Pod Technologies: Update: 03/2005
Emissions Collection and Monitoring Plan System
US EPA Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) undertook a project to re-engineer the process and data systems associated with emissions, monitoring plan, and certification data. As part of the project, CAMD reviewed how monitoring plan information, certification/recertification applications, on-going quality assurance data, and emissions data are maintained, quality assured and submitted. CAMD also reviewed the tools available for checking and submitting data on a quarterly and ozone season basis.
US EPA Clean Air Markets Data: 4th Quarter 2004
Fourth Quarter 2004 Hourly Emissions Data from US EPA Clean Air Markets programs are available. Emissions and operational data from these data files can be reviewed and analyzed with EDR Trend 
Clean Air Mercury Rule
On March 15, 2005, US EPA issued the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) to permanently cap and reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants for the first time ever. This rule makes the United States the first country in the world to regulate mercury emissions from utilities.
- Final Rule; Preamble (pdf, 229pp., 295kB): Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Steam Generating Units.
- Final Rule; Regulatory Text (pdf, 291pp., 436 kB): Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Steam Generating Units.
- Final Rule; Revision (pdf, 210pp., 369kB): Revision of December 2000 Regulatory Finding on the Emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants from Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and the Removal of Coal- and Oil-fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units from the Section 112(c) list.
CAMR highlights include:
- Revision of Subpart Da of 40 CFR Part 60 to include mercury emissions limits in addition to the trading program caps for units constructed on or before January 30, 2004. Emission limits are set according to fuel type, and compliance is determined based on 12-month rolling averages;
- Addition of Subpart HHHH of 40 CFR Part 60 which establishes provisions for the mercury budget trading program for coal-fired utility boilers;
- Addition of Performance Specification 12A for mercury CEMS to Appendix B of 40 CFR Part 60;
- Revision to 40 CFR Part 75 to include mercury monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements. This includes missing data substitution procedures, QA/QC requirements, and quarterly reporting;
- Addition of Subpart I of 40 CFR Part 75 which establishes mercury mass emission provisions; and
- Addition of Appendix K of 40 CFR Part 75 which establishes the procedures for operating a sorbent trap monitoring system to determine mercury mass emissions.
Clean Air Markets CEMS Monitoring Plan and QA Data
US EPA Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) Monitoring Plan and QA Test Data Export Files are updated as of March 11, 2005. These files provide access to the current monitoring plan and quality assurance test data stored in the CAMD’s Monitor Data Checking (MDC) database.
Monitor Data Checking Software Version 4.2.51
US EPA Clean Air Markets issued Monitor Data Checking (MDC) Software v4.2.51, revised as of March 1, 2005. This version of MDC supersedes MDC v4.2.48 which was previously posted in June, 2004. This new version is being released to provide the following significant changes:
- Added new functionality to support units with rectangular ducts/stacks that determine and apply a WAF. New RTs replace the use of RT 910 for reporting the rectangular duct WAF information (See supplementary EDR reporting instructions for guidance);
- Added new fuel type codes (TDF for Tire Derived Fuel and PTC for Petroleum Coke) to RTs 531, 585 and 587; and
- Corrected some problems in the linearity QA status evaluation in MDC Hourly to eliminate incorrect OOC errors.
Advanced Monitoring Systems Center: February/March 2005 Newsletter
The US EPA Advanced Monitoring Systems Center (AMS) verifies the performance of commercially-ready environmental monitoring technologies for air, water, and soil. Begining in April 2005, a verification test will evaluate the performance of the CEMs for determining mercury in the flue gas of a coal-fired power plant. Testing of two mercury CEMs submitted by Horiba Instruments will be conducted at the Ameren Energy Coffeen Power Plant in Coffeen, IL.
February/March 2005 Newsletter (pdf, 2pp., 166kB)
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