Under a draft final rule that U.S. EPA sent to the White Office of Management and Budget for interagency review on April 30, 2010, the following source categories will now be included in the list of industrial sectors that are required to report their greenhouse gas emissions:  industrial landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, underground coal mines, and magnesium production facilities.  These industrial sectors had originally been included in the proposed rule issued in April 2009 but were subsequently excluded from the October 2009 final rule.  The rule would apply to sources in these industrial sectors that emit in excess of 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent GHGs.  http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201004&RIN=2060-AQ03

 

According to U.S. EPA,  these four sectors had been excluded from the final rule in order to give the agency time to review and respond to public comments it received on that rule after it was proposed.  However, U.S. EPA has now determined that the requirements for these four sectors do not need to be reproposed and that the rule that was originally proposed in April 2009 would become final.  U.S. EPA has not yet indicated whether sources in these industrial categories will be required to report 2010 GHG emissions.  A copy of the April 2009 draft rule can be found at http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/archived/downloads/Preamble_E9-5711.pdf.