunction to be factored into
development of CAA section 112
standards, although the EPA has the
discretion to set standards for
malfunctions where feasible. Refer to
section IV.D of the proposal preamble
for further discussion of the EPA’s
rationale for the decision not to set
standards for malfunctions.
D. What other changes have been made
to the NESHAP?
Consistent with the proposal, the EPA
is finalizing the electronic reporting
requirements, specifically that owners
or operators of lime manufacturing
plants submit electronic copies of
required performance test reports,
performance evaluation reports, and
semiannual compliance reports through
the EPA’s Central Data Exchange (CDX)
using the Compliance and Emissions
Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI).
We are finalizing an alternative test
method to EPA Method 320 and
incorporating several test methods by
reference, as discussed further in
section IV.E of this preamble. We are
also finalizing additional changes that
address technical and editorial
corrections, as proposed and as
described in section IV.F of this
preamble.
E. What are the effective and
compliance dates of the standards?
The revisions to the MACT standards
being promulgated in this action are
effective on July 24, 2020. The
compliance date for the revised
requirements for affected sources that
commenced construction or
reconstruction on or before September
16, 2019, is January 20, 2021, with the
exception of the vacated SSM
exemptions contained in 40 CFR
63.6(f)(1) and (h)(1). We are revising
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Table 9 of 40 CFR part 63, subpart
AAAAA to clarify that for all affected
sources, these exemptions do not apply
given the court vacatur in Sierra Club v.
EPA, 551 F. 3d 1019 (D.C. Cir. 2008).
The compliance date for the revised
requirements for affected sources that
commence construction or
reconstruction after September 16, 2019,
is July 24, 2020 or upon initial startup,
whichever is later. We are finalizing
changes, as proposed, that would
impact ongoing compliance
requirements for 40 CFR part 63,
subpart AAAAA. As discussed
elsewhere in this preamble, we are
finalizing the requirement that
performance test results, performance
evaluation reports, and the semiannual
reports using the new template be
submitted electronically. We are also
finalizing changes to the requirements
for SSM. For example, we are removing
the exemption from the requirements to
meet the standard during SSM periods
and removing the requirement to
develop and implement an SSM plan, as
proposed. Our experience with similar
industries that have been required to
convert reporting mechanisms, install
necessary hardware, install necessary
software, become familiar with the
process of submitting performance test
results electronically through the EPA’s
CEDRI, test these new electronic
submission capabilities, reliably employ
electronic reporting, and convert
logistics of reporting processes to
different time-reporting parameters,
shows that a time period of a minimum
of 90 days, and more typically, 180
days, is generally necessary to
successfully complete these changes.
Our experience with similar industries
further shows that this sort of regulated
facility generally requires a time period
of 180 days to read and understand the
amended rule requirements; evaluate
their operations to ensure that they can
meet the required standards during
periods of startup and shutdown as
defined in the rule and make any
necessary adjustments; adjust parameter
monitoring and recording systems to
accommodate revisions; and update
their operations to reflect the revised
requirements. The EPA recognizes the
confusion that multiple different
compliance dates for individual
requirements would create and the
additional burden such an assortment of
dates would impose. From our
assessment of the timeframe needed for
compliance with the entirety of the
revised requirements, the EPA considers
a period of 180 days to be the most
expeditious compliance period
practicable, and, thus, is finalizing the
requirement that existing affected
sources be in compliance with all of this
regulation’s revised requirements within
180 days of the regulation’s effective
date.
IV. What is the rationale for our final
decisions and amendments for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
For each issue, this section provides
a description of what we proposed and
what we are finalizing for the issue, the
EPA’s rationale for the final decisions
and amendments, and a summary of key
comments and responses. For all
comments not discussed in this
preamble, comment summaries and the
EPA’s responses can be found in the
comment summary and response
document available in the docket.
A. Residual Risk Review for the Lime
Manufacturing Source Category
1. What did we propose pursuant to
CAA section 112(f) for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Pursuant to CAA section 112(f), the
EPA conducted a risk review and
presented the results for the review,
along with our proposed decisions
regarding risk acceptability and ample
margin of safety, in the September 16,
2019, proposed rule for the Lime
Manufacturing source category (84 FR
48708). The results of the risk
assessment are presented briefly in
Table 1 of this preamble and in the risk
report titled Residual Risk Assessment
for the Lime Manufacturing Plants
Source Category in Support of the 2019
Risk and Technology Review Proposed
Rule, and sections III and IV of the
proposal preamble (84 FR 48708,
September 16, 2019) available in the
docket for this action.
TABLE 1—INHALATION RISK ASSESSMENT SUMMARY FOR LIME MANUFACTURING 1 SOURCE CATEGORY
Number of
facilities 2
35 .............
Maximum individual
cancer risk (in 1 million) 3
based on . . .
Actual
emissions
level
Allowable
emissions
level
1
Population at increased
risk of cancer ≥ 1-in-1
million based on . . .
Actual
emissions
level
2
Annual cancer incidence
(cases per year)
based on . . .
Allowable
emissions
level
12
450
Actual
emissions
level
0.001
Allowable
emissions
level
Maximum chronic
noncancer TOSHI 4
based on . . .
Actual
emissions
level
0.003
0.04
Allowable
emissions
level
0.05
Maximum
screening acute
noncancer HQ 5
based on actual
emissions level
0.6 (REL)
1 Based
on actual and allowable emissions.
of facilities evaluated in the risk assessment. Includes 35 operating facilities subject to 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA.
individual excess lifetime cancer risk due to HAP emissions from the source category.
4 Maximum target organ-specific hazard index (TOSHI). The target organ with the highest TOSHI for the Lime Manufacturing source category
is the respiratory system.
5 The maximum estimated acute exposure concentration was divided by available short-term threshold values to develop an array of hazard
quotient (HQ) values. The acute HQ shown was based upon the lowest acute 1-hour dose-response value, the recommended exposure limit
(REL) for elemental mercury. When an HQ exceeds 1, we also show the HQ using the next lowest available acute dose-response value.
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The results of the chronic inhalation
cancer risk assessment, based on actual
emissions, show the estimated
maximum individual cancer risk (MIR)
posed by the 35 facilities is 1-in-1
million, with metals, aldehydes, and
organic HAP emissions from the lime
kiln and cooler exhaust as the major
contributors to the risk. The total
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estimated cancer incidence based on
actual emission levels is 0.001 excess
cancer cases per year, or one excess case
every 1,000 years. About 12 people are
estimated to have cancer risks greater
than or equal to 1-in-1 million based on
actual emissions from HAP emitted
from the 35 facilities in this source
category. The maximum chronic
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noncancer hazard index (HI) for the
source category is estimated to be less
than 1 (0.04) based on actual emissions
of hydrochloric acid (HCl), nickel
compounds, and acrolein emitted from
lime kiln and cooler exhaust. No one is
estimated to have a TOSHI greater than
1 based on actual emissions.
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The EPA also evaluated the cancer
risk at the maximum emissions allowed
by the MACT standard, or ‘‘MACTallowable emissions.’’ Risk results from
the inhalation risk assessment using the
MACT-allowable emissions indicate
that the cancer MIR is 2-in-1 million
with metals, aldehydes, and organic
HAP emissions from lime kiln and
cooler exhaust driving the risks, and
that the maximum chronic noncancer
TOSHI value is 0.05 with HCl, nickel
compounds, and acrolein emissions
from lime kiln and cooler exhaust
driving the TOSHI. The total cancer
incidence estimated based on allowable
emissions from this source category is
0.003 excess cancer cases per year or
one excess case every 333 years. Based
on MACT-allowable emission rates,
approximately 450 people are estimated
to have cancer risks above 1-in-1
million. No people are estimated to have
a noncancer HI above 1 based on
allowable emissions.
For the Lime Manufacturing source
category, the maximum acute HQ is 0.6
based on the REL, driven by actual
emissions of elemental mercury. By
definition, the acute REL represents a
health-protective level of exposure, with
effects not anticipated below those
levels, even for repeated exposures.
We also conducted a multipathway
screening assessment for the source
category, and the results of the
screening assessment are presented in
the risk report titled Residual Risk
Assessment for the Lime Manufacturing
Plants Source Category in Support of
the 2019 Risk and Technology Review
Proposed Rule, and section IV of the
proposal preamble (84 FR 48708,
September 16, 2019) available in the
docket for this action. A screening value
is not an estimate of the cancer risk or
a noncancer HQ (or HI). Rather, a
screening value represents a high-end
estimate of what the risk or HQ may be.
For this source category the highest
screening values were from mercury
emissions, with a Tier 2 screening value
of 5 and a Tier 3 screening value of 2
for this noncarcinogen. We are
confident that if a refined multipathway
risk assessment was conducted, the HQ
for mercury would be lower than 2.
Further details on the Tier 3 screening
assessment can be found in Appendix
11 of Residual Risk Assessment for the
Lime Manufacturing Source Category in
Support of the Risk and Technology
Review 2019 Proposed Rule. Dioxin and
arsenic emissions resulted in a Tier 2
cancer screening value of 20, which
means that we are confident that the
multipathway cancer risk is lower than
20-in-1 million.
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The EPA has determined that it is not
necessary to go beyond the Tier 3
assessment for mercury (to a sitespecific assessment) or beyond the Tier
2 cancer screening assessment. As
explained above, the mercury screening
value of 2 is a high-end estimate of what
the risk or hazard may be and can be
interpreted to mean that we are
confident that the HQ would be lower
than 2. Similarly, we are confident that
the excess cancer risk is less than 20-in1 million, and evaluation under Tier 3
or a site-specific assessment would
further reduce the estimated risk.
Further, risk results from four sitespecific mercury assessments the EPA
has conducted for four RTR source
categories resulted in noncancer HQs
that range from 50 times to 800 times
lower than the respective Tier 2
mercury screening value for those
facilities (refer to Docket ID No. EPA–
HQ–OAR–2017–0015 for a copy of these
reports).2 Based on our review of these
analyses, we expect if we were to
perform a site-specific assessment for
the Lime Manufacturing source
category, the mercury HQ would be at
least a one order of magnitude less than
the Tier 2 non-cancer screening value
for mercury. Thus, the EPA is confident
that the mercury HQ would be less than
1, if further refined to incorporate
enhanced site-specific analyses such as
improved model boundary
identification with improved soil/water
run-off calculations and AERMOD
deposition outputs used in the
TRIM.FaTE model.
In evaluating the potential for
multipathway effects from emissions of
lead, the EPA compared modeled
annual lead concentrations to the
secondary National Ambient Air Quality
Standards (NAAQS) level for lead (0.15
milligram per cubic meter (mg/m3),
arithmetic mean concentration over a 3month period). The highest annual
average lead concentration, 0.0007 mg/
m3, is far below the NAAQS level for
lead, indicating a low potential for
multipathway impacts.
The EPA also conducted an
environmental risk screening
assessment for the Lime Manufacturing
2 EPA Docket records: Appendix 11 of the
Residual Risk Assessment for the Taconite
Manufacturing Source Category in Support of the
Risk and Technology Review 2019 Proposed Rule;
Appendix 11 of the Residual Risk Assessment for
the Integrated Iron and Steel Source Category in
Support of the Risk and Technology Review 2019
Proposed Rule; Appendix 11 of the Residual Risk
Assessment for the Portland Cement Manufacturing
Source Category in Support of the 2018 Risk and
Technology Review Final Rule; and Appendix 11 of
the Residual Risk Assessment for the Coal and OilFired EGU Source Category in Support of the 2018
Risk and Technology Review Proposed Rule.
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source category for the following
pollutants: Arsenic, cadmium, dioxins
and furans (D/F), HCl, hydrogen
fluoride (HF), lead, mercury (methyl
mercury and mercuric chloride), and
polycyclic organic matter (POM). In the
Tier 1 screening analysis for HAP
known to be persistent and bioaccumulative in the environment (PB–
HAP) (other than lead, which was
evaluated differently), arsenic,
cadmium, and POM emissions had no
exceedances of any of the ecological
benchmarks evaluated. D/F emissions
had a Tier 1 exceedance at 31 facilities
for a surface soil benchmark by a
maximum screening value of 30.
Divalent mercury emissions had Tier 1
exceedances for the following
benchmarks: Sediment threshold level
(one facility), surface soil threshold
level—plant communities (25 facilities),
and surface soil threshold level—
invertebrate communities (32 facilities)
by a maximum screening value of 20.
Methyl mercury emissions had Tier 1
exceedances for the following
benchmarks: Fish (avian/piscivores)
NOAEL—Merganser (one facility),
surface soil no-observed-adverse-effectlevel (NOAEL) for mammalian
insectivores—shrew (13 facilities), and
surface soil NOAEL for avian ground
insectivores—woodcock (33 facilities)
by a maximum screening value of 40. A
Tier 2 screening analysis was performed
for D/F, divalent mercury, and methyl
mercury emissions. In the Tier 2
screening analysis, there were no
exceedances of any of the ecological
benchmarks evaluated for any of the
pollutants. For lead, we did not estimate
any exceedances of the secondary lead
NAAQS. For HCl and HF, the average
modeled concentration around each
facility (i.e., the average concentration
of all off-site data points in the
modeling domain) did not exceed any
ecological benchmark. In addition, each
individual modeled concentration of
HCl and HF (i.e., each off-site data point
in the modeling domain) was below the
ecological benchmarks for all facilities.
Based on the results of the
environmental risk screening analysis,
we do not expect an adverse
environmental effect as a result of HAP
emissions from this source category.
An assessment of risk from facilitywide actual emissions was performed to
provide context for the source category
risks. The maximum lifetime individual
cancer risk posed by the 35 facilities,
based on facility-wide emissions, is 1in-1 million (estimated for three
facilities), with arsenic, chromium (VI)
compounds, and nickel emissions from
fugitive PSH operations driving the risk.
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The total estimated cancer incidence
from facility-wide emissions is 0.004
excess cancer cases per year, or one case
in every 250 years. Approximately 30
people are estimated to have cancer risk
equal to 1-in-1 million from facilitywide emissions. The maximum facilitywide chronic noncancer TOSHI is
estimated to be less than 1 (0.4), mainly
driven by emissions of HCl from a
facility-wide fugitive area source.
To examine the potential for any
environmental justice issues that might
be associated with the source category,
the EPA performed a demographic
analysis, which is an assessment of risk
to individual demographic groups of the
populations living within 5 kilometers
(km) and within 50 km of the facilities.
The results of the Lime Manufacturing
source category demographic analysis
indicated that emissions from the source
category expose approximately 12
people to a cancer risk at or above 1-in1 million and no people to a chronic
noncancer TOSHI greater than 1. The
percentages of the at-risk population
indicated that three of the 10
demographic groups (White, African
American and people below the poverty
level) that are living within 50 km of
facilities in the source category
exceeded the corresponding national
percentage for the same demographic
groups. The methodology and the
results of the demographic analysis are
presented in a technical report, Risk and
Technology Review—Analysis of
Demographic Factors for Populations
Living Near Lime Manufacturing Source
Category Operations, available in the
docket for this action.
The EPA weighed all health risk
factors in our risk acceptability
determination, and we proposed that
the residual risks from this source
category are acceptable. We then
considered whether the NESHAP
provides an ample margin of safety to
protect public health, and whether more
stringent standards were necessary to
prevent an adverse environmental
effect, by taking into consideration
costs, energy, safety, and other relevant
factors. In determining whether the
standards provide an ample margin of
safety to protect public health, we
examined the same risk factors that we
investigated for our acceptability
determination and also considered the
costs, technological feasibility, and
other relevant factors related to
emissions control options that might
reduce risk associated with emissions
from the source category. We proposed
that the 2004 Lime Manufacturing
Plants NESHAP requirements provide
an ample margin of safety to protect
public health. Based on the results of
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our environmental risk screening
assessment, we also proposed that more
stringent standards are not necessary to
prevent an adverse environmental
effect.
2. How did the risk review change for
the Lime Manufacturing source
category?
Since proposal, neither the risk
assessment nor our determinations
regarding risk acceptability, ample
margin of safety, or adverse
environmental effects have changed.
3. What key comments did we receive
on the risk review, and what are our
responses?
Additional comments and our specific
responses can be found in the comment
summary and response document titled
Summary of Public Comments and
Responses for Lime Manufacturing
Plants Residual Risk and Technology
Review, which is available in the docket
for this action. The EPA received
comments in support of and opposed to
the proposed risk review and our
determination that no revisions were
warranted under CAA section 112(f)(2).
Key comments and responses are
discussed below.
Comment: One commenter stated that
there are substantial health threats from
the lime manufacturing industry. The
commenter stated that it is unlawful,
arbitrary and capricious for the EPA to
do nothing to reduce any of these
emissions or resulting health threats
from lime manufacturing. The
commenter stated that the EPA may not
lawfully or rationally find health risks
to be ‘‘acceptable’’ under CAA section
112(f)(2) when the record shows the
opposite, and the EPA has ignored
significant health impacts. The
commenter stated that the EPA’s
proposal is incomplete and based on
analyses that underestimate and ignore
the health risks from the toxic pollution
that lime manufacturing facilities emit
into communities.
Response: The EPA disagrees with the
comment. Results of the EPA’s risk
assessment for the Lime Manufacturing
source category indicate that both the
actual and allowable inhalation cancer
risks to the individual most exposed are
less than or equal to 2-in-1 million, well
below the presumptive limit of
acceptability of 100-in-1 million. The
actual and allowable inhalation
noncancer risks to the individual most
exposed are below a HQ of 1. Based on
the conservative nature of the
multipathway screens, we find the Tier
2 screening values (D/F and arsenic) for
cancer and Tier 3 noncancer screening
values (cadmium and mercury)
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acceptable for the Lime Manufacturing
source category. This determination is
based upon the upper-bound cancer
screening values of 20 being
significantly below an excess cancer risk
of 100-in-1 million and on results from
facility-specific assessments for mercury
performed for other source categories.
Based upon this experience, we
conclude that if we were to conduct a
site-specific risk assessment for the
Lime Manufacturing source category,
the risk would result in a HQ value of
1 or lower. For this reason and
considering the conservative nature of
the multipathway exposure screening
scenario, no further analysis was
performed. In our ample margin of
safety analysis, we investigated
available emissions control options that
might reduce the risk from the source
category. We considered this
information along with all of the health
risks and other health information
considered in our determination of risk
acceptability. As part of the proposed
ample margin of safety analysis, we
considered activated carbon injection
(ACI) systems, which have not been
used or demonstrated on lime kilns, for
controlling D/F and mercury emissions.
In both cases, considering the potential
negligible reductions in emissions and
the results of our risk analysis, we
concluded that the use of ACI would
have little effect on the source category
risks. Due to the already low risk, along
with the substantial costs associated
with more stringent standards, we
determined that additional emissions
controls for this source category were
not required to provide an ample margin
of safety to protect public health. We
have retained this determination in the
final rule. We note that the commenter
did not provide detail or supporting
documentation for their comment.
Comment: A commenter urged the
EPA to set stronger standards to bring
further protection to communities from
lime manufacturing facilities. The
commenter requested that the EPA
consider the people exposed to these
facilities’ emissions and affected by its
proposed decision not to strengthen the
emission limits. The commenter urged
the EPA to exercise its legal authority to
end unacceptable risk for exposed
communities and set the ‘‘ample margin
of safety to protect public health’’ and
prevent an adverse environmental
effect, instead of attempting to avoid the
science and the health threats shown in
the record.
Response: The risk assessment
demonstrated that health risks due to air
emissions from lime manufacturing
sources are acceptable and after
considering available control options
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and all available risk information, the
EPA concluded that the current
standards provide an ample margin of
safety to protect public health. These
conclusions support the EPA’s decision
to not revise the existing emission
limits. However, we have amended the
final rule to make corrections to certain
provisions and have amended
provisions to clarify their intent and
these revisions will result in improved
monitoring and compliance with and
implementation of the rule. In addition,
the elimination of the SSM exemption
may result in lower HAP emissions.
Comment: A commenter stated that
the EPA underestimated the health
threats to children and from early-life
exposure by ignoring increased risk in
childhood and from prenatal exposure.
Response: The EPA disagrees with the
comment that the risk assessment for
this source category does not consider
the groups that may be most at-risk (e.g.,
children). When the EPA derives
exposure reference concentrations and
unit risk estimates for metal HAP, it also
considers the most sensitive
populations identified in the available
literature and, importantly, these are the
values used in our risk assessments.
We acknowledge that population
subgroups, including children, may
have a potential for risk that is greater
than the general population due to
greater relative exposure and/or greater
susceptibility to the toxicant. The
assessments we undertake to estimate
risk account for this potential
vulnerability, for example; the EPA
includes exposure from D/F through
ingestion of breast-milk for infants less
than 1 year of age. The EPA also
estimates age-specific risks to account
for the higher sensitivity of developing
children to mutagens. With respect to
inhalation exposure, the risk
assessments we perform implicitly
account for this greater potential for
exposure by assuming lifetime
exposure, in which populations are
conservatively presumed to be exposed
to airborne concentrations at their
residence continuously, 24 hours per
day for a full lifetime, including
childhood. With regard to children’s
potentially greater susceptibility to
noncancer toxicants, the assessments
rely on the EPA’s (or comparable)
hazard identification and dose-response
values that have been developed to be
protective for all subgroups of the
general population, including children.
For example, a review of the chronic
reference value process concluded that
the EPA’s reference concentration (RfC)
derivation processes adequately
considered potential susceptibility of
different subgroups with specific
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consideration of children, such that the
resultant RfC values pertain to the full
human population, ‘‘including sensitive
subgroups,’’ a phrase which is inclusive
of childhood.3 With respect to cancer,
the EPA uses the age-dependent
adjustment factor approach referred to
by the commenter but limits the use of
those factors only to carcinogenic
pollutants that are known to act via
mutagenic mode of action (MOA), in
contrast to the California Office of
Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment approach, which uses them
across the board for all carcinogens
regardless of MOA. In lieu of chemicalspecific data on which age or life-stage
specific risk estimates or potencies can
be determined, default age dependent
adjustment factors can be applied when
assessing cancer risk for early-life
exposures to chemicals that cause
cancer through a mutagenic MOA. With
regard to other carcinogenic pollutants
for which early-life susceptibility data
are lacking, it is the EPA’s long-standing
science policy position that use of the
linear low-dose extrapolation approach
(without further adjustment) provides
adequate public health conservatism in
the absence of chemical-specific data
indicating differential early-life
susceptibility or when the mode of
action is not mutagenicity. The basis for
this methodology is provided in the
2005 Supplemental Guidance.4
The estimated risks must be
considered in the context of the full set
of assumptions used for this risk
assessment. Our unit risk estimates for
HAP are considered a plausible upperbound estimate with an appropriate age
dependent adjustment; actual potency is
likely to be lower and could be as low
as zero. Our chronic noncancer
reference values have been derived
considering the potential susceptibility
of different subgroups, with specific
consideration of children.
Comment: One commenter stated that
the EPA underestimated health threats
to communities exposed to multiple
sources by neglecting to add factors to
account for the increased risks caused
by such exposure. The commenter
stated that the EPA underestimated the
cancer, chronic noncancer, and acute
health risks by using modeling
assumptions that ignore real-world
exposures, underestimating risk from
3 USEPA, 1994. Methods for derivation of
inhalation reference concentrations and application
of inhalation dosimetry. EPA/600/8–90/066F;
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/201411/documents/rfc_methodology.pdf.
4 USEPA, 2005b. Supplemental guidance for
assessing early-life exposure to carcinogens. EPA/
630/R–03003F. https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/atw/
childrens_supplement_final.pdf.
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chemicals such as benzene and lead due
to the EPA’s refusal to follow the best
available science, and neglecting to
aggregate cumulative risks.
Response: The EPA’s chronic risk
assessment modeling accounts for
cumulative cancer risks from emitted
carcinogens and for pollutants that have
similar modes of action or (where this
information is absent) that affect the
same target organ, we aggregated the
HQs. This process creates, for each
target organ, a TOSHI, defined as the
sum of HQs for individual HAP that
affect the same organ or organ system.
The modeling conducted also
includes the effects of multiple facilities
that may be in close proximity when
estimating concentration and risk
impacts at each block centroid. When
evaluating the risks associated with a
particular source category, we combined
the impacts of all facilities within the
same source category and assessed
chronic exposure and risk for all census
blocks with at least one resident (i.e.,
locations where people may reasonably
be assumed to reside rather than
receptor points at the fenceline of a
facility). The MIR considers the
combined impacts of all sources in the
category that may be in close proximity.
This approach is similar for those
facilities within the source category that
have an associated or cumulative impact
on neighboring lakes as it relates to
assessing multi-pathway impacts for
each of the PB–HAP. Background risks
or contributions to risk from sources
outside the source category under
review could be one of the relevant
factors considered in the ample margin
of safety determination, along with cost
and economic factors, technological
feasibility, and other factors.
Background risks and contributions to
risk from sources outside the facilities
under review were not considered in the
ample margin of safety determination
for this source category, mainly because
of the significant uncertainties
associated with emissions estimates for
such sources. Our approach here is
consistent with the approach we took
regarding this issue in the Hazardous
Organic NESHAP (HON) RTR (71 FR
76603, December 21, 2006), which the
Court upheld in the face of claims that
the EPA had not adequately considered
background (NRDC v. EPA, 529 F.3d
1077 (D.C. Cir. 2008)).
Comment: A commenter stated that
the EPA has ignored all multipathway
cancer and noncancer chronic health
risks that result when persistent or
bioaccumulative pollutants emitted by
lime manufacturing facilities fall into
the Great Lakes, bays, rivers, and other
large waterbodies. The commenter
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stated that by excluding all impacts
from deposition in these waterbodies,
the EPA ignored both health threats and
ecological threats, and violated its legal
obligation to assess health and
environmental risk and reduce these
hazards as the statute directs.
Response: Very large lakes and bays
(i.e., those larger than 100,000 acres) are
not considered because their large
volumes significantly dilute air
deposition from point sources. Such
large lakes, including the Great Lakes,
the Great Salt Lake, Lake Okeechobee,
Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Champlain,
Green Bay, and Galveston Bay also
dilute contaminants in the vast biomass
of fish in the large aquatic food webs.
Contaminants derived from emissions to
air by a point source would be
distributed among populations of
millions of fish resulting in negligible
increases in fish tissue concentrations
attributable to the point source. Also,
very large lakes are rare (only 35 such
lakes exist in the conterminous United
States). Moreover, for facilities near
large lakes, there usually are other,
smaller lakes that the EPA does consider
for which contaminant dilution would
be lower, and, therefore, for which
human health and ecological risks
would be higher. Thus, the EPA does
model exposure via fish consumption
for populations that are near large lakes
in a manner that generally will be more
health protective than modeling the
very large lake. The EPA also does not
model lakes adjacent or connected to a
river or saltwater body (estuaries and
rivers) or bays; these waterbodies are
likely to have high outflow with limited
chemical retention. Less retention time
for these types of waterbodies result in
significantly lower media
concentrations when compared to lakes.
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4. What is the rationale for our final
approach and final decisions for the risk
review?
The EPA evaluated all of the
comments on the EPA’s risk review and
determined that no changes to the
review are needed. In the proposed rule,
we proposed that the risks from the
Lime Manufacturing source category are
acceptable, the current standards
provide an ample margin of safety to
protect public health, and more
stringent standards are not necessary to
prevent an adverse environmental
effect. For the reasons explained in the
proposal and in our responses to public
comments and pursuant to CAA section
112(f)(2), we are finalizing our risk
review as proposed.
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B. Technology Review for the Lime
Manufacturing Source Category
1. What did we propose pursuant to
CAA section 112(d)(6) for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Pursuant to CAA section 112(d)(6),
the EPA conducted a technology review,
which focused on identifying and
evaluating developments in practices,
processes, and control technologies that
would necessitate revision to the
existing emission standards for the Lime
Manufacturing source category. No costeffective developments in practices,
processes, or control technologies were
identified in our technology review to
necessitate revisions to the PM or
opacity standards, which are both used
as a surrogate for HAP metals,
standards. More information concerning
our technology review is in the
memorandum titled Technology Review
for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category, which is in the docket for this
action, and in the preamble to the
proposed rule (84 FR 48726).
2. How did the technology review
change for the Lime Manufacturing
source category?
The technology review has not
changed since proposal.
3. What key comments did we receive
on the technology review, and what are
our responses?
The EPA received comments in
support of the proposed determination
from the technology review that no
revisions were necessary under CAA
section 112(d)(6). We also received
comments asserting that the technology
review was inadequate for a variety of
reasons, primarily because of failure to
consider control technologies for
unregulated HAP emissions.
Comment: A commenter stated the
EPA does not discuss or perform any
review under CAA section 112(d)(6) for
all emitted HAP. The commenter noted
that the EPA failed to complete a
technology review for HCl, mercury, D/
F, and organic HAP. The commenter
stated that the EPA cannot determine
whether developments in pollution
control make it ‘‘necessary’’ to revise the
emission standards without determining
what developments have occurred for
these HAP. The commenter stated that
the fact that these HAP are emitted from
the source category requires the EPA to
evaluate them pursuant the technology
review.
Response: Section 112(d)(6) of the
CAA requires the EPA to ‘‘review and
revise, as necessary (taking into account
developments in practices, processes,
and control technologies), emission
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standards promulgated under this
section . . . .’’ The EPA reads CAA
section 112(d)(6) as a limited provision
requiring the Agency to review the
original emission standards already
promulgated and to revise those
standards as necessary, taking into
account developments in practices,
processes, and control technologies.
Under this reading, section 112(d)(6) of
the CAA does not impose upon the
Agency any obligation to promulgate
new emission standards or expand the
scope of an existing regulation.5
Accordingly, we disagree with the
commenter that CAA section 112(d)(6)
requires a technology review for HCl,
mercury, D/F, and organic HAP. The
EPA notes that we have completed our
statutory requirements under CAA
section 112(d)(6) in reference to the
promulgated standards.
Any new MACT standards would not
be established pursuant to CAA section
112(d)(6), but instead would be
established under CAA sections
112(d)(2) and (3) or CAA section 112(h).
Establishing emissions standards under
CAA sections 112(d)(2) and (3) or 112(h)
involves a different analytical approach
than reviewing emissions standards
under CAA section 112(d)(6).
Comment: One commenter stated that
there are multiple HAP emitted from the
Lime Manufacturing source category
that have no numeric emission
standards, including HCl, organic HAP
(e.g., formaldehyde, styrene), mercury,
and D/F. The commenter stated that
CAA section 112(d) requires limits for
each HAP that a source category emits
and that CAA section 112(d)(6) requires
the EPA to review and revise its existing
emission standards ‘‘as necessary.’’ The
commenter stated that when the EPA
reviewed the Lime Manufacturing
source category and found that they lack
emission limits for emitted HAP, it is
necessary under CAA section 112(d)(6)
to revise the standard (i.e., set limits for
these HAP). The commenter noted that
the EPA’s failure to set emission limits
for these HAP causes public suffering
from uncontrolled exposure to these
HAP.
The commenter cited prior court
rulings that found that the Agency has
a ‘‘clear statutory obligation to set
emission standards for each listed
HAP.’’ [National Lime Ass’n, 233 F.3d
5 On April 21, 2020, as the Agency was preparing
the final rule for signature, a decision was issued
in LEAN v. EPA, 955 F. 3d. 1088 (D.C. Cir. 2020)
in which the Court held that the EPA has an
obligation to set standards for unregulated
pollutants as part of technology reviews under CAA
section 112(d)(6). At the time of signature, the
mandate in that case had not been issued and the
EPA is continuing to evaluate the decision.
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625, 634 (D.C. Cir. 2000) and Sierra Club
v. EPA, 479 F.3d 875, 883 (D.C. Cir.
2007)] The commenter cited prior
rulemakings where the EPA has
acknowledged this issue and has
subsequently set emission limits for
pollutants without standards.
The commenter noted that the Lime
Manufacturing Plants RTR clearly
demonstrates that these pollutants are
emitted from the source category, but
that the EPA has not acknowledged its
obligation to set limits on these
uncontrolled HAP and has not
explained why it is not ‘‘necessary’’ to
revise the existing standards to set
limits for these HAP. The commenter
stated that the EPA has emissions data
from at least some sources, and it must
complete its obligation to set a limit for
these HAP.
The commenter stated that it is
unlawful and arbitrary for the EPA not
to set limits for these HAP in this
rulemaking. The commenter stated that
if the EPA does not do this, it will fail
to complete the review and revision
rulemaking as CAA section 112(d)(6)
requires, will violate the Court’s order
in California Communities Against
Toxics v. Pruitt, 241 F. Supp. 3d 199
(D.C. 2017), and will also issue a final
rule that is unlawful and inadequate.
Response: CAA section 112(d)(6)
requires the EPA to review and revise,
as necessary (taking into account
developments in practices, processes,
and control technologies), emission
standards promulgated under this
section. We do not read section CAA
section 112(d)(6) as supporting the
commenter’s assertion that the EPA
must establish new standards for
unregulated emission points or
pollutants as part of a technology review
of the existing standards (but see
footnote 5). The EPA reads CAA section
112(d)(6) as a limited provision
requiring the Agency to, at least every
8 years, review the emission standards
already promulgated in the NESHAP
and to revise those standards as
necessary taking into account
developments in practices, processes,
and control technologies. The EPA does
not read CAA section 112(d)(6) as
directing the Agency, as part of or in
conjunction with the mandatory 8-year
technology review, to develop new
emission standards to address HAP or
emission points for which standards
were not previously promulgated.
When the EPA established standards
for previously unregulated emissions,
we did not establish those initial
standards pursuant to CAA section
112(d)(6) but instead established the
standards under one of the provisions
that govern initial standard setting—
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CAA sections 112(d)(2) and (3) or, if the
prerequisites are met, CAA sections
112(d)(4) or 112(h). Establishing
emissions standards under these
provisions of the CAA involves a
different analytical approach from
reviewing emissions standards under
CAA section 112(d)(6).
Additional comments and our specific
responses can be found in the comment
summary and response document titled
Summary of Public Comments and
Responses for Lime Manufacturing
Plants Residual Risk and Technology
Review, which is available in the docket
for this action.
4. What is the rationale for our final
approach for the technology review?
The EPA evaluated all of the
comments on the EPA’s technology
review and determined that no changes
to the review are needed. For the
reasons explained in the proposed rule,
we determined that no cost-effective
developments in practices, processes, or
control technologies were identified in
our technology review to necessitate
revisions to the standards. More
information concerning our technology
review can be found in the
memorandum titled Technology Review
for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category, which is in the docket for this
action. Therefore, pursuant to CAA
section 112(d)(6), we are finalizing our
technology review as proposed.
C. SSM for the Lime Manufacturing
Source Category
1. What did we propose for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed amendments to the
Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP to
remove and revise provisions related to
SSM that are not consistent with the
requirement that the standards apply at
all times or that are unnecessary or
redundant in the absence of an SSM
exemption. More information
concerning the elimination of SSM
provisions is in the preamble to the
proposed rule (84 FR 48708, September
16, 2019).
2. How did the SSM provisions change
from proposal for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
The EPA is finalizing the SSM
provisions with the following changes
from the proposal:
• Replacing the proposed startup
work practice standards for kilns and
coolers equipped with a FF or ESP with
opacity emission standards.
• Replacing the proposed startup
work practice standards for kilns and
coolers equipped with a wet scrubber
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with a requirement to meet standards
applicable during normal operation.
• Revising the definition of ‘‘Startup’’
to add ‘‘on-specification’’ prior to ‘‘lime
product’’ and to add an alternate ending
to startup.
• Adding testing requirements for
determining when lime product is
deemed on-specification.
With respect to the revisions to the
proposed startup standards, the EPA is
finalizing standards for startup that
differ from what we proposed based on
a re-evaluation of the need for work
practice standards. The EPA proposed
work practice standards for kilns
equipped with wet scrubbers, FFs, and
ESPs. However, the final rule requires
kilns and coolers that are equipped with
ESPs or FFs to meet numerical opacity
limits and kilns and coolers equipped
with wet scrubbers to meet the
scrubbing liquid flow rate requirements
that apply during normal operations.
The EPA’s determination in the
proposed rule (84 FR 48727) that work
practice standards were appropriate was
based on a finding that the application
of measurement methodology for PM
emissions was impracticable because
the test methods required for
compliance are to be conducted under
steady-state conditions which are
difficult to achieve during startup. In
addition to the reference test method
(EPA Method 5), we considered PM
emission monitors, which also requires
steady-state conditions. However, based
on comments claiming that the EPA has
not shown a lack of practicable
measurement methodology for startup
periods, we reconsidered the issue. The
2004 final NESHAP rule established
opacity as an emission standard limiting
PM emissions. We are not aware of
factors that would prevent the
monitoring of opacity during startup
periods.
For kilns equipped with FFs or ESPs,
40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA allows
compliance with opacity standards to
ensure PM is controlled between stack
tests.6 In this rule, for periods of startup,
the EPA is requiring kilns equipped
with FFs or ESPs to meet the 15-percent
opacity limit that applies during normal
operation averaged over the period of
startup. The EPA has determined that a
longer averaging time is appropriate for
startup periods since we are aware that
emissions during startup can be variable
in light of the sequence of events that
6 The EPA notes that under 40 CFR part 63,
subpart AAAAA stack testing is not permitted
during startup and shutdown. As proposed, this
rule replaces the reference in Table 9 to 40 CFR
63.7(e)(1) (which prohibits performance testing
during periods of startup and shutdown) with
identical language at 40 CFR 63.7112(c)).
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occur during startup of a kiln. Thus, the
longer averaging time being finalized is
to account for this variability that could
result in spikes in opacity during the
startup period. During startup, even the
best performing units are constantly
making adjustments in terms of fuel
flow and combustion air flow rate.
Every increase in fuel rate or feed rate
requires the source to adjust air flow to
the proper level. Each adjustment can
lead to a spike in opacity. Accounting
for such variability in setting emission
standards is consistent with the CAA
case law. See, United States Sugar Corp.
v. EPA, 830 F.3d 579, 632 (D.C. Cir.
2016) (‘‘We have held, see Mossville
Envtl. Action Now v. EPA, 370 F.3d
1232, 1242 (D.C. Cir. 2004), and recently
reaffirmed, see NACWA, 734 F.3d at
1133–34, that the EPA can consider this
variability when setting MACT floors.’’).
As proposed, the EPA is not establishing
different shutdown standards for kilns
equipped wth FFs or wet scrubbers and,
thus, such kilns must meet otherwise
applicable limits during shutdown.
