National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:
Federal Register: January 18, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 11)
Rules and Regulations
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 60 and 63
EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0051; EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-0877; FRL-9253-4
RIN 2060-AQ59
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the
Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for
Portland Cement Plants
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Direct Final rule; amendments.
SUMMARY: The EPA is taking direct final action on amendments to the
National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) from the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance
(NSPS) for Portland Cement Plants. The final rules were published on
September 9, 2010. This direct final action amends certain regulatory text to clarify compliance dates and clarifies that the previously issued emission limits that were changed in the September 9, 2010, action remain in effect until sources are required to comply with the revised limits. We are also correcting two minor typographical errors in the regulatory text to the September 9, 2010 action.
DATES: The direct final rule is effective on March 21, 2011, without further notice, unless EPA receives significant adverse written comment by February 17, 2011, or if a public hearing is requested by February 2, 2011. If significant adverse comments are received, EPA will publish a timely withdrawal in the Federal Register clarifying which provisions will become effective and which provisions are being withdrawn due to adverse comment.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2002-0051, by one of the following methods: http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov.
Fax: (202) 566-9744.
Mail: U.S. Postal Service, send comments to: EPA Docket
Center (6102T), National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant
From the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry Docket, Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0051, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. Please include a total of two
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copies. In addition, please mail a copy of your comments on the information collection provisions to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Attn: Desk
Officer for EPA, 725 17th St., NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Hand Delivery: In person or by courier, deliver comments to: EPA Docket Center (6102T), Standards of Performance (NSPS) for
Portland Cement Plants Docket, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0051, EPA
West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004.
Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. Please include a total of two copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR- 2002-0051. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http:// www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http:// www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the EPA Docket Center,
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from the
Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry Docket, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is
(202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Docket Center is (202) 566-1742.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Keith Barnett; Office of Air
Quality Planning and Standards; Sector Policies and Programs Division,
Metals and Minerals Group (D243-02); Environmental Protection Agency;
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-5605; fax number: (919) 541-5450; e-mail address: barnett.keith@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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What is the background for the amendments?
On September 9, 2010 (75 FR 54970), EPA issued final amendments to
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) from the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Review of New Source
Performance Standards (NSPS) for Portland Cement Plants. EPA subsequently determined that the final rule amendments were unclear in certain areas. First, compliance dates are unclear for some sources.
Second, the final rule amendments did not make clear that emission limits currently in effect for existing sources remain in effect until the compliance date of the September 9, 2010, emission standards.
Third, we inadvertently omitted a required rule reference in an incorporation by reference provision. Finally, this direct final rule will correct a typographical error in Table 1 of Sec. 63.1343(b). This action makes these clarifications and corrects these errors.
We are issuing the amendments as a direct final rule, without a prior proposal, because we view the revisions as noncontroversial and anticipate no adverse comment. However, in the Proposed Rules section of this Federal Register notice, we are publishing a separate document that will serve as the proposal to amend the NESHAP and NSPS for cement production if significant adverse comments are filed.
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What are the changes to the final rules (75 FR 54970)?
This direct final rule changes the following provisions. In Sec. 63.1351(b) we establish a compliance date for existing sources of three years from publication of the final rule in the Federal Register for the particulate matter (PM), total hydrocarbons (THC), hydrochloric acid (HCl), and mercury emissions limits. However, we also made other changes to rule requirements, which included regulating open clinker piles and changing the requirements for opacity measurements. Because the rule text did not include specific compliance dates for these other requirements, there is uncertainty as to the compliance dates as applied to existing sources--for example, whether there is an unstated
(and unintended) implication that compliance dates for standards and other changes not enumerated explicitly are different from three years after promulgation. EPA in fact intended that the same compliance date apply for all changes to rule requirements for existing sources. This is evident since EPA indicated generally that it was establishing a compliance date of three years for the September 9, 2010, requirements for existing sources (75 FR at 54993), and never discussed or otherwise suggested (in either the proposed or final rule) any alternative compliance date. We have now modified Sec. 63.1351 to clarify that all of the amendments of standards for existing sources have a compliance date of three years from promulgation. In addition, we are clarifying the rule text to make clear that the compliance date for the monitoring requirements associated with the September 9, 2010, emission standards, including requirements for measuring clinker production, is three years from promulgation.
In establishing the September 9, 2010, standards for existing cement kilns, it was not our intention to remove the existing emissions limits for these kilns adopted by EPA in 1999 and 2006. No such change was proposed, discussed, or contemplated by EPA or by any commenter.
