Acid Rain Program: Acid Rain Compliance Plan

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6480-9]

Acid Rain Program: Acid Rain Compliance Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final nitrogen oxides compliance plans.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency is issuing, as a direct

final action, nitrogen oxides (NOX) compliance plans in

accordance with the Acid Rain Program regulations (40 CFR parts 72 and

76). Because the Agency does not anticipate receiving adverse comments,

the compliance plans are being issued as a direct final action.

DATES: The NOX compliance plans issued in this direct final

action will be final on January 10, 2000 unless significant, adverse

comments are received by December 29, 1999. If significant, adverse

comments are timely received on a NOX compliance plan in

this direct final action, the relevant NOX compliance plan

will be withdrawn through a notice in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Administrative Records. The administrative record for the

NOX compliance plans, except information protected as

confidential, may be viewed during normal operating hours at U.S. EPA

Region 4, 100 Alabama Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30303.

Comments. Send comments to Winston A. Smith, Director, Air,

Pesticides, and Toxic Management Division at the address above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jenny Jachim, U.S. EPA Region 4, (404)

562-9126.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Significant, adverse public comments

received on a NOX compliance plan in this direct final

action that are timely received will be addressed in a subsequent

approval or denial of a NOX compliance plan. Such approval

or denial will be based on the draft NOX compliance plan in

the notice of draft NOX compliance plan that is published

elsewhere in today's Federal Register and that is identical to this

direct final action.

U.S. EPA is issuing, under 40 CFR 76.11, a NOX averaging

plan with which the following units shall comply for compliance year

1999: units 1-4 at Arkwright in Georgia, in which the actual annual

average rate for NOX for each unit shall not exceed the

alternative contemporaneous annual emission limitation (ACEL) of 1.00

lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1-4 shall not be greater

than 652,199 mmBtu each; units 1-4 at Bowen in Georgia, in which the

actual annual average rate for NOX for each unit shall not

exceed the ACEL of 0.44 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units

1-4 shall not be less than 42,974,115, mmBtu, 39,890,926 mmBtu,

59,808,558 mmBtu, and 56,547,329 mmBtu respectively; unit 2 at Branch

in Georgia, in which the actual annual average rate for NOX

shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.80 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input

shall not be greater than 13,635,168 mmBtu; units 4-7 at Crist in

Florida, in which the actual annual average rate for NOX for

each unit shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.59 lb/mmBtu, and the actual

heat input for units 4-7 shall not be greater than 4,330,920 mmBtu,

3,518,988 mmBtu, 13,451,097 mmBtu, and 20,422,854 mmBtu respectively;

units 1 and 2 at Daniel in Mississippi, in which the actual annual

average rate for NOX for each unit shall not exceed the ACEL

of 0.30 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1 and 2 shall not

be less than 21,244,417 mmBtu and 29,987,051 mmBtu respectively; units

1 and 2 at Gadsden in Alabama, in which the actual annual average rate

for NOX for each unit shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.67 lb/

mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1 and 2 shall not be greater

than 3,412,000 mmBtu and 2,160,000 mmBtu respectively; units 1-5 at

Gaston in Alabama, in which the actual annual average rate for

NOX for units 1-4 shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.45 lb/

mmBtu, and for unit 5, 0.48 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for

units 1-4 shall not be less than 13,871,000 mmBtu, 15,349,000 mmBtu,

13,799,000 mmBtu, 13,796,000 mmBtu respectively, and for unit 5, not

greater than 46,496,000 mmBtu; units 1-4 at Hammond in Georgia, in

which the actual annual average rate for NOX for units 1-3

shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.80 lb/mmBtu, and for unit 4, 0.50 lb/

mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1-3 shall not be greater

than 3,252,464 mmBtu each; units 1-3 at Kraft in Georgia, in which the

actual annual average rate for NOX for each unit shall not

exceed the ACEL of 0.60 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units