3. What key comments did we receive
on the SSM provisions, and what are
our responses?
The EPA received 16 comments
related to our proposed revisions to the
SSM provisions. Commenters generally
supported the proposed removal of the
SSM exemptions but disagreed with
either the proposing of work practice
standards for the startup period or
certain aspects of the proposed work
practice standards. We evaluated the
comments and determined that changes
to the proposed SSM provisions are
warranted. A summary of these
comments and our responses are located
in the memorandum titled Summary of
Public Comments and Responses for
Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual
Risk and Technology Review, which is
in the docket for this action.
Comment: Commenters stated that the
EPA’s work practice standard requiring
all kilns to start and operate on ‘‘clean
fuels’’ until the kiln reaches a
temperature of 1200 degrees Fahrenheit
is unnecessary, not based on
information in the administrative
record, inconsistent with processes
required to safely and properly
commence kiln operation, and, for some
kilns, is impractical based on the
realities of operating kilns in the lime
industry.
The commenters stated that for
operational and safety reasons,
electrostatic precipitators (ESP) cannot
be started immediately to effectively
remove PM upon startup of the kiln.
Therefore, the clean fuel work practice
for startup makes sense for ESP-
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equipped kilns. The commenters
confirmed that the limited number of
ESP-equipped kilns in the lime industry
can be started on natural gas or other
listed clean fuels.
The commenters stated that for
baghouse and scrubber-equipped kilns,
clean fuel startup is not needed because
the air pollution control device is
operating at the beginning of startup and
begins removing PM immediately. The
commenters stated that since stone feed
rates are low during startup, total PM
emissions exiting the kiln will be less
than during normal operation, and the
operating air pollution control devices
will ensure that PM will be removed.
The commenters also noted that clean
fuels are not available at all lime
manufacturing locations (for example,
natural gas is not readily available in
areas far from gas pipelines).
The commenters stated that the
proposed requirement to meet the
opacity and scrubber liquid flow rate
operating limits is sufficient to show
that emissions are not excessive for
baghouse and scrubber-equipped kilns.
The commenters recommended that the
EPA delete the requirement for
baghouse and scrubber-equipped kilns
to start on clean fuels but add a
requirement that the air pollution
control devices for such kilns be in
operation at the beginning of startup.
Response: The EPA agrees that the
requirement to start and operate on
‘‘clean fuels’’ is unnecessary for kilns
equipped with FFs or wet scrubbers
because the control devices can be
operational at the time of startup.
Therefore, we are not finalizing the
work practice requirement to startup on
clean fuel for kilns equipped for FFs or
wet scrubbers. As explained above in
section C.2, we are instead requiring
kilns equipped with FFs, ESPs or wet
scrubbers to comply with standards as
described in section C.2 above and in
Table 2 during startup and shutdown.
Comment: The proposed definition of
the end of startup was ‘‘Startup ends 60
minutes after the lime kiln generates
lime product.’’ Commenters stated that
the term ‘‘lime product’’ is not specific
enough to provide certainty to regulated
sources. The commenters highlighted
that a kiln will start to discharge offspec product almost simultaneously
with the lighting of the primary fuel.
The commenters stated that it can take
up to 12 hours to produce quality grade
lime following first discharge from a
rotary kiln, and even longer for a
vertical kiln.
The commenters recommended that
the end of startup should be related to
levels of stone feed, because the
applicable PM emissions limits are
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based on tons of stone feed. The
commenters recommended that the
definition of the end of startup should
be revised to read ‘‘Startup ends 60
minutes after stone feed reaches
planned production quantities.’’
Response: The EPA appreciates the
commenters feedback regarding the
definition of the end of startup.
Commenters provided further
information (Docket ID Item No. EPA–
HQ–OAR–2017–0015–0015, SSM Letter
from Industry (1/31/2019)) regarding
what constitutes on-specification lime
product and the time when onspecification lime product is produced.
Commenters note that on-specification
lime is produced when steady-state
conditions are achieved. The EPA
determined that the definition of the
end of startup is the time when steadystate conditions are achieved such that
PM testing could be conducted with the
reference test method. We have
determined that these steady-state
conditions are achieved either when
first producing on-specification lime
product or 12 hours following first
discharge from the kiln, whichever is
earlier.
We are finalizing the definition of the
end of startup to provide more clarity,
as follows: ‘‘Startup ends when the lime
kiln generates on-specification lime
product or 12 hours following first
discharge from the lime kiln, whichever
is earlier.’’ We are also finalizing a new
definition for on-specification lime
product, as follows: ‘‘On-specification
lime product means lime product that
has been sufficiently calcined to meet
end use requirements.’’
Finally, we are finalizing a
requirement for facilities to test hourly
during startup to determine when lime
product meets the definition of onspecification, to maintain records of the
time the kiln first began producing onspecification lime product, and the time
of first discharge from the lime kiln.
Comment: Commenters stated that the
best way to address malfunction events
would be for plants to develop sitespecific protocols for malfunctions that
would be embodied in a rule required
plan, and that compliance with those
protocols would constitute compliance
with an applicable work practice
standard. The commenters suggested
retaining the requirement for a SSM
plan that would contain these protocols,
or requiring them in the plant’s
operations, maintenance, and
monitoring (OM&M) plan.
The commenters stated that this
would allow work practices for
malfunctions to be tailored to the
specific equipment and operating
conditions present at each plant, and
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the presence of the protocols in a
required plan would allow for the EPA
review and enforcement. The
commenters stated that the EPA’s
consideration of work practice
standards for specified malfunctions (84
FR 48728) would be better than not
setting separate standards at all, but that
this approach would omit some
malfunctions, and will not have the
same degree of ‘‘fit’’ as tailored OM&M
protocols would have.
The commenters stated that adopting
work practice standards for specified
malfunctions (as opposed to tailored
OM&M protocols) could also cause
confusion as to what malfunctions are
covered by the regulation. The
commenters summarized the definition
of malfunction in 40 CFR 63.2. The
commenters noted that not all
operational malfunctions of kilns and
their associated air pollution control
and monitoring equipment constitute
‘‘malfunctions’’ under the definition in
section 63.2, because some problems do
not have the potential to cause
emissions limitations to be exceeded.
The commenters stated that local
engineering expertise may be required
to determine whether particular
operational malfunctions are
‘‘malfunctions’’ under the statute and
rule and that this is a reason why
tailored procedures in OM&M plans
would be preferable to work practice
standards for specified malfunctions.
Response: The EPA does not agree
with the commenter that malfunctions
should be addressed through sourcespecific enforceable ‘‘plans’’ that would
contain these protocols for
malfunctions. Establishing sourcespecific protocols for malfunctions that
met MACT stringency requirements
would be difficult, if not impossible,
given the myriad different types of
malfunctions that can occur. See, U.S.
Sugar Corp. v. EPA, 830 F.3d 579, 608
(2016)(‘‘Any possible standard is likely
to be hopelessly generic to govern such
a wide array of circumstances.’’)
The EPA is also not finalizing specific
work practice standards for specific
malfunction events, although we may
do so if available information supports
separate MACT-compliant standards in
the future. In this case, we received
comment and information on potential
work practice standards during periods
of malfunction, however we do not have
information to support that the
suggested standards met the MACT
stringency requirements. The EPA also
agrees that finalizing specific work
practice standards for malfunctions has
the potential to omit certain
malfunction events and cause confusion
regarding what malfunctions are
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covered by the regulation, as it would be
difficult to capture all malfunction
events.
Comment: A commenter stated
support for the EPA’s proposed removal
of the existing exemption of emissions
during SSM periods. The commenter
stated that the CAA requires that
standards are continuous and applicable
at all times and referenced various court
rulings upholding this determination.
The commenter stated that the EPA
may not finalize the new SSM
exemptions it has proposed. The
commenter stated that the EPA has not
cited and can cite no statutory language
granting it authority or ‘‘discretion’’ to
set such standards, because it has none.
The commenter stated that the EPA has
only the discretion provided by the Act
and delegated by Congress. [Clean Air
Council v. Pruitt, 862 F.3d 1, 9 (DC Cir.
2017)] The commenter stated that
relevant statutory language denies,
rather than gives, the EPA authority to
set malfunction-based standards or
exemptions. See 42 U.S.C. 7412(d), (h),
and 7602(k).
Response: The EPA disagrees that it
has proposed new SSM exemptions or
that the EPA does not have authority to
establish different standards for periods
of startup, shutdown or malfunction. In
fact, the EPA proposed to (1) eliminate
the SSM exemption, (2) require
compliance with the existing standard
for periods of malfunction and (3)
require compliance with standards
during periods of startup and shutdown.
The commenter does not explain and
cannot support the general claim that
the statutory language denies the EPA
authority to set different standards for
startup or shutdown. The 2008 decision
in Sierra Club v. EPA, 551 F.3d 1019
(DC Cir. 2008) (‘‘2008 Sierra Club
decision’’), held that emissions
standards or limitations must be
continuous in nature and that ‘‘some’’
section 112 standards apply
continuously. The DC Circuit reiterated
this principle in Sierra Club v EPA, 884
F. 3d. 1185, 1203 (DC Cir. 2018) (‘‘2018
Sierra Club decision’’) explaining that
the 2014 Sierra Club decision ‘‘held
that, whenever HAP sources are in
operation, including during startup and
shutdown, the EPA must continuously
subject them to either numeric limits or
Section 112(h)-compliant work practice
standards.’’ Consistent with the 2008
Sierra Club decision, and taking into
account startup and shutdown periods,
the EPA proposed work practice
standards for these periods based on a
determination under CAA section
112(h) that for kilns and coolers it was
not feasible to prescribe or enforce a
numeric standard during these periods
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of startup and shutdown. See 84 FR
48727. As discussed in the preamble to
the final rule, based on public
comments, we have made changes from
the proposal to the standards for periods
of startup and shutdown.
Comment: One commenter stated that
the EPA does not have statutory
authority to create work practice
requirements for startups. The
commenter summarized the
requirements and applicable definitions
of CAA sections 7412(h)(1) and (h)(2)
and stated that the EPA has not satisfied
either of the statute’s definitions of ‘‘not
feasible to prescribe or enforce and
emission standard.’’ The commenter
stated that promulgating work practice
requirements instead of numeric
emission limitations for periods of
startup would violate the statute. The
commenter stated that CAA section
112(h)(2)(B) covers situations where
‘‘the application of measurement
methodology to a particular class of
sources is not practicable due to
technological and economic
limitations.’’ The commenter stated that
startup and shutdown are ‘‘events,’’ not
a ‘‘particular class of source.’’ The
commenter stated that section
112(h)(2)(B) cannot be used as
justification for work practice standards
in lieu of numeric emission limits.
Response: As discussed above, based
on public comments, we have made
changes from the proposal to the
standards for periods of startup and
shutdown. The EPA’s final rule does not
establish work practice standards for
period of startup and shutdown, so the
comment is no longer relevant.
However, the EPA notes that it does not
agree with the commenter that section
112(h)(2)(B) can be invoked to justify a
work practice standard only for
categories or subcategories of sources
under section 112(h)(2)(B), not for
periods of operation. Section 112(h)
provides that the EPA may ‘‘promulgate
a design, equipment, work practice, or
operational standard, or combination
thereof’’ in lieu of a numeric emission
standard if the Administrator
determines that it is not feasible, in his/
her judgment, to prescribe or enforce a
numeric standard. More specifically,
section 112(h)(2) states it is infeasible to
prescribe or enforce an emission
standard if the application of
measurement methodology to a
particular class of sources is not
practicable due to technological and
economic limitations. Nothing in this
section limits the Agency’s discretion to
establish work practice standards to
particular sources, subcategories of
sources, or source categories, or to
certain periods of operations if, in the
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Administrator’s judgment, it is not
feasible to prescribe or enforce a
numeric emission standard during those
periods. The reference to ‘‘a particular
class of sources’’ in section 112(h)(2)
does not limit the EPA’s authority to
determine, for a category or subcategory
of sources, that it is infeasible to
prescribe or enforce an emission
standard for those sources during
certain identifiable time periods, such
as startup and shutdown.
Comment: A commenter stated that
the EPA has proposed to excuse sources
from using their ESPs during startup.
The commenter stated that the EPA
argues that industry stakeholders have
claimed it may be unsafe to run ESPs
during these times. The commenter
stated that CAA section 112(h)(2)(B)
does not authorize the EPA to set work
practice requirements based on the
Agency’s views about the safety
implications of running a particular
control device.
The commenter stated that nothing in
the CAA or existing rule requires lime
kilns to control their PM emissions with
ESPs. The commenter stated that if lime
kiln owners and operators believe it is
unsafe to run ESPs during startup and
shutdown, the appropriate solution is
for them to deploy other control devices
(e.g., FFs), not to excuse them from
meeting numeric emission limits during
these events.
Response: As discussed above, based
on public comments, we have made
changes from the proposal to the
standards for periods of startup and
shutdown. The EPA’s final rule does not
establish work practice standards for
period of startup and shutdown so the
comment is no longer relevant.
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4. What is the rationale for our final
approach for the SSM provisions?
We evaluated all comments on the
EPA’s proposed amendments to the
SSM provisions. For the reasons
explained in the proposed rule, we
determined that it is appropriate to
remove and revise provisions related to
SSM that are not consistent with the
requirement that the standards apply at
all times or that are unnecessary or
redundant in the absence of an SSM
exemption. Therefore, we are finalizing
our approach for the SSM provisions as
proposed with changes as detailed in
section IV.C.2 of this preamble. More
information concerning the
amendments we are finalizing for SSM
is discussed above and in the preamble
to the proposed rule (84 FR 48727–
48730, September 16, 2019).
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D. Electronic Reporting Requirements
for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category
1. What did we proposed for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed that owners or
operators of lime manufacturing plants
submit electronic copies of required
performance test reports, performance
evaluation reports, and semiannual
compliance reports through the EPA’s
CDX using the CEDRI. More information
concerning our proposal on electronic
reporting requirements can be found in
the proposed rule (84 FR 48708).
2. How did the electronic reporting
provisions change for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Since proposal, the electronic
reporting provisions have not changed.
3. What key comments did we receive
on the electronic reporting provisions,
and what are our responses?
The EPA received comments related
to the proposed electronic reporting
provisions. The commenters generally
supported the proposed provisions but
disagreed with certain aspects of the
provisions.
Comment: Commenters provided
feedback on the electronic semiannual
compliance report (spreadsheet
template), per the EPA’s request (84 FR
48730). The commenters noted the
following:
• In tab ‘‘CMS Deviation Summary,’’
column D (Total Source Operating Time
(hours)), and column F (Total Duration
of CMS Downtime as a percentage of
Total Emissions Unit Operating Time)
are both protected so it is not possible
for an operator to input this data. This
should be corrected.
• The example source operating time
is shown as 6,240 hours. For semiannual reporting, the maximum possible
hours are 4,380.
The commenters stated that the EPA
should compare the final template
reporting form to the final rule to ensure
each reporting element is required in
the rule and that the template reporting
form instructions are accurate and
detailed enough to ensure consistent
reporting across the industry.
Response: The EPA will check the
final reporting template to be sure each
reporting requirement marked as a
required element is required by the final
rule and will also provide adequate
instructions for filling out the reporting
template. The EPA will also check to be
sure columns D (operating time) and F
are unprotected in order that manual
inputs can be entered by the user. The
example operating time for semi-annual
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reporting will be updated to 4,380
hours.
Comment: One commenter stated that
the EPA may not create an unlawful
exemption or extension for compliance
reporting as it proposes to do for web
outages or so-called ‘‘force majeure
events,’’ as this violates the requirement
for standards to be continuous and
would allow unreported exceedances to
go unchecked, indefinitely.
Response: The commenter asserts that
the brief case-by-case extension of
report submittal deadlines is an
unlawful exemption from compliance
with the emissions standards. This is
not the case. The EPA notes that there
is no exemption to reporting, much less
an exemption from compliance with the
emission standards, only a method for
requesting an extension of the reporting
deadline. Reporters are required to
justify their request and identify a
reporting date. While no new fixed
duration deadline is set, the regulation
does require that the report be
submitted electronically as soon as
possible after the CEDRI outage is
resolved or after the force majeure event
occurs. The Administrator may even
request that the report be sent in
hardcopy until electronic reporting can
be resumed.
The Administrator has full discretion
to accept or reject the claim of a CEDRI
system outage or force majeure. As
such, an extension is not automatic and
is agreed to on an individual basis by
the Administrator. If the Administrator
determines that a facility has not acted
in good faith to reasonably report in a
timely manner, the Administrator can
reject the claim and find that the failure
to report timely is a deviation from the
regulation.
The EPA also disagrees that the ability
to request a reporting extension violates
the requirement for emissions standards
to be continuous. While reporting is an
important mechanism for the EPA and
air agencies to assess whether owners or
operators are in compliance with
emissions standards, reporting
obligations are separate from (i.e., in
addition to) requirements that an owner
or operator be in compliance with an
emissions standard. The EPA has
discretion to establish reporting
schedules, and also discretion to allow
a mechanism for extension of those
schedules on a case-by-case basis.
Additional comments and our specific
responses can be found in the comment
summary and response document titled
Summary of Public Comments and
Responses for Lime Manufacturing
Plants Residual Risk and Technology
Review, which is available in the docket
for this action.
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4. What is the rational for our final
approach for the electronic reporting
provisions?
The EPA evaluated all of the
comments on the EPA’s proposed
amendments to the electronic reporting
provisions. For the reasons explained in
the proposed rule (84 FR 48708), we
have determined the electronic
submittal of the reports addressed in
this final rulemaking will:
• Increase the usefulness of the data
contained in those reports;
• be consistent with current trends in
data availability and transparency;
• further assist in the protection of
public health and the environment;
• improve compliance by facilitating
the ability of regulated facilities to
demonstrate compliance with
requirements;
• facilitate the ability of delegated
state, local, tribal, and territorial air
agencies and the EPA to assess and
determine compliance; and
• ultimately reduce burden on
regulated facilities, delegated air
agencies, and the EPA.
Electronic reporting also eliminates
paper-based, manual processes, thereby
saving time and resources, simplifying
data entry, eliminating redundancies,
minimizing data reporting errors, and
providing data quickly and accurately to
the affected facilities, air agencies, the
EPA, and the public. Moreover,
electronic reporting is consistent with
the EPA’s plan 7 to implement Executive
Order 13563 and is in keeping with the
EPA’s Agency-wide policy 8 developed
in response to the White House’s Digital
Government Strategy.9 For more
information on the benefits of electronic
reporting, see the memorandum titled
Electronic Reporting Requirements for
New Source Performance Standards
(NSPS) and National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) Rules, available in Docket ID
No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2017–0015.
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E. IBR
In accordance with the requirements
of 1 CFR 51.5, the EPA will incorporate
by reference the following documents
7 The EPA’s Final Plan for Periodic Retrospective
Reviews, August 2011. Available at: https://
www.regulations.gov/documentD=EPA-HQ-OA2011-0156-0154.
8 E-Reporting Policy Statement for EPA
Regulations, September 2013. Available at: https://
www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-03/
documents/epa-ereporting-policy-statement-201309-30.pdf.
9 Digital Government: Building a 21st Century
Platform to Better Serve the American People, May
2012. Available at: https://
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/
omb/egov/digital-government/
digitalgovernment.html.
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described in the amendments to 40 CFR
63.14:
• ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10–1981, Flue
and Exhaust Gas Analyses [Part 10,
Instruments and Apparatus], issued
August 31, 1981, IBR approved for table
5 to subpart AAAAA. This method is
approved as an alternative to EPA
Method 3B of appendix A to part 60.
• ASTM D6348–03 (Reapproved
2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Compounds
by Extractive Direct Interface Fourier
Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy,
including Annexes A1 through A8,
Approved October 1, 2010, IBR
approved for 40 CFR 63.7142(a) and
63.7142(b). This method is approved as
an alternative to EPA Method 320 of
appendix A to part 63.
• ASTM D6348–12e1, Standard Test
Method for Determination of Gaseous
Compounds by Extractive Direct
Interface Fourier Transform Infrared
(FTIR) Spectroscopy, Approved
February 1, 2012, IBR approved for 40
CFR 63.7142(a) and 40 CFR 63.7142(b).
This method is approved as an
alternative to EPA Method 320 of
appendix A to part 63.
• ASTM D6735–01 (Reapproved
2009), Standard Test Method for
Measurement of Gaseous Chlorides and
Fluorides from Mineral Calcining
Exhaust Sources—Impinger Method,
IBR approved for 40 CFR 63.7142(a).
This method is approved as an
alternative to EPA Method 321 of
appendix A to part 63.
• ASTM D6420–99 (Reapproved
2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Organic
Compounds by Direct Interface Gas
Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry,
Approved October 1, 2010, IBR
approved for 40 CFR 63.7142(b). This
method is approved as an alternative to
EPA Method 18 of appendix A to part
60.
• EPA–454/R–98–015, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards
(OAQPS), Fabric Filter Bag Leak
Detection Guidance, September 1997,
IBR approved for 40 CFR 63.7113(d).
This method was added in accordance
with final revisions to the bag leak
detection requirements under 40 CFR
63.7113(d).
The ANSI/ASME document is
available from the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at https://
www.asme.org; by mail at Two Park
Avenue, New York, NY 10016–5990; or
by telephone at (800) 843–2763. The
ASTM documents are available from the
American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) at https://
www.astm.org; by mail at l00 Barr
Harbor Drive, P.O. Box C700, West
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Conshohocken, PA 19428–2959; or by
telephone at (610) 832–9500. The EPA
has made, and will continue to make,
the EPA document generally available
electronically through https://
www.regulations.gov/ and at the EPA
Docket Center (see the ADDRESSES
section of this preamble for more
information).
F. Technical and Editorial Changes for
the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category
1. What did we propose for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed the following
technical and editorial changes:
• Revising the monitoring
requirements in 40 CFR 63.7113 to the
provision that triboelectric bag leak
detection system must be installed,
calibrated, operated, and maintained
according to EPA–454/R–98–015. Fabric
Filter Bag Leak Detection Guidance;
• revising 40 CFR 63.7142 to add an
alternative test method to EPA Method
320;
• revising 40 CFR.7142 to add the
latest version of ASTM Method D6735–
01;
• revising 40 CFR.7142 to add the
latest version of ASTM Method D6420–
99; and
• revising Table 4 to 40 CFR part 63,
subpart AAAAA, to add alternative
compliance option.
2. How did the technical and editorial
changes change for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Since proposal, the technical and
editorial changes have not changed.
3. What key comments did we received
on the technical and editorial changes,
and what are our responses?
No comments were received on the
technical and editorial changes detailed
above.
4. What is the rationale for our final
approach for the technical and editorial
changes?
Because no comments were received
on the technical and editorial changes
that the EPA proposed, we determined
that these changes should be finalized
as proposed.
V. Summary of Cost, Environmental,
and Economic Impacts and Additional
Analyses Conducted
A. What are the affected facilities?
There are currently 35 lime
manufacturing facilities operating in the
United States that are subject to the
Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP.
The 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA,
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affected source is the lime kiln and its
associated cooler, and the PSH
operation system located at a major
source of HAP emissions. A new or
reconstructed affected source is a source
that commenced construction after
December 20, 2002, or meets the
definition of reconstruction and
commenced reconstruction after
December 20, 2002.
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B. What are the air quality impacts?
At the current level of control,
emissions of total HAP are estimated to
be approximately 2,320 tpy. This
represents a reduction in HAP
emissions of about 240 tpy due to the
current (2004) Lime Manufacturing
Plants NESHAP. The final amendments
will require all affected sources subject
to the emission standards in the Lime
Manufacturing Plants NESHAP to
operate without the SSM exemption. We
were unable to quantify the specific
emissions reduction associated with
eliminating the SSM exemption.
However, eliminating the SSM
exemption will reduce emissions by
requiring facilities to meet emissions
standards during SSM periods.
Indirect or secondary air emissions
impacts are impacts that would result
from the increased electricity usage
associated with the operation of control
devices (i.e., increased secondary
emissions of criteria pollutants from
power plants). Energy impacts consist of
the electricity and steam needed to
operate control devices and other
equipment that would be required
under this proposed rule. The EPA
expects no secondary air emissions
impacts or energy impacts from this
rulemaking.
C. What are the cost impacts?
The 35 lime manufacturing plants that
would be subject to the final
amendments would incur minimal net
costs to meet revised recordkeeping and
reporting requirements and the
standards for periods of startup and
shutdown. Nationwide costs associated
with the final requirements are
estimated to be $15,271. The EPA
believes that the lime manufacturing
plants which are subject to the NESHAP
can meet the final requirements with
minimal additional capital or
operational costs. Each facility will
experience costs to read and understand
the rule amendments. Costs associated
with the elimination of the SSM
exemption were estimated as part of the
reporting and recordkeeping costs and
include time for re-evaluating
previously developed SSM record
systems. Costs associated with the
requirement to electronically submit
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notifications and semi-annual
compliance reports using CEDRI were
estimated as part of the reporting and
recordkeeping costs and include time
for becoming familiar with CEDRI and
the reporting template for semi-annual
compliance reports.
D. What are the economic impacts?
Economic impact analyses focus on
changes in market prices and output
levels. If changes in market prices and
output levels in the primary markets are
significant enough, impacts on other
markets may also be examined. Both the
magnitude of costs needed to comply
with a final rule and the distribution of
these costs among affected facilities can
have a role in determining how the
market will change in response to a final
rule. The total costs associated with
reviewing the final rule, meeting the
revised recordkeeping and reporting
requirements, and complying with the
revised final standards are estimated to
be $15,271. This is an estimated cost of
$266 to $2,925 per facility, depending
on the number of lime kilns operated
and the type of controls installed. These
costs are not expected to result in a
significant market impact, regardless of
whether they are passed on to the
purchaser or absorbed by the firms.
Based on the costs associated with the
elimination of the SSM exemption and
the costs associated with the
requirement to electronically submit
compliance reports, we do not
anticipate any significant economic
impacts from these final amendments.
E. What are the benefits?
Although the EPA is unable to
quantify reductions in HAP emissions
as a result of the final amendments, we
believe that the action improves the
rule. Specifically, the final amendments
remove SSM exemptions such that
standards apply at all times.
Additionally, the final amendments
requiring electronic submittal of initial
notifications, initial startup reports,
annual compliance certifications,
deviation reports, and performance test
results will increase the usefulness of
the data, is in keeping with current
trends of data availability, will further
assist in the protection of public health
and the environment, and will
ultimately result in less burden on the
regulated community.
F. What analysis of environmental
justice did we conduct?
The EPA believes that this action does
not have disproportionately high and
adverse human health or environmental
effects on minority populations, lowincome populations and/or indigenous
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peoples, as specified in Executive Order
12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
The documentation for this decision
is contained in the Risk and Technology
Review Analysis of Demographic
Factors for Populations Living Near
Lime Manufacturing Source Category
Operations, which is available in the
docket for this action. The results of the
Lime Manufacturing source category
demographic analysis indicated that
emissions from the source category
expose approximately 12 people to a
cancer risk at or above 1-in-1 million
and no people to a chronic noncancer
TOSHI greater than 1. The percentages
of the at-risk population indicate that
three of the 10 demographic groups
(White, African American and people
below the poverty level) that are living
within 50 km of facilities in the source
category exceed the corresponding
national percentage for the same
demographic groups.
G. What analysis of children’s
environmental health did we conduct?
The EPA does not believe the
environmental health or safety risks
addressed by this action present a
disproportionate risk to children. This
action’s health and risk assessments are
contained in the Residual Risk
Assessment for the Lime Manufacturing
Source Category in Support of the 2019
Risk and Technology Review Proposed
Rule, which is available in the docket
for this action.
VI. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
Additional information about these
statutes and Executive Orders can be
found at https://www2.epa.gov/lawsregulations/laws-and-executive-orders.
A. Executive Orders 12866: Regulatory
Planning and Review and Executive
Order 13563: Improving Regulation and
Regulatory Review
This action is not a significant
regulatory action and was, therefore, not
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review.
B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing
Regulations and Controlling Regulatory
Costs
This action is not an Executive Order
13771 regulatory action because this
action is not significant under Executive
Order 12866.
C. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
The information collection activities
in this final rule have been submitted
for approval to OMB under the PRA.
The Information Collection Request
(ICR) document that the EPA prepared
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has been assigned EPA ICR number
2072.09. You can find a copy of the ICR
in the docket for this rule, and it is
briefly summarized here. The
information collection requirements are
not enforceable until OMB approves
them.
We are finalizing changes to the
reporting and recordkeeping
requirements for the Lime
Manufacturing Plants NESHAP in the
form of eliminating the SSM reporting
and SSM plan requirements and
requiring electronic submittal of all
compliance reports (including
performance test reports). Any
information submitted to the Agency for
which a claim of confidentiality is made
will be safeguarded according to the
Agency policies set forth in title 40,
chapter 1, part 2, subpart B—
Confidentiality of Business Information
(see 40 CFR part 2; 41 FR 36902,
September 1, 1976; amended by 43 FR
40000, September 8, 1978; 43 FR 42251,
September 20, 1978; 44 FR 17674,
March 23, 1979).
Respondents/affected entities:
Owners or operators of lime
manufacturing plants that are major
sources, or that are located at, or are part
of, major sources of HAP emissions,
unless the lime manufacturing plant is
located at a kraft pulp mill, soda pulp
mill, sulfite pulp mill, sugar beet
manufacturing plant, or only processes
sludge containing calcium carbonate
from water softening processes.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 63, subpart
AAAAA).
Estimated number of respondents: On
average over the next 3 years,
approximately 36 existing major sources
will be subject to these standards. It is
also estimated that one additional
respondent will become subject to the
emission standards over the 3-year
period.
Frequency of response: The frequency
of responses varies depending on the
burden item.
Total estimated burden: The average
annual burden to industry over the next
3 years from these recordkeeping and
reporting requirements is estimated to
be 9,690 hours (per year). Burden is
defined at 5 CFR 1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: The annual
recordkeeping and reporting cost for all
facilities to comply with all of the
requirements in the NESHAP is
estimated to be $1,810,000 (per year), of
which $15,271 (first year) is for this
rule, and the rest is for other costs
related to continued compliance with
the NESHAP including $684,000 in
annualized capital and operation and
maintenance costs.
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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. The OMB control
numbers for the EPA’s regulations in 40
CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9. When
OMB approves this ICR, the Agency will
announce that approval in the Federal
Register and publish a technical
amendment to 40 CFR part 9 to display
the OMB control number for the
approved information collection
activities contained in this final rule.
D. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
I certify that this action will not have
a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities
under the RFA. In making this
determination, the impact of concern is
any significant adverse economic
impact on small entities. This action
only eliminates the SSM exemption,
revises other SSM related requirements,
and adds electronic reporting. None of
the changes will impact the small
entities. The rule removes the SSM
exemption and establishes emission
standard for startup and shutdown.
Based on the controls used at the small
entities, they will not be impacted by
the alternate emission standards. Thus,
this action will not impose any
requirements on small entities.
E. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
(UMRA)
This action does not contain any
unfunded mandate as described in
UMRA, 2 U.S.C. 1531–1538, and does
not significantly or uniquely affect small
governments. While this action creates
an enforceable duty on the private
sector, the cost does not exceed $100
million or more.
F. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
This action does not have federalism
implications. It will not have substantial
direct effects on the states, on the
relationship between the national
government and the states, or on the
distribution of power and
responsibilities among the various
levels of government.
G. Executive Order 13175: Consultation
and Coordination With Indian Tribal
Governments
This action does not have tribal
implications as specified in Executive
Order 13175. The EPA does not know of
any lime manufacturing facilities owned
or operated by Indian tribal
governments. Thus, Executive Order
13175 does not apply to this action.
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H. Executive Order 13045: Protection of
Children From Environmental Health
Risks and Safety Risks
This action is not subject to Executive
Order 13045 because it is not
economically significant as defined in
Executive Order 12866, and because the
EPA does not believe the environmental
health or safety risks addressed by this
action present a disproportionate risk to
children. This action’s health and risk
assessments are contained in sections III
and IV of the proposal preamble (84 FR
48708, September 16, 2019) and further
documented in the risk report titled
Residual Risk Assessment for the Lime
Manufacturing Source Category in
Support of the 2019 Risk and
Technology Review Proposed Rule,
which is available in the docket for this
action.
I. Executive Order 13211: Actions
Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use
This action is not subject to Executive
Order 13211, because it is not a
significant regulatory action under
Executive Order 12866.
J. National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act (NTTAA) and 1 CFR
Part 51
This action involves technical
standards. The EPA has decided to use
ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10–1981 Part 10
(2010), ‘‘Flue and Exhaust Gas
Analyses,’’ as an acceptable alternative
to EPA Method 3B manual portion only
and not the instrumental portion. This
method determines quantitatively the
gaseous constituents of exhausts
resulting from stationary combustion
sources. This standard may be obtained
from https://www.asme.org or from the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) at Three Park
Avenue, New York, New York 10016–
5990.
The EPA has decided to use ASTM
D6348–03(2010) and ASTM D6348–
12e1, ‘‘Determination of Gaseous
Compounds by Executive Direct
Interface Fourier Transform (FTIR)
Spectroscopy,’’ as alternatives to using
EPA Method 320 under certain
conditions and incorporate these
alternatives by reference. ASTM D6348–
03(2010) was previously determined
equivalent to EPA Method 320 with
caveats. ASTM D6348–12e1 is a revised
version of ASTM D6348–03(2010) and
includes a new section on accepting the
results from direct measurement of a
certified spike gas cylinder, but still
lacks the caveats we placed on the
ASTM D6348–03(2010) version. The
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voluntary consensus standard (VCS),
ASTM D6348–12e1, ‘‘Determination of
Gaseous Compounds by Extractive
Direct Interface Fourier Transform
(FTIR) Spectroscopy,’’ is an acceptable
alternative to EPA Method 320 at this
time with caveats requiring inclusion of
selected annexes to the standard as
mandatory. When using ASTM D6348–
12e1, the conditions that must be met
are defined in 40 CFR 63.7142(a)(2).
This field test method employs an
extractive sampling system to direct
stationary source effluent to an FTIR
spectrometer for the identification and
quantification of gaseous compounds.
The ASTM D6348–03(2010) and ASTM
D6348–12el standards were developed
and adopted by the American Society
for Testing and Materials (ATSM).
The EPA has also decided to use
ASTM D6735–01 (Reapproved 2009),
‘‘Standard Test Method for
Measurement of Gaseous Chlorides and
Fluorides from Mineral Calcining
Exhaust Sources Impinger Method,’’ as
an alternative to EPA Method 321
provided that the provisions in 40 CFR
63.7142(a)(4) are followed. The EPA
used ASTM D6735–01 for the
determination of HCl in EPA Methods
26, 26A, and 321 from mineral calcining
exhaust sources. This method will
measure the gaseous HCl and other
gaseous chlorides and fluorides that
pass through a PM filter. The ASTM
D6735–01 standard was developed and
adopted by the ASTM.
The EPA has decided to use VCS
ASTM D6420–99 (Reapproved 2010),
‘‘Test Method for Determination of
Gaseous Organic Compounds by Direct
Interface Gas Chromatography/Mass
Spectrometry’’ as an alternative to EPA
Method 18 only when the target
compounds are all known, and the
target compounds are all listed in ASTM
D6420 as measurable. ASTM D6420
should not be used for methane and
ethane because atomic mass is less than
35. ASTM D6420 should never be
specified as a total volatile organic
compound method. This field method
determines the mass concentration of
volatile organic HAP.
The ASTM standards may be obtained
from https://www.astm.org or from the
ASTM at 100 Barr Harbor Drive, Post
Office C700, West Conshohocken,
Pennsylvania 19428–2959.
The EPA has decided to use EPA–
454/R–98–015, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards (OAQPS),
Fabric Filter Bag Leak Detection
Guidance, September 1997 as guidance
for how a triboelectric bag leak
detection system must be installed,
calibrated, operated, and maintained.
This document includes FF and
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monitoring system descriptions;
guidance on monitor selection,
installation, set up, adjustment, and
operation; and quality assurance
procedures. This document may be
obtained from https://www.epa.gov or
from the EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
While the EPA has identified another
10 VCS as being potentially applicable
to this proposed rule, we have decided
not to use these VCS in this rulemaking.
The use of these VCS would not be
practical due to lack of equivalency,
documentation, validation date, and
other import technical and policy
considerations. See the memorandum
titled Voluntary Consensus Standard
Results for NESHAP: Lime
Manufacturing Residual Risk and
Technology Review, in the docket for
this proposed rule for the reasons for
these determinations.
Under 40 CFR 63.7(f) and 40 CFR
63.8(f) of subpart A of the General
Provisions, a source may apply to the
EPA for permission to use alternative
test methods or alternative monitoring
requirements in place of any required
testing methods, performance
specifications, or procedures in the final
rule or any amendments.
K. Executive Order 12898: Federal
Actions To Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and
Low-Income Populations
The EPA believes that this action does
not have disproportionately high and
adverse human health or environmental
effects on minority populations, lowincome populations, and/or indigenous
peoples, as specified in Executive Order
12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
The documentation for this decision
is contained in section IV.B of the
proposal preamble and the technical
report, Risk and Technology Review
Analysis of Demographic Factors for
Populations Living Near Lime
Manufacturing Source Category
Operations, which is available in the
docket for this action.
L. Congressional Review Act (CRA)
This action is subject to the CRA, and
the EPA will submit a rule report to
each House of the Congress and to the
Comptroller General of the United
States. This action is not a ‘‘major rule’’
as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63
Environmental protection,
Administrative practice and procedures,
Air pollution control, Hazardous
substances, Incorporation by reference,
Lime manufacturing, Intergovernmental
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relations, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Andrew Wheeler,
Administrator.
For the reasons set forth in the
preamble, the EPA amends 40 CFR part
63 as follows:
PART 63—NATIONAL EMISSION
STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR
POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE
CATEGORIES
1. The authority citation for part 63
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Subpart A—General Provisions
2. Section 63.14 is amended by
revising paragraphs (e)(1), (h)(85), (86),
(93), (100), and (n)(3) to read as follows:
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Incorporations by reference.
