Acid Rain Program: Draft Permits and Permit Modification

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Acid Rain Program: Draft Permits and Permit Modification

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of draft permits and permit modification.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing for

comment one draft substitution plan and five draft nitrogen oxides

(NOx) compliance plans for two utility plants in accordance with the

Acid Rain Program regulations (40 CFR parts 72 and 76).

DATES: Comments on the draft permits and modification must be received

on or before November 7, 1994 or the date of publication of a similar

notice in a local newspaper, whichever is later.

ADDRESSES: Administrative Records. The administrative record for the

draft compliance plans, except information protected as confidential,

may be viewed during normal operating hours at EPA Region 5, Ralph H.

Metcalfe Federal Bldg., 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604.

Comments. Send comments, requests for public hearings, and requests

to receive notice of future actions to EPA Region 5 (A-18J), Air and

Radiation Division, Attn: David Kee, Director (address above).

Submit all comments in duplicate and identify the compliance plan

to which the comments apply, the commenter's name, address, and

telephone number, and the commenter's interest in the matter and

affiliation, if any, to the owners and operators of all units covered

by the plan. All timely comments will be considered, except comments on

aspects of the permit other than the compliance plan and comments not

relevant to the compliance plan.

Hearings. To request a public hearing, state the issues proposed to

be raised in the hearing. EPA may schedule a hearing if EPA finds that

it will contribute to the decision-making process by clarifying

significant issues affecting a compliance plan.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Contact Genevieve Nearmyer, (312) 353-4761.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title IV of the Clean Air Act directs EPA to

establish a program to reduce the adverse effects of acidic deposition

by promulgating rules and issuing permits to emission sources subject

to the program. On January 11, 1993, EPA promulgated final rules

implementing the SO2 portion of the program. Subsequently, several

parties filed petitions for review of the rules with the U.S. Court of

Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On May 4, 1994, EPA and

other parties signed a settlement agreement addressing the substitution

and reduced utilization issues. In today's action, EPA proposes to

approve substitution and NOx compliance plans and include them in final

permits for the following utility plants consistent with the May 4,

1994 settlement and 40 CFR part 76:

Petersburg in Indiana: one substitution plan for 1995, in which

units 1 and 2 designate H T Pritchard units 3 and 4 as substitution

units; five NOx averaging plans, one for each calendar year 1995-1996

in which the actual annual average emission rates for NOx shall not

exceed the alternative contemporaneous annual emission limitations of

0.60 lbs/MMBtu for unit 1, 0.44 lbs/MMBtu for unit 2, 0.41 lbs/MMBtu

for unit 3, and 0.41 lbs/MMBtu for unit 4, and the actual annual heat

input shall not be greater than the annual heat input limit of

10,635,000 MMBtu for unit 1, and shall not be less than the annual heat

input limits of 23,670,000 MMBtu for unit 2, 36,935,000 MMBtu for unit

3, and 36,118,000 MMBtu for unit 4. The other units designated in the

plans are H T Pritchard units 3, 4, 5, and 6 and Elmer W Stout units

50, 60, and 70. The designated representative is Robert A. McKnight.

H T Pritchard in Indiana: 586 substitution allowances for 1995 to

unit 3; 1,305 substitution allowances for 1995 to unit 4; one

substitution plan for 1995 in which Petersburg units 1 and 2 designate

units 3 and 4 as substitution units; five averaging plans, one for each

calendar year 1995-1996 for units 3, 4, 5, and 6 in which the actual

annual average emission rates for NOx shall not exceed the alternative

contemporaneous annual emission limitations of 0.80 lbs/MMBtu for units

3 and 4 and 0.54 lb/MMBtu for units 5 and 6, and the actual annual heat

input shall not be greater than the annual heat input limits of

1,312,000 MMBtu for unit 3, 1,883,000 MMBtu for unit 4, 2,044,000 MMBtu

for unit 5, and 4,766,000 for unit 6. The other units designated in the

plans are Petersburg units 1, 2, 3, and 4 and Elmer W Stout units 50,

60, and 70. The designated representative is Robert A. McKnight.

Dated: October 4, 1994.

Brian J. McLean,

Director, Acid Rain Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Office of

Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 94-24912 Filed 10-5-94; 8:45 am]

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