SIP Revisions: Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, March 10, 2010 and December 7, 2011
- Summary of the SIP Revisions
- Elements of Attainment Demonstration
- Elements of Reasonable Further Progress Demonstration
- SIP Narratives, Response to Comments, and Appendices
- Associated Rules
- Contact Information
Summary of the SIP Revisions
On October 1, 2008, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published (73 Federal Register 56983) approval of the governor’s request to voluntarily reclassify the HGB area from a moderate to a severe nonattainment area for the 1997 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for eight-hour ozone, effective October 31, 2008. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) was required to submit a 1997 eight-hour ozone SIP revision addressing the severe ozone nonattainment requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act to the EPA by April 15, 2010.
On March 10, 2010, the commission adopted two revisions to the Texas SIP for the HGB nonattainment area for the 1997 eight-hour ozone standard: the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision and the HGB Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) SIP Revision as well as associated rules. These SIP revisions were required by the EPA to demonstrate that the HGB severe nonattainment area would meet the 1997 eight-hour ozone standard by the June 15, 2019 attainment deadline.
On December 7, 2011, the commission adopted the HGB Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) Analysis Update SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard to include Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) documents that were not addressed in the March 2010 HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard. This SIP revision also incorporated CTG-related rulemaking for the HGB area.
Elements of Attainment Demonstration
HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard
(Project No. 2009-017-SIP-NR)
Adoption Date: 03/10/2010
Proposal Date: 09/23/2009
EPA Approval: Pending. Adequacy determination of MOBILE 6.2-based Motor Vehicle Emissions Budget (MVEB) (76 FR 4342, January 25, 2011)
On March 10, 2010, the commission adopted the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard and associated rules. The attainment demonstration revision includes a photochemical-modeling analysis and a weight-of-evidence analysis to demonstrate attainment of the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS by the June 15, 2019 deadline. As required by the EPA, this SIP revision also includes an MVEB, a volatile organic compounds (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) RACT analysis, a Reasonably Available Control Measures (RACM) analysis, and a contingency plan. In response to comments received, this SIP revision includes a committment to perform a 1997 eight-hour ozone mid-course review for commission consideration and approval.
The commission also adopted associated rule projects revising 30 Texas Administrative Code Chapters 101 and 115, which address cap integrity in the Mass Emissions Cap and Trade (MECT) program, a cap reduction and allowance reallocation for the Highly Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions Cap and Trade (HECT) program, and an update to control-technique guidelines for VOC used in offset printing.
HGB RACT Analysis Update SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (Project No. 2010-028-SIP-NR)
Adoption Date: 12/07/2011
Proposal Date: 06/08/2011
EPA Approval: Pending
On December 7, 2011, the commission adopted the HGB RACT Analysis Update SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard. Because this HGB RACT SIP revision focuses specifically on the seven CTG documents issued by the EPA from 2006 through 2008 that were not addressed in the HGB AD SIP revision adopted March 10, 2010, the RACT analysis only provides an update to the HGB VOC RACT demonstration.
This SIP revision incorporates concurrent CTG-related rulemaking that revises Chapter 115, Subchapter E to implement RACT for flexible package printing; industrial cleaning solvents; large appliance coatings; metal furniture coatings; paper, film, and foil coatings; miscellaneous industrial adhesives; and miscellaneous metal and plastic parts coatings CTG emission source categories in the HGB area.
Elements of Reasonable Further Progress Demonstration
HGB RFP SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (Project No. 2009-018-SIP-NR)
Adoption Date: 03/10/2010
Proposal Date: 09/23/2009
EPA Approval: Pending. Adequacy determination of MOBILE 6.2-based MVEBs (76 FR 4342, January 25, 2011)
The RFP SIP revision, as required by the EPA, demonstrates that an 18% emissions reduction requirement will be met for the analysis period of 2002 through 2008 and an average annual emissions reduction of 3% between each of the milestone years 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2018. This revision establishes baseline emission levels, calculates reduction targets, identifies control strategies to meet targets, and tracks actual emission reductions against established emissions growth. This revision also includes an MVEB for each milestone year and a contingency plan.
SIP Narratives, Response to Comments, and Appendices
Below are downloadable files of the revisions to the SIP including narratives, responses to comments, and appendices.
The following documents are available in PDF unless noted.
HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (Project No. 2009-017-SIP-NR)
Adoption Date: 03/10/2010
Narrative
- Complete Attainment Demonstration SIP Narrative, including Response to Comments
- Cover Page, Executive Summary, Table of Contents, Etc.
- Chapter 1: General
- Chapter 2: Anthropogenic Emissions Inventory (EI) Description
- Chapter 3: Photochemical Modeling
- Chapter 4: Control Strategies and Required Elements
- Chapter 5: Weight of Evidence
- Chapter 6: Ongoing and Future Initiatives
- Response to Comments
Appendices
- Appendix A: Meteorological Modeling for the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP
Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard - Appendix B: Emissions Modeling for the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP
Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard - Appendix C: Photochemical Modeling for the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP
Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard - Appendix D: Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis
- Appendix E: Reasonably Available Control Measure Analysis
- Appendix F: Evaluation of Mobile Source Control Strategies for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria State Implementation Plan (With Detailed Strategies)
Prepared for Houston-Galveston Area Council, Prepared by ENVIRON International Corporation - Appendix G: Transportation Control Measures for the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard
(Excerpt from Evaluation of Mobile Source Control Strategies for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria State Implementation Plan), prepared for the Houston-Galveston Area Council by ENVIRON International Corporation - Appendix H: Voluntary Mobile Emission Reduction Program for the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (Excerpt from Evaluation of Mobile Source Control Strategies for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria State Implementation Plan), Prepared for the Houston-Galveston Area Council by ENVIRON International Corporation
- Appendix I: Corroborative Analysis for the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP
Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard - Appendix J: Recommendations for Best Management Practices to Control and Reduce Inadvertent Cargo Vapor Emissions in the Tank Barge Community
HGB RACT Analysis Update SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (Project No. 2010-028-SIP-NR)
Adoption Date: 12/07/2011
HGB RFP SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (Project No. 2009-018-SIP-NR)
Adoption Date: 03/10/2010
Narrative
- Executive Summary Memo
- Complete Reasonable Further Progress SIP Narrative, including Response to Comments
- Cover Page, Executive Summary, Table of Contents, Etc.
- Chapter 1: General
- Chapter 2: Emissions Inventories
- Chapter 3: Target Emissions Levels and Reasonable Further Progress Demonstration
- Chapter 4: Control Measures to Achieve Target Emissions Levels
- Chapter 5: Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
- Response to Comments
Appendices
- Appendix 1: HGB Reasonable Further Progress Demonstration Calculations Spreadsheet
- Appendix 2: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Point Source Inventories
- Appendix 3: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Area Source Inventories
- Appendix 4: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Non-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories for Source Categories in the EPAs NONROAD 2005 Model
- Appendix 5: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Non-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories for Airports
- Appendix 6: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Non-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories for Locomotives
- Appendix 7: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Non-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories for Commercial Marine Vessels
- Appendix 8: Development of Reasonable Further Progress Non-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories for Drilling Rigs
- Appendix 9: Houston-Galveston-Brazoria 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area Reasonable Further Progress On-Road Mobile Source Emissions Inventories
Associated Rules
The commission adopted the following state rule revisions to support the HGB Attainment Demonstration SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (2009-017-SIP-NR) and the HGB RACT Analysis Update SIP Revision for the 1997 Eight-Hour Ozone Standard (2010-028-SIP-NR). These rule revisions do not necessarily represent all of the rules and control strategies that may be required to attain the 1997 eight-hour ozone standard.
Adopted March 10, 2010
- Rule Project No. 2009-019-101-EN, Chapter 101: MECT Program Cap Integrity for the HGB Eight-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area
- Rule Project No. 2009-006-101-EN, Chapter 101: HECT Program Cap Reduction and Allowance Reallocation
- Rule Project No. 2008-019-115-EN, Chapter 115: VOC Control Technique Guidelines (CTG) Update for Offset Lithographic Printing
Adopted December 7, 2011
- Rule Project No. 2010-016-115-EN, Chapter 115 VOC RACT Rule Revisions (flexible package printing; industrial cleaning solvents; large appliance coatings; metal furniture coatings; paper, film, and foil coatings; miscellaneous industrial adhesives; and miscellaneous metal and plastic parts coatings)
Contact Information
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