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(e) * * *
(1) ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10–1981,
Flue and Exhaust Gas Analyses [Part 10,
Instruments and Apparatus], issued
August 31, 1981, IBR approved for
§§ 63.309(k), 63.457(k), 63.772(e) and
(h), 63.865(b), 63.997(e), 63.1282(d) and
(g), 63.1625(b), table 5 to subpart EEEE,
63.3166(a), 63.3360(e), 63.3545(a),
63.3555(a), 63.4166(a), 63.4362(a),
63.4766(a), 63.4965(a), 63.5160(d), table
4 to subpart UUUU, table 3 to subpart
YYYY, 63.7822(b), 63.7824(e),
63.7825(b), 63.9307(c), 63.9323(a),
63.11148(e), 63.11155(e), 63.11162(f),
63.11163(g), 63.11410(j), 63.11551(a),
63.11646(a), and 63.11945, table 5 to
subpart AAAAA, table 5 to subpart
DDDDD, table 4 to subpart JJJJJ, table 4
to subpart KKKKK, tables 4 and 5 of
subpart UUUUU, table 1 to subpart
ZZZZZ, and table 4 to subpart JJJJJJ.
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(85) ASTM D6348–03 (Reapproved
2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Compounds
by Extractive Direct Interface Fourier
Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy,
including Annexes A1 through A8,
Approved October 1, 2010, IBR
approved for §§ 63.1571(a), 63.4751(i),
63.4752(e), 63.4766(b), 63.7142(a) and
(b), tables 4 and 5 to subpart JJJJJ, tables
4 and 6 to subpart KKKKK, tables 1, 2,
and 5 to subpart UUUUU and appendix
B to subpart UUUUU.
(86) ASTM D6348–12e1, Standard
Test Method for Determination of
Gaseous Compounds by Extractive
Direct Interface Fourier Transform
Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy, Approved
February 1, 2012, IBR approved for
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§§ 63.997(e), 63.1571(a), 63.2354(b),
table 5 to subpart EEEE, table 4 to
subpart UUUU, and 63.7142(a) and (b).
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(93) ASTM D6420–99 (Reapproved
2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Organic
Compounds by Direct Interface Gas
Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry,
Approved October 1, 2010, IBR
approved for §§ 63.670(j), Table 4 to
subpart UUUU, 63.7142(b), and
appendix A to this part: Method 325B.
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(100) ASTM D6735–01 (Reapproved
2009), Standard Test Method for
Measurement of Gaseous Chlorides and
Fluorides from Mineral Calcining
Exhaust Sources—Impinger Method,
IBR approved for § 63.7142(b), tables 4
and 5 to subpart JJJJJ, and tables 4 and
6 to subpart KKKKK.
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(3) EPA–454/R–98–015, Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards
(OAQPS), Fabric Filter Bag Leak
Detection Guidance, September 1997,
IBR approved for §§ 63.548(e), 63.864(e),
63.7113(d), 63.7525(j), 63.7831(f),
63.8450(e), 63.8600(e), and 63.11224(f).
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3. Section 63.7083 is amended by
revising paragraphs (a)(1), (2), and (b)
and by adding paragraph (e) to read as
follows:
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§ 63.7083 When do I have to comply with
this subpart?
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(1) If you start up your affected source
before January 5, 2004, you must
comply with the emission limitations no
later than January 5, 2004, and you must
have completed all applicable
performance tests no later than July 5,
2004, except as noted in paragraphs
(e)(1) and (2) of this section.
(2) If you start up your affected source
after January 5, 2004, then you must
comply with the emission limitations
for new affected sources upon startup of
your affected source and you must have
completed all applicable performance
tests no later than 180 days after startup,
except as noted in paragraphs (e)(1) and
(2) of this section.
(b) If you have an existing affected
source, you must comply with the
applicable emission limitations for the
existing affected source, and you must
have completed all applicable
performance tests no later than January
5, 2007, except as noted in paragraphs
(e)(1) and (2) of this section.
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(e)(1) If your affected source
commenced construction or
reconstruction on or before September,
16, 2019, then the compliance date for
the revised requirements promulgated at
§§ 63.7090, 63.7100, 63.7112, 63.7113,
63.7121, 63.7130, 63.7131, 63.7132,
63.7140, 63.7141, 63.7142, and 63.7143
and Tables 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 (except
changes to the cross references to
63.6(f)(1) and (h)(1)) of 40 CFR 63,
subpart AAAAA, published on July 24,
2020 is January 20, 2021.
(2) If your affected source commenced
construction or reconstruction after
September 16, 2019, then the
compliance date for the revised
requirements promulgated at
§§ 63.7090, 63.7100, 63.7112, 63.7113,
63.7121, 63.7130, 63.7131, 63.7132,
63.7140, 63.7141, 63.7142, and 63.7143
and Tables 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 to this
subpart, published on July 24, 2020 is
July 24, 2020 or the date of initial
startup, whichever is later.
■ 4. Section 63.7090 is amended by
revising paragraph (b) and adding
paragraph (c) to read as follows:
§ 63.7090
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What emission limitations must I
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(b) You must meet each operating
limit in Table 3 to this subpart that
applies to you.
(c) On or after the relevant
compliance date for your source as
specified in §§ 63.7083(e), you must
meet each startup and shutdown period
emission limit in Table 2 to this subpart
that applies to you.
■ 5. Section 63.7100 is amended by
revising paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d)(3),
(d)(4)(iii), (d)(6) introductory text, and
(e) to read as follows:
§ 63.7100 What are my general
requirements for complying with this
subpart?
(a) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), you must be in compliance
with the emission limitations (including
operating limits) in this subpart at all
times, except during periods of startup,
shutdown, and malfunction. On and
after the relevant compliance date for
your source as specified in § 63.7083(e),
you must be in compliance with the
applicable emission limitations
(including operating limits) at all times.
(b) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), you must be in compliance
with the opacity and visible emission
(VE) limits in this subpart at all times,
except during periods of startup,
shutdown, and malfunction. On and
after the relevant compliance date for
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your source as specified in § 63.7083(e),
you must be in compliance with the
applicable opacity and VE limits at all
times.
(c) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), you must always operate
and maintain your affected source,
including air pollution control and
monitoring equipment, according to the
provisions in § 63.6(e)(1)(i). On and after
the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in § 63.7083(e), you
must always operate and maintain any
affected source, including associated air
pollution control equipment and
monitoring equipment, in a manner
consistent with safety and good air
pollution control practices for
minimizing emissions. The general duty
to minimize emissions does not require
the owner or operator to make any
further efforts to reduce emissions if
levels required by the applicable
standard have been achieved.
Determination of whether such
operation and maintenance procedures
are being used will be based on
information available to the
Administrator which may include, but
is not limited to, monitoring results,
review of operation and maintenance
procedures, review of operation and
maintenance records, and inspection of
the source.
(d) * * *
(3) Procedures for the proper
operation and maintenance of each
emission unit and each air pollution
control device used to meet the
applicable emission limitations and
operating limits in Tables 1, 2 and 3 to
this subpart, respectively. On and after
the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in § 63.7083(e), your
OM&M plan must address periods of
startup and shutdown.
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(iii) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), ongoing operation and
maintenance procedures in accordance
with the general requirements of
§§ 63.8(c)(1)(i) and (ii), (3), and (4)(ii).
On and after the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), ongoing operation and
maintenance procedures in accordance
with the general requirements of
paragraph (c) of this section and
§§ 63.8(c)(1)(ii), (3), and (4)(ii); and
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when process or operating parameters or
add-on control device parameters
deviate from the operating limits
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(e) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), you must develop a written
startup, shutdown, and malfunction
plan (SSMP) according to the provisions
in § 63.6(e)(3).
■ 6. Section 63.7110 is amended by
revising paragraphs (d) and (e) to read
as follows:
§ 63.7110 By what date must I conduct
performance tests and other initial
compliance demonstrations?
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(d) For each initial compliance
requirement in Table 4 to this subpart
that applies to you where the
monitoring averaging period is 3 hours,
the 3-hour period for demonstrating
continuous compliance for emission
units within existing affected sources at
LMP begins at 12:01 a.m. on the
compliance date for existing affected
sources, that is, the day following
completion of the initial compliance
demonstration, and ends at 3:01 a.m. on
the same day.
(e) For each initial compliance
requirement in Table 4 to this subpart
that applies to you where the
monitoring averaging period is 3 hours,
the 3-hour period for demonstrating
continuous compliance for emission
units within new or reconstructed
affected sources at LMP begins at 12:01
a.m. on the day following completion of
the initial compliance demonstration, as
required in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
section, and ends at 3:01 a.m. on the
same day.
■ 7. Section 63.7112 is amended by
revising paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (j)
introductory text, (k) introductory text,
(k)(3), and (l) introductory text, and
adding paragraph (m) to read as follows:
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§ 63.7112 What performance tests, design
evaluations, and other procedures must I
use?
(a) You must conduct each
performance test in Table 5 to this
subpart that applies to you.
(b) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), each performance test must
be conducted according to the
requirements in § 63.7(e)(1) and under
the specific conditions specified in
Table 5 to this subpart. On and after the
relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in § 63.7083(e), each
performance test must be conducted
based on representative performance
(i.e., performance based on normal
operating conditions) of the affected
source and under the specific
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conditions in Table 5 to this subpart.
Representative conditions exclude
periods of startup and shutdown. The
owner or operator may not conduct
performance tests during periods of
malfunction. The owner or operator
must record the process information
that is necessary to document operating
conditions during the test and include
in such record an explanation to
support that such conditions represent
normal operation. Upon request, the
owner or operator shall make available
to the Administrator such records as
may be necessary to determine the
conditions of performance tests.
(c) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), you may not conduct
performance tests during periods of
startup, shutdown, or malfunction, as
specified in § 63.7(e)(1). On and after
the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in § 63.7083(e), you
may not conduct performance tests
during periods of startup, shutdown, or
malfunction, as specified in paragraph
(b) of this section.
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(j) You must establish any applicable
3-hour block average operating limit
indicated in Table 3 to this subpart
according to the applicable
requirements in Table 4 to this subpart
and paragraphs (j)(1) through (4) of this
section.
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(k) For each building enclosing any
PSH operations that is subject to a VE
limit, you must conduct a VE check
according to item 18 in Table 5 to this
subpart, and in accordance with
paragraphs (k)(1) through (3) of this
section.
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(3) The observer conducting the VE
checks need not be certified to conduct
EPA Method 9 in appendix A–4 to part
60 of this chapter. However, the
observer must meet the training
requirements as described in EPA
Method 22 in appendix A–7 to part 60
of this chapter.
(l) When determining compliance
with the opacity standards for fugitive
emissions from PSH operations in item
8 of Table 1 to this subpart, you must
conduct EPA Method 9 in appendix A–
4 to part 60 of this chapter according to
item 17 in Table 5 to this subpart, and
in accordance with paragraphs (l)(1)
through (3) of this section.
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compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), during startup,
kilns must be tested hourly to determine
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when lime product meets the definition
of on-specification lime product.
■ 8. Section 63.7113 is amended by
revising paragraphs (d) and (f) to read as
follows:
§ 63.7113 What are my monitoring
installation, operation, and maintenance
requirements?
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(d) For each bag leak detection system
(BLDS), you must meet any applicable
requirements in paragraphs (a)(1)
through (5) and (d)(1) through (10) of
this section.
(1) The BLDS must be certified by the
manufacturer to be capable of detecting
PM emissions at concentrations of 10
milligrams per actual cubic meter
(0.0044 grains per actual cubic foot) or
less.
(2) The sensor on the BLDS must
provide output of relative PM
emissions.
(3) The BLDS must be equipped with
a device to continuously record the
output signal from the sensor.
(4) The BLDS must have an alarm that
will sound automatically when it
detects an increase in relative PM
emissions greater than a preset level.
(5) The alarm must be located in an
area where appropriate plant personnel
will be able to hear it.
(6) For a positive-pressure fabric filter
(FF), each compartment or cell must
have a bag leak detector (BLD). For a
negative-pressure or induced-air FF, the
BLD must be installed downstream of
the FF. If multiple BLD are required (for
either type of FF), the detectors may
share the system instrumentation and
alarm.
(7) Each triboelectric BLDS must be
installed, calibrated, operated, and
maintained according to EPA–454/R–
98–015, ‘‘Fabric Filter Bag Leak
Detection Guidance,’’ (incorporated by
reference—see § 63.14). Other types of
bag leak detection systems must be
installed, operated, calibrated, and
maintained according to the
manufacturer’s written specifications
and recommendations. Standard
operating procedures must be
incorporated into the OM&M plan.
(8) At a minimum, initial adjustment
of the system must consist of
establishing the baseline output in both
of the following ways, according to
section 5.0 of the EPA–454/R–98–015,
‘‘Fabric Filter Bag Leak Detection
Guidance,’’ (incorporated by reference—
see § 63.14):
(i) Adjust the range and the averaging
period of the device.
(ii) Establish the alarm set points and
the alarm delay time.
(9) After initial adjustment, the
sensitivity or range, averaging period,
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alarm set points, or alarm delay time
may not be adjusted except as specified
in the OM&M plan required by
§ 63.7100(d). In no event may the range
be increased by more than 100 percent
or decreased by more than 50 percent
over a 365-day period unless such
adjustment follows a complete FF
inspection that demonstrates that the FF
is in good operating condition, as
defined in section 5.2 of the ‘‘Fabric
Filter Bag Leak Detection Guidance,’’
(incorporated by reference—see § 63.14).
Record each adjustment.
(10) Record the results of each
inspection, calibration, and validation
check.
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(f) For each emission unit equipped
with an add-on air pollution control
device, you must inspect each capture/
collection and closed vent system at
least once each calendar year to ensure
that each system is operating in
accordance with the operating
requirements in item 6 of Table 3 to this
subpart and record the results of each
inspection.
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revising paragraphs (a) introductory text
and (b) to read as follows:
§ 63.7114 How do I demonstrate initial
compliance with the emission limitations
standard?
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(a) You must demonstrate initial
compliance with each emission limit in
Table 1 to this subpart that applies to
you, according to Table 4 to this
subpart. For existing lime kilns and
their associated coolers, you may
perform VE measurements in
accordance with EPA Method 9 of
appendix A to part 60 in lieu of
installing a COMS or PM detector if any
of the conditions in paragraphs (a)(1)
through (3) of this section exist:
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(b) You must establish each sitespecific operating limit in Table 3 to
this subpart that applies to you
according to the requirements in
§ 63.7112(j) and Table 5 to this subpart.
Alternative parameters may be
monitored if approval is obtained
according to the procedures in § 63.8(f).
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revising paragraph (c) introductory text
to read as follows and removing
paragraph (c)(3).
§ 63.7120 How do I monitor and collect
data to demonstrate continuous
compliance?
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conditions described in paragraphs
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(c)(1) and (2) of this section may not be
used either in data averages or
calculations of emission or operating
limits; or in fulfilling a minimum data
availability requirement. You must use
all the data collected during all other
periods in assessing the operation of the
control device and associated control
system.
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■ 11. Section 63.7121 is amended by
revising paragraphs (a), (b), (d), (e)
introductory text, and (e)(3) to read as
follows:
§ 63.7121 How do I demonstrate
continuous compliance with the emission
limitations standard?
(a) You must demonstrate continuous
compliance with each emission
limitation in Tables 1 and 3 to this
subpart that applies to you according to
the methods specified in Tables 6 and
7 to this subpart.
(b) You must report each instance in
which you did not meet each operating
limit, opacity limit, and VE limit in
Tables 2, 3 and 7 to this subpart that
applies to you. These deviations must
be reported according to the
requirements in § 63.7131.
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(d) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), consistent with §§ 63.6(e)
and 63.7(e)(1), deviations that occur
during a period of startup, shutdown, or
malfunction are not violations if you
demonstrate to the Administrator’s
satisfaction that you were operating in
accordance with § 63.6(e)(1). The
Administrator will determine whether
deviations that occur during a period of
startup, shutdown, or malfunction are
violations, according to the provisions
in § 63.6(e).
(e) For each PSH operation subject to
an opacity limit as specified in Table 1
to this subpart, and any vents from
buildings subject to an opacity limit,
you must conduct a VE check according
to item 1 in Table 7 to this subpart, and
as follows:
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(3) The observer conducting the VE
checks need not be certified to conduct
EPA Method 9 in appendix A–4 to part
60 of this chapter but must meet the
training requirements as described in
EPA Method 22 of appendix A–7 to part
60 of this chapter.
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revising paragraph (e) to read as follows:
§ 63.7130 What notifications must I submit
and when?
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(e) If you are required to conduct a
performance test, design evaluation,
opacity observation, VE observation, or
other initial compliance demonstration
as specified in Table 4 or 5 to this
subpart, you must submit a Notification
of Compliance Status according to
§ 63.9(h)(2)(ii). Beginning on the
relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in § 63.7083(e),
submit all subsequent Notification of
Compliance Status following the
procedure specified in § 63.7131(h).
(1) For each initial compliance
demonstration required in Table 4 to
this subpart that does not include a
performance test, you must submit the
Notification of Compliance Status before
the close of business on the 30th
calendar day following the completion
of the initial compliance demonstration.
(2) For each compliance
demonstration required in Table 6 to
this subpart that includes a performance
test conducted according to the
requirements in Table 5 to this subpart,
you must submit the Notification of
Compliance Status, including the
performance test results, before the
close of business on the 60th calendar
day following the completion of the
performance test according to
§ 63.10(d)(2).
■ 13. Section 63.7131 is amended by:
■ a. Revising paragraphs (a) and
paragraph (b) introductory text;
■ b. Adding paragraph (b)(6);
■ c. Revising paragraphs (c)(4),
paragraphs (d), (e) introductory text, and
(e)(2);
■ d. Adding paragraph (e)(12);
■ e. Revising paragraph (f); and
■ f. Adding paragraphs (g) through (j).
The revisions and additions read as
follows:
§ 63.7131
when?
What reports must I submit and
(a) You must submit each report listed
in Table 8 to this subpart that applies to
you.
(b) Unless the Administrator has
approved a different schedule for
submission of reports under § 63.10(a),
you must submit each report by the date
specified in Table 8 to this subpart and
according to the requirements in
paragraphs (b)(1) through (6) of this
section:
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(6) Beginning on the relevant
compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), submit all
subsequent compliance reports
following the procedure specified in
paragraph (h) of this section.
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(4) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
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§ 63.7083(e), if you had a startup,
shutdown or malfunction during the
reporting period and you took actions
consistent with your SSMP, the
compliance report must include the
information in § 63.10(d)(5)(i).
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(d) For each deviation from an
emission limitation (emission limit,
operating limit, opacity limit, and VE
limit) that occurs at an affected source
where you are not using a CMS to
comply with the emission limitations in
this subpart, the compliance report must
contain the information specified in
paragraphs (c)(1) through (4) and (d)(1)
and (2) of this section. The deviations
must be reported in accordance with the
requirements in § 63.10(d) prior to the
relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in § 63.7083(e) and
the requirements in § 63.10(d)(1)–(4)
beginning on the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e).
(1) The total operating time of each
emission unit during the reporting
period.
(2) Information on the number,
duration, and cause of deviations
(including unknown cause, if
applicable), and the corrective action
taken.
(3) An estimate of the quantity of each
regulated pollutant emitted over a
particulate matter emission limit, and a
description of the method used to
estimate the emissions.
(e) For each deviation from an
emission limitation (emission limit,
operating limit, opacity limit, and VE
limit) occurring at an affected source
where you are using a CMS to comply
with the emission limitation in this
subpart, you must include the
information specified in paragraphs
(c)(1) through (4) and (e)(1) through (11)
of this section, except that beginning on
the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in 63.7083(e), the
semiannual compliance report must also
include the information included in
paragraph (e)(12) of this section. This
includes periods of startup, shutdown,
and malfunction.
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(2) The date, time, and duration that
each CMS was inoperative, except for
zero (low-level) and high-level checks.
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(12) An estimate of the quantity of
each regulated pollutant emitted over a
particulate matter emission limit, and a
description of the method used to
estimate the emissions.
(f) Each facility that has obtained a
title V operating permit pursuant to part
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all deviations as defined in this subpart
in the semiannual monitoring report
required by § 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) or
71.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) of this chapter. If you
submit a compliance report specified in
Table 8 to this subpart along with, or as
part of, the semiannual monitoring
report required by § 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) or
71.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) of this chapter, and the
compliance report includes all required
information concerning deviations from
any emission limitation (including any
operating limit), submission of the
compliance report shall be deemed to
satisfy any obligation to report the same
deviations in the semiannual
monitoring report. However, submission
of a compliance report shall not
otherwise affect any obligation you may
have to report deviations from permit
requirements to the permit authority.
(g) If you are required to submit
reports following the procedure
specified in this paragraph, you must
submit reports to the EPA via the
Compliance and Emissions Data
Reporting Interface (CEDRI), which can
be accessed through the EPA’s Central
Data Exchange (CDX) (https://
cdx.epa.gov/). You must use the
appropriate electronic report template
on the CEDRI website (https://
www.epa.gov/electronic-reporting-airemissions/compliance-and-emissionsdata-reporting-interface-cedri) for this
subpart. The date report templates
become available will be listed on the
CEDRI website. The report must be
submitted by the deadline specified in
this subpart, regardless of the method in
which the report is submitted. If you
claim some of the information required
to be submitted via CEDRI is
confidential business information (CBI),
submit a complete report, including
information claimed to be CBI, to the
EPA. The report must be generated
using the appropriate form on the
CEDRI website. Submit the file on a
compact disc, flash drive, or other
commonly used electronic storage
medium and clearly mark the medium
as CBI. Mail the electronic medium to
U.S. EPA/OAQPS/CORE CBI Office,
Attention: Group Leader, Measurement
Policy Group, MD C404–02, 4930 Old
Page Rd., Durham, NC 27703. The same
file with the CBI omitted must be
submitted to the EPA via the EPA’s CDX
as described earlier in this paragraph.
(h) Within 60 days after the date of
completing each performance test
required by this subpart, you must
submit the results of the performance
test following the procedures specified
in paragraphs (h)(1) through (3) of this
section.
(1) Data collected using test methods
supported by the EPA’s Electronic
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Reporting Tool (ERT) as listed on the
EPA’s ERT website (https://
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at the time of the test. Submit the results
of the performance test to the EPA via
CEDRI, which can be accessed through
the EPA’s CDX (https://cdx.epa.gov/).
The data must be submitted in a file
format generated through the use of the
EPA’s ERT. Alternatively, you may
submit an electronic file consistent with
the extensible markup language (XML)
schema listed on the EPA’s ERT
website.
(2) Data collected using test methods
that are not supported by the EPA’s ERT
as listed on the EPA’s ERT website at
the time of the test. The results of the
performance test must be included as an
attachment in the ERT or an alternate
electronic file consistent with the XML
schema listed on the EPA’s ERT
website. Submit the ERT generated
package or alternative file to the EPA via
CEDRI.
(3) Confidential business information
(CBI). If you claim some of the
information submitted under paragraph
(i) of this section is CBI, you must
submit a complete file, including
information claimed to be CBI, to the
EPA. The file must be generated through
the use of the EPA’s ERT or an alternate
electronic file consistent with the XML
schema listed on the EPA’s ERT
website. Submit the file on a compact
disc, flash drive, or other commonly
used electronic storage medium and
clearly mark the medium as CBI. Mail
the electronic medium to U.S. EPA/
OAQPS/CORE CBI Office, Attention:
Group Leader, Measurement Policy
Group, MD C404–02, 4930 Old Page Rd.,
Durham, NC 27703. The same file with
the CBI omitted must be submitted to
the EPA via the EPA’s CDX as described
in paragraph (i) of this section.
(i) If you are required to electronically
submit a report or notification through
CEDRI in the EPA’s CDX, you may
assert a claim of EPA system outage for
failure to timely comply with the
reporting requirement. To assert a claim
of EPA system outage, you must meet
the requirements outlined in paragraphs
(i)(1) through (7) of this section.
(1) You must have been or will be
precluded from accessing CEDRI and
submitting a required report within the
time prescribed due to an outage of
either the EPA’s CEDRI or CDX systems.
(2) The outage must have occurred
within the period of time beginning five
business days prior to the date that the
submission is due.
(3) The outage may be planned or
unplanned.
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(4) You must submit notification to
the Administrator in writing as soon as
possible following the date you first
knew, or through due diligence should
have known, that the event may cause
or has caused a delay in reporting.
(5) You must provide to the
Administrator a written description
identifying:
(i) The date(s) and time(s) when CDX
or CEDRI was accessed and the system
was unavailable;
(ii) A rationale for attributing the
delay in reporting beyond the regulatory
deadline to EPA system outage;
(iii) Measures taken or to be taken to
minimize the delay in reporting; and
(iv) The date by which you propose to
report, or if you have already met the
reporting requirement at the time of the
notification, the date you reported.
(6) The decision to accept the claim
of EPA system outage and allow an
extension to the reporting deadline is
solely within the discretion of the
Administrator.
(7) In any circumstance, the report
must be submitted electronically as
soon as possible after the outage is
resolved.
(j) If you are required to electronically
submit a report through CEDRI in the
EPA’s CDX, you may assert a claim of
force majeure for failure to timely
comply with the reporting requirement.
To assert a claim of force majeure, you
must meet the requirements outlined in
paragraphs (j)(1) through (5) of this
section.
(1) You may submit a claim if a force
majeure event is about to occur, occurs,
or has occurred or there are lingering
effects from such an event within the
period of time beginning five business
days prior to the date the submission is
due. For the purposes of this section, a
force majeure event is defined as an
event that will be or has been caused by
circumstances beyond the control of the
affected facility, its contractors, or any
entity controlled by the affected facility
that prevents you from complying with
the requirement to submit a report
electronically within the time period
prescribed. Examples of such events are
acts of nature (e.g., hurricanes,
earthquakes, or floods), acts of war or
terrorism, or equipment failure or safety
hazard beyond the control of the
affected facility (e.g., large scale power
outage).
(2) You must submit notification to
the Administrator in writing as soon as
possible following the date you first
knew, or through due diligence should
have known, that the event may cause
or has caused a delay in reporting.
(3) You must provide to the
Administrator:
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(i) A written description of the force
majeure event;
(ii) A rationale for attributing the
delay in reporting beyond the regulatory
deadline to the force majeure event;
(iii) Measures taken or to be taken to
minimize the delay in reporting; and
(iv) The date by which you propose to
report, or if you have already met the
reporting requirement at the time of the
notification, the date you reported.
(4) The decision to accept the claim
of force majeure and allow an extension
to the reporting deadline is solely
within the discretion of the
Administrator.
(5) In any circumstance, the reporting
must occur as soon as possible after the
force majeure event occurs.
■ 14. Section 63.7132 is amended by
revising paragraphs (a)(2) and (c) to read
as follows:
§ 63.7132
What records must I keep?
(a) * * *
(2) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), the records in
§ 63.6(e)(3)(iii) through (v) related to
startup, shutdown, and malfunction. On
and after the relevant compliance date
for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), the records in paragraphs
(a)(2)(i) and (ii) of this section.
(i) You must keep records for each
startup period of the date, the time
startup began, the time began producing
on-specification lime product, and the
time discharge from the kiln began for
any affected source that is subject to a
standard during startup that differs from
the standard applicable at other times.
(ii) You must keep records of the date,
time, cause and duration of each
malfunction (as defined in 40 CFR 63.2)
that causes an affected source to fail to
meet an applicable standard; if there
was also a monitoring malfunction, the
date, time, cause, and duration of the
monitoring malfunction; the record
must list the affected source or
equipment; if there was a failure to meet
a particulate matter emissions limit, an
estimate of the volume of each regulated
pollutant emitted over the limit, and a
description of the method used to
estimate the emissions.
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(c) You must keep the records
required by Tables 6 and 7 to this
subpart to show continuous compliance
with each emission limitation that
applies to you.
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■ 15. Section 63.7133 is amended by
adding paragraph (d) to read as follows:
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must I keep my records?
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(d) Any records required to be
maintained by this part that are
submitted electronically via the EPA’s
CEDRI may be maintained in electronic
format. This ability to maintain
electronic copies does not affect the
requirement for facilities to make
records, data, and reports available
upon request to a delegated air agency
or the EPA as part of an on-site
compliance evaluation.
■ 16. Section 63.7140 is amended to
read as follows:
§ 63.7140 What parts of the General
Provisions apply to me?
Table 9 to this subpart shows which
parts of the General Provisions in
§§ 63.1 through 63.16 apply to you.
When there is overlap between subpart
A and subpart AAAAA, as indicated in
the ‘‘Explanations’’ column in Table 8,
subpart AAAAA takes precedence.
■ 17. Section 63.7141 is amended by
revising paragraph (c) to read as follows:
§ 63.7141 Who implements and enforces
this subpart?
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(c) The authorities that will not be
delegated to State, local, or tribal
agencies are as specified in paragraphs
(c)(1) through (7) of this section.
(1) Approval of alternatives to the
non-opacity emission limitations in
§ 63.7090(a).
(2) Approval of alternative opacity
emission limitations in § 63.7090(a) and
(c).
(3) Approval of alternatives to the
operating limits in § 63.7090(b).
(4) Approval of major alternatives to
test methods under § 63.7(e)(2)(ii) and
(f) and as defined in § 63.90.
(5) Approval of major alternatives to
monitoring under § 63.8(f) and as
defined in § 63.90.
(6) Approval of major alternatives to
recordkeeping and reporting under
§ 63.10(f) and as defined in § 63.90.
(7) Approval of an alternative to any
electronic reporting to the EPA required
by this subpart.
■ 18. Section 63.7142 is amended by:
■ a. Revising paragraph (a)(1);
■ b. Redesignating paragraphs (a)(2) and
(a)(3) as paragraphs (a)(3) and (a)(4);
■ c. Adding new paragraph (a)(2);
■ d. Revising newly designated
paragraph (a)(4) introductory text, and
paragraphs (a)(4)(i), and (a)(4)(v);
■ e. Redesignating paragraphs (b)(2) and
(b)(3) as paragraphs (b)(3) and (b)(4);
■ f. Adding new paragraph (b)(2); and
■ g. Revising newly designated
paragraphs (b)(3) and (b)(4).
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§ 63.7142 What are the requirements for
claiming area source status?
(a) * * *
(1) EPA Method 320 of appendix A to
this part, or
(2) As an alternative to Method 320 of
Appendix A, ASTM D6348–03
(Reapproved 2010) including Annexes
A1 through A8 (incorporated by
reference—see § 63.14). ASTM D6348–
12e1 (incorporated by reference—see
§ 63.14) is an acceptable alternative to
EPA Method 320 of appendix A,
provided that the provisions of
paragraphs (a)(2)(i) and (ii) of this
section are followed:
(i) The test plan preparation and
implementation in the Annexes to
ASTM D6348–03 (Reapproved 2010),
Sections A1 through A8 are mandatory.
(ii) In ASTM D6348–03 (Reapproved
2010) Annex A5 (Analyte Spiking
Technique), the percent recovery (%R)
must be determined for each target
analyte (Equation A5.5). In order for the
test data to be acceptable for a
compound, %R must be greater than or
equal to 70 percent and less than or
equal to 130 percent. If the %R value
does not meet this criterion for a target
compound, the test data are not
acceptable for that compound and the
test must be repeated for that analyte
(i.e., the sampling and/or analytical
procedure should be adjusted before a
retest). The %R value for each
compound must be reported in the test
report, and all field measurements must
be corrected with the calculated %R
value for that compound by using the
following equation: Reported Results =
((Measured Concentration in the
Stack))/(%R) × 100; or
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(4) As an alternative to EPA Method
321, ASTM Method D6735–01
(Reapproved 2009), (incorporated by
reference—see § 63.14), provided that
the provisions in paragraphs (a)(3)(i)
through (vi) of this section are followed.
(i) A test must include three or more
runs in which a pair of samples is
obtained simultaneously for each run
according to section 11.2.6 of ASTM
Method D6735–01 (Reapproved 2009).
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(v) The post-test analyte spike
procedure of section 11.2.7 of ASTM
Method D6735–01 (Reapproved 2009) is
conducted, and the percent recovery is
calculated according to section 12.6 of
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2009).
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(2) As an alternative to Method 320 of
Appendix A, ASTM D6348–03
(Reapproved 2010) including Annexes
A1 through A8 (incorporated by
reference—see § 63.14). ASTM D6348–
12e1 (incorporated by reference—see
§ 63.14) is an acceptable alternative to
EPA Method 320 of appendix A,
provided that the provisions of
paragraphs (b)(2)(i) and (ii) of this
section are followed:
(i) The test plan preparation and
implementation in the Annexes to
ASTM D6348–03 (Reapproved 2010),
Sections A1 through A8 are mandatory.
(ii) In ASTM D6348–03 (Reapproved
2010) Annex A5 (Analyte Spiking
Technique), the percent recovery (%R)
must be determined for each target
analyte (Equation A5.5). In order for the
test data to be acceptable for a
compound, %R must be greater than or
equal to 70 percent and less than or
equal to 130 percent. If the %R value
does not meet this criterion for a target
compound, the test data are not
acceptable for that compound and the
test must be repeated for that analyte
(i.e., the sampling and/or analytical
procedure should be adjusted before a
retest). The %R value for each
compound must be reported in the test
report, and all field measurements must
be corrected with the calculated %R
value for that compound by using the
following equation: Reported Results =
((Measured Concentration in the
Stack))/(%R) × 100; or
(3) Method 18 of appendix A–6 to part
60 of this chapter; or
(4) As an alternative to Method 18,
ASTM D6420–99 (Reapproved 2010),
(incorporated by reference—see § 63.14),
provided that the provisions of
paragraphs (b)(3)(i) through (iv) of this
section are followed:
(i) The target compound(s) are those
listed in section 1.1 of ASTM D6420–99
(Reapproved 2010) as measurable;
(ii) This ASTM should not be used for
methane and ethane because their
atomic mass is less than 35 and
(iii) ASTM D6420–99 (Reapproved
2010) should never be specified as a
total VOC method.
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■ 19. Section 63.7143 is amended by:
■ a. Revising paragraph (3) under the
definition of ‘‘Deviation.’’
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b. Adding in alphabetical order
definitions for ‘‘On-specification lime
product,’’ ‘‘Shutdown’’ and ‘‘Startup.’’
The revisions read as follows:
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subpart?
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Deviation * * *
(3) Prior to the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), fails to meet any emission
limitation (including any operating
limit) in this subpart during startup,
shutdown, or malfunction, regardless of
whether or not such failure is allowed
by this subpart.
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On-specification Lime Product means
lime product that has been sufficiently
calcined to meet end use requirements.
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Shutdown means the cessation of kiln
operation. Shutdown begins when feed
to the kiln is reduced below planned
production quantities and ends when
stone feed is halted and fuel combustion
from the main burner ceases.
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Startup means the beginning of kiln
operation. Startup begins when a
shutdown kiln begins firing fuel in the
main burner. Startup ends when the
lime kiln first generates on-specification
lime product or 12 hours following first
discharge from the kiln, whichever is
earlier.
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■ 20. Table 1 to subpart AAAAA is
amended by revising the introductory
text to read as follows:
Table 1 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63—
Emission Limits
As required in § 63.7090(a), you must
meet each emission limit in the
following table that applies to you,
except for kilns and coolers during
startup and shutdown (See Table 2 for
emission limits for kilns and coolers
during startup and shutdown).
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■ 21. Redesignate tables 2 through 8 to
subpart AAAAA as tables 3 through 9 to
subpart AAAA.
■ 22. Add new Table 2 to subpart
AAAAA to read as follows:
As required in § 63.7090(b), on and
after the relevant compliance date for
your source as specified in § 63.7083(e),
you must meet each emission limit in
the following table that applies to you.
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TABLE 2 TO SUBPART AAAAA OF PART 63—STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN EMISSION LIMITS FOR KILNS AND COOLERS
For . . .
You must meet the following emission limit
You have demonstrated compliance, if after following
the requirements in § 63.7112 . . .
1. All new and existing lime
kilns and their associated
coolers equipped with an
FF or an ESP during each
startup.
Emissions must not exceed 15 percent opacity (based
on startup period block average).
2. All existing lime kilns and
their associated coolers
that have a wet scrubber
during each startup.
3. All new and existing lime
kilns and their associated
coolers equipped with an
FF or an ESP during shutdown.
See item 2.b of Table 3 of subpart AAAAA for emission
limit.
i. Installed, maintained, calibrated and operated a
COMS as required by 40 CFR part 63, subpart A,
General Provisions and according to PS–1 of appendix B to part 60 of this chapter, except as specified in
§ 63.7113(g)(2);
ii. Collected the COMS data at a frequency of at least
once every 15 seconds, determining block averages
for each startup period and demonstrating for each
startup block period the average opacity does not exceed 15 percent.
See item 1 of Table 6 of subpart AAAAA for requirements for demonstrating compliance.
4. All existing lime kilns and
their associated coolers
that have a wet scrubber
during shutdown.
See item 2.b of Table 3 of subpart AAAAA for emission
limit.
Emissions must not exceed 15 percent opacity (based
on 6-minute average opacity for any 6-minute block
period does not exceed 15 percent).
23. Revise newly redesignated Table 3
to subpart AAAAA to read as follows:
As required in § 63.7090(b), you must
meet each operating limit in the
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i. Installed, maintained, calibrated and operated a
COMS as required by 40 CFR part 63, subpart A,
General Provisions and according to PS–1 of appendix B to part 60 of this chapter, except as specified in
§ 63.7113(g)(2);
ii. Collecting the COMS data at a frequency of at least
once every 15 seconds, determining block averages
for each 6-minute period and demonstrating for each
6-minute block period the average opacity does not
exceed 15 percent.
See item 1 of Table 6 of subpart AAAAA for requirements for demonstrating compliance.
following table that applies to you,
except for kilns and coolers during
startup and shutdown (See Table 2 for
operating limits during startup and
shutdown).
TABLE 3 TO SUBPART AAAAA OF PART 63—OPERATING LIMITS
For . . .
You must . . .
1. Each lime kiln and each lime
cooler (if there is a separate exhaust to the atmosphere from the
associated lime cooler) equipped
with an FF.
2. Each lime kiln equipped with a
wet scrubber.
Maintain and operate the FF such that the BLDS or PM detector alarm condition does not exist for more
than 5 percent of the total operating time in a 6-month period; and comply with the requirements in
§ 63.7113(d) through (f) and Table 6 to this subpart. In lieu of a BLDS or PM detector maintain the FF
such that the 6-minute average opacity for any 6-minute block period does not exceed 15 percent; and
comply with the requirements in § 63.7113(f) and (g) and Table 6 to this subpart.
a. Maintain the 3-hour block exhaust gas stream pressure drop across the wet scrubber greater than or
equal to the pressure drop operating limit established during the most recent PM performance test; and
b. Maintain the 3-hour block scrubbing liquid flow rate greater than the flow rate operating limit established
during the most recent performance test.
