Environmental Protection Agency July 23, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

EPA is proposing to establish the criteria for including sources or sites in a Registry of Recoverable Waste Energy Sources (Registry), as required under Title IV, Subtitle D of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The Agency is also proposing the Survey processes by which EPA will collect data and populate the Registry. The rule would apply to major industrial and large commercial sources as defined by EPA in this rulemaking. This proposed rule would not require the installation of new monitoring equipment; rather it would require only that sources above certain threshold levels that wish to be included in the Registry enter specific already-monitored data points into the voluntary Survey, which is a software tool that will calculate the quantity and quality of potentially recoverable waste energy.

The EPA is proposing to extend for an additional nine months the existing administrative stay of the ``grandfathering'' provision for particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) requirements in the Federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program published in the Federal Register on May 16, 2008 as part of the final rule entitled, ``Implementation of the New Source Review (NSR) Program for Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5).'' The grandfathering provision under the Federal PSD program allows the permitting authority to review PSD permit applications received before July 15, 2008 according to EPA's 1997 policy of satisfying the requirements for particulate matter less than 10 micrometers (PM10) as a surrogate for meeting the new requirements for PM2.5.