However, due to a drafting error, these provisions were inadvertently deleted. In this action we are restoring the kiln, clinker cooler, and raw material dryer emissions limits as they existed prior to the
September 9, 2010, rule amendments. This includes both the new and existing source emissions limits that existed prior to September 9, 2010. Kilns that are now defined as existing sources for the mercury and THC limits promulgated on September 9, 2010, will
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still be required to meet the new source standards promulgated on
December 20, 2006 (71 FR 76518), if they were subject to these emissions limits, until the compliance date for the limits promulgated on September 9, 2010, has passed. Once the compliance date for any emissions limit changed on September 9, 2010, has passed, the previous limit no longer applies.
In the Incorporation by Reference section of Part 60 subpart A, we inadvertently omitted a reference to Sec. 60.257(b)(3), which was previously incorporated in paragraph Sec. 60.17(h)(4). In this notice, we are adding this reference to that paragraph.
Finally, on Table 1 of Sec. 63.1343 entry 16 in the column titled,
``And if it is located,'' we failed to include the words ``At a major source'' in entry 16. We are adding this language to the table.
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Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
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Executive Order 12866: Regulatory Planning and Review
Under Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this action is not a ``significant regulatory action'' and is, therefore, not subject to review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). (See 75 FR 55029-30) This action is a correction to certain text in the final rules and is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). However, the final rules promulgated on September 9, 2010, were reviewed by OMB.
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Paperwork Reduction Act
This action does not impose any new information collection burden.
This action adds clarifications and corrections the final standards.
However, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has previously approved the information collection requirements contained in the existing regulations (75 FR 54970, September 9, 2010) under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. and has assigned OMB control numbers 2060-0416 and 2060-0614. The OMB control numbers for EPA's regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9.
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Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) generally requires an agency to prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis of any rule subject to notice and comment rulemaking requirements under the Administrative
Procedure Act or any other statute unless the agency certifies that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. Small entities include small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions.
For purposes of assessing the impact of this rule on small entities, small entity is defined as: (1) A small business whose parent company has no more than 750 employees depending on the size definition for the affected NAICS code (as defined by Small Business
Administration (SBA) regulations at 13 CFR 121.201; (2) a small governmental jurisdiction that is a government of a city, county, town, school district, or special district with a population of less than 50,000; and (3) a small organization that is any not-for-profit enterprise which is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field.
After considering the economic impact of this direct final rule on small entities, I certify that this action will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because it does not add any additional regulatory requirements.
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Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
Title II of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA), 2 U.S.C 1531- 1538, requires Federal agencies, unless otherwise prohibited by law, to assess the effects of their regulatory actions on State, local, and
Tribal governments and the private sector. Federal agencies must also develop a plan to provide notice to small governments that might be significantly or uniquely affected by any regulatory requirements. The plan must enable officials of affected small governments to have meaningful and timely input in the development of EPA regulatory proposals with significant Federal intergovernmental mandates and must inform, educate, and advise small governments on compliance with the regulatory requirements.
This direct final rule does not contain a Federal mandate that may result in expenditures of $100 million or more for State, local, and
Tribal governments, in the aggregate, or the private sector in any one year. Thus, this final rule is not subject to the requirements of section 202 and 205 of the UMRA.
This final action is also not subject to the requirements of section 203 of the UMRA because it contains no regulatory requirements that might significantly or uniquely affect small governments. This final action contains no requirements that apply to such governments, imposes no obligations upon them, and will not result in expenditures by them of $100 million or more in any one year or any disproportionate impacts on them.
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Executive Order 13132: Federalism
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999), requires EPA to develop an accountable process to ensure ``meaningful and timely input by State and local officials in the development of regulatory policies that have federalism implications.'' ``Policies that have federalism implications'' is defined in the Executive Order to include regulations that have ``substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.''
This direct final rule does not have federalism implications. It will not have substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government, as specified in Executive Order 13132. None of the affected facilities are owned or operated by State governments. Thus, Executive
Order 13132 does not apply to these final rules.
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Executive Order 13175: Consultation and Coordination With Indian
Tribal Governments
Subject to the Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000) EPA may not issue a regulation that has Tribal implications, that imposes substantial direct compliance costs, and that is not required by statute, unless the Federal government provides the funds necessary to pay the direct compliance costs incurred by Tribal governments, or
EPA consults with Tribal officials early in the process of developing the regulation and develops a Tribal summary impact statement.
This direct final rule does not have Tribal implications, as specified in Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000). It will not have substantial direct effects on Tribal governments, on the relationship between the Federal government and Indian Tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal government and Indian Tribes, as specified in Executive Order 13175.