Install a PM detector and maintain and operate the ESP such that the PM detector alarm is not activated
and alarm condition does not exist for more than 5 percent of the total operating time in a 6-month period, and comply with § 63.7113(e); or, maintain the ESP such that the 6-minute average opacity for any
6-minute block period does not exceed 15 percent, and comply with the requirements in § 63.7113(g);
and comply with the requirements in § 63.7113(f) and Table 6 to this subpart.
Maintain the 3-hour block average exhaust gas stream pressure drop across the wet scrubber greater than
or equal to the pressure drop operating limit established during the PM performance test; and maintain
the 3-hour block average scrubbing liquid flow rate greater than or equal to the flow rate operating limit
established during the performance test.
Prepare a written OM&M plan; the plan must include the items listed in § 63.7100(d) and the corrective actions to be taken when required in Table 6 to this subpart.
a. Vent captured emissions through a closed system, except that dilution air may be added to emission
streams for the purpose of controlling temperature at the inlet to an FF; and
b. Operate each capture/collection system according to the procedures and requirements in the OM&M
plan.
3. Each lime kiln equipped with an
electrostatic precipitator.
4. Each PSH operation subject to a
PM limit which uses a wet scrubber.
5. All affected sources ....................
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with an add-on air pollution control device.
24. Revise newly redesignated Table 4
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TABLE 4 TO SUBPART AAAAA OF PART 63—INITIAL COMPLIANCE WITH EMISSION LIMITS
For . . .
You have demonstrated initial compliance, if after
following the requirements in § 63.7112 . . .
For the following emission limit . . .
1. All new or existing lime
PM emissions must not exceed 0.12 lb/tsf for all existkilns and their associated
ing kilns/coolers with dry controls, 0.60 lb/tsf for existlime coolers (kilns/coolers).
ing kilns/coolers with wet scrubbers, 0.10 lb/tsf for all
new kilns/coolers, or a weighted average calculated
according to Eq. 3 in § 63.7112.
2. Stack emissions from all
PM emissions must not exceed 0.05 g/dscm .................
PHS operations at a new
or existing affected source.
3. Stack emissions from all
PSH operations at a new
or existing affected
source, unless the stack
emissions are discharged
through a wet scrubber
control device.
4. Fugitive emissions from
all PSH operations at a
new or existing affected
source.
5. All PSH operations at a
new or existing affected
source, enclosed in building.
Emissions must not exceed 7 percent opacity ...............
6. Each FF that controls
emissions from only an individual storage bin.
Emissions must not exceed 7 percent opacity ...............
7. Each set of multiple storage bins with combined
stack emissions.
You must comply with emission limitations in items 2
and 3 of this Table 4.
Emissions must not exceed 10 percent opacity .............
All of the individually affected PSH operations must
comply with the applicable PM and opacity emission
limitations for items 2 through 4 of this Table 4, or
the building must comply with the following: There
must be no VE from the building, except from a vent,
and vent emissions must not exceed the emission
limitations in items 2 and 3 of this Table 4.
25. Revise newly redesignated Table 5
to subpart AAAAA to read as follows:
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The kiln outlet PM emissions (and if applicable,
summed with the separate cooler PM emissions),
based on the PM emissions measured using Method
5 in appendix A to part 60 of this chapter and the
stone feed rate measurement over the period of initial performance test, do not exceed the emission
limit; if the lime kiln is controlled by an FF or ESP
and you are opting to monitor PM emissions with a
BLDS or PM detector, you have installed and are operating the monitoring device according to the requirements in § 63.7113(d) or (e), respectively; and if
the lime kiln is controlled by an FF or ESP and you
are opting to monitor PM emissions using a COMS,
you have installed and are operating the COMS according to the requirements in § 63.7113(g).
The outlet PM emissions, based on Method 5 or Method 17 in appendix A to part 60 of this chapter, over
the period of the initial performance test do not exceed 0.05 g/dscm; and if the emission unit is controlled with a wet scrubber, you have a record of the
scrubber’s pressure drop and liquid flow rate operating parameters over the 3-hour performance test
during which emissions did not exceed the emissions
limitation.
Each of the thirty 6-minute opacity averages during the
initial compliance period, using Method 9 in appendix
A to part 60 of this chapter, does not exceed the 7
percent opacity limit. At least thirty 6-minute averages must be obtained.
Each of the 6-minute opacity averages during the initial
compliance period, using Method 9 in appendix A to
part 60 of this chapter, does not exceed the 10 percent opacity limit.
All the PSH operations enclosed in the building have
demonstrated initial compliance according to the applicable requirements for items 2 through 4 of this
Table 4; or if you are complying with the building
emission limitations, there are no VE from the building according to item 18 of Table 5 to this subpart
and § 63.7112(k), and you demonstrate initial compliance with applicable building vent emissions limitations according to the requirements in items 2 and 3
of this Table 4.
Each of the ten 6-minute averages during the 1-hour
initial compliance period, using Method 9 in appendix
A to part 60 of this chapter, does not exceed the 7
percent opacity limit.
You demonstrate initial compliance according to the requirements in items 2 and 3 of this Table 4.
As required in § 63.7112, you must
conduct each performance test in the
following table that applies to you.
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For . . .
You must . . .
Using . . .
According to the following requirements . . .
1. Each lime kiln and
each associated lime
cooler, if there is a
separate exhaust to
the atmosphere from
the associated lime
cooler.
Select the location of
the sampling port
and the number of
traverse ports.
Method 1 or 1A of appendix A to part 60 of
this chapter; and § 63.6(d)(1)(i).
Sampling sites must be located at the outlet
of the control device(s) and prior to any releases to the atmosphere.
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For . . .
You must . . .
Using . . .
According to the following requirements . . .
2. Each lime kiln and
each associated lime
cooler, if there is a
separate exhaust to
the atmosphere from
the associated lime
cooler.
3. Each lime kiln and
each associated lime
cooler, if there is a
separate exhaust to
the atmosphere from
the associated lime
cooler.
4. Each lime kiln and
each associated lime
cooler, if there is a
separate exhaust to
the atmosphere from
the associated lime
cooler.
5. Each lime kiln and
each associated lime
cooler, if there is a
separate exhaust to
the atmosphere from
the associated lime
cooler, and which
uses a negative
pressure PM control
device.
Determine velocity and
volumetric flow rate.
Method 2, 2A, 2C, 2D, 2F, or 2G in appendix
A to part 60 of this chapter.
Not applicable.
Conduct gas molecular weight analysis.
Method 3, 3A, or 3B in appendix A to part 60
of this chapter.
You may use ASME PTC 19.10–1981—Part
10 (available for purchase from Three Park
Avenue, New York, NY 10016–5990) as an
alternative to using the manual procedures
(but not instrumental procedures) in Method 3B.
Measure moisture
content of the stack
gas.
Method 4 in appendix A to part 60 of this
chapter.
Not applicable.
Measure PM emissions.
Method 5 in appendix A to part 60 of this
chapter.
6. Each lime kiln and
each associated lime
cooler, if there is a
separate exhaust to
the atmosphere from
the associated lime
cooler, and which
uses a positive pressure FF or ESP.
Measure PM emissions.
Method 5D in appendix A to part 60 of this
chapter.
7. Each lime kiln ..........
Determine the mass
rate of stone feed to
the kiln during the
kiln PM emissions
test.
Establish the operating
limit for the average
gas stream pressure
drop across the wet
scrubber.
Any suitable device .........................................
9. Each lime kiln
equipped with a wet
scrubber.
Establish the operating
limit for the average
liquid flow rate to
the scrubber.
Data from the liquid flow rate measurement
device during the kiln PM performance test.
10. Each lime kiln
equipped with a FF
or ESP that is monitored with a PM detector.
Have installed and
have operating the
BLDS or PM detector prior to the performance test.
Standard operating procedures incorporated
into the OM&M plan.
Conduct the test(s) when the source is operating at representative operating conditions
in accordance with § 63.7(e) before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e) and § 63.7112(b)
on and after the relevant compliance date
for
your
source
as
specified
in
§ 63.7083(e); the minimum sampling volume must be 0.85 dry standard cubic
meter (dscm) (30 dry standard cubic foot
(dscf)); if there is a separate lime cooler
exhaust to the atmosphere, you must conduct the Method 5 test of the cooler exhaust concurrently with the kiln exhaust
test.
Conduct the test(s) when the source is operating at representative operating conditions
in accordance with § 63.7(e) before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e) and § 63.7112(b)
on and after the relevant compliance date
for
your
source
as
specified
in
§ 63.7083(e); if there is a separate lime
cooler exhaust to the atmosphere, you
must conduct the Method 5 test of the separate cooler exhaust concurrently with the
kiln exhaust test.
Calibrate and maintain the device according
to manufacturer’s instructions; the measuring device used must be accurate to
within ±5 percent of the mass rate of stone
feed over its operating range.
The continuous pressure drop measurement
device must be accurate within plus or
minus 1 percent; you must collect the pressure drop data during the period of the performance test and determine the operating
limit according to § 63.7112(j).
The continuous scrubbing liquid flow rate
measuring device must be accurate within
plus or minus 1 percent; you must collect
the flow rate data during the period of the
performance test and determine the operating limit according to § 63.7112(j).
According to the requirements in § 63.7113(d)
or (e), respectively.
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For . . .
You must . . .
Using . . .
According to the following requirements . . .
11. Each lime kiln
equipped with a FF
or ESP that is monitored with a COMS.
Have installed and
have operating the
COMS prior to the
performance test.
According
to
§ 63.7113(g).
12. Each stack emission from a PSH operation, vent from a
building enclosing a
PSH operation, or
set of multiple storage bins with combined stack emissions, which is subject to a PM emission limit.
Measure PM emissions.
Standard operating procedures incorporated
into the OM&M plan and as required by 40
CFR part 63, subpart A, General Provisions and according to PS–1 of appendix B
to part 60 of this chapter, except as specified in § 63.7113(g)(2).
Method 5 or Method 17 in appendix A to part
60 of this chapter.
13. Each stack emission from a PSH operation, vent from a
building enclosing a
PSH operation, or
set of multiple storage bins with combined stack emissions, which is subject to an opacity
limit.
14. Each stack emissions source from a
PSH operation subject to a PM or opacity limit, which uses a
wet scrubber.
15. Each stack emissions source from a
PSH operation subject to a PM or opacity limit, which uses a
wet scrubber.
16. Each FF that controls emissions from
only an individual,
enclosed, new or existing storage bin.
17. Fugitive emissions
from any PSH operation subject to an
opacity limit.
Conduct opacity observations.
Method 9 in appendix A to part 60 of this
chapter.
Establish the average
gas stream pressure
drop across the wet
scrubber.
Data for the gas stream pressure drop measurement device during the PSH operation
stack PM performance test.
Establish the operating
limit for the average
liquid flow rate to
the scrubber.
Data from the liquid flow rate measurement
device during the PSH operation stack PM
performance test.
Conduct opacity observations.
Method 9 in appendix A to part 60 of this
chapter.
Conduct opacity observations.
Method 9 in appendix A to part 60 of this
chapter.
18. Each building enclosing any PSH operation, that is subject to a VE limit.
Conduct VE check .....
The specifications in § 63.7112(k) ..................
26. Amend newly redesignated Table
6 to subpart AAAAA by revising the
introductory text to read as follows:
As required in § 63.7121, you must
demonstrate continuous compliance
with each operating limit listed in Table
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Table 6 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63—
Continuous Compliance With Operating
Limits
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The sample volume must be at least 1.70
dscm (60 dscf); for Method 5, if the gas
stream being sampled is at ambient temperature, the sampling probe and filter may
be operated without heaters; and if the gas
stream is above ambient temperature, the
sampling probe and filter may be operated
at a temperature high enough, but no higher than 121 °C (250 °F), to prevent water
condensation on the filter (Method 17 may
be used only with exhaust gas temperatures of not more than 250 °F).
The test duration must be for at least 3 hours
and you must obtain at least thirty, 6minute averages.
The pressure drop measurement device must
be accurate within plus or minus 1 percent;
you must collect the pressure drop data
during the period of the performance test
and determine the operating limit according
to § 63.7112(j).
The continuous scrubbing liquid flow rate
measuring device must be accurate within
plus or minus 1 percent; you must collect
the flow rate data during the period of the
performance test and determine the operating limit according to § 63.7112(j).
The test duration must be for at least 1 hour
and you must obtain ten 6-minute averages.
The test duration must be for at least 3
hours, but the 3-hour test may be reduced
to 1 hour if, during the first 1-hour period,
there are no individual readings greater
than 10 percent opacity and there are no
more than three readings of 10 percent
during the first 1-hour period.
The performance test must be conducted
while all affected PSH operations within the
building are operating; the performance
test for each affected building must be at
least 75 minutes, with each side of the
building and roof being observed for at
least 15 minutes.
27. Revise newly redesignated Table 7
to subpart AAAAA to read as follows:
As required in § 63.7121 you must
periodically demonstrate compliance
with each opacity and VE limit that
applies to you, according to the
following table:
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EMISSIONS LIMITS
For . . .
For the following emission
limitation . . .
You must demonstrate ongoing compliance . . .
1. Each PSH operation subject to
an opacity limitation as required
in Table 1 to this subpart, or any
vents from buildings subject to an
opacity limitation.
a. 7–10 percent opacity, depending on the PSH operation, as required in Table 1 to this subpart.
2. Any building subject to a VE
limit, according to item 8 of Table
1 to this subpart.
a. No VE ........................................
(i) Conducting a monthly 1-minute VE check of each emission unit in
accordance with § 63.7121(e); the check must be conducted while
the affected source is in operation;
(ii) If no VE are observed in 6 consecutive monthly checks for any
emission unit, you may decrease the frequency of VE checking
from monthly to semi-annually for that emission unit; if VE are observed during any semiannual check, you must resume VE checking of that emission unit on a monthly basis and maintain that
schedule until no VE are observed in 6 consecutive monthly
checks;
(iii) If no VE are observed during the semiannual check for any emission unit, you may decrease the frequency of VE checking from
semi-annually to annually for that emission unit; if VE are observed
during any annual check, you must resume VE checking of that
emission unit on a monthly basis and maintain that schedule until
no VE are observed in 6 consecutive monthly checks; and
(iv) If VE are observed during any VE check, you must conduct a 6minute test of opacity in accordance with Method 9 of appendix A
to part 60 of this chapter; you must begin the Method 9 test within
1 hour of any observation of VE and the 6-minute opacity reading
must not exceed the applicable opacity limit.
(i) Conducting a monthly VE check of the building, in accordance with
the specifications in § 63.7112(k); the check must be conducted
while all the enclosed PSH operations are operating;
(ii) The check for each affected building must be at least 5 minutes,
with each side of the building and roof being observed for at least
1 minute;
(iii) If no VE are observed in 6 consecutive monthly checks of the
building, you may decrease the frequency of checking from monthly to semi-annually for that affected source; if VE are observed during any semi-annual check, you must resume checking on a
monthly basis and maintain that schedule until no VE are observed
in 6 consecutive monthly checks; and
(iv) If no VE are observed during the semi-annual check, you may
decrease the frequency of checking from semi-annually to annually
for that affected source; and if VE are observed during any annual
check, you must resume checking of that emission unit on a
monthly basis and maintain that schedule until no VE are observed
in 6 consecutive monthly checks (the source is in compliance if no
VE are observed during any of these checks).
28. Revise newly redesignated Table 8
to subpart AAAAA to read as follows:
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As required in § 63.7131, you must
submit each report in this table that
applies to you.
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You must submit a . . .
The report must contain . . .
You must submit the report . . .
1. Compliance report ...........
a. If there are no deviations from any emission limitations (emission limit, operating limit, opacity limit, and
VE limit) that applies to you, a statement that there
were no deviations from the emission limitations during the reporting period;
b. If there were no periods during which the CMS, including any operating parameter monitoring system,
was out-of-control as specified in § 63.8(c)(7), a
statement that there were no periods during which
the CMS was out-of-control during the reporting period;
c. If you have a deviation from any emission limitation
(emission limit, operating limit, opacity limit, and VE
limit) during the reporting period, the report must contain the information in § 63.7131(d);
Semiannually according
§ 63.7131(b).
to
the
requirements
in
Semiannually according
§ 63.7131(b).
to
the
requirements
in
Semiannually according
§ 63.7131(b).
to
the
requirements
in
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TABLE 8 TO SUBPART AAAAA OF PART 63—REQUIREMENTS FOR REPORTS—Continued
You must submit a . . .
2. Before the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), an immediate startup, shutdown,
and malfunction report if
you had a startup, shutdown, or malfunction during the reporting period
that is not consistent with
your SSMP.
3. Before the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in
§ 63.7083(e), an immediate startup, shutdown,
and malfunction report if
you had a startup, shutdown, or malfunction during the reporting period
that is not consistent with
your SSMP.
(4) Performance Test Report
The report must contain . . .
You must submit the report . . .
d. If there were periods during which the CMS, including any operating parameter monitoring system, was
out-of-control, as specified in § 63.8(c)(7), the report
must contain the information in § 63.7131(e); and
e. Before the relevant compliance date for your source
as specified in § 63.7083(e), if you had a startup,
shutdown or malfunction during the reporting period
and you took actions consistent with your SSMP, the
compliance report must include the information in
§ 63.10(d)(5)(i). On and after the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in § 63.7083(e), if
you had a startup, shutdown or malfunction during
the reporting period and you failed to meet an applicable standard, the compliance report must include
the information in § 63.7131(c)(3).
Actions taken for the event .............................................
Semiannually according
§ 63.7131(b).
to
the
requirements
in
Semiannually according
§ 63.7131(b).
to
the
requirements
in
The information in § 63.10(d)(5)(ii) ..................................
By letter within 7 working days after the end of the
event unless you have made alternative arrangements
with
the
permitting
authority.
See
§ 63.10(d)(5)(ii).
The information required in § 63.7(g) ..............................
According to the requirements of § 63.7131.
29. Revise newly redesignated Table 9
to subpart AAAAA to read as follows:
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By fax or telephone within 2 working days after starting
actions inconsistent with the SSMP.
As required in § 63.7140, you must
comply with the applicable General
Provisions requirements according to
the following table:
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Citation
Summary of requirement
Am I subject to this requirement?
§ 63.1(a)(1)–(4) ..............................
§ 63.1(a)(5) .....................................
§ 63.1(a)(6) .....................................
§ 63.1(a)(7)–(a)(9) ..........................
§ 63.1(a)(10)–(a)(14) ......................
§ 63.1(b)(1) .....................................
Applicability ...................................
.......................................................
Applicability ...................................
.......................................................
Applicability ...................................
Initial Applicability Determination ..
Yes.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
§ 63.1(b)(2) .....................................
§ 63.1(b)(3) .....................................
§ 63.1(c)(1) .....................................
No.
Yes.
Yes.
§ 63.1(c)(2) .....................................
.......................................................
Initial Applicability Determination ..
Applicability After Standard Established.
Permit Requirements ....................
§ 63.1(c)(3)–(4) ..............................
§ 63.1(c)(5) .....................................
§ 63.1(d) .........................................
§ 63.1(e) .........................................
§ 63.2 .............................................
§ 63.3(a)–(c) ...................................
§ 63.4(a)(1)–(a)(2) ..........................
§ 63.4(a)(3)–(a)(5) ..........................
.......................................................
Area Source Becomes Major .......
.......................................................
Applicability of Permit Program ....
Definitions .....................................
Units and Abbreviations ...............
Prohibited Activities ......................
.......................................................
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
Yes.
Yes.
No.
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§§ 63.7081 and 63.7142 specify
additional applicability determination requirements.
Area sources not subject to subpart AAAAA, except all sources
must make initial applicability
determination.
Additional definitions in § 63.7143.
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Citation
Summary of requirement
Am I subject to this requirement?
§ 63.4(b)–(c) ...................................
§ 63.5(a)(1)–(2) ..............................
§ 63.5(b)(1) .....................................
§ 63.5(b)(2) .....................................
§ 63.5(b)(3)–(4) ..............................
Circumvention, Severability ..........
Construction/Reconstruction .........
Compliance Dates ........................
.......................................................
Construction Approval, Applicability.
.......................................................
Applicability ...................................
.......................................................
Approval of Construction/Reconstruction.
Approval of Construction/Reconstruction.
Approval of Construction/Reconstruction.
Compliance for Standards and
Maintenance.
Compliance Dates ........................
.......................................................
Compliance Dates ........................
Compliance Dates ........................
.......................................................
Compliance Dates ........................
.......................................................
General Duty to Minimize Emissions.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
§ 63.5(b)(5) .....................................
§ 63.5(b)(6) .....................................
§ 63.5(c) .........................................
§ 63.5(d)(1)–(4) ..............................
§ 63.5(e) .........................................
§ 63.5(f)(1)–(2) ...............................
§ 63.6(a) .........................................
§ 63.6(b)(1)–(5) ..............................
§ 63.6(b)(6) .....................................
§ 63.6(b)(7) .....................................
§ 63.6(c)(1)–(2) ..............................
§ 63.6(c)(3)–(c)(4) ..........................
§ 63.6(c)(5) .....................................
§ 63.6(d) .........................................
§ 63.6(e)(1)(i) .................................
§ 63.6(e)(1)(ii) .................................
Requirement to Correct Malfunctions ASAP.
§ 63.6(e)(1)(iii) ................................
Operation and Maintenance Requirements.
.......................................................
Startup, Shutdown Malfunction
Plan.
§ 63.6(e)(2) .....................................
§ 63.6(e)(3) .....................................
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes.
No .................................................
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No .................................................
SSM exemption ............................
§ 63.6(f)(2)–(3) ...............................
Methods for Determining Compliance.
Alternative Standard .....................
SSM exemption ............................
Yes.
Yes.
§ 63.6(h)(3) .....................................
§ 63.6(h)(4)–(h)(5)(i) .......................
Methods for Determining Compliance.
.......................................................
Opacity/VE Standards ..................
§ 63.6(h)(5) (ii)–(iii) .........................
Opacity/VE Standards ..................
No .................................................
§ 63.6(h)(5)(iv) ................................
§ 63.6(h)(5)(v) ................................
§ 63.6(h)(6) .....................................
§ 63.6(h)(7) .....................................
§ 63.6(h)(8) .....................................
§ 63.6(h)(9) .....................................
§ 63.6(i)(1)–(i)(14) ..........................
§ 63.6(i)(15) ....................................
Opacity/VE Standards ..................
Opacity/VE Standards ..................
Opacity/VE Standards ..................
COM Use ......................................
Compliance with Opacity and VE
Adjustment of Opacity Limit .........
Extension of Compliance ..............
.......................................................
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
§ 63.6(h)(2) .....................................
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Yes.
No.
Yes.
§ 63.6(f)(1) ......................................
§ 63.6(g)(1)–(g)(3) ..........................
§ 63.6(h)(1) .....................................
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Yes.
No .................................................
No.
Yes ................................................
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On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), see
§ 63.7100 for general duty requirement.
[Reserved].
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), the
OM&M plan must address periods of startup and shutdown.
See § 63.7100(d).
See § 63.7100. For periods of
startup and shutdown, see
§ 63.7090(c).
See § 63.7100. For periods of
startup and shutdown, see
§ 63.7090(c).
This requirement only applies to
opacity and VE performance
checks required in Table 4 to
subpart AAAAA.
Test durations are specified in
subpart
AAAAA;
subpart
AAAAA takes precedence.
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Citation
Summary of requirement
Am I subject to this requirement?
§ 63.6(i)(16) ....................................
§ 63.6(j) ..........................................
§ 63.7(a)(1)–(a)(3) ..........................
Extension of Compliance ..............
Exemption from Compliance ........
Performance Testing Requirements.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
§ 63.7(b) .........................................
§ 63.7(c) .........................................
§ 63.7(d) .........................................
§ 63.7(e)(1) .....................................
Notification ....................................
Quality Assurance/Test Plan ........
Testing Facilities ...........................
Conduct of Tests ..........................
§ 63.7(e)(2)–(4) ..............................
§ 63.7(f) ..........................................
§ 63.7(g) .........................................
§ 63.7(h) .........................................
§ 63.8(a)(1) .....................................
§ 63.8(a)(2) .....................................
§ 63.8(a)(3) .....................................
§ 63.8(a)(4) .....................................
§ 63.8(b)(1)–(3) ..............................
§ 63.8(c)(1)(i) ..................................
Conduct of Tests ..........................
Alternative Test Method ...............
Data Analysis ................................
Waiver of Tests ............................
Monitoring Requirements .............
Monitoring .....................................
.......................................................
Monitoring .....................................
Conduct of Monitoring ..................
CMS Operation/Maintenance .......
§ 63.8(c)(1)(ii) .................................
§ 63.8(c)(1)(iii) ................................
CMS Spare Parts .........................
Requirement to Develop SSM
Plan for CMS.
§ 63.8(c)(2)–(3) ..............................
§ 63.8(c)(4) .....................................
§ 63.8(c)(4)(i)–(ii) ............................
CMS Operation/Maintenance .......
CMS Requirements ......................
Cycle Time for COM and CEMS ..
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
Yes.
No.
No .................................................
Yes.
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes.
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes.
No .................................................
Yes ................................................
§ 63.8(c)(5) .....................................
§ 63.8(c)(6) .....................................
§ 63.8(c)(7)–(8) ..............................
§ 63.8(d)(1)–(2) ..............................
§ 63.8(d)(3) .....................................
Minimum COM procedures ..........
CMS Requirements ......................
CMS Requirements ......................
Quality Control ..............................
Quality Control ..............................
§ 63.8(e) .........................................
§ 63.8(f)(1)–(f)(5) ............................
§ 63.8(f)(6) ......................................
§ 63.9(e) .........................................
§ 63.9(f) ..........................................
Performance Evaluation for CMS
Alternative Monitoring Method ......
Alternative to Relative Accuracy
Test for CEMS.
Data Reduction; Data That Cannot Be Used.
Notification Requirements ............
Initial Notifications .........................
Request for Compliance Extension.
New Source Notification for Special Compliance Requirements.
Notification of Performance Test ..
Notification of VE/Opacity Test ....
§ 63.9(g) .........................................
Additional CMS Notifications ........
§ 63.8(g)(1)–(g)(5) ..........................
§ 63.9(a) .........................................
§ 63.9(b) .........................................
§ 63.9(c) .........................................
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No .................................................
Yes.
Yes ................................................
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes ................................................
Yes.
No .................................................
No .................................................
Yes ................................................
Yes.
Yes.
Explanations
§ 63.7110 specifies deadlines;
§ 63.7112 has additional specific requirements.
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), see
§ 63.7112(b).
See § 63.7113.
Flares not applicable.
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), see
§ 63.7100 for OM&M requirements.
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), no
longer required.
See § 63.7121.
No CEMS are required under
subpart AAAAA; see § 63.7113
for CPMS requirements.
COM not required.
See § 63.7113.
See also § 63.7113.
See also § 63.7113.
No CEMS required in subpart
AAAAA.
See data reduction requirements
in §§ 63.7120 and 63.7121.
See § 63.7130.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
No .................................................
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Summary of requirement
Am I subject to this requirement?
Explanations
§ 63.9(h)(1)–(h)(3) ..........................
§ 63.9(h)(4) .....................................
§ 63.9(h)(5)–(h)(6) ..........................
§ 63.9(i) ..........................................
§ 63.9(j) ..........................................
§ 63.10(a) .......................................
Notification of Compliance Status
.......................................................
Notification of Compliance Status
Adjustment of Deadlines ..............
Change in Previous Information ...
Recordkeeping/Reporting General
Requirements.
Records ........................................
Recordkeeping of Occurrence and
Duration of Startups and Shutdowns.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
See §§ 63.7131 through 63.7133.
§ 63.10(b)(1) ...................................
§ 63.10(b)(2)(i) ...............................
§ 63.10(b)(2)(ii) ...............................
Recordkeeping of
Meet a Standard.
§ 63.10(b)(2)(iii) ..............................
§ 63.10(b)(2)(iv)–(v) .......................
Maintenance Records ...................
Actions Taken to Minimize Emissions During SSM.
§ 63.10(b)(2)(vi)–(xii) ......................
§ 63.10(b)(2)(xiii) ............................
Recordkeeping for CMS ...............
Records for Relative Accuracy
Test.
Records for Notification ................
Applicability Determinations .........
Additional CMS Recordkeeping ...
General Reporting Requirements
Performance Test Results ............
Opacity or VE Observations .........
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§ 63.10(b)(3) ...................................
§ 63.10(c) .......................................
§ 63.10(d)(1) ...................................
§ 63.10(d)(2) ...................................
§ 63.10(d)(3) ...................................
Failures
to
§ 63.10(d)(4) ...................................
§ 63.10(d)(5)(i) ...............................
Progress Reports ..........................
Periodic Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction Reports.
§ 63.10(d)(5)(ii) ...............................
Immediate Startup, Shutdown,
Malfunction Reports.
§ 63.10(e) .......................................
Additional CMS Reports ...............
§ 63.10(f) ........................................
Waiver for Recordkeeping/Reporting.
Control Device and Work Practice
Requirements.
State Authority and Delegations ...
State/Regional Addresses ............
Incorporation by Reference ..........
Availability of Information and
Confidentiality.
§ 63.11(a)–(b) .................................
§ 63.12(a)–(c)
§ 63.13(a)–(c)
§ 63.14(a)–(b)
§ 63.15(a)–(b)
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Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes.
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No .................................................
Yes.
Yes.
Yes ................................................
Yes.
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
Yes before the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No on and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e).
No .................................................
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), see
§ 63.7132 for recordkeeping of
(1) date, time and duration; (2)
listing of affected source or
equipment, and an estimate of
the quantity of each regulated
pollutant emitted over the
standard; and (3) actions to
minimize emissions and correct
the failure.
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), see
§ 63.7100 for OM&M requirements.
See § 63.7132.
For the periodic monitoring requirements in Table 7 to subpart AAAAA, report according
to § 63.10(d)(3) only if VE observed and subsequent visual
opacity test is required.
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in § 63.7083(e), see
§ 63.7131 for malfunction reporting requirements.
See specific requirements in subpart AAAAA, see § 63.7131.
Yes.
No .................................................
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Yes.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
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Summary of requirement
Am I subject to this requirement?
§ 63.16 ...........................................
Performance Track Provisions .....
Yes.
§ 63.7831
[AMENDED]
30. In § 63.7831(f)(4), add the phrase
‘‘(incorporated by reference, see
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-12588]
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Vol. 85
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40 CFR Part 63
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime
Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and Technology Review; Final Rule
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Environmental Protection Agency
40 CFR Part 63
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0015; FRL-10009-60-OAR]
RIN 2060-AT08
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime
Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and Technology Review
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: This action finalizes the residual risk and technology review
(RTR) conducted for the Lime Manufacturing source category regulated
under national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
(NESHAP). In addition, we are taking final action addressing periods of
startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM). These final amendments
include new provisions requiring electronic reporting. We are
finalizing our proposed determination that the risks are acceptable and
that the current NESHAP provides an ample margin of safety to protect
public health. We determined that there are no developments in
practices, processes, or control technologies that necessitate
revisions to the standards.
DATES: This final rule is effective on July 24, 2020. The incorporation
by reference (IBR) of certain publications listed in the rule is
approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of July 24, 2020.
ADDRESSES: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
established a docket for this action under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2017-0015. All documents in the docket are listed on the https://www.regulations.gov/ website. Although listed, 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, is not placed on the internet
and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly
available docket materials are available electronically through https://www.regulations.gov/. Out of an abundance of caution for members of
the public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room was
closed to public visitors on March 31, 2020, to reduce the risk of
transmitting COVID-19. Our Docket Center staff will continue to provide
remote customer service via email, phone, and webform. There is a
temporary suspension of mail delivery to the EPA, and no hand
deliveries are currently accepted. For further information and updates
on EPA Docket Center services and the current status, please visit us
online at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this final action,
contact Jim Eddinger, Sector Policies and Programs Division (D243-01),
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711;
telephone number: (919) 541-5426; and email address:
[email protected]. For specific information regarding the risk
modeling methodology, contact James Hirtz, Health and Environmental
Impacts Division (C539-02), Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-0881; and email
address: [email protected]. For information about the applicability
of the NESHAP to a particular entity, contact Sara Ayres, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. EPA Region 5 (Mail Code E-19), 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois 60604; telephone number: (312) 353-6266; and email
address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Preamble acronyms and abbreviations. We use multiple acronyms and
terms in this preamble. While this list may not be exhaustive, to ease
the reading of this preamble and for reference purposes, the EPA
defines the following terms and acronyms here:
ACI activated carbon injection
AEGL acute exposure guideline level
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
CAA Clean Air Act
CDX Central Data Exchange
CEDRI Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface
CEMS continuous emission monitoring system
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CRA Congressional Review Act
D/F dioxins and furans
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERPG emergency response planning guideline
ESP electrostatic precipitator
FF fabric filter
FTIR Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
HAP hazardous air pollutants(s)
HCl hydrochloric acid
HF hydrofluoric acid
HI hazard index
HQ hazard quotient
IBR incorporation by reference
ICR Information Collection Request
km kilometer
MACT maximum achievable control technology
MIR maximum individual risk
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NESHAP national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants
NTTAA National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OM&M operations, maintenance, and monitoring
PB-HAP hazardous air pollutants known to be persistent and bio-
accumulative in the environment
PM particulate matter
POM polycyclic organic matter
PRA Paperwork Reduction Act
PS Performance Specification
PSH processed stone handling
REL recommended exposure limit
RFA Regulatory Flexibility Act
RIN Regulatory Information Number
RTR Risk and Technology Review
SSM startup, shutdown, and malfunction
the Court United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit
TOSHI target organ-specific hazard index
tpy tons per year
UMRA Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
VCS voluntary consensus standard
Background information. On September 16, 2019, the EPA proposed
revisions to the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP based on our RTR. In
this action, we are finalizing decisions and revisions for the rule. We
summarize some of the more significant comments we timely received
regarding the proposed rule and provide our responses in this preamble.
A summary of all other public comments on the proposal and the EPA's
responses to those comments is available in Summary of Public Comments
and Responses for the Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and
Technology Review, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0015. A ``track
changes'' version of the regulatory language that incorporates the
changes in this action is available in the docket.
Organization of this document. The information in this preamble is
organized as follows:
Table of Contents
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
B. Where can I get a copy of this document and other related
information?
C. Judicial Review and Administrative Reconsideration
II. Background
A. What is the statutory authority for this action?
B. What is the Lime Manufacturing source category and how does
the NESHAP regulate HAP emissions from the source category?
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C. What changes did we propose for the Lime Manufacturing source
category in our September 16, 2019, proposal?
III. What is included in this final rule?
A. What are the final rule amendments based on the risk review
for the Lime Manufacturing source category?
B. What are the final rule amendments based on the technology
review for the Lime Manufacturing source category?
C. What are the final rule amendments addressing emissions
during periods of SSM?
D. What other changes have been made to the NESHAP?
E. What are the effective and compliance dates of the standards?
IV. What is the rationale for our final decisions and amendments for
the Lime Manufacturing source category?
A. Residual Risk Review for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category
B. Technology Review for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category
C. SSM for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category
D. Electronic Reporting Requirements for the Lime Manufacturing
Source Category
E. IBR
F. Technical and Editorial Changes for the Lime Manufacturing
source category
V. Summary of Cost, Environmental, and Economic Impacts and
Additional Analyses Conducted
A. What are the affected facilities?
B. What are the air quality impacts?
C. What are the cost impacts?
D. What are the economic impacts?
E. What are the benefits?
F. What analysis of environmental justice did we conduct?
G. What analysis of children's environmental health did we
conduct?
VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
A. Executive Orders 12866: Regulatory Planning and Review and
Executive Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review
B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing Regulations and Controlling
Regulatory Costs
C. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
D. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
E. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA)
F. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
G. Executive Order 13175: Consultation and Coordination With
Indian Tribal Governments
H. Executive Order 13045: Protection of Children From
Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks
I. Executive Order 13211: Actions Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use
J. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) and
1 CFR part 51
K. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions to Address
Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations
L. Congressional Review Act (CRA)
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
Regulated entities. Categories and entities potentially regulated
by this action are shown in Table 1 of this preamble.
Table 1--NESHAP and Industrial Source Categories Affected by This Final Action
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NESHAP and source category NAICS\1\ code
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Lime Manufacturing Plants.................... 32741, 33111, 3314, 327125
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\1\ North American Industry Classification System.
Table 1 of this preamble is not intended to be exhaustive, but
rather to provide a guide for readers regarding entities likely to be
affected by the final action for the source category listed. To
determine whether your facility is affected, you should examine the
applicability criteria in the appropriate NESHAP. If you have any
questions regarding the applicability of any aspect of this NESHAP,
please contact the appropriate person listed in the preceding FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this preamble.
B. Where can I get a copy of this document and other related
information?
In addition to being available in the docket, an electronic copy of
this final action will also be available on the internet. Following
signature by the EPA Administrator, the EPA will post a copy of this
final action at: https://www.epa.gov/lime-manufacturing-plants-national-emission-standards-hazardous-air. Following publication in the
Federal Register, the EPA will post the Federal Register version and
key technical documents at this same website.
Additional information is available on the RTR website at https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/risk-and-technology-review-national-emissions-standards-hazardous. This information
includes an overview of the RTR program and links to project websites
for the RTR source categories.
C. Judicial Review and Administrative Reconsideration
Under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 307(b)(1), judicial review of
this final action is available only by filing a petition for review in
the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
(the Court) by September 22, 2020. Under CAA section 307(b)(2), the
requirements established by this final rule may not be challenged
separately in any civil or criminal proceedings brought by the EPA to
enforce the requirements.
Section 307(d)(7)(B) of the CAA further provides that only an
objection to a rule or procedure which was raised with reasonable
specificity during the period for public comment (including any public
hearing) may be raised during judicial review. This section also
provides a mechanism for the EPA to reconsider the rule if the person
raising an objection can demonstrate to the Administrator that it was
impracticable to raise such objection within the period for public
comment or if the grounds for such objection arose after the period for
public comment (but within the time specified for judicial review) and
if such objection is of central relevance to the outcome of the rule.
Any person seeking to make such a demonstration should submit a
Petition for Reconsideration to the Office of the Administrator, U.S.
EPA, Room 3000, WJC South Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460, with a copy to both the person(s) listed in the
preceding FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section, and the Associate
General Counsel for the Air and Radiation Law Office, Office of General
Counsel (Mail Code 2344A), U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460.