1-3 shall not be greater than 1,434,816 mmBtu each; units 1 and 2 at

McDonough in Georgia, in which the actual annual average rate for

NOX for each unit shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.45 lb/

mmBtu; unit 1 at McIntosh in Georgia, in which the actual annual

average rate for NOX shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.84 lb/

mmBtu, and the actual heat input shall not be greater than 5,272,714

mmBtu; unit 3 at Mitchell in Georgia, in which the actual annual

average rate for NOX shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.65 lb/

mmBtu, and the actual heat input shall not be greater than 3,087,400

mmBtu; unit 3 at Scherer in Georgia, in which the actual annual average

rate for NOX shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.32 lb/mmBtu, and

the actual heat input shall not be less than 51,627,214 mmBtu; units 1

and 2 at Scholz in Florida, in which the actual

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annual average rate for NOX for each unit shall not exceed

the ACEL of 0.70 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1 and 2

shall not be greater than 723,608 mmBtu and 731,528 mmBtu respectively;

units 1 and 2 at Wansley in Georgia, in which the actual annual average

rate for NOX for each unit shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.43

lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1 and 2 shall not be less

than 43,995,205 mmBtu and 46,349,195 mmBtu respectively; units 4 and 5

at Watson in Mississippi, in which the actual annual average rate for

NOX for each unit shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.60 lb/

mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 4 and 5 shall not be greater

than 12,086,872 mmBtu and 20,127,887 mmBtu respectively; and units 1-7

at Yates in Georgia, in which the actual annual average rate for

NOX for units 1-7 shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.59 lb/mmBtu

for units 1-3, 0.44 lb/mmBtu for units 4 and 5, and 0.36 lb/mmBtu for

units 6 and 7, and the actual heat input for units 1-3 shall not be

greater than 2,185,838 mmBtu for unit 1, and 2,694,591 mmBtu each for

units 2 and 3, and not less than 4,188,728 mmBtu each for units 4 and

5, and 10,404,101 mmBtu and 11,655,498 mmBtu each for units 6 and 7,

respectively. The Designated Representative is Charles D. McCrary.

U.S. EPA is also issuing, under 40 CFR 76.11, an additional

NOX averaging plan with which the following units shall

comply for compliance year 1999: units 1-4 at Gallatin in Tennessee, in

which the actual annual average rate for NOX for each unit

shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.42 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input

for units 1-4 shall not be less than 12,874,000 mmBtu, 14,938,000

mmBtu, 18,188,000 mmBtu, and 18,527,000 mmBtu respectively; units 1-5

at Colbert in Alabama, in which the actual annual average rate for

NOX for each unit 1-4 shall not exceed the ACEL of 0.47 lb/

mmBtu, and for unit 5, 0.49 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for

units 1-5 shall not be less than 12,412,000 mmBtu, 12,410,000 mmBtu,

12,189,000 mmBtu, 10,372,000 mmBtu, and 26,441,000 mmBtu respectively;

and units 1-10 at Johnsonville in Tennessee, in which the actual annual

average rate for NOX for each unit 1-10 shall not exceed the

ACEL of 0.51 lb/mmBtu, and the actual heat input for units 1-10 shall

not be greater than 7,469,000 mmBtu, 7,440,000 mmBtu, 7,390,000 mmBtu,

6,348,000 mmBtu, 5,590,000 mmBtu, 6,205,000 mmBtu, 8,880,000 mmBtu,

8,805,000 mmBtu, 8,534,000 mmBtu, and 8,451,000 mmBtu respectively. The

Designated Representative is Joseph R. Bynum.

Under each plan, the actual Btu-weighted annual average

NOX emission rate for the units in the plans shall be less

than or equal to the Btu-weighted annual average NOX

emission rate for the units had they each been operated, during the

same period of time, in compliance with the applicable emission

limitations under 40 CFR 76.5, 76.6, or 76.7.

Dated: November 18, 1999.

Larry F. Kertcher,

Acting Director, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric

Programs, Office of Air and Radiation.

[FR Doc. 99-30779 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]

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