The final rule imposes no new requirements on the one Tribally owned facility. Thus, Executive Order 13175 does not apply to this action.
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Executive Order 13045: Protection of Children From Environmental
Health Risks and Safety Risks
EPA interprets Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997) as
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applying to those regulatory actions that concern health or safety risks, such that the analysis required under section 5-501 of the
Executive Order has the potential to influence the regulation. This action is not subject to Executive Order 13045 because it is based solely on technology performance.
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Executive Order 13211: Actions Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use
This action is not subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355
(May 22, 2001)), because it is not a significant regulatory action under Executive Order 12866.
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National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act
Section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1995 (``NTTAA''), Public Law 104-113 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) directs EPA to use voluntary consensus standards (VCS) in its regulatory activities unless to do so would be inconsistent with applicable law or otherwise impractical. Voluntary consensus standards are technical standards (e.g., materials specifications, test methods, sampling procedures, and business practices) that are developed or adopted by VCS bodies. NTTAA directs EPA to provide Congress, through
OMB, explanations when the Agency decides not to use available and applicable VCS.
This action does not involve changes to the technical standards related to test methods or monitoring methods; thus, the requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272) do not apply.
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Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions To Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
Executive Order (EO) 12898 (59 FR 7629) (February 16, 1994) establishes Federal executive policy on environmental justice. Its main provision directs Federal agencies, to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law, to make environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States.
The direct final rule does not involve special consideration of environmental justice-related issues as required by Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority
Populations and Low-Income Populations (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994), because it does not change any regulatory requirements. This action merely corrects and clarifies existing requirements.
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Congressional Review Act
The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the
United States. EPA will submit a report containing this rule and other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal
Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). This correction is effective March 21, 2011.
List of Subjects 40 CFR Part 60
Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,
Air pollution control, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements. 40 CFR Part 63
Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,
Air pollution control, Hazardous substances, Incorporation by reference, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: January 10, 2011.
Lisa P. Jackson,
Administrator.
For the reasons stated in the preamble, title 40, chapter I, of the
Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:
PART 60--[AMENDED] 0 1. The authority citation for part 60 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 23 U.S.C. 101; 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.
Subpart A--[Amended] 0 2. Section 60.17 is amended by revising paragraph (h)(4) to read as follows:
Sec. 60.17 Incorporations by reference.
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(h) * * *
(4) ANSI/ASME PTC 19.10-1981, Flue and Exhaust Gas Analyses [Part 10, Instruments and Apparatus], IBR approved for Sec. 60.56c(b)(4) of subpart Ec, Sec. 60.63(f)(2) and (f)(4) of subpart F, Sec. 60.106(e)(2) of subpart J, Sec. Sec. 60.104a(d)(3), (d)(5), (d)(6),
(h)(3), (h)(4), (h)(5), (i)(3), (i)(4), (i)(5), (j)(3), and (j)(4), 60.105a(d)(4), (f)(2), (f)(4), (g)(2), and (g)(4), 60.106a(a)(1)(iii),
(a)(2)(iii), (a)(2)(v), (a)(2)(viii), (a)(3)(ii), and (a)(3)(v), and 60.107a(a)(1)(ii), (a)(1)(iv), (a)(2)(ii), (c)(2), (c)(4), and (d)(2) of subpart Ja, Sec. 60.257(b)(3) of Subpart Y, tables 1 and 3 of subpart EEEE, tables 2 and 4 of subpart FFFF, table 2 of subpart JJJJ, and Sec. 60.4415(a)(2) and (a)(3) of subpart KKKK of this part.
PART 63--[AMENDED] 0 3. The authority citation for part 63 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401, et seq.
Subpart LLL--[Amended] 0 4. Section 63.1343 is amended by revising entry 16 of Table 1 in paragraph (b)(1) and adding paragraph (e) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.1343 What standards apply to my kilns, clinker coolers, raw material dryers, and open clinker piles?
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(b)(1) * * *
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Table 1--Emissions Limits for Kilns (Rows 1-8), Clinker Coolers (Rows 9-12), Raw Material Dryers (Rows 13-15), Raw and Finish Mills (Row 16)
And the units of
The oxygen
If your source is And the operating And if is located
Your emissions
the emissions
correction factor mode is:
limits are:
limit are:
is:
* * * * * * * 16............................. An Existing or new All operating
At a major source. Opacity-10........ percent........... NA. raw or finish
modes. mill.