II. Background
A. What is the statutory authority for this action?
Section 112 of the CAA establishes a two-stage regulatory process
to address emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) from stationary
sources. In the first stage, we must identify categories of sources
emitting one or more of the HAP listed in CAA section 112(b) and then
promulgate technology-based NESHAP for those sources. ``Major sources''
are those that emit, or have the potential to emit, any single HAP at a
rate of 10 tons per year (tpy) or more, or 25 tpy or more of any
combination of
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HAP. For major sources, these standards are commonly referred to as
maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards and must reflect
the maximum degree of emission reductions of HAP achievable (after
considering cost, energy requirements, and non-air quality health and
environmental impacts). In developing MACT standards, CAA section
112(d)(2) directs the EPA to consider the application of measures,
processes, methods, systems, or techniques, including, but not limited
to, those that reduce the volume of or eliminate HAP emissions through
process changes, substitution of materials, or other modifications;
enclose systems or processes to eliminate emissions; collect, capture,
or treat HAP when released from a process, stack, storage, or fugitive
emissions point; are design, equipment, work practice, or operational
standards; or any combination of the above.
For these MACT standards, the statute specifies certain minimum
stringency requirements, which are referred to as MACT floor
requirements, and which may not be based on cost considerations. See
CAA section 112(d)(3). For new sources, the MACT floor cannot be less
stringent than the emission control achieved in practice by the best-
controlled similar source. The MACT standards for existing sources can
be less stringent than floors for new sources, but they cannot be less
stringent than the average emission limitation achieved by the best-
performing 12 percent of existing sources in the category or
subcategory (or the best-performing five sources for categories or
subcategories with fewer than 30 sources). In developing MACT
standards, we must also consider control options that are more
stringent than the floor under CAA section 112(d)(2). We may establish
standards more stringent than the floor, based on the consideration of
the cost of achieving the emissions reductions, any non-air quality
health and environmental impacts, and energy requirements.
In the second stage of the regulatory process, the CAA requires the
EPA to undertake two different analyses, which we refer to as the
technology review and the residual risk review. Under the technology
review, we must review the technology-based standards and revise them
``as necessary (taking into account developments in practices,
processes, and control technologies)'' no less frequently than every 8
years, pursuant to CAA section 112(d)(6). Under the residual risk
review, we must evaluate the risk to public health remaining after
application of the technology-based standards and revise the standards,
if necessary, to provide an ample margin of safety to protect public
health or to prevent, taking into consideration costs, energy, safety,
and other relevant factors, an adverse environmental effect. The
residual risk review is required within 8 years after promulgation of
the technology-based standards, pursuant to CAA section 112(f). In
conducting the residual risk review, if the EPA determines that the
current standards provide an ample margin of safety to protect public
health, it is not necessary to revise the MACT standards pursuant to
CAA section 112(f).\1\ For more information on the statutory authority
for this rule, see 84 FR 48708, September 16, 2019.
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\1\ The Court has affirmed this approach of implementing CAA
section 112(f)(2)(A): NRDC v. EPA, 529 F.3d 1077, 1083 (D.C. Cir.
2008) (``If EPA determines that the existing technology-based
standards provide an `ample margin of safety,' then the Agency is
free to readopt those standards during the residual risk
rulemaking.'').
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B. What is the Lime Manufacturing source category and how does the
NESHAP regulate HAP emissions from the source category?
The EPA promulgated the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP on January
5, 2004 (69 FR 394). The standards are codified at 40 CFR part 63,
subpart AAAAA. The lime manufacturing industry consists of facilities
that use a lime kiln to produce lime product from limestone by
calcination. The source category covered by this MACT standard
currently includes 35 facilities.
As promulgated in 2004, the NESHAP regulates HAP emissions from all
new and existing lime manufacturing plants that are major sources, co-
located with major sources, or are part of major sources. However, lime
manufacturing plants located at pulp and paper mills or at beet sugar
factories are not subject to the NESHAP. Other captive lime
manufacturing plants, such as (but not limited to) those at steel mills
and magnesia production facilities, are subject to the NESHAP. See 67
FR 78053 explaining the basis for these determinations. A lime
manufacturing plant is defined as any plant which uses a lime kiln to
produce lime product from limestone or other calcareous material by
calcination. However, the NESHAP specifically excludes lime kilns that
use only calcium carbonate waste sludge from water softening processes
as the feedstock.
The NESHAP defines the affected source as follows: Each lime kiln
and its associated cooler and each individual processed stone handling
(PSH) operations system. The PSH operations system includes all
equipment associated with PSH operations beginning at the process stone
storage bin(s) or open storage pile(s) and ending where the process
stone is fed into the kiln. It includes man-made process stone storage
bins (but not open process stone storage piles), conveying system
transfer points, bulk loading or unloading systems, screening
operations, surge bins, bucket elevators, and belt conveyors. The
materials processing operations associated with lime products, lime
kiln dust handling, quarry or mining operations, limestone sizing
operations, and fuels are not subject to the NESHAP. Finally, lime
hydrators and cooler nuisance dust collectors are not included under
the definition of affected source under the NESHAP.
The NESHAP established particulate matter (PM) emission limits for
lime kilns, coolers, and PSH operations with stacks. The NESHAP also
established opacity limits for PSH operations without stacks and for
kilns equipped with electrostatic precipitators (ESP) and fabric
filters (FF). For kilns equipped with wet scrubbers, the NESHAP
established scrubbing liquid flow rate and exhaust gas stream pressure
drop limits. PM serves as a surrogate for the non-volatile and semi-
volatile metal HAP. The NESHAP also regulates opacity or visible
emissions from most of the PSH operations, with opacity also serving as
a surrogate for non-volatile and semivolatile HAP metals. Refer to
section II.B of the proposal preamble (84 FR 48711, September 16, 2019)
for additional information on the HAP emissions regulated by the
NESHAP.
C. What changes did we propose for the Lime Manufacturing source
category in our September 16, 2019, proposal?
On September 16, 2019, the EPA published a proposed rule in the
Federal Register for the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP, 40 CFR part
63, subpart AAAAA, that took into consideration the RTR analyses. In
the proposed rule, we proposed:
No revisions to the numerical emission limits based on the
RTR;
revisions to the SSM provisions of the NESHAP in order to
ensure that they are consistent with the Court decision in Sierra Club
v. EPA, 551 F. 3d 1019 (D.C. Cir. 2008), which vacated two provisions
that exempted source owners and operators from the requirement to
comply with otherwise applicable CAA section 112(d) emission standards
during periods of SSM;
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a requirement for electronic submittal of notifications,
semi-annual reports, and compliance reports (which includes performance
test reports); and
IBR of alternative test methods and references.
III. What is included in this final rule?
This action finalizes the EPA's determinations pursuant to the RTR
provisions of CAA section 112 for the Lime Manufacturing source
category. This action also finalizes other changes to the NESHAP,
including revising the SSM provisions of the NESHAP; a requirement for
electronic submittal of notifications, semi-annual reports, compliance
reports, and performance test reports; adding an alternative test
method to EPA Method 320; and IBR of alternative test methods and
references to updated alternative test methods. This action also
reflects several changes to the September 2019 proposal in
consideration of comments received during the public comment period
described in section IV of this preamble.
A. What are the final rule amendments based on the risk review for the
Lime Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed no changes to 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA NESHAP
based on the risk review conducted pursuant to CAA section 112(f). In
this action, we are finalizing our proposed determination that risks
from the source category are acceptable, the standards provide an ample
margin of safety to protect public health, and more stringent standards
are not necessary to prevent an adverse environmental effect. The EPA
received no new data or other information during the public comment
period that causes us to change that proposed determination. Therefore,
we are not making any revisions to the existing standards under CAA
section 112(f), and we are readopting the existing standards.
B. What are the final rule amendments based on the technology review
for the Lime Manufacturing source category?
We determined that there are no developments in practices,
processes, and control technologies that necessitate revisions to the
MACT standards for this source category. Therefore, we are not
finalizing revisions to the MACT standards under CAA section 112(d)(6).
C. What are the final rule amendments addressing emissions during
periods of SSM?
The EPA is finalizing, with some revisions, the proposed amendments
to the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP to remove and revise provisions
related to SSM. In its 2008 decision in Sierra Club v. EPA, 551 F.3d
1019 (D.C. Cir. 2008), the Court vacated portions of two provisions in
the EPA's CAA section 112 regulations governing the emissions of HAP
during periods of SSM. Specifically, the Court vacated the SSM
exemption contained in 40 CFR 63.6(f)(1) and (h)(1), holding that under
section 302(k) of the CAA, emissions standards or limitations must be
continuous in nature and that the SSM exemption violates the CAA's
requirement that there must always be a CAA section 112 standard that
applies. We are finalizing our proposal to eliminate the SSM exemption
in this rule. As detailed in section IV.D of the proposal preamble (84
FR 48727, September 16, 2019), we proposed to require that the emission
limitations apply at all times (see 40 CFR 63.7100(a)), consistent with
the Court decision in Sierra Club v. EPA, 551 F. 3d 1019 (D.C. Cir.
2008).
We have also revised Table 8 to subpart AAAAA of part 63 (the
General Provisions applicability table) in several respects, as is
explained in more detail below in section IV.C. For example, we have
eliminated the incorporation of the General Provisions' requirement
that the source develops an SSM plan. We have also eliminated and
revised certain recordkeeping and reporting that is related to the SSM
exemption as described in detail in the proposal and summarized below
in section IV.C. As discussed in the proposal preamble, these revisions
are consistent with the requirement in 40 CFR 63.7100(a) that the
standards apply at all times. Refer to section IV.C of this preamble
for a detailed discussion of these amendments.
The EPA is finalizing standards for startup and shutdown that
differ in some respects from the startup and shutdown standards that
were proposed. Changes from the proposal to the standards for periods
of startup and shutdown being finalized reflect the EPA's re-evaluation
of appropriate startup and shutdown standards in light of public
comments. The EPA's rationale for those changes is discussed in section
IV.C. below.
The proposed definition of ``Startup'' has been revised by changing
the wording from ``lime product'' to ``on-specification lime product''
and adding an alternate ending to startup. Commenters stated that the
term ``lime product'' is not specific enough and that off-specification
product is discharged almost simultaneously upon startup. In addition,
the EPA is not finalizing the proposed work practices for periods of
startup. For periods of startup, the EPA has instead established
opacity emission limits for kilns equipped with FFs or ESPs. The EPA is
not establishing different standards for kilns equipped with wet
scrubbers during periods of startup and such kilns must comply with the
same standard that apply at all other times. Also, during shutdown,
kilns equipped with FFs, ESPs, or wet scrubbers must comply with the
same standards that apply during normal operation. (See Table 2 of 40
CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA--Startup and Shutdown Emission Limits).
Further, the EPA is not finalizing different standards for
malfunctions and sources must meet applicable standards during periods
of malfunction. As discussed in the September 16, 2018, proposal
preamble, the EPA interprets CAA section 112 as not requiring emissions
that occur during periods of malfunction to be factored into
development of CAA section 112 standards, although the EPA has the
discretion to set standards for malfunctions where feasible. Refer to
section IV.D of the proposal preamble for further discussion of the
EPA's rationale for the decision not to set standards for malfunctions.
D. What other changes have been made to the NESHAP?
Consistent with the proposal, the EPA is finalizing the electronic
reporting requirements, specifically that owners or operators of lime
manufacturing plants submit electronic copies of required performance
test reports, performance evaluation reports, and semiannual compliance
reports through the EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) using the
Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI).
We are finalizing an alternative test method to EPA Method 320 and
incorporating several test methods by reference, as discussed further
in section IV.E of this preamble. We are also finalizing additional
changes that address technical and editorial corrections, as proposed
and as described in section IV.F of this preamble.
E. What are the effective and compliance dates of the standards?
The revisions to the MACT standards being promulgated in this
action are effective on July 24, 2020. The compliance date for the
revised requirements for affected sources that commenced construction
or reconstruction on or before September 16, 2019, is January 20, 2021,
with the exception of the vacated SSM exemptions contained in 40 CFR
63.6(f)(1) and (h)(1). We are revising
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Table 9 of 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA to clarify that for all
affected sources, these exemptions do not apply given the court vacatur
in Sierra Club v. EPA, 551 F. 3d 1019 (D.C. Cir. 2008). The compliance
date for the revised requirements for affected sources that commence
construction or reconstruction after September 16, 2019, is July 24,
2020 or upon initial startup, whichever is later. We are finalizing
changes, as proposed, that would impact ongoing compliance requirements
for 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA. As discussed elsewhere in this
preamble, we are finalizing the requirement that performance test
results, performance evaluation reports, and the semiannual reports
using the new template be submitted electronically. We are also
finalizing changes to the requirements for SSM. For example, we are
removing the exemption from the requirements to meet the standard
during SSM periods and removing the requirement to develop and
implement an SSM plan, as proposed. Our experience with similar
industries that have been required to convert reporting mechanisms,
install necessary hardware, install necessary software, become familiar
with the process of submitting performance test results electronically
through the EPA's CEDRI, test these new electronic submission
capabilities, reliably employ electronic reporting, and convert
logistics of reporting processes to different time-reporting
parameters, shows that a time period of a minimum of 90 days, and more
typically, 180 days, is generally necessary to successfully complete
these changes. Our experience with similar industries further shows
that this sort of regulated facility generally requires a time period
of 180 days to read and understand the amended rule requirements;
evaluate their operations to ensure that they can meet the required
standards during periods of startup and shutdown as defined in the rule
and make any necessary adjustments; adjust parameter monitoring and
recording systems to accommodate revisions; and update their operations
to reflect the revised requirements. The EPA recognizes the confusion
that multiple different compliance dates for individual requirements
would create and the additional burden such an assortment of dates
would impose. From our assessment of the timeframe needed for
compliance with the entirety of the revised requirements, the EPA
considers a period of 180 days to be the most expeditious compliance
period practicable, and, thus, is finalizing the requirement that
existing affected sources be in compliance with all of this
regulation's revised requirements within 180 days of the regulation's
effective date.
IV. What is the rationale for our final decisions and amendments for
the Lime Manufacturing source category?
For each issue, this section provides a description of what we
proposed and what we are finalizing for the issue, the EPA's rationale
for the final decisions and amendments, and a summary of key comments
and responses. For all comments not discussed in this preamble, comment
summaries and the EPA's responses can be found in the comment summary
and response document available in the docket.
A. Residual Risk Review for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category
1. What did we propose pursuant to CAA section 112(f) for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Pursuant to CAA section 112(f), the EPA conducted a risk review and
presented the results for the review, along with our proposed decisions
regarding risk acceptability and ample margin of safety, in the
September 16, 2019, proposed rule for the Lime Manufacturing source
category (84 FR 48708). The results of the risk assessment are
presented briefly in Table 1 of this preamble and in the risk report
titled Residual Risk Assessment for the Lime Manufacturing Plants
Source Category in Support of the 2019 Risk and Technology Review
Proposed Rule, and sections III and IV of the proposal preamble (84 FR
48708, September 16, 2019) available in the docket for this action.
Table 1--Inhalation Risk Assessment Summary for Lime Manufacturing \1\ Source Category
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Maximum individual Population at increased Annual cancer incidence Maximum chronic
cancer risk (in 1 risk of cancer >= 1-in- (cases per year) based noncancer TOSHI \4\
million) \3\ based on 1 million based on . . on . . . based on . . . Maximum
. . . . -------------------------------------------------- screening acute
Number of facilities \2\ -------------------------------------------------- noncancer HQ \5\
Actual Allowable Actual Allowable Actual Allowable Actual Allowable based on actual
emissions emissions emissions emissions emissions emissions emissions emissions emissions level
level level level level level level level level
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35................................ 1 2 12 450 0.001 0.003 0.04 0.05 0.6 (REL)
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\1\ Based on actual and allowable emissions.
\2\ Number of facilities evaluated in the risk assessment. Includes 35 operating facilities subject to 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA.
\3\ Maximum individual excess lifetime cancer risk due to HAP emissions from the source category.
\4\ Maximum target organ-specific hazard index (TOSHI). The target organ with the highest TOSHI for the Lime Manufacturing source category is the
respiratory system.
\5\ The maximum estimated acute exposure concentration was divided by available short-term threshold values to develop an array of hazard quotient (HQ)
values. The acute HQ shown was based upon the lowest acute 1-hour dose-response value, the recommended exposure limit (REL) for elemental mercury.
When an HQ exceeds 1, we also show the HQ using the next lowest available acute dose-response value.
The results of the chronic inhalation cancer risk assessment, based
on actual emissions, show the estimated maximum individual cancer risk
(MIR) posed by the 35 facilities is 1-in-1 million, with metals,
aldehydes, and organic HAP emissions from the lime kiln and cooler
exhaust as the major contributors to the risk. The total estimated
cancer incidence based on actual emission levels is 0.001 excess cancer
cases per year, or one excess case every 1,000 years. About 12 people
are estimated to have cancer risks greater than or equal to 1-in-1
million based on actual emissions from HAP emitted from the 35
facilities in this source category. The maximum chronic noncancer
hazard index (HI) for the source category is estimated to be less than
1 (0.04) based on actual emissions of hydrochloric acid (HCl), nickel
compounds, and acrolein emitted from lime kiln and cooler exhaust. No
one is estimated to have a TOSHI greater than 1 based on actual
emissions.
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The EPA also evaluated the cancer risk at the maximum emissions
allowed by the MACT standard, or ``MACT-allowable emissions.'' Risk
results from the inhalation risk assessment using the MACT-allowable
emissions indicate that the cancer MIR is 2-in-1 million with metals,
aldehydes, and organic HAP emissions from lime kiln and cooler exhaust
driving the risks, and that the maximum chronic noncancer TOSHI value
is 0.05 with HCl, nickel compounds, and acrolein emissions from lime
kiln and cooler exhaust driving the TOSHI. The total cancer incidence
estimated based on allowable emissions from this source category is
0.003 excess cancer cases per year or one excess case every 333 years.
Based on MACT-allowable emission rates, approximately 450 people are
estimated to have cancer risks above 1-in-1 million. No people are
estimated to have a noncancer HI above 1 based on allowable emissions.
For the Lime Manufacturing source category, the maximum acute HQ is
0.6 based on the REL, driven by actual emissions of elemental mercury.
By definition, the acute REL represents a health-protective level of
exposure, with effects not anticipated below those levels, even for
repeated exposures.
We also conducted a multipathway screening assessment for the
source category, and the results of the screening assessment are
presented in the risk report titled Residual Risk Assessment for the
Lime Manufacturing Plants Source Category in Support of the 2019 Risk
and Technology Review Proposed Rule, and section IV of the proposal
preamble (84 FR 48708, September 16, 2019) available in the docket for
this action. A screening value is not an estimate of the cancer risk or
a noncancer HQ (or HI). Rather, a screening value represents a high-end
estimate of what the risk or HQ may be. For this source category the
highest screening values were from mercury emissions, with a Tier 2
screening value of 5 and a Tier 3 screening value of 2 for this
noncarcinogen. We are confident that if a refined multipathway risk
assessment was conducted, the HQ for mercury would be lower than 2.
Further details on the Tier 3 screening assessment can be found in
Appendix 11 of Residual Risk Assessment for the Lime Manufacturing
Source Category in Support of the Risk and Technology Review 2019
Proposed Rule. Dioxin and arsenic emissions resulted in a Tier 2 cancer
screening value of 20, which means that we are confident that the
multipathway cancer risk is lower than 20-in-1 million.
The EPA has determined that it is not necessary to go beyond the
Tier 3 assessment for mercury (to a site-specific assessment) or beyond
the Tier 2 cancer screening assessment. As explained above, the mercury
screening value of 2 is a high-end estimate of what the risk or hazard
may be and can be interpreted to mean that we are confident that the HQ
would be lower than 2. Similarly, we are confident that the excess
cancer risk is less than 20-in-1 million, and evaluation under Tier 3
or a site-specific assessment would further reduce the estimated risk.
Further, risk results from four site-specific mercury assessments the
EPA has conducted for four RTR source categories resulted in noncancer
HQs that range from 50 times to 800 times lower than the respective
Tier 2 mercury screening value for those facilities (refer to Docket ID
No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0015 for a copy of these reports).\2\ Based on our
review of these analyses, we expect if we were to perform a site-
specific assessment for the Lime Manufacturing source category, the
mercury HQ would be at least a one order of magnitude less than the
Tier 2 non-cancer screening value for mercury. Thus, the EPA is
confident that the mercury HQ would be less than 1, if further refined
to incorporate enhanced site-specific analyses such as improved model
boundary identification with improved soil/water run-off calculations
and AERMOD deposition outputs used in the TRIM.FaTE model.
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\2\ EPA Docket records: Appendix 11 of the Residual Risk
Assessment for the Taconite Manufacturing Source Category in Support
of the Risk and Technology Review 2019 Proposed Rule; Appendix 11 of
the Residual Risk Assessment for the Integrated Iron and Steel
Source Category in Support of the Risk and Technology Review 2019
Proposed Rule; Appendix 11 of the Residual Risk Assessment for the
Portland Cement Manufacturing Source Category in Support of the 2018
Risk and Technology Review Final Rule; and Appendix 11 of the
Residual Risk Assessment for the Coal and Oil-Fired EGU Source
Category in Support of the 2018 Risk and Technology Review Proposed
Rule.
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In evaluating the potential for multipathway effects from emissions
of lead, the EPA compared modeled annual lead concentrations to the
secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) level for lead
(0.15 milligram per cubic meter (mg/m\3\), arithmetic mean
concentration over a 3-month period). The highest annual average lead
concentration, 0.0007 mg/m\3\, is far below the NAAQS level for lead,
indicating a low potential for multipathway impacts.
The EPA also conducted an environmental risk screening assessment
for the Lime Manufacturing source category for the following
pollutants: Arsenic, cadmium, dioxins and furans (D/F), HCl, hydrogen
fluoride (HF), lead, mercury (methyl mercury and mercuric chloride),
and polycyclic organic matter (POM). In the Tier 1 screening analysis
for HAP known to be persistent and bio-accumulative in the environment
(PB-HAP) (other than lead, which was evaluated differently), arsenic,
cadmium, and POM emissions had no exceedances of any of the ecological
benchmarks evaluated. D/F emissions had a Tier 1 exceedance at 31
facilities for a surface soil benchmark by a maximum screening value of
30. Divalent mercury emissions had Tier 1 exceedances for the following
benchmarks: Sediment threshold level (one facility), surface soil
threshold level--plant communities (25 facilities), and surface soil
threshold level--invertebrate communities (32 facilities) by a maximum
screening value of 20. Methyl mercury emissions had Tier 1 exceedances
for the following benchmarks: Fish (avian/piscivores) NOAEL--Merganser
(one facility), surface soil no-observed-adverse-effect-level (NOAEL)
for mammalian insectivores--shrew (13 facilities), and surface soil
NOAEL for avian ground insectivores--woodcock (33 facilities) by a
maximum screening value of 40. A Tier 2 screening analysis was
performed for D/F, divalent mercury, and methyl mercury emissions. In
the Tier 2 screening analysis, there were no exceedances of any of the
ecological benchmarks evaluated for any of the pollutants. For lead, we
did not estimate any exceedances of the secondary lead NAAQS. For HCl
and HF, the average modeled concentration around each facility (i.e.,
the average concentration of all off-site data points in the modeling
domain) did not exceed any ecological benchmark. In addition, each
individual modeled concentration of HCl and HF (i.e., each off-site
data point in the modeling domain) was below the ecological benchmarks
for all facilities. Based on the results of the environmental risk
screening analysis, we do not expect an adverse environmental effect as
a result of HAP emissions from this source category.
An assessment of risk from facility-wide actual emissions was
performed to provide context for the source category risks. The maximum
lifetime individual cancer risk posed by the 35 facilities, based on
facility-wide emissions, is 1-in-1 million (estimated for three
facilities), with arsenic, chromium (VI) compounds, and nickel
emissions from fugitive PSH operations driving the risk.
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The total estimated cancer incidence from facility-wide emissions is
0.004 excess cancer cases per year, or one case in every 250 years.
Approximately 30 people are estimated to have cancer risk equal to 1-
in-1 million from facility-wide emissions. The maximum facility-wide
chronic noncancer TOSHI is estimated to be less than 1 (0.4), mainly
driven by emissions of HCl from a facility-wide fugitive area source.
To examine the potential for any environmental justice issues that
might be associated with the source category, the EPA performed a
demographic analysis, which is an assessment of risk to individual
demographic groups of the populations living within 5 kilometers (km)
and within 50 km of the facilities. The results of the Lime
Manufacturing source category demographic analysis indicated that
emissions from the source category expose approximately 12 people to a
cancer risk at or above 1-in-1 million and no people to a chronic
noncancer TOSHI greater than 1. The percentages of the at-risk
population indicated that three of the 10 demographic groups (White,
African American and people below the poverty level) that are living
within 50 km of facilities in the source category exceeded the
corresponding national percentage for the same demographic groups. The
methodology and the results of the demographic analysis are presented
in a technical report, Risk and Technology Review--Analysis of
Demographic Factors for Populations Living Near Lime Manufacturing
Source Category Operations, available in the docket for this action.
The EPA weighed all health risk factors in our risk acceptability
determination, and we proposed that the residual risks from this source
category are acceptable. We then considered whether the NESHAP provides
an ample margin of safety to protect public health, and whether more
stringent standards were necessary to prevent an adverse environmental
effect, by taking into consideration costs, energy, safety, and other
relevant factors. In determining whether the standards provide an ample
margin of safety to protect public health, we examined the same risk
factors that we investigated for our acceptability determination and
also considered the costs, technological feasibility, and other
relevant factors related to emissions control options that might reduce
risk associated with emissions from the source category. We proposed
that the 2004 Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP requirements provide an
ample margin of safety to protect public health. Based on the results
of our environmental risk screening assessment, we also proposed that
more stringent standards are not necessary to prevent an adverse
environmental effect.
2. How did the risk review change for the Lime Manufacturing source
category?
Since proposal, neither the risk assessment nor our determinations
regarding risk acceptability, ample margin of safety, or adverse
environmental effects have changed.
3. What key comments did we receive on the risk review, and what are
our responses?
Additional comments and our specific responses can be found in the
comment summary and response document titled Summary of Public Comments
and Responses for Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and
Technology Review, which is available in the docket for this action.
The EPA received comments in support of and opposed to the proposed
risk review and our determination that no revisions were warranted
under CAA section 112(f)(2). Key comments and responses are discussed
below.
Comment: One commenter stated that there are substantial health
threats from the lime manufacturing industry. The commenter stated that
it is unlawful, arbitrary and capricious for the EPA to do nothing to
reduce any of these emissions or resulting health threats from lime
manufacturing. The commenter stated that the EPA may not lawfully or
rationally find health risks to be ``acceptable'' under CAA section
112(f)(2) when the record shows the opposite, and the EPA has ignored
significant health impacts. The commenter stated that the EPA's
proposal is incomplete and based on analyses that underestimate and
ignore the health risks from the toxic pollution that lime
manufacturing facilities emit into communities.
Response: The EPA disagrees with the comment. Results of the EPA's
risk assessment for the Lime Manufacturing source category indicate
that both the actual and allowable inhalation cancer risks to the
individual most exposed are less than or equal to 2-in-1 million, well
below the presumptive limit of acceptability of 100-in-1 million. The
actual and allowable inhalation noncancer risks to the individual most
exposed are below a HQ of 1. Based on the conservative nature of the
multipathway screens, we find the Tier 2 screening values (D/F and
arsenic) for cancer and Tier 3 noncancer screening values (cadmium and
mercury) acceptable for the Lime Manufacturing source category. This
determination is based upon the upper-bound cancer screening values of
20 being significantly below an excess cancer risk of 100-in-1 million
and on results from facility-specific assessments for mercury performed
for other source categories. Based upon this experience, we conclude
that if we were to conduct a site-specific risk assessment for the Lime
Manufacturing source category, the risk would result in a HQ value of 1
or lower. For this reason and considering the conservative nature of
the multipathway exposure screening scenario, no further analysis was
performed. In our ample margin of safety analysis, we investigated
available emissions control options that might reduce the risk from the
source category. We considered this information along with all of the
health risks and other health information considered in our
determination of risk acceptability. As part of the proposed ample
margin of safety analysis, we considered activated carbon injection
(ACI) systems, which have not been used or demonstrated on lime kilns,
for controlling D/F and mercury emissions. In both cases, considering
the potential negligible reductions in emissions and the results of our
risk analysis, we concluded that the use of ACI would have little
effect on the source category risks. Due to the already low risk, along
with the substantial costs associated with more stringent standards, we
determined that additional emissions controls for this source category
were not required to provide an ample margin of safety to protect
public health. We have retained this determination in the final rule.
We note that the commenter did not provide detail or supporting
documentation for their comment.
Comment: A commenter urged the EPA to set stronger standards to
bring further protection to communities from lime manufacturing
facilities. The commenter requested that the EPA consider the people
exposed to these facilities' emissions and affected by its proposed
decision not to strengthen the emission limits. The commenter urged the
EPA to exercise its legal authority to end unacceptable risk for
exposed communities and set the ``ample margin of safety to protect
public health'' and prevent an adverse environmental effect, instead of
attempting to avoid the science and the health threats shown in the
record.
Response: The risk assessment demonstrated that health risks due to
air emissions from lime manufacturing sources are acceptable and after
considering available control options
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and all available risk information, the EPA concluded that the current
standards provide an ample margin of safety to protect public health.
These conclusions support the EPA's decision to not revise the existing
emission limits. However, we have amended the final rule to make
corrections to certain provisions and have amended provisions to
clarify their intent and these revisions will result in improved
monitoring and compliance with and implementation of the rule. In
addition, the elimination of the SSM exemption may result in lower HAP
emissions.
Comment: A commenter stated that the EPA underestimated the health
threats to children and from early-life exposure by ignoring increased
risk in childhood and from prenatal exposure.
Response: The EPA disagrees with the comment that the risk
assessment for this source category does not consider the groups that
may be most at-risk (e.g., children). When the EPA derives exposure
reference concentrations and unit risk estimates for metal HAP, it also
considers the most sensitive populations identified in the available
literature and, importantly, these are the values used in our risk
assessments.
We acknowledge that population subgroups, including children, may
have a potential for risk that is greater than the general population
due to greater relative exposure and/or greater susceptibility to the
toxicant. The assessments we undertake to estimate risk account for
this potential vulnerability, for example; the EPA includes exposure
from D/F through ingestion of breast-milk for infants less than 1 year
of age. The EPA also estimates age-specific risks to account for the
higher sensitivity of developing children to mutagens. With respect to
inhalation exposure, the risk assessments we perform implicitly account
for this greater potential for exposure by assuming lifetime exposure,
in which populations are conservatively presumed to be exposed to
airborne concentrations at their residence continuously, 24 hours per
day for a full lifetime, including childhood. With regard to children's
potentially greater susceptibility to noncancer toxicants, the
assessments rely on the EPA's (or comparable) hazard identification and
dose-response values that have been developed to be protective for all
subgroups of the general population, including children.
For example, a review of the chronic reference value process
concluded that the EPA's reference concentration (RfC) derivation
processes adequately considered potential susceptibility of different
subgroups with specific consideration of children, such that the
resultant RfC values pertain to the full human population, ``including
sensitive subgroups,'' a phrase which is inclusive of childhood.\3\
With respect to cancer, the EPA uses the age-dependent adjustment
factor approach referred to by the commenter but limits the use of
those factors only to carcinogenic pollutants that are known to act via
mutagenic mode of action (MOA), in contrast to the California Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment approach, which uses them across
the board for all carcinogens regardless of MOA. In lieu of chemical-
specific data on which age or life-stage specific risk estimates or
potencies can be determined, default age dependent adjustment factors
can be applied when assessing cancer risk for early-life exposures to
chemicals that cause cancer through a mutagenic MOA. With regard to
other carcinogenic pollutants for which early-life susceptibility data
are lacking, it is the EPA's long-standing science policy position that
use of the linear low-dose extrapolation approach (without further
adjustment) provides adequate public health conservatism in the absence
of chemical-specific data indicating differential early-life
susceptibility or when the mode of action is not mutagenicity. The
basis for this methodology is provided in the 2005 Supplemental
Guidance.\4\
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\3\ USEPA, 1994. Methods for derivation of inhalation reference
concentrations and application of inhalation dosimetry. EPA/600/8-
90/066F; https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-11/documents/rfc_methodology.pdf.
\4\ USEPA, 2005b. Supplemental guidance for assessing early-life
exposure to carcinogens. EPA/630/R-03003F. https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/atw/childrens_supplement_final.pdf.
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The estimated risks must be considered in the context of the full
set of assumptions used for this risk assessment. Our unit risk
estimates for HAP are considered a plausible upper-bound estimate with
an appropriate age dependent adjustment; actual potency is likely to be
lower and could be as low as zero. Our chronic noncancer reference
values have been derived considering the potential susceptibility of
different subgroups, with specific consideration of children.
Comment: One commenter stated that the EPA underestimated health
threats to communities exposed to multiple sources by neglecting to add
factors to account for the increased risks caused by such exposure. The
commenter stated that the EPA underestimated the cancer, chronic
noncancer, and acute health risks by using modeling assumptions that
ignore real-world exposures, underestimating risk from chemicals such
as benzene and lead due to the EPA's refusal to follow the best
available science, and neglecting to aggregate cumulative risks.
Response: The EPA's chronic risk assessment modeling accounts for
cumulative cancer risks from emitted carcinogens and for pollutants
that have similar modes of action or (where this information is absent)
that affect the same target organ, we aggregated the HQs. This process
creates, for each target organ, a TOSHI, defined as the sum of HQs for
individual HAP that affect the same organ or organ system.
The modeling conducted also includes the effects of multiple
facilities that may be in close proximity when estimating concentration
and risk impacts at each block centroid. When evaluating the risks
associated with a particular source category, we combined the impacts
of all facilities within the same source category and assessed chronic
exposure and risk for all census blocks with at least one resident
(i.e., locations where people may reasonably be assumed to reside
rather than receptor points at the fenceline of a facility). The MIR
considers the combined impacts of all sources in the category that may
be in close proximity. This approach is similar for those facilities
within the source category that have an associated or cumulative impact
on neighboring lakes as it relates to assessing multi-pathway impacts
for each of the PB-HAP. Background risks or contributions to risk from
sources outside the source category under review could be one of the
relevant factors considered in the ample margin of safety
determination, along with cost and economic factors, technological
feasibility, and other factors. Background risks and contributions to
risk from sources outside the facilities under review were not
considered in the ample margin of safety determination for this source
category, mainly because of the significant uncertainties associated
with emissions estimates for such sources. Our approach here is
consistent with the approach we took regarding this issue in the
Hazardous Organic NESHAP (HON) RTR (71 FR 76603, December 21, 2006),
which the Court upheld in the face of claims that the EPA had not
adequately considered background (NRDC v. EPA, 529 F.3d 1077 (D.C. Cir.
2008)).
Comment: A commenter stated that the EPA has ignored all
multipathway cancer and noncancer chronic health risks that result when
persistent or bioaccumulative pollutants emitted by lime manufacturing
facilities fall into the Great Lakes, bays, rivers, and other large
waterbodies. The commenter
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stated that by excluding all impacts from deposition in these
waterbodies, the EPA ignored both health threats and ecological
threats, and violated its legal obligation to assess health and
environmental risk and reduce these hazards as the statute directs.
Response: Very large lakes and bays (i.e., those larger than
100,000 acres) are not considered because their large volumes
significantly dilute air deposition from point sources. Such large
lakes, including the Great Lakes, the Great Salt Lake, Lake Okeechobee,
Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Champlain, Green Bay, and Galveston Bay also
dilute contaminants in the vast biomass of fish in the large aquatic
food webs. Contaminants derived from emissions to air by a point source
would be distributed among populations of millions of fish resulting in
negligible increases in fish tissue concentrations attributable to the
point source. Also, very large lakes are rare (only 35 such lakes exist
in the conterminous United States). Moreover, for facilities near large
lakes, there usually are other, smaller lakes that the EPA does
consider for which contaminant dilution would be lower, and, therefore,
for which human health and ecological risks would be higher. Thus, the
EPA does model exposure via fish consumption for populations that are
near large lakes in a manner that generally will be more health
protective than modeling the very large lake. The EPA also does not
model lakes adjacent or connected to a river or saltwater body
(estuaries and rivers) or bays; these waterbodies are likely to have
high outflow with limited chemical retention. Less retention time for
these types of waterbodies result in significantly lower media
concentrations when compared to lakes.
4. What is the rationale for our final approach and final decisions for
the risk review?
The EPA evaluated all of the comments on the EPA's risk review and
determined that no changes to the review are needed. In the proposed
rule, we proposed that the risks from the Lime Manufacturing source
category are acceptable, the current standards provide an ample margin
of safety to protect public health, and more stringent standards are
not necessary to prevent an adverse environmental effect. For the
reasons explained in the proposal and in our responses to public
comments and pursuant to CAA section 112(f)(2), we are finalizing our
risk review as proposed.
B. Technology Review for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category
1. What did we propose pursuant to CAA section 112(d)(6) for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Pursuant to CAA section 112(d)(6), the EPA conducted a technology
review, which focused on identifying and evaluating developments in
practices, processes, and control technologies that would necessitate
revision to the existing emission standards for the Lime Manufacturing
source category. No cost-effective developments in practices,
processes, or control technologies were identified in our technology
review to necessitate revisions to the PM or opacity standards, which
are both used as a surrogate for HAP metals, standards. More
information concerning our technology review is in the memorandum
titled Technology Review for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category,
which is in the docket for this action, and in the preamble to the
proposed rule (84 FR 48726).
2. How did the technology review change for the Lime Manufacturing
source category?
The technology review has not changed since proposal.
3. What key comments did we receive on the technology review, and what
are our responses?
The EPA received comments in support of the proposed determination
from the technology review that no revisions were necessary under CAA
section 112(d)(6). We also received comments asserting that the
technology review was inadequate for a variety of reasons, primarily
because of failure to consider control technologies for unregulated HAP
emissions.
Comment: A commenter stated the EPA does not discuss or perform any
review under CAA section 112(d)(6) for all emitted HAP. The commenter
noted that the EPA failed to complete a technology review for HCl,
mercury, D/F, and organic HAP. The commenter stated that the EPA cannot
determine whether developments in pollution control make it
``necessary'' to revise the emission standards without determining what
developments have occurred for these HAP. The commenter stated that the
fact that these HAP are emitted from the source category requires the
EPA to evaluate them pursuant the technology review.
