2010 Progress Report - International Joint Commission

Progress Report 2010
The introduction of the CAIR NO x
annual program
reduced year-round regional emissions in 2009 as
program participants operated NO x
control devices on
EGUs outside the summer months. These emission
reduction efforts had a dramatic impact: annual NO x
emissions from EGUs fell 43%, while power demand
(as measured by heat input) from those sources only
dropped 10%.
Compliance: In 2009, the EPA moved from unitlevel
compliance under the NBP to facility-level
compliance with CAIR. Only one CAIR facility did not
hold enough allowances to cover its emissions for both
the ozone season and NO x
annual programs. That
facility automatically surrendered a 3-for-1 penalty
deduction from the next year’s allowance allocation
for each program. (Note that a court decision in
2008 remanded the CAIR rule to the EPA and a
replacement rule was proposed on August 2, 2010.
CAIR remains in effect temporarily until the proposed
rule is fi nalized.)
New Source Performance Standards: All of the
36 categories of NSPS identifi ed in the Ozone Annex
for major new NO x
and VOC sources are promulgated
and in effect. In addition, the EPA fi nalized the NSPS
for Stationary Compression-Ignition Internal Combustion
Engines in July 2006, which is helping these sources
achieve signifi cant reductions in NO x
and VOC
emissions. Furthermore, in December 2007, the EPA
fi nalized an additional nationally applicable emission
standard—an NSPS for NO x
, carbon monoxide (CO),
and VOC emissions from new stationary spark-ignited
internal combustion engines (for more information on
the Spark Ignited Internal Combustion Engine rule,
see www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/nsps/sinsps/sinspspg.html).
In February 2006, the EPA promulgated the NSPS
for utility and industrial boilers and combustion
turbines. The updated standards for NO x
, SO 2
, and
direct fi lterable PM are based on the performance of
recently constructed boilers and turbines. The EPA is
currently reviewing the NSPS for petroleum refi neries
and for equipment leaks at chemical plants and
petroleum refi neries. The equipment leak standards
were completed in October 2007, and the petroleum
refi neries standard was completed in April 2008.
VOC Controls on Smaller Sources: In 1998, the
EPA promulgated national rules for automobile
repair coatings, consumer products, and
architectural coatings. The compliance dates for
these rules were January 1999, December 1998,
and September 1999, respectively. From a 1990
baseline, the consumer products and architectural
coatings rules are each estimated to achieve a
20% reduction in VOC emissions, and the automobile
repair coatings rule is estimated to achieve a
33% reduction in VOC emissions. Currently, the
EPA is developing amendments to the consumer
products rule and the architectural coatings rule
based on the Ozone Transport Commission model
rules for these categories. Both amended rules will
have a compliance date of 2012.
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