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(e) Emissions limits in effect prior to September 9, 2010. Any source defined as an existing source in Sec. 63.1351, and that was subject to a PM, mercury, THC, D/F, or opacity emissions limit prior to
September 9, 2010, must continue to meet the limits shown in Table 2 to this section until September 9, 2013.
Table 2--Emissions Limits in Effect Prior to September 9, 2010, for Kilns (Rows 1-4), Clinker Coolers (Row 5), and Raw Material Dryers (Rows 6-9).
Your emissions limits And the units of the
If your source is
and
And if it is located at
are \1\:
emissions limit are:
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An existing kiln................ it commenced construction or
A major source.......... PM--0.3............... lb/ton feed reconstruction on or prior to December
Opacity--20........... percent 2, 2005.
D/F--0.2 \2\.......... ng/dscm (TEQ)
THC--50 3 4........... ppmvd. 2. An existing kiln................ it commenced construction or
A major source.......... PM--0.3............... lb/ton feed reconstruction after December 2, 2005.
Opacity--20........... percent
D/F--0.2 \2\.......... ng/dscm (TEQ)
THC--20 3 5........... ppmvd
Mercury--41 \6\....... ug/dscm. 3. An existing kiln................ it commenced construction or
An area source.......... D/F--0.2 \2\.......... ng/dscm (TEQ) reconstruction on or prior to December
THC--50 3 4........... ppmvd. 2, 2005. 4. An existing kiln................ it commenced construction or
An area source.......... D/F--0.2 \2\.......... ng/dscm (TEQ) reconstruction after December 2, 2005.
THC--20 3 5........... ppmvd
Mercury--41 \6\....... ug/dscm. 5. An existing clinker cooler...... NA....................................... A major source.......... PM--0.1............... lb/ton feed
Opacity--10........... percent. 6. An existing raw material dryer.. it commenced construction or
A major source.......... THC--50 3 4........... ppmvd reconstruction on or prior to December
Opacity--10........... percent. 2, 2005. 7. An existing raw material dryer.. it commenced construction or
A major source.......... THC--20 3 5........... ppmvd reconstruction after December 2, 2005.
Opacity--10........... percent. 8. An existing raw material dryer.. it commenced construction or
An area source.......... THC--50 3 4........... ppmvd. reconstruction on or prior to December 2, 2005. 9. An existing raw material dryer.. it commenced construction or
An area source.......... THC--20 3 5........... ppmvd. reconstruction after December 2, 2005.
\1\ All emission limits expressed as a concentration basis (ppmvd, ng/dscm) are corrected to seven percent oxygen.
\2\ If the average temperature at the inlet to the first particulate matter control device (fabric filter or electrostatic precipitator) during the D/F performance test is 400 [deg]F or less, this limit is changed to 0.4 ng/dscm (TEQ).
\3\ Measured as propane.
\4\ Only applies to Greenfield kilns or raw material dryers.
\5\ As an alternative, a source may demonstrate a 98 percent reduction in THC emissions from the exit of the kiln or raw material dryer to discharge to the atmosphere. Inline raw mills are considered to be an integral part of the kiln.
\6\ As an alternative, a source may route the emissions through a packer bed or spray tower wet scrubber with a liquid-to-gas ratio of 30 gallons per 1000 actual cubic feet per minute or more and meet a site-specific emission limit based on the measured performance of the wet scrubber. 0 5. Section 63.1350 is amended by revising paragraph (d)(2) to read as follows:
Sec. 63.1350 Monitoring requirements.
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(2) Determine, record, and maintain a record of the accuracy of the system of measuring hourly clinker production (or feed mass flow if applicable). During each quarter of source operation, you must determine, record, and maintain a record of the ongoing accuracy of the system of measuring hourly clinker production (or feed mass flow).
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0 6. Section 63.1351 is revised to read as follows:
Sec. 63.1351 Compliance dates.
(a) The compliance date for any affected existing source subject to any rule requirements that were in effect before December 20, 2006, is:
(1) June 14, 2002, for sources that commenced construction before or on March 24, 1998, or
(2) June 14, 1999 or startup for sources that commenced construction after March 24, 1998.
(b) The compliance date for any affected existing source subject to any rule requirements that became effective on December 20, 2006, is:
(1) December 21, 2009, for sources that commenced construction after December 2, 2005 and before or on December 20, 2006, or
(2) Startup for sources that commenced construction after December 20, 2006.
(c) The compliance date for existing sources for all the requirements that became effective on November 8, 2010 will be
September 9, 2013.
(d) The compliance date for new sources is November 9, 2010 or startup, whichever is later.
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