Response: Section 112(d)(6) of the CAA requires the EPA to ``review
and revise, as necessary (taking into account developments in
practices, processes, and control technologies), emission standards
promulgated under this section . . . .'' The EPA reads CAA section
112(d)(6) as a limited provision requiring the Agency to review the
original emission standards already promulgated and to revise those
standards as necessary, taking into account developments in practices,
processes, and control technologies. Under this reading, section
112(d)(6) of the CAA does not impose upon the Agency any obligation to
promulgate new emission standards or expand the scope of an existing
regulation.\5\ Accordingly, we disagree with the commenter that CAA
section 112(d)(6) requires a technology review for HCl, mercury, D/F,
and organic HAP. The EPA notes that we have completed our statutory
requirements under CAA section 112(d)(6) in reference to the
promulgated standards.
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\5\ On April 21, 2020, as the Agency was preparing the final
rule for signature, a decision was issued in LEAN v. EPA, 955 F. 3d.
1088 (D.C. Cir. 2020) in which the Court held that the EPA has an
obligation to set standards for unregulated pollutants as part of
technology reviews under CAA section 112(d)(6). At the time of
signature, the mandate in that case had not been issued and the EPA
is continuing to evaluate the decision.
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Any new MACT standards would not be established pursuant to CAA
section 112(d)(6), but instead would be established under CAA sections
112(d)(2) and (3) or CAA section 112(h). Establishing emissions
standards under CAA sections 112(d)(2) and (3) or 112(h) involves a
different analytical approach than reviewing emissions standards under
CAA section 112(d)(6).
Comment: One commenter stated that there are multiple HAP emitted
from the Lime Manufacturing source category that have no numeric
emission standards, including HCl, organic HAP (e.g., formaldehyde,
styrene), mercury, and D/F. The commenter stated that CAA section
112(d) requires limits for each HAP that a source category emits and
that CAA section 112(d)(6) requires the EPA to review and revise its
existing emission standards ``as necessary.'' The commenter stated that
when the EPA reviewed the Lime Manufacturing source category and found
that they lack emission limits for emitted HAP, it is necessary under
CAA section 112(d)(6) to revise the standard (i.e., set limits for
these HAP). The commenter noted that the EPA's failure to set emission
limits for these HAP causes public suffering from uncontrolled exposure
to these HAP.
The commenter cited prior court rulings that found that the Agency
has a ``clear statutory obligation to set emission standards for each
listed HAP.'' [National Lime Ass'n, 233 F.3d
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625, 634 (D.C. Cir. 2000) and Sierra Club v. EPA, 479 F.3d 875, 883
(D.C. Cir. 2007)] The commenter cited prior rulemakings where the EPA
has acknowledged this issue and has subsequently set emission limits
for pollutants without standards.
The commenter noted that the Lime Manufacturing Plants RTR clearly
demonstrates that these pollutants are emitted from the source
category, but that the EPA has not acknowledged its obligation to set
limits on these uncontrolled HAP and has not explained why it is not
``necessary'' to revise the existing standards to set limits for these
HAP. The commenter stated that the EPA has emissions data from at least
some sources, and it must complete its obligation to set a limit for
these HAP.
The commenter stated that it is unlawful and arbitrary for the EPA
not to set limits for these HAP in this rulemaking. The commenter
stated that if the EPA does not do this, it will fail to complete the
review and revision rulemaking as CAA section 112(d)(6) requires, will
violate the Court's order in California Communities Against Toxics v.
Pruitt, 241 F. Supp. 3d 199 (D.C. 2017), and will also issue a final
rule that is unlawful and inadequate.
Response: CAA section 112(d)(6) requires the EPA to review and
revise, as necessary (taking into account developments in practices,
processes, and control technologies), emission standards promulgated
under this section. We do not read section CAA section 112(d)(6) as
supporting the commenter's assertion that the EPA must establish new
standards for unregulated emission points or pollutants as part of a
technology review of the existing standards (but see footnote 5). The
EPA reads CAA section 112(d)(6) as a limited provision requiring the
Agency to, at least every 8 years, review the emission standards
already promulgated in the NESHAP and to revise those standards as
necessary taking into account developments in practices, processes, and
control technologies. The EPA does not read CAA section 112(d)(6) as
directing the Agency, as part of or in conjunction with the mandatory
8-year technology review, to develop new emission standards to address
HAP or emission points for which standards were not previously
promulgated.
When the EPA established standards for previously unregulated
emissions, we did not establish those initial standards pursuant to CAA
section 112(d)(6) but instead established the standards under one of
the provisions that govern initial standard setting--CAA sections
112(d)(2) and (3) or, if the prerequisites are met, CAA sections
112(d)(4) or 112(h). Establishing emissions standards under these
provisions of the CAA involves a different analytical approach from
reviewing emissions standards under CAA section 112(d)(6).
Additional comments and our specific responses can be found in the
comment summary and response document titled Summary of Public Comments
and Responses for Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and
Technology Review, which is available in the docket for this action.
4. What is the rationale for our final approach for the technology
review?
The EPA evaluated all of the comments on the EPA's technology
review and determined that no changes to the review are needed. For the
reasons explained in the proposed rule, we determined that no cost-
effective developments in practices, processes, or control technologies
were identified in our technology review to necessitate revisions to
the standards. More information concerning our technology review can be
found in the memorandum titled Technology Review for the Lime
Manufacturing Source Category, which is in the docket for this action.
Therefore, pursuant to CAA section 112(d)(6), we are finalizing our
technology review as proposed.
C. SSM for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category
1. What did we propose for the Lime Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed amendments to the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP
to remove and revise provisions related to SSM that are not consistent
with the requirement that the standards apply at all times or that are
unnecessary or redundant in the absence of an SSM exemption. More
information concerning the elimination of SSM provisions is in the
preamble to the proposed rule (84 FR 48708, September 16, 2019).
2. How did the SSM provisions change from proposal for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
The EPA is finalizing the SSM provisions with the following changes
from the proposal:
Replacing the proposed startup work practice standards for
kilns and coolers equipped with a FF or ESP with opacity emission
standards.
Replacing the proposed startup work practice standards for
kilns and coolers equipped with a wet scrubber with a requirement to
meet standards applicable during normal operation.
Revising the definition of ``Startup'' to add ``on-
specification'' prior to ``lime product'' and to add an alternate
ending to startup.
Adding testing requirements for determining when lime
product is deemed on-specification.
With respect to the revisions to the proposed startup standards,
the EPA is finalizing standards for startup that differ from what we
proposed based on a re-evaluation of the need for work practice
standards. The EPA proposed work practice standards for kilns equipped
with wet scrubbers, FFs, and ESPs. However, the final rule requires
kilns and coolers that are equipped with ESPs or FFs to meet numerical
opacity limits and kilns and coolers equipped with wet scrubbers to
meet the scrubbing liquid flow rate requirements that apply during
normal operations. The EPA's determination in the proposed rule (84 FR
48727) that work practice standards were appropriate was based on a
finding that the application of measurement methodology for PM
emissions was impracticable because the test methods required for
compliance are to be conducted under steady-state conditions which are
difficult to achieve during startup. In addition to the reference test
method (EPA Method 5), we considered PM emission monitors, which also
requires steady-state conditions. However, based on comments claiming
that the EPA has not shown a lack of practicable measurement
methodology for startup periods, we reconsidered the issue. The 2004
final NESHAP rule established opacity as an emission standard limiting
PM emissions. We are not aware of factors that would prevent the
monitoring of opacity during startup periods.
For kilns equipped with FFs or ESPs, 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA
allows compliance with opacity standards to ensure PM is controlled
between stack tests.\6\ In this rule, for periods of startup, the EPA
is requiring kilns equipped with FFs or ESPs to meet the 15-percent
opacity limit that applies during normal operation averaged over the
period of startup. The EPA has determined that a longer averaging time
is appropriate for startup periods since we are aware that emissions
during startup can be variable in light of the sequence of events that
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occur during startup of a kiln. Thus, the longer averaging time being
finalized is to account for this variability that could result in
spikes in opacity during the startup period. During startup, even the
best performing units are constantly making adjustments in terms of
fuel flow and combustion air flow rate. Every increase in fuel rate or
feed rate requires the source to adjust air flow to the proper level.
Each adjustment can lead to a spike in opacity. Accounting for such
variability in setting emission standards is consistent with the CAA
case law. See, United States Sugar Corp. v. EPA, 830 F.3d 579, 632
(D.C. Cir. 2016) (``We have held, see Mossville Envtl. Action Now v.
EPA, 370 F.3d 1232, 1242 (D.C. Cir. 2004), and recently reaffirmed, see
NACWA, 734 F.3d at 1133-34, that the EPA can consider this variability
when setting MACT floors.''). As proposed, the EPA is not establishing
different shutdown standards for kilns equipped wth FFs or wet
scrubbers and, thus, such kilns must meet otherwise applicable limits
during shutdown.
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\6\ The EPA notes that under 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA stack
testing is not permitted during startup and shutdown. As proposed,
this rule replaces the reference in Table 9 to 40 CFR 63.7(e)(1)
(which prohibits performance testing during periods of startup and
shutdown) with identical language at 40 CFR 63.7112(c)).
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3. What key comments did we receive on the SSM provisions, and what are
our responses?
The EPA received 16 comments related to our proposed revisions to
the SSM provisions. Commenters generally supported the proposed removal
of the SSM exemptions but disagreed with either the proposing of work
practice standards for the startup period or certain aspects of the
proposed work practice standards. We evaluated the comments and
determined that changes to the proposed SSM provisions are warranted. A
summary of these comments and our responses are located in the
memorandum titled Summary of Public Comments and Responses for Lime
Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and Technology Review, which is in
the docket for this action.
Comment: Commenters stated that the EPA's work practice standard
requiring all kilns to start and operate on ``clean fuels'' until the
kiln reaches a temperature of 1200 degrees Fahrenheit is unnecessary,
not based on information in the administrative record, inconsistent
with processes required to safely and properly commence kiln operation,
and, for some kilns, is impractical based on the realities of operating
kilns in the lime industry.
The commenters stated that for operational and safety reasons,
electrostatic precipitators (ESP) cannot be started immediately to
effectively remove PM upon startup of the kiln. Therefore, the clean
fuel work practice for startup makes sense for ESP-equipped kilns. The
commenters confirmed that the limited number of ESP-equipped kilns in
the lime industry can be started on natural gas or other listed clean
fuels.
The commenters stated that for baghouse and scrubber-equipped
kilns, clean fuel startup is not needed because the air pollution
control device is operating at the beginning of startup and begins
removing PM immediately. The commenters stated that since stone feed
rates are low during startup, total PM emissions exiting the kiln will
be less than during normal operation, and the operating air pollution
control devices will ensure that PM will be removed. The commenters
also noted that clean fuels are not available at all lime manufacturing
locations (for example, natural gas is not readily available in areas
far from gas pipelines).
The commenters stated that the proposed requirement to meet the
opacity and scrubber liquid flow rate operating limits is sufficient to
show that emissions are not excessive for baghouse and scrubber-
equipped kilns. The commenters recommended that the EPA delete the
requirement for baghouse and scrubber-equipped kilns to start on clean
fuels but add a requirement that the air pollution control devices for
such kilns be in operation at the beginning of startup.
Response: The EPA agrees that the requirement to start and operate
on ``clean fuels'' is unnecessary for kilns equipped with FFs or wet
scrubbers because the control devices can be operational at the time of
startup. Therefore, we are not finalizing the work practice requirement
to startup on clean fuel for kilns equipped for FFs or wet scrubbers.
As explained above in section C.2, we are instead requiring kilns
equipped with FFs, ESPs or wet scrubbers to comply with standards as
described in section C.2 above and in Table 2 during startup and
shutdown.
Comment: The proposed definition of the end of startup was
``Startup ends 60 minutes after the lime kiln generates lime product.''
Commenters stated that the term ``lime product'' is not specific enough
to provide certainty to regulated sources. The commenters highlighted
that a kiln will start to discharge off-spec product almost
simultaneously with the lighting of the primary fuel. The commenters
stated that it can take up to 12 hours to produce quality grade lime
following first discharge from a rotary kiln, and even longer for a
vertical kiln.
The commenters recommended that the end of startup should be
related to levels of stone feed, because the applicable PM emissions
limits are based on tons of stone feed. The commenters recommended that
the definition of the end of startup should be revised to read
``Startup ends 60 minutes after stone feed reaches planned production
quantities.''
Response: The EPA appreciates the commenters feedback regarding the
definition of the end of startup. Commenters provided further
information (Docket ID Item No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0015-0015, SSM Letter
from Industry (1/31/2019)) regarding what constitutes on-specification
lime product and the time when on-specification lime product is
produced. Commenters note that on-specification lime is produced when
steady-state conditions are achieved. The EPA determined that the
definition of the end of startup is the time when steady-state
conditions are achieved such that PM testing could be conducted with
the reference test method. We have determined that these steady-state
conditions are achieved either when first producing on-specification
lime product or 12 hours following first discharge from the kiln,
whichever is earlier.
We are finalizing the definition of the end of startup to provide
more clarity, as follows: ``Startup ends when the lime kiln generates
on-specification lime product or 12 hours following first discharge
from the lime kiln, whichever is earlier.'' We are also finalizing a
new definition for on-specification lime product, as follows: ``On-
specification lime product means lime product that has been
sufficiently calcined to meet end use requirements.''
Finally, we are finalizing a requirement for facilities to test
hourly during startup to determine when lime product meets the
definition of on-specification, to maintain records of the time the
kiln first began producing on-specification lime product, and the time
of first discharge from the lime kiln.
Comment: Commenters stated that the best way to address malfunction
events would be for plants to develop site-specific protocols for
malfunctions that would be embodied in a rule required plan, and that
compliance with those protocols would constitute compliance with an
applicable work practice standard. The commenters suggested retaining
the requirement for a SSM plan that would contain these protocols, or
requiring them in the plant's operations, maintenance, and monitoring
(OM&M) plan.
The commenters stated that this would allow work practices for
malfunctions to be tailored to the specific equipment and operating
conditions present at each plant, and
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the presence of the protocols in a required plan would allow for the
EPA review and enforcement. The commenters stated that the EPA's
consideration of work practice standards for specified malfunctions (84
FR 48728) would be better than not setting separate standards at all,
but that this approach would omit some malfunctions, and will not have
the same degree of ``fit'' as tailored OM&M protocols would have.
The commenters stated that adopting work practice standards for
specified malfunctions (as opposed to tailored OM&M protocols) could
also cause confusion as to what malfunctions are covered by the
regulation. The commenters summarized the definition of malfunction in
40 CFR 63.2. The commenters noted that not all operational malfunctions
of kilns and their associated air pollution control and monitoring
equipment constitute ``malfunctions'' under the definition in section
63.2, because some problems do not have the potential to cause
emissions limitations to be exceeded.
The commenters stated that local engineering expertise may be
required to determine whether particular operational malfunctions are
``malfunctions'' under the statute and rule and that this is a reason
why tailored procedures in OM&M plans would be preferable to work
practice standards for specified malfunctions.
Response: The EPA does not agree with the commenter that
malfunctions should be addressed through source-specific enforceable
``plans'' that would contain these protocols for malfunctions.
Establishing source-specific protocols for malfunctions that met MACT
stringency requirements would be difficult, if not impossible, given
the myriad different types of malfunctions that can occur. See, U.S.
Sugar Corp. v. EPA, 830 F.3d 579, 608 (2016)(``Any possible standard is
likely to be hopelessly generic to govern such a wide array of
circumstances.'')
The EPA is also not finalizing specific work practice standards for
specific malfunction events, although we may do so if available
information supports separate MACT-compliant standards in the future.
In this case, we received comment and information on potential work
practice standards during periods of malfunction, however we do not
have information to support that the suggested standards met the MACT
stringency requirements. The EPA also agrees that finalizing specific
work practice standards for malfunctions has the potential to omit
certain malfunction events and cause confusion regarding what
malfunctions are covered by the regulation, as it would be difficult to
capture all malfunction events.
Comment: A commenter stated support for the EPA's proposed removal
of the existing exemption of emissions during SSM periods. The
commenter stated that the CAA requires that standards are continuous
and applicable at all times and referenced various court rulings
upholding this determination.
The commenter stated that the EPA may not finalize the new SSM
exemptions it has proposed. The commenter stated that the EPA has not
cited and can cite no statutory language granting it authority or
``discretion'' to set such standards, because it has none. The
commenter stated that the EPA has only the discretion provided by the
Act and delegated by Congress. [Clean Air Council v. Pruitt, 862 F.3d
1, 9 (DC Cir. 2017)] The commenter stated that relevant statutory
language denies, rather than gives, the EPA authority to set
malfunction-based standards or exemptions. See 42 U.S.C. 7412(d), (h),
and 7602(k).
Response: The EPA disagrees that it has proposed new SSM exemptions
or that the EPA does not have authority to establish different
standards for periods of startup, shutdown or malfunction. In fact, the
EPA proposed to (1) eliminate the SSM exemption, (2) require compliance
with the existing standard for periods of malfunction and (3) require
compliance with standards during periods of startup and shutdown. The
commenter does not explain and cannot support the general claim that
the statutory language denies the EPA authority to set different
standards for startup or shutdown. The 2008 decision in Sierra Club v.
EPA, 551 F.3d 1019 (DC Cir. 2008) (``2008 Sierra Club decision''), held
that emissions standards or limitations must be continuous in nature
and that ``some'' section 112 standards apply continuously. The DC
Circuit reiterated this principle in Sierra Club v EPA, 884 F. 3d.
1185, 1203 (DC Cir. 2018) (``2018 Sierra Club decision'') explaining
that the 2014 Sierra Club decision ``held that, whenever HAP sources
are in operation, including during startup and shutdown, the EPA must
continuously subject them to either numeric limits or Section 112(h)-
compliant work practice standards.'' Consistent with the 2008 Sierra
Club decision, and taking into account startup and shutdown periods,
the EPA proposed work practice standards for these periods based on a
determination under CAA section 112(h) that for kilns and coolers it
was not feasible to prescribe or enforce a numeric standard during
these periods of startup and shutdown. See 84 FR 48727. As discussed in
the preamble to the final rule, based on public comments, we have made
changes from the proposal to the standards for periods of startup and
shutdown.
Comment: One commenter stated that the EPA does not have statutory
authority to create work practice requirements for startups. The
commenter summarized the requirements and applicable definitions of CAA
sections 7412(h)(1) and (h)(2) and stated that the EPA has not
satisfied either of the statute's definitions of ``not feasible to
prescribe or enforce and emission standard.'' The commenter stated that
promulgating work practice requirements instead of numeric emission
limitations for periods of startup would violate the statute. The
commenter stated that CAA section 112(h)(2)(B) covers situations where
``the application of measurement methodology to a particular class of
sources is not practicable due to technological and economic
limitations.'' The commenter stated that startup and shutdown are
``events,'' not a ``particular class of source.'' The commenter stated
that section 112(h)(2)(B) cannot be used as justification for work
practice standards in lieu of numeric emission limits.
Response: As discussed above, based on public comments, we have
made changes from the proposal to the standards for periods of startup
and shutdown. The EPA's final rule does not establish work practice
standards for period of startup and shutdown, so the comment is no
longer relevant. However, the EPA notes that it does not agree with the
commenter that section 112(h)(2)(B) can be invoked to justify a work
practice standard only for categories or subcategories of sources under
section 112(h)(2)(B), not for periods of operation. Section 112(h)
provides that the EPA may ``promulgate a design, equipment, work
practice, or operational standard, or combination thereof'' in lieu of
a numeric emission standard if the Administrator determines that it is
not feasible, in his/her judgment, to prescribe or enforce a numeric
standard. More specifically, section 112(h)(2) states it is infeasible
to prescribe or enforce an emission standard if the application of
measurement methodology to a particular class of sources is not
practicable due to technological and economic limitations. Nothing in
this section limits the Agency's discretion to establish work practice
standards to particular sources, subcategories of sources, or source
categories, or to certain periods of operations if, in the
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Administrator's judgment, it is not feasible to prescribe or enforce a
numeric emission standard during those periods. The reference to ``a
particular class of sources'' in section 112(h)(2) does not limit the
EPA's authority to determine, for a category or subcategory of sources,
that it is infeasible to prescribe or enforce an emission standard for
those sources during certain identifiable time periods, such as startup
and shutdown.
Comment: A commenter stated that the EPA has proposed to excuse
sources from using their ESPs during startup. The commenter stated that
the EPA argues that industry stakeholders have claimed it may be unsafe
to run ESPs during these times. The commenter stated that CAA section
112(h)(2)(B) does not authorize the EPA to set work practice
requirements based on the Agency's views about the safety implications
of running a particular control device.
The commenter stated that nothing in the CAA or existing rule
requires lime kilns to control their PM emissions with ESPs. The
commenter stated that if lime kiln owners and operators believe it is
unsafe to run ESPs during startup and shutdown, the appropriate
solution is for them to deploy other control devices (e.g., FFs), not
to excuse them from meeting numeric emission limits during these
events.
Response: As discussed above, based on public comments, we have
made changes from the proposal to the standards for periods of startup
and shutdown. The EPA's final rule does not establish work practice
standards for period of startup and shutdown so the comment is no
longer relevant.
4. What is the rationale for our final approach for the SSM provisions?
We evaluated all comments on the EPA's proposed amendments to the
SSM provisions. For the reasons explained in the proposed rule, we
determined that it is appropriate to remove and revise provisions
related to SSM that are not consistent with the requirement that the
standards apply at all times or that are unnecessary or redundant in
the absence of an SSM exemption. Therefore, we are finalizing our
approach for the SSM provisions as proposed with changes as detailed in
section IV.C.2 of this preamble. More information concerning the
amendments we are finalizing for SSM is discussed above and in the
preamble to the proposed rule (84 FR 48727-48730, September 16, 2019).
D. Electronic Reporting Requirements for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category
1. What did we proposed for the Lime Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed that owners or operators of lime manufacturing
plants submit electronic copies of required performance test reports,
performance evaluation reports, and semiannual compliance reports
through the EPA's CDX using the CEDRI. More information concerning our
proposal on electronic reporting requirements can be found in the
proposed rule (84 FR 48708).
2. How did the electronic reporting provisions change for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Since proposal, the electronic reporting provisions have not
changed.
3. What key comments did we receive on the electronic reporting
provisions, and what are our responses?
The EPA received comments related to the proposed electronic
reporting provisions. The commenters generally supported the proposed
provisions but disagreed with certain aspects of the provisions.
Comment: Commenters provided feedback on the electronic semiannual
compliance report (spreadsheet template), per the EPA's request (84 FR
48730). The commenters noted the following:
In tab ``CMS Deviation Summary,'' column D (Total Source
Operating Time (hours)), and column F (Total Duration of CMS Downtime
as a percentage of Total Emissions Unit Operating Time) are both
protected so it is not possible for an operator to input this data.
This should be corrected.
The example source operating time is shown as 6,240 hours.
For semi-annual reporting, the maximum possible hours are 4,380.
The commenters stated that the EPA should compare the final template
reporting form to the final rule to ensure each reporting element is
required in the rule and that the template reporting form instructions
are accurate and detailed enough to ensure consistent reporting across
the industry.
Response: The EPA will check the final reporting template to be
sure each reporting requirement marked as a required element is
required by the final rule and will also provide adequate instructions
for filling out the reporting template. The EPA will also check to be
sure columns D (operating time) and F are unprotected in order that
manual inputs can be entered by the user. The example operating time
for semi-annual reporting will be updated to 4,380 hours.
Comment: One commenter stated that the EPA may not create an
unlawful exemption or extension for compliance reporting as it proposes
to do for web outages or so-called ``force majeure events,'' as this
violates the requirement for standards to be continuous and would allow
unreported exceedances to go unchecked, indefinitely.
Response: The commenter asserts that the brief case-by-case
extension of report submittal deadlines is an unlawful exemption from
compliance with the emissions standards. This is not the case. The EPA
notes that there is no exemption to reporting, much less an exemption
from compliance with the emission standards, only a method for
requesting an extension of the reporting deadline. Reporters are
required to justify their request and identify a reporting date. While
no new fixed duration deadline is set, the regulation does require that
the report be submitted electronically as soon as possible after the
CEDRI outage is resolved or after the force majeure event occurs. The
Administrator may even request that the report be sent in hardcopy
until electronic reporting can be resumed.
The Administrator has full discretion to accept or reject the claim
of a CEDRI system outage or force majeure. As such, an extension is not
automatic and is agreed to on an individual basis by the Administrator.
If the Administrator determines that a facility has not acted in good
faith to reasonably report in a timely manner, the Administrator can
reject the claim and find that the failure to report timely is a
deviation from the regulation.
The EPA also disagrees that the ability to request a reporting
extension violates the requirement for emissions standards to be
continuous. While reporting is an important mechanism for the EPA and
air agencies to assess whether owners or operators are in compliance
with emissions standards, reporting obligations are separate from
(i.e., in addition to) requirements that an owner or operator be in
compliance with an emissions standard. The EPA has discretion to
establish reporting schedules, and also discretion to allow a mechanism
for extension of those schedules on a case-by-case basis.
Additional comments and our specific responses can be found in the
comment summary and response document titled Summary of Public Comments
and Responses for Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and
Technology Review, which is available in the docket for this action.
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4. What is the rational for our final approach for the electronic
reporting provisions?
The EPA evaluated all of the comments on the EPA's proposed
amendments to the electronic reporting provisions. For the reasons
explained in the proposed rule (84 FR 48708), we have determined the
electronic submittal of the reports addressed in this final rulemaking
will:
Increase the usefulness of the data contained in those
reports;
be consistent with current trends in data availability and
transparency;
further assist in the protection of public health and the
environment;
improve compliance by facilitating the ability of
regulated facilities to demonstrate compliance with requirements;
facilitate the ability of delegated state, local, tribal,
and territorial air agencies and the EPA to assess and determine
compliance; and
ultimately reduce burden on regulated facilities,
delegated air agencies, and the EPA.
Electronic reporting also eliminates paper-based, manual processes,
thereby saving time and resources, simplifying data entry, eliminating
redundancies, minimizing data reporting errors, and providing data
quickly and accurately to the affected facilities, air agencies, the
EPA, and the public. Moreover, electronic reporting is consistent with
the EPA's plan \7\ to implement Executive Order 13563 and is in keeping
with the EPA's Agency-wide policy \8\ developed in response to the
White House's Digital Government Strategy.\9\ For more information on
the benefits of electronic reporting, see the memorandum titled
Electronic Reporting Requirements for New Source Performance Standards
(NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
(NESHAP) Rules, available in Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0015.
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\7\ The EPA's Final Plan for Periodic Retrospective Reviews,
August 2011. Available at: https://www.regulations.gov/documentD=EPA-HQ-OA-2011-0156-0154.
\8\ E-Reporting Policy Statement for EPA Regulations, September
2013. Available at: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-03/documents/epa-ereporting-policy-statement-2013-09-30.pdf.
\9\ Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to
Better Serve the American People, May 2012. Available at: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digitalgovernment.html.
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E. IBR
In accordance with the requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, the EPA will
incorporate by reference the following documents described in the
amendments to 40 CFR 63.14:
ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10-1981, Flue and Exhaust Gas Analyses
[Part 10, Instruments and Apparatus], issued August 31, 1981, IBR
approved for table 5 to subpart AAAAA. This method is approved as an
alternative to EPA Method 3B of appendix A to part 60.
ASTM D6348-03 (Reapproved 2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Compounds by Extractive Direct Interface
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy, including Annexes A1
through A8, Approved October 1, 2010, IBR approved for 40 CFR
63.7142(a) and 63.7142(b). This method is approved as an alternative to
EPA Method 320 of appendix A to part 63.
ASTM D6348-12e1, Standard Test Method for Determination of
Gaseous Compounds by Extractive Direct Interface Fourier Transform
Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy, Approved February 1, 2012, IBR approved
for 40 CFR 63.7142(a) and 40 CFR 63.7142(b). This method is approved as
an alternative to EPA Method 320 of appendix A to part 63.
ASTM D6735-01 (Reapproved 2009), Standard Test Method for
Measurement of Gaseous Chlorides and Fluorides from Mineral Calcining
Exhaust Sources--Impinger Method, IBR approved for 40 CFR 63.7142(a).
This method is approved as an alternative to EPA Method 321 of appendix
A to part 63.
ASTM D6420-99 (Reapproved 2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Organic Compounds by Direct Interface Gas
Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Approved October 1, 2010, IBR
approved for 40 CFR 63.7142(b). This method is approved as an
alternative to EPA Method 18 of appendix A to part 60.
EPA-454/R-98-015, Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards (OAQPS), Fabric Filter Bag Leak Detection Guidance, September
1997, IBR approved for 40 CFR 63.7113(d). This method was added in
accordance with final revisions to the bag leak detection requirements
under 40 CFR 63.7113(d).
The ANSI/ASME document is available from the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at https://www.asme.org; by mail at Two Park
Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5990; or by telephone at (800) 843-2763. The
ASTM documents are available from the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) at https://www.astm.org; by mail at l00 Barr Harbor
Drive, P.O. Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959; or by telephone
at (610) 832-9500. The EPA has made, and will continue to make, the EPA
document generally available electronically through https://www.regulations.gov/ and at the EPA Docket Center (see the ADDRESSES
section of this preamble for more information).
F. Technical and Editorial Changes for the Lime Manufacturing Source
Category
1. What did we propose for the Lime Manufacturing source category?
The EPA proposed the following technical and editorial changes:
Revising the monitoring requirements in 40 CFR 63.7113 to
the provision that triboelectric bag leak detection system must be
installed, calibrated, operated, and maintained according to EPA-454/R-
98-015. Fabric Filter Bag Leak Detection Guidance;
revising 40 CFR 63.7142 to add an alternative test method
to EPA Method 320;
revising 40 CFR.7142 to add the latest version of ASTM
Method D6735-01;
revising 40 CFR.7142 to add the latest version of ASTM
Method D6420-99; and
revising Table 4 to 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA, to add
alternative compliance option.
2. How did the technical and editorial changes change for the Lime
Manufacturing source category?
Since proposal, the technical and editorial changes have not
changed.
3. What key comments did we received on the technical and editorial
changes, and what are our responses?
No comments were received on the technical and editorial changes
detailed above.
4. What is the rationale for our final approach for the technical and
editorial changes?
Because no comments were received on the technical and editorial
changes that the EPA proposed, we determined that these changes should
be finalized as proposed.
V. Summary of Cost, Environmental, and Economic Impacts and Additional
Analyses Conducted
A. What are the affected facilities?
There are currently 35 lime manufacturing facilities operating in
the United States that are subject to the Lime Manufacturing Plants
NESHAP. The 40 CFR part 63, subpart AAAAA,
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affected source is the lime kiln and its associated cooler, and the PSH
operation system located at a major source of HAP emissions. A new or
reconstructed affected source is a source that commenced construction
after December 20, 2002, or meets the definition of reconstruction and
commenced reconstruction after December 20, 2002.
B. What are the air quality impacts?
At the current level of control, emissions of total HAP are
estimated to be approximately 2,320 tpy. This represents a reduction in
HAP emissions of about 240 tpy due to the current (2004) Lime
Manufacturing Plants NESHAP. The final amendments will require all
affected sources subject to the emission standards in the Lime
Manufacturing Plants NESHAP to operate without the SSM exemption. We
were unable to quantify the specific emissions reduction associated
with eliminating the SSM exemption. However, eliminating the SSM
exemption will reduce emissions by requiring facilities to meet
emissions standards during SSM periods.
Indirect or secondary air emissions impacts are impacts that would
result from the increased electricity usage associated with the
operation of control devices (i.e., increased secondary emissions of
criteria pollutants from power plants). Energy impacts consist of the
electricity and steam needed to operate control devices and other
equipment that would be required under this proposed rule. The EPA
expects no secondary air emissions impacts or energy impacts from this
rulemaking.
C. What are the cost impacts?
The 35 lime manufacturing plants that would be subject to the final
amendments would incur minimal net costs to meet revised recordkeeping
and reporting requirements and the standards for periods of startup and
shutdown. Nationwide costs associated with the final requirements are
estimated to be $15,271. The EPA believes that the lime manufacturing
plants which are subject to the NESHAP can meet the final requirements
with minimal additional capital or operational costs. Each facility
will experience costs to read and understand the rule amendments. Costs
associated with the elimination of the SSM exemption were estimated as
part of the reporting and recordkeeping costs and include time for re-
evaluating previously developed SSM record systems. Costs associated
with the requirement to electronically submit notifications and semi-
annual compliance reports using CEDRI were estimated as part of the
reporting and recordkeeping costs and include time for becoming
familiar with CEDRI and the reporting template for semi-annual
compliance reports.
D. What are the economic impacts?
Economic impact analyses focus on changes in market prices and
output levels. If changes in market prices and output levels in the
primary markets are significant enough, impacts on other markets may
also be examined. Both the magnitude of costs needed to comply with a
final rule and the distribution of these costs among affected
facilities can have a role in determining how the market will change in
response to a final rule. The total costs associated with reviewing the
final rule, meeting the revised recordkeeping and reporting
requirements, and complying with the revised final standards are
estimated to be $15,271. This is an estimated cost of $266 to $2,925
per facility, depending on the number of lime kilns operated and the
type of controls installed. These costs are not expected to result in a
significant market impact, regardless of whether they are passed on to
the purchaser or absorbed by the firms. Based on the costs associated
with the elimination of the SSM exemption and the costs associated with
the requirement to electronically submit compliance reports, we do not
anticipate any significant economic impacts from these final
amendments.
E. What are the benefits?
Although the EPA is unable to quantify reductions in HAP emissions
as a result of the final amendments, we believe that the action
improves the rule. Specifically, the final amendments remove SSM
exemptions such that standards apply at all times. Additionally, the
final amendments requiring electronic submittal of initial
notifications, initial startup reports, annual compliance
certifications, deviation reports, and performance test results will
increase the usefulness of the data, is in keeping with current trends
of data availability, will further assist in the protection of public
health and the environment, and will ultimately result in less burden
on the regulated community.
F. What analysis of environmental justice did we conduct?
The EPA believes that this action does not have disproportionately
high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority
populations, low-income populations and/or indigenous peoples, as
specified in Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
The documentation for this decision is contained in the Risk and
Technology Review Analysis of Demographic Factors for Populations
Living Near Lime Manufacturing Source Category Operations, which is
available in the docket for this action. The results of the Lime
Manufacturing source category demographic analysis indicated that
emissions from the source category expose approximately 12 people to a
cancer risk at or above 1-in-1 million and no people to a chronic
noncancer TOSHI greater than 1. The percentages of the at-risk
population indicate that three of the 10 demographic groups (White,
African American and people below the poverty level) that are living
within 50 km of facilities in the source category exceed the
corresponding national percentage for the same demographic groups.
G. What analysis of children's environmental health did we conduct?
The EPA does not believe the environmental health or safety risks
addressed by this action present a disproportionate risk to children.
This action's health and risk assessments are contained in the Residual
Risk Assessment for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category in Support
of the 2019 Risk and Technology Review Proposed Rule, which is
available in the docket for this action.
VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Additional information about these statutes and Executive Orders
can be found at https://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/laws-and-executive-orders.
A. Executive Orders 12866: Regulatory Planning and Review and Executive
Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review
This action is not a significant regulatory action and was,
therefore, not submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review.
B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing Regulations and Controlling
Regulatory Costs
This action is not an Executive Order 13771 regulatory action
because this action is not significant under Executive Order 12866.
C. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
The information collection activities in this final rule have been
submitted for approval to OMB under the PRA. The Information Collection
Request (ICR) document that the EPA prepared
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has been assigned EPA ICR number 2072.09. You can find a copy of the
ICR in the docket for this rule, and it is briefly summarized here. The
information collection requirements are not enforceable until OMB
approves them.
We are finalizing changes to the reporting and recordkeeping
requirements for the Lime Manufacturing Plants NESHAP in the form of
eliminating the SSM reporting and SSM plan requirements and requiring
electronic submittal of all compliance reports (including performance
test reports). Any information submitted to the Agency for which a
claim of confidentiality is made will be safeguarded according to the
Agency policies set forth in title 40, chapter 1, part 2, subpart B--
Confidentiality of Business Information (see 40 CFR part 2; 41 FR
36902, September 1, 1976; amended by 43 FR 40000, September 8, 1978; 43
FR 42251, September 20, 1978; 44 FR 17674, March 23, 1979).
Respondents/affected entities: Owners or operators of lime
manufacturing plants that are major sources, or that are located at, or
are part of, major sources of HAP emissions, unless the lime
manufacturing plant is located at a kraft pulp mill, soda pulp mill,
sulfite pulp mill, sugar beet manufacturing plant, or only processes
sludge containing calcium carbonate from water softening processes.
Respondent's obligation to respond: Mandatory (40 CFR part 63,
subpart AAAAA).
Estimated number of respondents: On average over the next 3 years,
approximately 36 existing major sources will be subject to these
standards. It is also estimated that one additional respondent will
become subject to the emission standards over the 3-year period.
Frequency of response: The frequency of responses varies depending
on the burden item.
Total estimated burden: The average annual burden to industry over
the next 3 years from these recordkeeping and reporting requirements is
estimated to be 9,690 hours (per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.3(b).
Total estimated cost: The annual recordkeeping and reporting cost
for all facilities to comply with all of the requirements in the NESHAP
is estimated to be $1,810,000 (per year), of which $15,271 (first year)
is for this rule, and the rest is for other costs related to continued
compliance with the NESHAP including $684,000 in annualized capital and
operation and maintenance costs.
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. The OMB control numbers for the
EPA's regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9. When OMB
approves this ICR, the Agency will announce that approval in the
Federal Register and publish a technical amendment to 40 CFR part 9 to
display the OMB control number for the approved information collection
activities contained in this final rule.
D. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
I certify that this action will not have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities under the RFA. In
making this determination, the impact of concern is any significant
adverse economic impact on small entities. This action only eliminates
the SSM exemption, revises other SSM related requirements, and adds
electronic reporting. None of the changes will impact the small
entities. The rule removes the SSM exemption and establishes emission
standard for startup and shutdown. Based on the controls used at the
small entities, they will not be impacted by the alternate emission
standards. Thus, this action will not impose any requirements on small
entities.
E. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA)
This action does not contain any unfunded mandate as described in
UMRA, 2 U.S.C. 1531-1538, and does not significantly or uniquely affect
small governments. While this action creates an enforceable duty on the
private sector, the cost does not exceed $100 million or more.
F. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
This action does not have federalism implications. It will not have
substantial direct effects on the states, on the relationship between
the national government and the states, or on the distribution of power
and responsibilities among the various levels of government.
G. Executive Order 13175: Consultation and Coordination With Indian
Tribal Governments
This action does not have tribal implications as specified in
Executive Order 13175. The EPA does not know of any lime manufacturing
facilities owned or operated by Indian tribal governments. Thus,
Executive Order 13175 does not apply to this action.
H. Executive Order 13045: Protection of Children From Environmental
Health Risks and Safety Risks
This action is not subject to Executive Order 13045 because it is
not economically significant as defined in Executive Order 12866, and
because the EPA does not believe the environmental health or safety
risks addressed by this action present a disproportionate risk to
children. This action's health and risk assessments are contained in
sections III and IV of the proposal preamble (84 FR 48708, September
16, 2019) and further documented in the risk report titled Residual
Risk Assessment for the Lime Manufacturing Source Category in Support
of the 2019 Risk and Technology Review Proposed Rule, which is
available in the docket for this action.
I. Executive Order 13211: Actions Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use
This action is not subject to Executive Order 13211, because it is
not a significant regulatory action under Executive Order 12866.
J. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act (NTTAA) and 1 CFR
Part 51
This action involves technical standards. The EPA has decided to
use ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10-1981 Part 10 (2010), ``Flue and Exhaust Gas
Analyses,'' as an acceptable alternative to EPA Method 3B manual
portion only and not the instrumental portion. This method determines
quantitatively the gaseous constituents of exhausts resulting from
stationary combustion sources. This standard may be obtained from
https://www.asme.org or from the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) at Three Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016-5990.
The EPA has decided to use ASTM D6348-03(2010) and ASTM D6348-12e1,
``Determination of Gaseous Compounds by Executive Direct Interface
Fourier Transform (FTIR) Spectroscopy,'' as alternatives to using EPA
Method 320 under certain conditions and incorporate these alternatives
by reference. ASTM D6348-03(2010) was previously determined equivalent
to EPA Method 320 with caveats. ASTM D6348-12e1 is a revised version of
ASTM D6348-03(2010) and includes a new section on accepting the results
from direct measurement of a certified spike gas cylinder, but still
lacks the caveats we placed on the ASTM D6348-03(2010) version. The
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voluntary consensus standard (VCS), ASTM D6348-12e1, ``Determination of
Gaseous Compounds by Extractive Direct Interface Fourier Transform
(FTIR) Spectroscopy,'' is an acceptable alternative to EPA Method 320
at this time with caveats requiring inclusion of selected annexes to
the standard as mandatory. When using ASTM D6348-12e1, the conditions
that must be met are defined in 40 CFR 63.7142(a)(2). This field test
method employs an extractive sampling system to direct stationary
source effluent to an FTIR spectrometer for the identification and
quantification of gaseous compounds. The ASTM D6348-03(2010) and ASTM
D6348-12el standards were developed and adopted by the American Society
for Testing and Materials (ATSM).
The EPA has also decided to use ASTM D6735-01 (Reapproved 2009),
``Standard Test Method for Measurement of Gaseous Chlorides and
Fluorides from Mineral Calcining Exhaust Sources Impinger Method,'' as
an alternative to EPA Method 321 provided that the provisions in 40 CFR
63.7142(a)(4) are followed. The EPA used ASTM D6735-01 for the
determination of HCl in EPA Methods 26, 26A, and 321 from mineral
calcining exhaust sources. This method will measure the gaseous HCl and
other gaseous chlorides and fluorides that pass through a PM filter.
The ASTM D6735-01 standard was developed and adopted by the ASTM.
The EPA has decided to use VCS ASTM D6420-99 (Reapproved 2010),
``Test Method for Determination of Gaseous Organic Compounds by Direct
Interface Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry'' as an alternative to
EPA Method 18 only when the target compounds are all known, and the
target compounds are all listed in ASTM D6420 as measurable. ASTM D6420
should not be used for methane and ethane because atomic mass is less
than 35. ASTM D6420 should never be specified as a total volatile
organic compound method. This field method determines the mass
concentration of volatile organic HAP.
The ASTM standards may be obtained from https://www.astm.org or from
the ASTM at 100 Barr Harbor Drive, Post Office C700, West Conshohocken,
Pennsylvania 19428-2959.
The EPA has decided to use EPA-454/R-98-015, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards (OAQPS), Fabric Filter Bag Leak Detection
Guidance, September 1997 as guidance for how a triboelectric bag leak
detection system must be installed, calibrated, operated, and
maintained. This document includes FF and monitoring system
descriptions; guidance on monitor selection, installation, set up,
adjustment, and operation; and quality assurance procedures. This
document may be obtained from https://www.epa.gov or from the EPA, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
While the EPA has identified another 10 VCS as being potentially
applicable to this proposed rule, we have decided not to use these VCS
in this rulemaking. The use of these VCS would not be practical due to
lack of equivalency, documentation, validation date, and other import
technical and policy considerations. See the memorandum titled
Voluntary Consensus Standard Results for NESHAP: Lime Manufacturing
Residual Risk and Technology Review, in the docket for this proposed
rule for the reasons for these determinations.
Under 40 CFR 63.7(f) and 40 CFR 63.8(f) of subpart A of the General
Provisions, a source may apply to the EPA for permission to use
alternative test methods or alternative monitoring requirements in
place of any required testing methods, performance specifications, or
procedures in the final rule or any amendments.
K. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions To Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
The EPA believes that this action does not have disproportionately
high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority
populations, low-income populations, and/or indigenous peoples, as
specified in Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
The documentation for this decision is contained in section IV.B of
the proposal preamble and the technical report, Risk and Technology
Review Analysis of Demographic Factors for Populations Living Near Lime
Manufacturing Source Category Operations, which is available in the
docket for this action.
L. Congressional Review Act (CRA)
This action is subject to the CRA, and the EPA will submit a rule
report to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of
the United States. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5
U.S.C. 804(2).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63
Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedures,
Air pollution control, Hazardous substances, Incorporation by
reference, Lime manufacturing, Intergovernmental relations, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
Andrew Wheeler,
Administrator.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the EPA amends 40 CFR
part 63 as follows:
PART 63--NATIONAL EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS
FOR SOURCE CATEGORIES
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1. The authority citation for part 63 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Subpart A--General Provisions
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2. Section 63.14 is amended by revising paragraphs (e)(1), (h)(85),
(86), (93), (100), and (n)(3) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.14 Incorporations by reference.
* * * * *
(e) * * *
(1) ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10-1981, Flue and Exhaust Gas Analyses [Part
10, Instruments and Apparatus], issued August 31, 1981, IBR approved
for Sec. Sec. 63.309(k), 63.457(k), 63.772(e) and (h), 63.865(b),
63.997(e), 63.1282(d) and (g), 63.1625(b), table 5 to subpart EEEE,
63.3166(a), 63.3360(e), 63.3545(a), 63.3555(a), 63.4166(a), 63.4362(a),
63.4766(a), 63.4965(a), 63.5160(d), table 4 to subpart UUUU, table 3 to
subpart YYYY, 63.7822(b), 63.7824(e), 63.7825(b), 63.9307(c),
63.9323(a), 63.11148(e), 63.11155(e), 63.11162(f), 63.11163(g),
63.11410(j), 63.11551(a), 63.11646(a), and 63.11945, table 5 to subpart
AAAAA, table 5 to subpart DDDDD, table 4 to subpart JJJJJ, table 4 to
subpart KKKKK, tables 4 and 5 of subpart UUUUU, table 1 to subpart
ZZZZZ, and table 4 to subpart JJJJJJ.
* * * * *
(h) * * *
(85) ASTM D6348-03 (Reapproved 2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Compounds by Extractive Direct Interface
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy, including Annexes A1
through A8, Approved October 1, 2010, IBR approved for Sec. Sec.
63.1571(a), 63.4751(i), 63.4752(e), 63.4766(b), 63.7142(a) and (b),
tables 4 and 5 to subpart JJJJJ, tables 4 and 6 to subpart KKKKK,
tables 1, 2, and 5 to subpart UUUUU and appendix B to subpart UUUUU.
(86) ASTM D6348-12e1, Standard Test Method for Determination of
Gaseous Compounds by Extractive Direct Interface Fourier Transform
Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy, Approved February 1, 2012, IBR approved
for
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Sec. Sec. 63.997(e), 63.1571(a), 63.2354(b), table 5 to subpart EEEE,
table 4 to subpart UUUU, and 63.7142(a) and (b).
* * * * *
(93) ASTM D6420-99 (Reapproved 2010), Standard Test Method for
Determination of Gaseous Organic Compounds by Direct Interface Gas
Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Approved October 1, 2010, IBR
approved for Sec. Sec. 63.670(j), Table 4 to subpart UUUU, 63.7142(b),
and appendix A to this part: Method 325B.
* * * * *
(100) ASTM D6735-01 (Reapproved 2009), Standard Test Method for
Measurement of Gaseous Chlorides and Fluorides from Mineral Calcining
Exhaust Sources--Impinger Method, IBR approved for Sec. 63.7142(b),
tables 4 and 5 to subpart JJJJJ, and tables 4 and 6 to subpart KKKKK.
* * * * *
(n) * * *
(3) EPA-454/R-98-015, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
(OAQPS), Fabric Filter Bag Leak Detection Guidance, September 1997, IBR
approved for Sec. Sec. 63.548(e), 63.864(e), 63.7113(d), 63.7525(j),
63.7831(f), 63.8450(e), 63.8600(e), and 63.11224(f).
* * * * *
Subpart AAAAA--[Amended]
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3. Section 63.7083 is amended by revising paragraphs (a)(1), (2), and
(b) and by adding paragraph (e) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.7083 When do I have to comply with this subpart?
(a) * * *
(1) If you start up your affected source before January 5, 2004,
you must comply with the emission limitations no later than January 5,
2004, and you must have completed all applicable performance tests no
later than July 5, 2004, except as noted in paragraphs (e)(1) and (2)
of this section.
(2) If you start up your affected source after January 5, 2004,
then you must comply with the emission limitations for new affected
sources upon startup of your affected source and you must have
completed all applicable performance tests no later than 180 days after
startup, except as noted in paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this section.
(b) If you have an existing affected source, you must comply with
the applicable emission limitations for the existing affected source,
and you must have completed all applicable performance tests no later
than January 5, 2007, except as noted in paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of
this section.
* * * * *
(e)(1) If your affected source commenced construction or
reconstruction on or before September, 16, 2019, then the compliance
date for the revised requirements promulgated at Sec. Sec. 63.7090,
63.7100, 63.7112, 63.7113, 63.7121, 63.7130, 63.7131, 63.7132, 63.7140,
63.7141, 63.7142, and 63.7143 and Tables 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 (except
changes to the cross references to 63.6(f)(1) and (h)(1)) of 40 CFR 63,
subpart AAAAA, published on July 24, 2020 is January 20, 2021.
(2) If your affected source commenced construction or
reconstruction after September 16, 2019, then the compliance date for
the revised requirements promulgated at Sec. Sec. 63.7090, 63.7100,
63.7112, 63.7113, 63.7121, 63.7130, 63.7131, 63.7132, 63.7140, 63.7141,
63.7142, and 63.7143 and Tables 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9 to this subpart,
published on July 24, 2020 is July 24, 2020 or the date of initial
startup, whichever is later.
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4. Section 63.7090 is amended by revising paragraph (b) and adding
paragraph (c) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.7090 What emission limitations must I meet?
* * * * *
(b) You must meet each operating limit in Table 3 to this subpart
that applies to you.
(c) On or after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. Sec. 63.7083(e), you must meet each startup and
shutdown period emission limit in Table 2 to this subpart that applies
to you.
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5. Section 63.7100 is amended by revising paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
(d)(3), (d)(4)(iii), (d)(6) introductory text, and (e) to read as
follows:
Sec. 63.7100 What are my general requirements for complying with
this subpart?
(a) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you must be in compliance with the
emission limitations (including operating limits) in this subpart at
all times, except during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction.
On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as specified
in Sec. 63.7083(e), you must be in compliance with the applicable
emission limitations (including operating limits) at all times.
(b) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you must be in compliance with the
opacity and visible emission (VE) limits in this subpart at all times,
except during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction. On and
after the relevant compliance date for your source as specified in
Sec. 63.7083(e), you must be in compliance with the applicable opacity
and VE limits at all times.
(c) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you must always operate and maintain
your affected source, including air pollution control and monitoring
equipment, according to the provisions in Sec. 63.6(e)(1)(i). On and
after the relevant compliance date for your source as specified in
Sec. 63.7083(e), you must always operate and maintain any affected
source, including associated air pollution control equipment and
monitoring equipment, in a manner consistent with safety and good air
pollution control practices for minimizing emissions. The general duty
to minimize emissions does not require the owner or operator to make
any further efforts to reduce emissions if levels required by the
applicable standard have been achieved. Determination of whether such
operation and maintenance procedures are being used will be based on
information available to the Administrator which may include, but is
not limited to, monitoring results, review of operation and maintenance
procedures, review of operation and maintenance records, and inspection
of the source.
(d) * * *
(3) Procedures for the proper operation and maintenance of each
emission unit and each air pollution control device used to meet the
applicable emission limitations and operating limits in Tables 1, 2 and
3 to this subpart, respectively. On and after the relevant compliance
date for your source as specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), your OM&M plan
must address periods of startup and shutdown.
(4) * * *
(iii) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), ongoing operation and maintenance
procedures in accordance with the general requirements of Sec. Sec.
63.8(c)(1)(i) and (ii), (3), and (4)(ii). On and after the relevant
compliance date for your source as specified in Sec. 63.7083(e),
ongoing operation and maintenance procedures in accordance with the
general requirements of paragraph (c) of this section and Sec. Sec.
63.8(c)(1)(ii), (3), and (4)(ii); and
* * * * *
(6) Corrective actions to be taken when process or operating
parameters or add-on control device parameters deviate from the
operating limits
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specified in Table 3 to this subpart, including:
* * * * *
(e) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you must develop a written startup,
shutdown, and malfunction plan (SSMP) according to the provisions in
Sec. 63.6(e)(3).
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6. Section 63.7110 is amended by revising paragraphs (d) and (e) to
read as follows:
Sec. 63.7110 By what date must I conduct performance tests and other
initial compliance demonstrations?
* * * * *
(d) For each initial compliance requirement in Table 4 to this
subpart that applies to you where the monitoring averaging period is 3
hours, the 3-hour period for demonstrating continuous compliance for
emission units within existing affected sources at LMP begins at 12:01
a.m. on the compliance date for existing affected sources, that is, the
day following completion of the initial compliance demonstration, and
ends at 3:01 a.m. on the same day.
(e) For each initial compliance requirement in Table 4 to this
subpart that applies to you where the monitoring averaging period is 3
hours, the 3-hour period for demonstrating continuous compliance for
emission units within new or reconstructed affected sources at LMP
begins at 12:01 a.m. on the day following completion of the initial
compliance demonstration, as required in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
section, and ends at 3:01 a.m. on the same day.
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7. Section 63.7112 is amended by revising paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (j)
introductory text, (k) introductory text, (k)(3), and (l) introductory
text, and adding paragraph (m) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.7112 What performance tests, design evaluations, and other
procedures must I use?
(a) You must conduct each performance test in Table 5 to this
subpart that applies to you.
(b) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), each performance test must be conducted
according to the requirements in Sec. 63.7(e)(1) and under the
specific conditions specified in Table 5 to this subpart. On and after
the relevant compliance date for your source as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e), each performance test must be conducted based on
representative performance (i.e., performance based on normal operating
conditions) of the affected source and under the specific conditions in
Table 5 to this subpart. Representative conditions exclude periods of
startup and shutdown. The owner or operator may not conduct performance
tests during periods of malfunction. The owner or operator must record
the process information that is necessary to document operating
conditions during the test and include in such record an explanation to
support that such conditions represent normal operation. Upon request,
the owner or operator shall make available to the Administrator such
records as may be necessary to determine the conditions of performance
tests.
(c) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you may not conduct performance tests
during periods of startup, shutdown, or malfunction, as specified in
Sec. 63.7(e)(1). On and after the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you may not conduct
performance tests during periods of startup, shutdown, or malfunction,
as specified in paragraph (b) of this section.
* * * * *
(j) You must establish any applicable 3-hour block average
operating limit indicated in Table 3 to this subpart according to the
applicable requirements in Table 4 to this subpart and paragraphs
(j)(1) through (4) of this section.
* * * * *
(k) For each building enclosing any PSH operations that is subject
to a VE limit, you must conduct a VE check according to item 18 in
Table 5 to this subpart, and in accordance with paragraphs (k)(1)
through (3) of this section.
* * * * *
(3) The observer conducting the VE checks need not be certified to
conduct EPA Method 9 in appendix A-4 to part 60 of this chapter.
However, the observer must meet the training requirements as described
in EPA Method 22 in appendix A-7 to part 60 of this chapter.
(l) When determining compliance with the opacity standards for
fugitive emissions from PSH operations in item 8 of Table 1 to this
subpart, you must conduct EPA Method 9 in appendix A-4 to part 60 of
this chapter according to item 17 in Table 5 to this subpart, and in
accordance with paragraphs (l)(1) through (3) of this section.
* * * * *
(m) On and after the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), during startup, kilns must be tested
hourly to determine when lime product meets the definition of on-
specification lime product.
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8. Section 63.7113 is amended by revising paragraphs (d) and (f) to
read as follows:
Sec. 63.7113 What are my monitoring installation, operation, and
maintenance requirements?
* * * * *
(d) For each bag leak detection system (BLDS), you must meet any
applicable requirements in paragraphs (a)(1) through (5) and (d)(1)
through (10) of this section.
(1) The BLDS must be certified by the manufacturer to be capable of
detecting PM emissions at concentrations of 10 milligrams per actual
cubic meter (0.0044 grains per actual cubic foot) or less.
(2) The sensor on the BLDS must provide output of relative PM
emissions.
(3) The BLDS must be equipped with a device to continuously record
the output signal from the sensor.
(4) The BLDS must have an alarm that will sound automatically when
it detects an increase in relative PM emissions greater than a preset
level.
(5) The alarm must be located in an area where appropriate plant
personnel will be able to hear it.
(6) For a positive-pressure fabric filter (FF), each compartment or
cell must have a bag leak detector (BLD). For a negative-pressure or
induced-air FF, the BLD must be installed downstream of the FF. If
multiple BLD are required (for either type of FF), the detectors may
share the system instrumentation and alarm.
(7) Each triboelectric BLDS must be installed, calibrated,
operated, and maintained according to EPA-454/R-98-015, ``Fabric Filter
Bag Leak Detection Guidance,'' (incorporated by reference--see Sec.
63.14). Other types of bag leak detection systems must be installed,
operated, calibrated, and maintained according to the manufacturer's
written specifications and recommendations. Standard operating
procedures must be incorporated into the OM&M plan.
(8) At a minimum, initial adjustment of the system must consist of
establishing the baseline output in both of the following ways,
according to section 5.0 of the EPA-454/R-98-015, ``Fabric Filter Bag
Leak Detection Guidance,'' (incorporated by reference--see Sec.
63.14):
(i) Adjust the range and the averaging period of the device.
(ii) Establish the alarm set points and the alarm delay time.
(9) After initial adjustment, the sensitivity or range, averaging
period,
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alarm set points, or alarm delay time may not be adjusted except as
specified in the OM&M plan required by Sec. 63.7100(d). In no event
may the range be increased by more than 100 percent or decreased by
more than 50 percent over a 365-day period unless such adjustment
follows a complete FF inspection that demonstrates that the FF is in
good operating condition, as defined in section 5.2 of the ``Fabric
Filter Bag Leak Detection Guidance,'' (incorporated by reference--see
Sec. 63.14). Record each adjustment.
(10) Record the results of each inspection, calibration, and
validation check.
* * * * *
(f) For each emission unit equipped with an add-on air pollution
control device, you must inspect each capture/collection and closed
vent system at least once each calendar year to ensure that each system
is operating in accordance with the operating requirements in item 6 of
Table 3 to this subpart and record the results of each inspection.
* * * * *
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9. Section 63.7114 is amended by revising paragraphs (a) introductory
text and (b) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.7114 How do I demonstrate initial compliance with the
emission limitations standard?
(a) You must demonstrate initial compliance with each emission
limit in Table 1 to this subpart that applies to you, according to
Table 4 to this subpart. For existing lime kilns and their associated
coolers, you may perform VE measurements in accordance with EPA Method
9 of appendix A to part 60 in lieu of installing a COMS or PM detector
if any of the conditions in paragraphs (a)(1) through (3) of this
section exist:
* * * * *
(b) You must establish each site-specific operating limit in Table
3 to this subpart that applies to you according to the requirements in
Sec. 63.7112(j) and Table 5 to this subpart. Alternative parameters
may be monitored if approval is obtained according to the procedures in
Sec. 63.8(f).
* * * * *
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10. Section 63.7120 is amended by revising paragraph (c) introductory
text to read as follows and removing paragraph (c)(3).
Sec. 63.7120 How do I monitor and collect data to demonstrate
continuous compliance?
* * * * *
(c) Data recorded during the conditions described in paragraphs
(c)(1) and (2) of this section may not be used either in data averages
or calculations of emission or operating limits; or in fulfilling a
minimum data availability requirement. You must use all the data
collected during all other periods in assessing the operation of the
control device and associated control system.
* * * * *
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11. Section 63.7121 is amended by revising paragraphs (a), (b), (d),
(e) introductory text, and (e)(3) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.7121 How do I demonstrate continuous compliance with the
emission limitations standard?
(a) You must demonstrate continuous compliance with each emission
limitation in Tables 1 and 3 to this subpart that applies to you
according to the methods specified in Tables 6 and 7 to this subpart.
(b) You must report each instance in which you did not meet each
operating limit, opacity limit, and VE limit in Tables 2, 3 and 7 to
this subpart that applies to you. These deviations must be reported
according to the requirements in Sec. 63.7131.
* * * * *
(d) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), consistent with Sec. Sec. 63.6(e) and
63.7(e)(1), deviations that occur during a period of startup, shutdown,
or malfunction are not violations if you demonstrate to the
Administrator's satisfaction that you were operating in accordance with
Sec. 63.6(e)(1). The Administrator will determine whether deviations
that occur during a period of startup, shutdown, or malfunction are
violations, according to the provisions in Sec. 63.6(e).
(e) For each PSH operation subject to an opacity limit as specified
in Table 1 to this subpart, and any vents from buildings subject to an
opacity limit, you must conduct a VE check according to item 1 in Table
7 to this subpart, and as follows:
* * * * *
(3) The observer conducting the VE checks need not be certified to
conduct EPA Method 9 in appendix A-4 to part 60 of this chapter but
must meet the training requirements as described in EPA Method 22 of
appendix A-7 to part 60 of this chapter.
* * * * *
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12. Section 63.7130 is amended by revising paragraph (e) to read as
follows:
Sec. 63.7130 What notifications must I submit and when?
* * * * *
(e) If you are required to conduct a performance test, design
evaluation, opacity observation, VE observation, or other initial
compliance demonstration as specified in Table 4 or 5 to this subpart,
you must submit a Notification of Compliance Status according to Sec.
63.9(h)(2)(ii). Beginning on the relevant compliance date for your
source as specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), submit all subsequent
Notification of Compliance Status following the procedure specified in
Sec. 63.7131(h).
(1) For each initial compliance demonstration required in Table 4
to this subpart that does not include a performance test, you must
submit the Notification of Compliance Status before the close of
business on the 30th calendar day following the completion of the
initial compliance demonstration.
(2) For each compliance demonstration required in Table 6 to this
subpart that includes a performance test conducted according to the
requirements in Table 5 to this subpart, you must submit the
Notification of Compliance Status, including the performance test
results, before the close of business on the 60th calendar day
following the completion of the performance test according to Sec.
63.10(d)(2).
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13. Section 63.7131 is amended by:
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a. Revising paragraphs (a) and paragraph (b) introductory text;
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b. Adding paragraph (b)(6);
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c. Revising paragraphs (c)(4), paragraphs (d), (e) introductory text,
and (e)(2);
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d. Adding paragraph (e)(12);
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e. Revising paragraph (f); and
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f. Adding paragraphs (g) through (j).
The revisions and additions read as follows:
Sec. 63.7131 What reports must I submit and when?
(a) You must submit each report listed in Table 8 to this subpart
that applies to you.
(b) Unless the Administrator has approved a different schedule for
submission of reports under Sec. 63.10(a), you must submit each report
by the date specified in Table 8 to this subpart and according to the
requirements in paragraphs (b)(1) through (6) of this section:
* * * * *
(6) Beginning on the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), submit all subsequent compliance reports
following the procedure specified in paragraph (h) of this section.
(c) * * *
(4) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in
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Sec. 63.7083(e), if you had a startup, shutdown or malfunction during
the reporting period and you took actions consistent with your SSMP,
the compliance report must include the information in Sec.
63.10(d)(5)(i).
* * * * *
(d) For each deviation from an emission limitation (emission limit,
operating limit, opacity limit, and VE limit) that occurs at an
affected source where you are not using a CMS to comply with the
emission limitations in this subpart, the compliance report must
contain the information specified in paragraphs (c)(1) through (4) and
(d)(1) and (2) of this section. The deviations must be reported in
accordance with the requirements in Sec. 63.10(d) prior to the
relevant compliance date for your source as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e) and the requirements in Sec. 63.10(d)(1)-(4) beginning on
the relevant compliance date for your source as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
(1) The total operating time of each emission unit during the
reporting period.
(2) Information on the number, duration, and cause of deviations
(including unknown cause, if applicable), and the corrective action
taken.
(3) An estimate of the quantity of each regulated pollutant emitted
over a particulate matter emission limit, and a description of the
method used to estimate the emissions.
(e) For each deviation from an emission limitation (emission limit,
operating limit, opacity limit, and VE limit) occurring at an affected
source where you are using a CMS to comply with the emission limitation
in this subpart, you must include the information specified in
paragraphs (c)(1) through (4) and (e)(1) through (11) of this section,
except that beginning on the relevant compliance date for your source
as specified in 63.7083(e), the semiannual compliance report must also
include the information included in paragraph (e)(12) of this section.
This includes periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction.
* * * * *
(2) The date, time, and duration that each CMS was inoperative,
except for zero (low-level) and high-level checks.
* * * * *
(12) An estimate of the quantity of each regulated pollutant
emitted over a particulate matter emission limit, and a description of
the method used to estimate the emissions.
(f) Each facility that has obtained a title V operating permit
pursuant to part 70 or part 71 of this chapter must report all
deviations as defined in this subpart in the semiannual monitoring
report required by Sec. 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) or 71.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) of
this chapter. If you submit a compliance report specified in Table 8 to
this subpart along with, or as part of, the semiannual monitoring
report required by Sec. 70.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) or 71.6(a)(3)(iii)(A) of
this chapter, and the compliance report includes all required
information concerning deviations from any emission limitation
(including any operating limit), submission of the compliance report
shall be deemed to satisfy any obligation to report the same deviations
in the semiannual monitoring report. However, submission of a
compliance report shall not otherwise affect any obligation you may
have to report deviations from permit requirements to the permit
authority.
(g) If you are required to submit reports following the procedure
specified in this paragraph, you must submit reports to the EPA via the
Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI), which can be
accessed through the EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) (https://cdx.epa.gov/). You must use the appropriate electronic report template
on the CEDRI website (https://www.epa.gov/electronic-reporting-air-emissions/compliance-and-emissions-data-reporting-interface-cedri) for
this subpart. The date report templates become available will be listed
on the CEDRI website. The report must be submitted by the deadline
specified in this subpart, regardless of the method in which the report
is submitted. If you claim some of the information required to be
submitted via CEDRI is confidential business information (CBI), submit
a complete report, including information claimed to be CBI, to the EPA.
The report must be generated using the appropriate form on the CEDRI
website. Submit the file on a compact disc, flash drive, or other
commonly used electronic storage medium and clearly mark the medium as
CBI. Mail the electronic medium to U.S. EPA/OAQPS/CORE CBI Office,
Attention: Group Leader, Measurement Policy Group, MD C404-02, 4930 Old
Page Rd., Durham, NC 27703. The same file with the CBI omitted must be
submitted to the EPA via the EPA's CDX as described earlier in this
paragraph.
(h) Within 60 days after the date of completing each performance
test required by this subpart, you must submit the results of the
performance test following the procedures specified in paragraphs
(h)(1) through (3) of this section.
(1) Data collected using test methods supported by the EPA's
Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT) as listed on the EPA's ERT website
(https://www.epa.gov/electronic-reporting-air-emissions/electronic-reporting-tool-ert) at the time of the test. Submit the results of the
performance test to the EPA via CEDRI, which can be accessed through
the EPA's CDX (https://cdx.epa.gov/). The data must be submitted in a
file format generated through the use of the EPA's ERT. Alternatively,
you may submit an electronic file consistent with the extensible markup
language (XML) schema listed on the EPA's ERT website.
(2) Data collected using test methods that are not supported by the
EPA's ERT as listed on the EPA's ERT website at the time of the test.
The results of the performance test must be included as an attachment
in the ERT or an alternate electronic file consistent with the XML
schema listed on the EPA's ERT website. Submit the ERT generated
package or alternative file to the EPA via CEDRI.
(3) Confidential business information (CBI). If you claim some of
the information submitted under paragraph (i) of this section is CBI,
you must submit a complete file, including information claimed to be
CBI, to the EPA. The file must be generated through the use of the
EPA's ERT or an alternate electronic file consistent with the XML
schema listed on the EPA's ERT website. Submit the file on a compact
disc, flash drive, or other commonly used electronic storage medium and
clearly mark the medium as CBI. Mail the electronic medium to U.S. EPA/
OAQPS/CORE CBI Office, Attention: Group Leader, Measurement Policy
Group, MD C404-02, 4930 Old Page Rd., Durham, NC 27703. The same file
with the CBI omitted must be submitted to the EPA via the EPA's CDX as
described in paragraph (i) of this section.
(i) If you are required to electronically submit a report or
notification through CEDRI in the EPA's CDX, you may assert a claim of
EPA system outage for failure to timely comply with the reporting
requirement. To assert a claim of EPA system outage, you must meet the
requirements outlined in paragraphs (i)(1) through (7) of this section.
(1) You must have been or will be precluded from accessing CEDRI
and submitting a required report within the time prescribed due to an
outage of either the EPA's CEDRI or CDX systems.
(2) The outage must have occurred within the period of time
beginning five business days prior to the date that the submission is
due.
(3) The outage may be planned or unplanned.
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(4) You must submit notification to the Administrator in writing as
soon as possible following the date you first knew, or through due
diligence should have known, that the event may cause or has caused a
delay in reporting.
(5) You must provide to the Administrator a written description
identifying:
(i) The date(s) and time(s) when CDX or CEDRI was accessed and the
system was unavailable;
(ii) A rationale for attributing the delay in reporting beyond the
regulatory deadline to EPA system outage;
(iii) Measures taken or to be taken to minimize the delay in
reporting; and
(iv) The date by which you propose to report, or if you have
already met the reporting requirement at the time of the notification,
the date you reported.
(6) The decision to accept the claim of EPA system outage and allow
an extension to the reporting deadline is solely within the discretion
of the Administrator.
(7) In any circumstance, the report must be submitted
electronically as soon as possible after the outage is resolved.
(j) If you are required to electronically submit a report through
CEDRI in the EPA's CDX, you may assert a claim of force majeure for
failure to timely comply with the reporting requirement. To assert a
claim of force majeure, you must meet the requirements outlined in
paragraphs (j)(1) through (5) of this section.
(1) You may submit a claim if a force majeure event is about to
occur, occurs, or has occurred or there are lingering effects from such
an event within the period of time beginning five business days prior
to the date the submission is due. For the purposes of this section, a
force majeure event is defined as an event that will be or has been
caused by circumstances beyond the control of the affected facility,
its contractors, or any entity controlled by the affected facility that
prevents you from complying with the requirement to submit a report
electronically within the time period prescribed. Examples of such
events are acts of nature (e.g., hurricanes, earthquakes, or floods),
acts of war or terrorism, or equipment failure or safety hazard beyond
the control of the affected facility (e.g., large scale power outage).
(2) You must submit notification to the Administrator in writing as
soon as possible following the date you first knew, or through due
diligence should have known, that the event may cause or has caused a
delay in reporting.
(3) You must provide to the Administrator:
(i) A written description of the force majeure event;
(ii) A rationale for attributing the delay in reporting beyond the
regulatory deadline to the force majeure event;
(iii) Measures taken or to be taken to minimize the delay in
reporting; and
(iv) The date by which you propose to report, or if you have
already met the reporting requirement at the time of the notification,
the date you reported.
(4) The decision to accept the claim of force majeure and allow an
extension to the reporting deadline is solely within the discretion of
the Administrator.
(5) In any circumstance, the reporting must occur as soon as
possible after the force majeure event occurs.
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14. Section 63.7132 is amended by revising paragraphs (a)(2) and (c) to
read as follows:
Sec. 63.7132 What records must I keep?
(a) * * *
(2) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), the records in Sec. 63.6(e)(3)(iii)
through (v) related to startup, shutdown, and malfunction. On and after
the relevant compliance date for your source as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e), the records in paragraphs (a)(2)(i) and (ii) of this
section.
(i) You must keep records for each startup period of the date, the
time startup began, the time began producing on-specification lime
product, and the time discharge from the kiln began for any affected
source that is subject to a standard during startup that differs from
the standard applicable at other times.
(ii) You must keep records of the date, time, cause and duration of
each malfunction (as defined in 40 CFR 63.2) that causes an affected
source to fail to meet an applicable standard; if there was also a
monitoring malfunction, the date, time, cause, and duration of the
monitoring malfunction; the record must list the affected source or
equipment; if there was a failure to meet a particulate matter
emissions limit, an estimate of the volume of each regulated pollutant
emitted over the limit, and a description of the method used to
estimate the emissions.
* * * * *
(c) You must keep the records required by Tables 6 and 7 to this
subpart to show continuous compliance with each emission limitation
that applies to you.
* * * * *
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15. Section 63.7133 is amended by adding paragraph (d) to read as
follows:
Sec. 63.7133 In what form and for how long must I keep my records?
* * * * *
(d) Any records required to be maintained by this part that are
submitted electronically via the EPA's CEDRI may be maintained in
electronic format. This ability to maintain electronic copies does not
affect the requirement for facilities to make records, data, and
reports available upon request to a delegated air agency or the EPA as
part of an on-site compliance evaluation.
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16. Section 63.7140 is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 63.7140 What parts of the General Provisions apply to me?
Table 9 to this subpart shows which parts of the General Provisions
in Sec. Sec. 63.1 through 63.16 apply to you. When there is overlap
between subpart A and subpart AAAAA, as indicated in the
``Explanations'' column in Table 8, subpart AAAAA takes precedence.
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17. Section 63.7141 is amended by revising paragraph (c) to read as
follows:
Sec. 63.7141 Who implements and enforces this subpart?
* * * * *
(c) The authorities that will not be delegated to State, local, or
tribal agencies are as specified in paragraphs (c)(1) through (7) of
this section.
(1) Approval of alternatives to the non-opacity emission
limitations in Sec. 63.7090(a).
(2) Approval of alternative opacity emission limitations in Sec.
63.7090(a) and (c).
(3) Approval of alternatives to the operating limits in Sec.
63.7090(b).
(4) Approval of major alternatives to test methods under Sec.
63.7(e)(2)(ii) and (f) and as defined in Sec. 63.90.
(5) Approval of major alternatives to monitoring under Sec.
63.8(f) and as defined in Sec. 63.90.
(6) Approval of major alternatives to recordkeeping and reporting
under Sec. 63.10(f) and as defined in Sec. 63.90.
(7) Approval of an alternative to any electronic reporting to the
EPA required by this subpart.
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18. Section 63.7142 is amended by:
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a. Revising paragraph (a)(1);
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b. Redesignating paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3) as paragraphs (a)(3) and
(a)(4);
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c. Adding new paragraph (a)(2);
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d. Revising newly designated paragraph (a)(4) introductory text, and
paragraphs (a)(4)(i), and (a)(4)(v);
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e. Redesignating paragraphs (b)(2) and (b)(3) as paragraphs (b)(3) and
(b)(4);
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f. Adding new paragraph (b)(2); and
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g. Revising newly designated paragraphs (b)(3) and (b)(4).
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The revisions and additions read as follows:
Sec. 63.7142 What are the requirements for claiming area source
status?
(a) * * *
(1) EPA Method 320 of appendix A to this part, or
(2) As an alternative to Method 320 of Appendix A, ASTM D6348-03
(Reapproved 2010) including Annexes A1 through A8 (incorporated by
reference--see Sec. 63.14). ASTM D6348-12e1 (incorporated by
reference--see Sec. 63.14) is an acceptable alternative to EPA Method
320 of appendix A, provided that the provisions of paragraphs (a)(2)(i)
and (ii) of this section are followed:
(i) The test plan preparation and implementation in the Annexes to
ASTM D6348-03 (Reapproved 2010), Sections A1 through A8 are mandatory.
(ii) In ASTM D6348-03 (Reapproved 2010) Annex A5 (Analyte Spiking
Technique), the percent recovery (%R) must be determined for each
target analyte (Equation A5.5). In order for the test data to be
acceptable for a compound, %R must be greater than or equal to 70
percent and less than or equal to 130 percent. If the %R value does not
meet this criterion for a target compound, the test data are not
acceptable for that compound and the test must be repeated for that
analyte (i.e., the sampling and/or analytical procedure should be
adjusted before a retest). The %R value for each compound must be
reported in the test report, and all field measurements must be
corrected with the calculated %R value for that compound by using the
following equation: Reported Results = ((Measured Concentration in the
Stack))/(%R) x 100; or
* * * * *
(4) As an alternative to EPA Method 321, ASTM Method D6735-01
(Reapproved 2009), (incorporated by reference--see Sec. 63.14),
provided that the provisions in paragraphs (a)(3)(i) through (vi) of
this section are followed.
(i) A test must include three or more runs in which a pair of
samples is obtained simultaneously for each run according to section
11.2.6 of ASTM Method D6735-01 (Reapproved 2009).
* * * * *
(v) The post-test analyte spike procedure of section 11.2.7 of ASTM
Method D6735-01 (Reapproved 2009) is conducted, and the percent
recovery is calculated according to section 12.6 of ASTM Method D6735-
01 (Reapproved 2009).
