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| 96-31968 | Acid Rain Program: Permits, Allowance System, Sulfur Dioxide Opt- Ins, Continuous Emission Monitoring, Excess Emissions, and Appeal Procedures | Proposed Rule | Title IV of the Clean Air Act (the Act) authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) to establish the Acid Rain Program. The purpose of the Acid Rain Program is to significantly reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from utility electric generating plants in order to reduce the adverse health and ecological impacts of acidic deposition (or acid rain) resulting from such emissions. On January 11 and March 23, 1993, the Agency promulgated final rules governing permitting, the allowance system, continuous emissions monitoring, excess emissions, and appeal procedures. After considering its experience in applying these rules since 1993, the Agency believes that the permitting, excess emissions, and appeal procedures rules (as well as minor aspects of the monitoring rule) can be streamlined and improved in order to reduce the burden on utilities, State and local permitting authorities, and EPA. The rule revisions in today's proposal streamline the Acid Rain Program while still ensuring achievement of its statutory goals of reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions. In addition, EPA is revising allocations of sulfur dixoxide allowances. Each allowance authorizes the emission of one ton of sulfur dioxide. Under the Acid Rain Program, utility units (i.e., fossil fuel- fired boilers or turbines) are allocated allowances and must not emit sulfur dioxide in excess of the amount authorized by the allowances that they hold. EPA proposes to revise certain units' allowances in response to litigation, in light of Agency errors in making the allocations or errors in data relevant to whether facilities are covered by the Acid Rain Program, or because of more recent information concerning the construction or commercial operation of new units. | 1996-12-27 | 1996 | 12 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/12/27/96-31968/acid-rain-program-permits-allowance-system-sulfur-dioxide-opt--ins-continuous-emission-monitoring | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1996-12-27/pdf/96-31968.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | Title IV of the Clean Air Act (the Act) authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) to establish the Acid Rain Program. The purpose of the Acid Rain Program is to significantly reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides... |