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Waste Energy Recovery Registry
Waste Energy
Recovery Registry
This Web site will hold the Registry of Recoverable Waste Energy Sources, once created and populated, as directed by Congress under Title IV, Subtitle D, Section 451 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA).
EPA has published a rule which proposes to establish the criteria for including sources or sites in a Registry of Recoverable Waste Energy Sources (Registry), as required by EISA. The agency is also proposing the Survey processes by which EPA will collect data and populate the Registry. The proposed rule would apply to major industrial and large commercial sources as defined by EPA in the rulemaking. This proposed rule would not require the installation of new monitoring equipment, rather it would require only that sources above certain threshold levels that wish to be included in the Registry enter specific already-monitored data points into the Survey. The Survey is a software tool that will calculate the quantity and quality of potentially recoverable waste energy.
On July 23, 2009. the proposed rule was published in the Federal Register (www.regulations.gov) under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0201. The public may comment on this proposed rule until September 21, 2009.
EPA’s obligation under EISA is to develop an ongoing Survey of major domestic industrial and large commercial sources, as well as the sites at which the sources are located, and to conduct a review of each source for the quantity and quality of potential waste energy produced. This Survey is a necessary first step to gather the data needed to establish the Registry. The purposes of the Survey and Registry are to:
- Provide a list of the economically feasible existing waste energy recovery opportunities in the US, based on a Survey of major industrial and large commercial sources;
- Provide state and national totals of the existing waste energy recovery opportunities, as well as the potential criteria pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions reductions that could be achieved with the capture and use of the waste energy recovery opportunities listed in the Registry;
- Serve as the basis for potential waste energy recovery projects to qualify for financial and regulatory incentives as described in Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) Sections 373 “Waste Energy Recovery Incentive Grant Program” and 374 “Additional Incentives for Recovery, Use, and Prevention of Industrial Waste Energy,” as added by EISA.
EPA is proposing that the Survey be completed voluntarily by owners and operators of affected sources anytime following the release of the Survey. The agency expects to release the Survey within 90 days of the final rule being published in the Federal Register. Following the Survey release, affected sites and sources can submit the Survey reporting information to the agency at any time.
The proposed rule (PDF) (17 pp., 166K, About PDF) was signed by the Administrator on July 16, 2009 and published in the Federal Register on July 23, 2009.
Resources
- Frequently Asked Questions
- PowerPoint presentation (PDF) (22 pp., 74K) providing a general overview of the Proposed Waste Energy Recovery Registry Rule.
- Fact Sheet (PDF) (3 pp., 24K)| HTML
EPA held two identical informational webinars on this proposed rule on August 3 and August 6. These webinars were not designed for EPA to take comments on the rulemaking, but rather to describe the elements of the proposed rule. The above powerpoint presentation was used during these webinars.
Submitting Comments on the Proposed Rule
The public may comment on this proposed rule until September 21, 2009.
Written Comments
Written comments on the proposed rule (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0201) may be submitted by one of the following methods:
- Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
- E-mail: a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov
- Fax: (202)566-1741
- Mail: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center
(EPA/DC), Mail Code 6102T, Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0201, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20460 - Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, Public Reading Room, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC. Such deliveries are only accepted during the Air Dockets’s normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
When providing comments, please submit them with reference to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0201.
Contact Us
For general questions about the proposed rule, contact Susan Wickwire (wickwire.susan@epa.gov).
Please do not e-mail us comments on the rulemaking. If you want to submit comments for the docket, go to www.regulations.gov (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0201).
Additional information related to the proposed rule will be posted on this site as it becomes available.
For media or press inquiries, please visit EPA's Media Contacts site for more information.