* * * * *
(b) * * *
(2) As an alternative to Method 320 of Appendix A, ASTM D6348-03
(Reapproved 2010) including Annexes A1 through A8 (incorporated by
reference--see Sec. 63.14). ASTM D6348-12e1 (incorporated by
reference--see Sec. 63.14) is an acceptable alternative to EPA Method
320 of appendix A, provided that the provisions of paragraphs (b)(2)(i)
and (ii) of this section are followed:
(i) The test plan preparation and implementation in the Annexes to
ASTM D6348-03 (Reapproved 2010), Sections A1 through A8 are mandatory.
(ii) In ASTM D6348-03 (Reapproved 2010) Annex A5 (Analyte Spiking
Technique), the percent recovery (%R) must be determined for each
target analyte (Equation A5.5). In order for the test data to be
acceptable for a compound, %R must be greater than or equal to 70
percent and less than or equal to 130 percent. If the %R value does not
meet this criterion for a target compound, the test data are not
acceptable for that compound and the test must be repeated for that
analyte (i.e., the sampling and/or analytical procedure should be
adjusted before a retest). The %R value for each compound must be
reported in the test report, and all field measurements must be
corrected with the calculated %R value for that compound by using the
following equation: Reported Results = ((Measured Concentration in the
Stack))/(%R) x 100; or
(3) Method 18 of appendix A-6 to part 60 of this chapter; or
(4) As an alternative to Method 18, ASTM D6420-99 (Reapproved
2010), (incorporated by reference--see Sec. 63.14), provided that the
provisions of paragraphs (b)(3)(i) through (iv) of this section are
followed:
(i) The target compound(s) are those listed in section 1.1 of ASTM
D6420-99 (Reapproved 2010) as measurable;
(ii) This ASTM should not be used for methane and ethane because
their atomic mass is less than 35 and
(iii) ASTM D6420-99 (Reapproved 2010) should never be specified as
a total VOC method.
* * * * *
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19. Section 63.7143 is amended by:
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a. Revising paragraph (3) under the definition of ``Deviation.''
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b. Adding in alphabetical order definitions for ``On-specification lime
product,'' ``Shutdown'' and ``Startup.''
The revisions read as follows:
Sec. 63.7143 What definitions apply to this subpart?
* * * * *
Deviation * * *
(3) Prior to the relevant compliance date for your source as
specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), fails to meet any emission limitation
(including any operating limit) in this subpart during startup,
shutdown, or malfunction, regardless of whether or not such failure is
allowed by this subpart.
* * * * *
On-specification Lime Product means lime product that has been
sufficiently calcined to meet end use requirements.
* * * * *
Shutdown means the cessation of kiln operation. Shutdown begins
when feed to the kiln is reduced below planned production quantities
and ends when stone feed is halted and fuel combustion from the main
burner ceases.
* * * * *
Startup means the beginning of kiln operation. Startup begins when
a shutdown kiln begins firing fuel in the main burner. Startup ends
when the lime kiln first generates on-specification lime product or 12
hours following first discharge from the kiln, whichever is earlier.
* * * * *
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20. Table 1 to subpart AAAAA is amended by revising the introductory
text to read as follows:
Table 1 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Emission Limits
As required in Sec. 63.7090(a), you must meet each emission limit
in the following table that applies to you, except for kilns and
coolers during startup and shutdown (See Table 2 for emission limits
for kilns and coolers during startup and shutdown).
* * * * *
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21. Redesignate tables 2 through 8 to subpart AAAAA as tables 3 through
9 to subpart AAAA.
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22. Add new Table 2 to subpart AAAAA to read as follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7090(b), on and after the relevant
compliance date for your source as specified in Sec. 63.7083(e), you
must meet each emission limit in the following table that applies to
you.
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Table 2 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Startup and Shutdown Emission
Limits for Kilns and Coolers
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You have
demonstrated
You must meet the compliance, if after
For . . . following emission following the
limit requirements in Sec.
63.7112 . . .
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1. All new and existing lime Emissions must not i. Installed,
kilns and their associated exceed 15 percent maintained,
coolers equipped with an FF opacity (based on calibrated and
or an ESP during each startup period operated a COMS as
startup. block average). required by 40 CFR
part 63, subpart A,
General Provisions
and according to PS-
1 of appendix B to
part 60 of this
chapter, except as
specified in Sec.
63.7113(g)(2);
ii. Collected the
COMS data at a
frequency of at
least once every 15
seconds,
determining block
averages for each
startup period and
demonstrating for
each startup block
period the average
opacity does not
exceed 15 percent.
2. All existing lime kilns See item 2.b of See item 1 of Table
and their associated Table 3 of subpart 6 of subpart AAAAA
coolers that have a wet AAAAA for emission for requirements
scrubber during each limit. for demonstrating
startup. compliance.
3. All new and existing lime Emissions must not i. Installed,
kilns and their associated exceed 15 percent maintained,
coolers equipped with an FF opacity (based on 6- calibrated and
or an ESP during shutdown. minute average operated a COMS as
opacity for any 6- required by 40 CFR
minute block period part 63, subpart A,
does not exceed 15 General Provisions
percent). and according to PS-
1 of appendix B to
part 60 of this
chapter, except as
specified in Sec.
63.7113(g)(2);
ii. Collecting the
COMS data at a
frequency of at
least once every 15
seconds,
determining block
averages for each 6-
minute period and
demonstrating for
each 6-minute block
period the average
opacity does not
exceed 15 percent.
4. All existing lime kilns See item 2.b of See item 1 of Table
and their associated Table 3 of subpart 6 of subpart AAAAA
coolers that have a wet AAAAA for emission for requirements
scrubber during shutdown. limit. for demonstrating
compliance.
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23. Revise newly redesignated Table 3 to subpart AAAAA to read as
follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7090(b), you must meet each operating limit
in the following table that applies to you, except for kilns and
coolers during startup and shutdown (See Table 2 for operating limits
during startup and shutdown).
Table 3 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Operating Limits
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For . . . You must . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Each lime kiln and each lime Maintain and operate the FF such
cooler (if there is a separate that the BLDS or PM detector alarm
exhaust to the atmosphere from condition does not exist for more
the associated lime cooler) than 5 percent of the total
equipped with an FF. operating time in a 6-month period;
and comply with the requirements in
Sec. 63.7113(d) through (f) and
Table 6 to this subpart. In lieu of
a BLDS or PM detector maintain the
FF such that the 6-minute average
opacity for any 6-minute block
period does not exceed 15 percent;
and comply with the requirements in
Sec. 63.7113(f) and (g) and Table
6 to this subpart.
2. Each lime kiln equipped with a a. Maintain the 3-hour block exhaust
wet scrubber. gas stream pressure drop across the
wet scrubber greater than or equal
to the pressure drop operating
limit established during the most
recent PM performance test; and
b. Maintain the 3-hour block
scrubbing liquid flow rate greater
than the flow rate operating limit
established during the most recent
performance test.
3. Each lime kiln equipped with an Install a PM detector and maintain
electrostatic precipitator. and operate the ESP such that the
PM detector alarm is not activated
and alarm condition does not exist
for more than 5 percent of the
total operating time in a 6-month
period, and comply with Sec.
63.7113(e); or, maintain the ESP
such that the 6-minute average
opacity for any 6-minute block
period does not exceed 15 percent,
and comply with the requirements in
Sec. 63.7113(g); and comply with
the requirements in Sec.
63.7113(f) and Table 6 to this
subpart.
4. Each PSH operation subject to a Maintain the 3-hour block average
PM limit which uses a wet exhaust gas stream pressure drop
scrubber. across the wet scrubber greater
than or equal to the pressure drop
operating limit established during
the PM performance test; and
maintain the 3-hour block average
scrubbing liquid flow rate greater
than or equal to the flow rate
operating limit established during
the performance test.
5. All affected sources........... Prepare a written OM&M plan; the
plan must include the items listed
in Sec. 63.7100(d) and the
corrective actions to be taken when
required in Table 6 to this
subpart.
6. Each emission unit equipped a. Vent captured emissions through a
with an add-on air pollution closed system, except that dilution
control device. air may be added to emission
streams for the purpose of
controlling temperature at the
inlet to an FF; and
b. Operate each capture/collection
system according to the procedures
and requirements in the OM&M plan.
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24. Revise newly redesignated Table 4 to subpart AAAAA to read as
follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7114, you must demonstrate initial
compliance with each emission limitation that applies to you, according
to the following table.
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Table 4 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Initial Compliance With Emission
Limits
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You have
demonstrated initial
For the following compliance, if after
For . . . emission limit . . . following the
requirements in Sec.
63.7112 . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. All new or existing lime PM emissions must The kiln outlet PM
kilns and their associated not exceed 0.12 lb/ emissions (and if
lime coolers (kilns/ tsf for all applicable, summed
coolers). existing kilns/ with the separate
coolers with dry cooler PM
controls, 0.60 lb/ emissions), based
tsf for existing on the PM emissions
kilns/coolers with measured using
wet scrubbers, 0.10 Method 5 in
lb/tsf for all new appendix A to part
kilns/coolers, or a 60 of this chapter
weighted average and the stone feed
calculated rate measurement
according to Eq. 3 over the period of
in Sec. 63.7112. initial performance
test, do not exceed
the emission limit;
if the lime kiln is
controlled by an FF
or ESP and you are
opting to monitor
PM emissions with a
BLDS or PM
detector, you have
installed and are
operating the
monitoring device
according to the
requirements in
Sec. 63.7113(d)
or (e),
respectively; and
if the lime kiln is
controlled by an FF
or ESP and you are
opting to monitor
PM emissions using
a COMS, you have
installed and are
operating the COMS
according to the
requirements in
Sec. 63.7113(g).
2. Stack emissions from all PM emissions must The outlet PM
PHS operations at a new or not exceed 0.05 g/ emissions, based on
existing affected source. dscm. Method 5 or Method
17 in appendix A to
part 60 of this
chapter, over the
period of the
initial performance
test do not exceed
0.05 g/dscm; and if
the emission unit
is controlled with
a wet scrubber, you
have a record of
the scrubber's
pressure drop and
liquid flow rate
operating
parameters over the
3-hour performance
test during which
emissions did not
exceed the
emissions
limitation.
3. Stack emissions from all Emissions must not Each of the thirty 6-
PSH operations at a new or exceed 7 percent minute opacity
existing affected source, opacity. averages during the
unless the stack emissions initial compliance
are discharged through a period, using
wet scrubber control device. Method 9 in
appendix A to part
60 of this chapter,
does not exceed the
7 percent opacity
limit. At least
thirty 6-minute
averages must be
obtained.
4. Fugitive emissions from Emissions must not Each of the 6-minute
all PSH operations at a new exceed 10 percent opacity averages
or existing affected source. opacity. during the initial
compliance period,
using Method 9 in
appendix A to part
60 of this chapter,
does not exceed the
10 percent opacity
limit.
5. All PSH operations at a All of the All the PSH
new or existing affected individually operations enclosed
source, enclosed in affected PSH in the building
building. operations must have demonstrated
comply with the initial compliance
applicable PM and according to the
opacity emission applicable
limitations for requirements for
items 2 through 4 items 2 through 4
of this Table 4, or of this Table 4; or
the building must if you are
comply with the complying with the
following: There building emission
must be no VE from limitations, there
the building, are no VE from the
except from a vent, building according
and vent emissions to item 18 of Table
must not exceed the 5 to this subpart
emission and Sec.
limitations in 63.7112(k), and you
items 2 and 3 of demonstrate initial
this Table 4. compliance with
applicable building
vent emissions
limitations
according to the
requirements in
items 2 and 3 of
this Table 4.
6. Each FF that controls Emissions must not Each of the ten 6-
emissions from only an exceed 7 percent minute averages
individual storage bin. opacity. during the 1-hour
initial compliance
period, using
Method 9 in
appendix A to part
60 of this chapter,
does not exceed the
7 percent opacity
limit.
7. Each set of multiple You must comply with You demonstrate
storage bins with combined emission initial compliance
stack emissions. limitations in according to the
items 2 and 3 of requirements in
this Table 4. items 2 and 3 of
this Table 4.
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25. Revise newly redesignated Table 5 to subpart AAAAA to read as
follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7112, you must conduct each performance
test in the following table that applies to you.
Table 5 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Requirements for Performance Tests
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
According to the
For . . . You must . . . Using . . . following requirements .
. .
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1. Each lime kiln and each Select the location Method 1 or 1A of appendix Sampling sites must be
associated lime cooler, if there of the sampling port A to part 60 of this located at the outlet of
is a separate exhaust to the and the number of chapter; and Sec. the control device(s)
atmosphere from the associated traverse ports. 63.6(d)(1)(i). and prior to any
lime cooler. releases to the
atmosphere.
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2. Each lime kiln and each Determine velocity Method 2, 2A, 2C, 2D, 2F, Not applicable.
associated lime cooler, if there and volumetric flow or 2G in appendix A to
is a separate exhaust to the rate. part 60 of this chapter.
atmosphere from the associated
lime cooler.
3. Each lime kiln and each Conduct gas molecular Method 3, 3A, or 3B in You may use ASME PTC
associated lime cooler, if there weight analysis. appendix A to part 60 of 19.10-1981--Part 10
is a separate exhaust to the this chapter. (available for purchase
atmosphere from the associated from Three Park Avenue,
lime cooler. New York, NY 10016-5990)
as an alternative to
using the manual
procedures (but not
instrumental procedures)
in Method 3B.
4. Each lime kiln and each Measure moisture Method 4 in appendix A to Not applicable.
associated lime cooler, if there content of the stack part 60 of this chapter.
is a separate exhaust to the gas.
atmosphere from the associated
lime cooler.
5. Each lime kiln and each Measure PM emissions. Method 5 in appendix A to Conduct the test(s) when
associated lime cooler, if there part 60 of this chapter. the source is operating
is a separate exhaust to the at representative
atmosphere from the associated operating conditions in
lime cooler, and which uses a accordance with Sec.
negative pressure PM control 63.7(e) before the
device. relevant compliance date
for your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e) and Sec.
63.7112(b) on and after
the relevant compliance
date for your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e); the minimum
sampling volume must be
0.85 dry standard cubic
meter (dscm) (30 dry
standard cubic foot
(dscf)); if there is a
separate lime cooler
exhaust to the
atmosphere, you must
conduct the Method 5
test of the cooler
exhaust concurrently
with the kiln exhaust
test.
6. Each lime kiln and each Measure PM emissions. Method 5D in appendix A to Conduct the test(s) when
associated lime cooler, if there part 60 of this chapter. the source is operating
is a separate exhaust to the at representative
atmosphere from the associated operating conditions in
lime cooler, and which uses a accordance with Sec.
positive pressure FF or ESP. 63.7(e) before the
relevant compliance date
for your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e) and Sec.
63.7112(b) on and after
the relevant compliance
date for your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e); if there is
a separate lime cooler
exhaust to the
atmosphere, you must
conduct the Method 5
test of the separate
cooler exhaust
concurrently with the
kiln exhaust test.
7. Each lime kiln................. Determine the mass Any suitable device....... Calibrate and maintain
rate of stone feed the device according to
to the kiln during manufacturer's
the kiln PM instructions; the
emissions test. measuring device used
must be accurate to
within 5
percent of the mass rate
of stone feed over its
operating range.
8. Each lime kiln equipped with a Establish the Data for the gas stream The continuous pressure
wet scrubber. operating limit for pressure drop measurement drop measurement device
the average gas device during the kiln PM must be accurate within
stream pressure drop performance test. plus or minus 1 percent;
across the wet you must collect the
scrubber. pressure drop data
during the period of the
performance test and
determine the operating
limit according to Sec.
63.7112(j).
9. Each lime kiln equipped with a Establish the Data from the liquid flow The continuous scrubbing
wet scrubber. operating limit for rate measurement device liquid flow rate
the average liquid during the kiln PM measuring device must be
flow rate to the performance test. accurate within plus or
scrubber. minus 1 percent; you
must collect the flow
rate data during the
period of the
performance test and
determine the operating
limit according to Sec.
63.7112(j).
10. Each lime kiln equipped with a Have installed and Standard operating According to the
FF or ESP that is monitored with have operating the procedures incorporated requirements in Sec.
a PM detector. BLDS or PM detector into the OM&M plan. 63.7113(d) or (e),
prior to the respectively.
performance test.
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11. Each lime kiln equipped with a Have installed and Standard operating According to the
FF or ESP that is monitored with have operating the procedures incorporated requirements in Sec.
a COMS. COMS prior to the into the OM&M plan and as 63.7113(g).
performance test. required by 40 CFR part
63, subpart A, General
Provisions and according
to PS-1 of appendix B to
part 60 of this chapter,
except as specified in
Sec. 63.7113(g)(2).
12. Each stack emission from a PSH Measure PM emissions. Method 5 or Method 17 in The sample volume must be
operation, vent from a building appendix A to part 60 of at least 1.70 dscm (60
enclosing a PSH operation, or set this chapter. dscf); for Method 5, if
of multiple storage bins with the gas stream being
combined stack emissions, which sampled is at ambient
is subject to a PM emission limit. temperature, the
sampling probe and
filter may be operated
without heaters; and if
the gas stream is above
ambient temperature, the
sampling probe and
filter may be operated
at a temperature high
enough, but no higher
than 121 [deg]C (250
[deg]F), to prevent
water condensation on
the filter (Method 17
may be used only with
exhaust gas temperatures
of not more than 250
[deg]F).
13. Each stack emission from a PSH Conduct opacity Method 9 in appendix A to The test duration must be
operation, vent from a building observations. part 60 of this chapter. for at least 3 hours and
enclosing a PSH operation, or set you must obtain at least
of multiple storage bins with thirty, 6-minute
combined stack emissions, which averages.
is subject to an opacity limit.
14. Each stack emissions source Establish the average Data for the gas stream The pressure drop
from a PSH operation subject to a gas stream pressure pressure drop measurement measurement device must
PM or opacity limit, which uses a drop across the wet device during the PSH be accurate within plus
wet scrubber. scrubber. operation stack PM or minus 1 percent; you
performance test. must collect the
pressure drop data
during the period of the
performance test and
determine the operating
limit according to Sec.
63.7112(j).
15. Each stack emissions source Establish the Data from the liquid flow The continuous scrubbing
from a PSH operation subject to a operating limit for rate measurement device liquid flow rate
PM or opacity limit, which uses a the average liquid during the PSH operation measuring device must be
wet scrubber. flow rate to the stack PM performance test. accurate within plus or
scrubber. minus 1 percent; you
must collect the flow
rate data during the
period of the
performance test and
determine the operating
limit according to Sec.
63.7112(j).
16. Each FF that controls Conduct opacity Method 9 in appendix A to The test duration must be
emissions from only an observations. part 60 of this chapter. for at least 1 hour and
individual, enclosed, new or you must obtain ten 6-
existing storage bin. minute averages.
17. Fugitive emissions from any Conduct opacity Method 9 in appendix A to The test duration must be
PSH operation subject to an observations. part 60 of this chapter. for at least 3 hours,
opacity limit. but the 3-hour test may
be reduced to 1 hour if,
during the first 1-hour
period, there are no
individual readings
greater than 10 percent
opacity and there are no
more than three readings
of 10 percent during the
first 1-hour period.
18. Each building enclosing any Conduct VE check..... The specifications in Sec. The performance test must
PSH operation, that is subject to 63.7112(k). be conducted while all
a VE limit. affected PSH operations
within the building are
operating; the
performance test for
each affected building
must be at least 75
minutes, with each side
of the building and roof
being observed for at
least 15 minutes.
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26. Amend newly redesignated Table 6 to subpart AAAAA by revising the
introductory text to read as follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7121, you must demonstrate continuous
compliance with each operating limit listed in Table 3 to subpart AAAAA
that applies to you, according to the following table:
Table 6 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Continuous Compliance With
Operating Limits
* * * * *
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27. Revise newly redesignated Table 7 to subpart AAAAA to read as
follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7121 you must periodically demonstrate
compliance with each opacity and VE limit that applies to you,
according to the following table:
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Table 7 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Periodic Monitoring for Compliance
With Opacity and Visible Emissions Limits
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For the following
emission You must demonstrate
For . . . limitation . . . ongoing compliance .
. .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Each PSH operation subject a. 7-10 percent (i) Conducting a
to an opacity limitation as opacity, monthly 1-minute VE
required in Table 1 to this depending on the check of each
subpart, or any vents from PSH operation, emission unit in
buildings subject to an as required in accordance with Sec.
opacity limitation. Table 1 to this 63.7121(e); the
subpart. check must be
conducted while the
affected source is
in operation;
(ii) If no VE are
observed in 6
consecutive monthly
checks for any
emission unit, you
may decrease the
frequency of VE
checking from
monthly to semi-
annually for that
emission unit; if VE
are observed during
any semiannual
check, you must
resume VE checking
of that emission
unit on a monthly
basis and maintain
that schedule until
no VE are observed
in 6 consecutive
monthly checks;
(iii) If no VE are
observed during the
semiannual check for
any emission unit,
you may decrease the
frequency of VE
checking from semi-
annually to annually
for that emission
unit; if VE are
observed during any
annual check, you
must resume VE
checking of that
emission unit on a
monthly basis and
maintain that
schedule until no VE
are observed in 6
consecutive monthly
checks; and
(iv) If VE are
observed during any
VE check, you must
conduct a 6-minute
test of opacity in
accordance with
Method 9 of appendix
A to part 60 of this
chapter; you must
begin the Method 9
test within 1 hour
of any observation
of VE and the 6-
minute opacity
reading must not
exceed the
applicable opacity
limit.
2. Any building subject to a a. No VE......... (i) Conducting a
VE limit, according to item 8 monthly VE check of
of Table 1 to this subpart. the building, in
accordance with the
specifications in
Sec. 63.7112(k);
the check must be
conducted while all
the enclosed PSH
operations are
operating;
(ii) The check for
each affected
building must be at
least 5 minutes,
with each side of
the building and
roof being observed
for at least 1
minute;
(iii) If no VE are
observed in 6
consecutive monthly
checks of the
building, you may
decrease the
frequency of
checking from
monthly to semi-
annually for that
affected source; if
VE are observed
during any semi-
annual check, you
must resume checking
on a monthly basis
and maintain that
schedule until no VE
are observed in 6
consecutive monthly
checks; and
(iv) If no VE are
observed during the
semi-annual check,
you may decrease the
frequency of
checking from semi-
annually to annually
for that affected
source; and if VE
are observed during
any annual check,
you must resume
checking of that
emission unit on a
monthly basis and
maintain that
schedule until no VE
are observed in 6
consecutive monthly
checks (the source
is in compliance if
no VE are observed
during any of these
checks).
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28. Revise newly redesignated Table 8 to subpart AAAAA to read as
follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7131, you must submit each report in this
table that applies to you.
Table 8 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Requirements for Reports
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The report must You must submit the
You must submit a . . . contain . . . report . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Compliance report........ a. If there are no Semiannually
deviations from any according to the
emission requirements in
limitations Sec. 63.7131(b).
(emission limit,
operating limit,
opacity limit, and
VE limit) that
applies to you, a
statement that
there were no
deviations from the
emission
limitations during
the reporting
period;
b. If there were no Semiannually
periods during according to the
which the CMS, requirements in
including any Sec. 63.7131(b).
operating parameter
monitoring system,
was out-of-control
as specified in
Sec. 63.8(c)(7),
a statement that
there were no
periods during
which the CMS was
out-of-control
during the
reporting period;
c. If you have a Semiannually
deviation from any according to the
emission limitation requirements in
(emission limit, Sec. 63.7131(b).
operating limit,
opacity limit, and
VE limit) during
the reporting
period, the report
must contain the
information in Sec.
63.7131(d);
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d. If there were Semiannually
periods during according to the
which the CMS, requirements in
including any Sec. 63.7131(b).
operating parameter
monitoring system,
was out-of-control,
as specified in
Sec. 63.8(c)(7),
the report must
contain the
information in Sec.
63.7131(e); and
e. Before the Semiannually
relevant compliance according to the
date for your requirements in
source as specified Sec. 63.7131(b).
in Sec.
63.7083(e), if you
had a startup,
shutdown or
malfunction during
the reporting
period and you took
actions consistent
with your SSMP, the
compliance report
must include the
information in Sec.
63.10(d)(5)(i).
On and after the
relevant compliance
date for your
source as specified
in Sec.
63.7083(e), if you
had a startup,
shutdown or
malfunction during
the reporting
period and you
failed to meet an
applicable
standard, the
compliance report
must include the
information in Sec.
63.7131(c)(3).
2. Before the relevant Actions taken for By fax or telephone
compliance date for your the event. within 2 working
source as specified in Sec. days after starting
63.7083(e), an immediate actions
startup, shutdown, and inconsistent with
malfunction report if you the SSMP.
had a startup, shutdown, or
malfunction during the
reporting period that is
not consistent with your
SSMP.
3. Before the relevant The information in By letter within 7
compliance date for your Sec. working days after
source as specified in Sec. 63.10(d)(5)(ii). the end of the
63.7083(e), an immediate event unless you
startup, shutdown, and have made
malfunction report if you alternative
had a startup, shutdown, or arrangements with
malfunction during the the permitting
reporting period that is authority. See Sec.
not consistent with your 63.10(d)(5)(ii).
SSMP.
(4) Performance Test Report. The information According to the
required in Sec. requirements of
63.7(g). Sec. 63.7131.
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29. Revise newly redesignated Table 9 to subpart AAAAA to read as
follows:
As required in Sec. 63.7140, you must comply with the applicable
General Provisions requirements according to the following table:
Table 9 to Subpart AAAAA of Part 63--Applicability of General Provisions to Subpart AAAAA
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am I subject to this
Citation Summary of requirement requirement? Explanations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sec. 63.1(a)(1)-(4)................ Applicability.......... Yes....................
Sec. 63.1(a)(5).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.1(a)(6).................... Applicability.......... Yes....................
Sec. 63.1(a)(7)-(a)(9)............. ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.1(a)(10)-(a)(14)........... Applicability.......... Yes....................
Sec. 63.1(b)(1).................... Initial Applicability Yes.................... Sec. Sec. 63.7081
Determination. and 63.7142 specify
additional
applicability
determination
requirements.
Sec. 63.1(b)(2).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.1(b)(3).................... Initial Applicability Yes....................
Determination.
Sec. 63.1(c)(1).................... Applicability After Yes....................
Standard Established.
Sec. 63.1(c)(2).................... Permit Requirements.... No..................... Area sources not
subject to subpart
AAAAA, except all
sources must make
initial applicability
determination.
Sec. 63.1(c)(3)-(4)................ ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.1(c)(5).................... Area Source Becomes Yes....................
Major.
Sec. 63.1(d)....................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.1(e)....................... Applicability of Permit Yes....................
Program.
Sec. 63.2.......................... Definitions............ Yes.................... Additional definitions
in Sec. 63.7143.
Sec. 63.3(a)-(c)................... Units and Abbreviations Yes....................
Sec. 63.4(a)(1)-(a)(2)............. Prohibited Activities.. Yes....................
Sec. 63.4(a)(3)-(a)(5)............. ....................... No.....................
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Sec. 63.4(b)-(c)................... Circumvention, Yes....................
Severability.
Sec. 63.5(a)(1)-(2)................ Construction/ Yes....................
Reconstruction.
Sec. 63.5(b)(1).................... Compliance Dates....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.5(b)(2).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.5(b)(3)-(4)................ Construction Approval, Yes....................
Applicability.
Sec. 63.5(b)(5).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.5(b)(6).................... Applicability.......... Yes....................
Sec. 63.5(c)....................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.5(d)(1)-(4)................ Approval of Yes....................
Construction/
Reconstruction.
Sec. 63.5(e)....................... Approval of Yes....................
Construction/
Reconstruction.
Sec. 63.5(f)(1)-(2)................ Approval of Yes....................
Construction/
Reconstruction.
Sec. 63.6(a)....................... Compliance for Yes....................
Standards and
Maintenance.
Sec. 63.6(b)(1)-(5)................ Compliance Dates....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(b)(6).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.6(b)(7).................... Compliance Dates....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(c)(1)-(2)................ Compliance Dates....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(c)(3)-(c)(4)............. ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.6(c)(5).................... Compliance Dates....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(d)....................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.6(e)(1)(i)................. General Duty to Yes before the relevant On and after the
Minimize Emissions. compliance date for relevant compliance
your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), see Sec.
No on and after the 63.7100 for general
relevant compliance duty requirement.
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.6(e)(1)(ii)................ Requirement to Correct Yes before the relevant
Malfunctions ASAP. compliance date for
your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
No on and after the
relevant compliance
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.6(e)(1)(iii)............... Operation and Yes....................
Maintenance
Requirements.
Sec. 63.6(e)(2).................... ....................... No..................... [Reserved].
Sec. 63.6(e)(3).................... Startup, Shutdown Yes before the relevant On and after the
Malfunction Plan. compliance date for relevant compliance
your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), the OM&M
No on and after the plan must address
relevant compliance periods of startup and
date for your source shutdown. See Sec.
as specified in Sec. 63.7100(d).
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.6(f)(1).................... SSM exemption.......... No..................... See Sec. 63.7100. For
periods of startup and
shutdown, see Sec.
63.7090(c).
Sec. 63.6(f)(2)-(3)................ Methods for Determining Yes....................
Compliance.
Sec. 63.6(g)(1)-(g)(3)............. Alternative Standard... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(h)(1).................... SSM exemption.......... No..................... See Sec. 63.7100. For
periods of startup and
shutdown, see Sec.
63.7090(c).
Sec. 63.6(h)(2).................... Methods for Determining Yes....................
Compliance.
Sec. 63.6(h)(3).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.6(h)(4)-(h)(5)(i).......... Opacity/VE Standards... Yes.................... This requirement only
applies to opacity and
VE performance checks
required in Table 4 to
subpart AAAAA.
Sec. 63.6(h)(5) (ii)-(iii)......... Opacity/VE Standards... No..................... Test durations are
specified in subpart
AAAAA; subpart AAAAA
takes precedence.
Sec. 63.6(h)(5)(iv)................ Opacity/VE Standards... No.....................
Sec. 63.6(h)(5)(v)................. Opacity/VE Standards... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(h)(6).................... Opacity/VE Standards... Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(h)(7).................... COM Use................ Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(h)(8).................... Compliance with Opacity Yes....................
and VE.
Sec. 63.6(h)(9).................... Adjustment of Opacity Yes....................
Limit.
Sec. 63.6(i)(1)-(i)(14)............ Extension of Compliance Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(i)(15)................... ....................... No.....................
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Sec. 63.6(i)(16)................... Extension of Compliance Yes....................
Sec. 63.6(j)....................... Exemption from Yes....................
Compliance.
Sec. 63.7(a)(1)-(a)(3)............. Performance Testing Yes.................... Sec. 63.7110
Requirements. specifies deadlines;
Sec. 63.7112 has
additional specific
requirements.
Sec. 63.7(b)....................... Notification........... Yes....................
Sec. 63.7(c)....................... Quality Assurance/Test Yes....................
Plan.
Sec. 63.7(d)....................... Testing Facilities..... Yes....................
Sec. 63.7(e)(1).................... Conduct of Tests....... Yes before the relevant On and after the
compliance date for relevant compliance
your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), see Sec.
No on and after the 63.7112(b).
relevant compliance
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.7(e)(2)-(4)................ Conduct of Tests....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.7(f)....................... Alternative Test Method Yes....................
Sec. 63.7(g)....................... Data Analysis.......... Yes....................
Sec. 63.7(h)....................... Waiver of Tests........ Yes....................
Sec. 63.8(a)(1).................... Monitoring Requirements Yes.................... See Sec. 63.7113.
Sec. 63.8(a)(2).................... Monitoring............. Yes....................
Sec. 63.8(a)(3).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.8(a)(4).................... Monitoring............. No..................... Flares not applicable.
Sec. 63.8(b)(1)-(3)................ Conduct of Monitoring.. Yes....................
Sec. 63.8(c)(1)(i)................. CMS Operation/ Yes before the relevant On and after the
Maintenance. compliance date for relevant compliance
your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), see Sec.
No on and after the 63.7100 for OM&M
relevant compliance requirements.
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.8(c)(1)(ii)................ CMS Spare Parts........ Yes....................
Sec. 63.8(c)(1)(iii)............... Requirement to Develop Yes before the relevant On and after the
SSM Plan for CMS. compliance date for relevant compliance
your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), no longer
No on and after the required.
relevant compliance
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.8(c)(2)-(3)................ CMS Operation/ Yes....................
Maintenance.
Sec. 63.8(c)(4).................... CMS Requirements....... No..................... See Sec. 63.7121.
Sec. 63.8(c)(4)(i)-(ii)............ Cycle Time for COM and Yes.................... No CEMS are required
CEMS. under subpart AAAAA;
see Sec. 63.7113 for
CPMS requirements.
Sec. 63.8(c)(5).................... Minimum COM procedures. Yes.................... COM not required.
Sec. 63.8(c)(6).................... CMS Requirements....... No..................... See Sec. 63.7113.
Sec. 63.8(c)(7)-(8)................ CMS Requirements....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.8(d)(1)-(2)................ Quality Control........ Yes.................... See also Sec.
63.7113.
Sec. 63.8(d)(3).................... Quality Control........ Yes before the relevant
compliance date for
your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
No on and after the
relevant compliance
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.8(e)....................... Performance Evaluation Yes.................... See also Sec.
for CMS. 63.7113.
Sec. 63.8(f)(1)-(f)(5)............. Alternative Monitoring Yes....................
Method.
Sec. 63.8(f)(6).................... Alternative to Relative No..................... No CEMS required in
Accuracy Test for CEMS. subpart AAAAA.
Sec. 63.8(g)(1)-(g)(5)............. Data Reduction; Data No..................... See data reduction
That Cannot Be Used. requirements in Sec.
Sec. 63.7120 and
63.7121.
Sec. 63.9(a)....................... Notification Yes.................... See Sec. 63.7130.
Requirements.
Sec. 63.9(b)....................... Initial Notifications.. Yes....................
Sec. 63.9(c)....................... Request for Compliance Yes....................
Extension.
Sec. 63.9(d)....................... New Source Notification Yes....................
for Special Compliance
Requirements.
Sec. 63.9(e)....................... Notification of Yes....................
Performance Test.
Sec. 63.9(f)....................... Notification of VE/ Yes.................... This requirement only
Opacity Test. applies to opacity and
VE performance tests
required in Table 5 to
subpart AAAAA.
Notification not
required for VE/
opacity test under
Table 7 to subpart
AAAAA.
Sec. 63.9(g)....................... Additional CMS No..................... Not required for
Notifications. operating parameter
monitoring.
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Sec. 63.9(h)(1)-(h)(3)............. Notification of Yes....................
Compliance Status.
Sec. 63.9(h)(4).................... ....................... No.....................
Sec. 63.9(h)(5)-(h)(6)............. Notification of Yes....................
Compliance Status.
Sec. 63.9(i)....................... Adjustment of Deadlines Yes....................
Sec. 63.9(j)....................... Change in Previous Yes....................
Information.
Sec. 63.10(a)...................... Recordkeeping/Reporting Yes.................... See Sec. Sec.
General Requirements. 63.7131 through
63.7133.
Sec. 63.10(b)(1)................... Records................ Yes....................
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(i)................ Recordkeeping of Yes before the relevant
Occurrence and compliance date for
Duration of Startups your source as
and Shutdowns. specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
No on and after the
relevant compliance
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(ii)............... Recordkeeping of Yes before the relevant On and after the
Failures to Meet a compliance date for relevant compliance
Standard. your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), see Sec.
No on and after the 63.7132 for
relevant compliance recordkeeping of (1)
date for your source date, time and
as specified in Sec. duration; (2) listing
63.7083(e). of affected source or
equipment, and an
estimate of the
quantity of each
regulated pollutant
emitted over the
standard; and (3)
actions to minimize
emissions and correct
the failure.
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(iii).............. Maintenance Records.... Yes....................
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(iv)-(v)........... Actions Taken to Yes before the relevant On and after the
Minimize Emissions compliance date for relevant compliance
During SSM. your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), see Sec.
No on and after the 63.7100 for OM&M
relevant compliance requirements.
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(vi)-(xii)......... Recordkeeping for CMS.. Yes....................
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(xiii)............. Records for Relative No.....................
Accuracy Test.
Sec. 63.10(b)(2)(xiv).............. Records for Yes....................
Notification.
Sec. 63.10(b)(3)................... Applicability Yes....................
Determinations.
Sec. 63.10(c)...................... Additional CMS No..................... See Sec. 63.7132.
Recordkeeping.
Sec. 63.10(d)(1)................... General Reporting Yes....................
Requirements.
Sec. 63.10(d)(2)................... Performance Test Yes....................
Results.
Sec. 63.10(d)(3)................... Opacity or VE Yes.................... For the periodic
Observations. monitoring
requirements in Table
7 to subpart AAAAA,
report according to
Sec. 63.10(d)(3)
only if VE observed
and subsequent visual
opacity test is
required.
Sec. 63.10(d)(4)................... Progress Reports....... Yes....................
Sec. 63.10(d)(5)(i)................ Periodic Startup, Yes before the relevant On and after the
Shutdown, Malfunction compliance date for relevant compliance
Reports. your source as date for your source
specified in Sec. as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e). 63.7083(e), see Sec.
No on and after the 63.7131 for
relevant compliance malfunction reporting
date for your source requirements.
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.10(d)(5)(ii)............... Immediate Startup, Yes before the relevant
Shutdown, Malfunction compliance date for
Reports. your source as
specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
No on and after the
relevant compliance
date for your source
as specified in Sec.
63.7083(e).
Sec. 63.10(e)...................... Additional CMS Reports. No..................... See specific
requirements in
subpart AAAAA, see
Sec. 63.7131.
Sec. 63.10(f)...................... Waiver for Yes....................
Recordkeeping/
Reporting.
Sec. 63.11(a)-(b).................. Control Device and Work No..................... Flares not applicable.
Practice Requirements.
Sec. 63.12(a)-(c).................. State Authority and Yes....................
Delegations.
Sec. 63.13(a)-(c).................. State/Regional Yes....................
Addresses.
Sec. 63.14(a)-(b).................. Incorporation by No.....................
Reference.
Sec. 63.15(a)-(b).................. Availability of Yes....................
Information and
Confidentiality.
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Sec. 63.16......................... Performance Track Yes....................
Provisions.
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30. In Sec. 63.7831(f)(4), add the phrase ``(incorporated by
reference, see Sec. 63.14)'' immediately following the words
``September 1997''.
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