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  1. DOT Pipeline Compliance / Integrity Assessment Workshop September 28 – 30, 2004 – Houston
  2. Integrity Management Plan Up-to-Date?
  3. DOT Profile – David D. Wint – RCP’s Newest Project Manager-Integrity Management
  4. Acquiring a pipeline?
  5. API Petitions DOT/OPS: Integrity Management Rule Changes
  6. Need A Security Plan or Audit?
  7. OPS Issues NPRM for Public Education Programs for Hazardous Liquid and Gas Pipeline Operators
  8. Need to update your Public Awareness Program?
  9. Passage of Internal Inspection Devices – Gas Pipelines
  10. O&M Manual Up-To-Date?
  11. NACE International’s Pipeline Integrity Direct Assessment Seminar
  12. Pipeline De-Watering Bulletin
  13. RCP’s Fantastic 1-Page Version of New SPCC Regulation
  14. DOT Implements Changes to 46 CFR 310, Merchant Marine Training
  15. The Use of N11 Codes and Other Abbreviated Dialing Arrangements – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
  16. Pending Audits?
  17. NESHAP for stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE)
  18. Air Permit Needs?
  19. Regulation Updates to 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 195, and 199
  20. ISPS Code Compliance Deadline, July 1, 2004
  21. Development of Class Location Change Waiver Criteria
  22. RCP Services Spotlight – Pipeline Direct Assessment Services

NESHAP for stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE)

The EPA has promulgated national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for stationary reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) with a site-rating of more than 500 brake horsepower (HP).   The EPA proposed the NESHAP for stationary RICE on December 19, 2002, and received 64 comment letters on the proposal.   A background information document (BID) (“National Emission Standards for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines, Summary of Public Comments and Responses,”) containing EPA’s responses to each public comment is available in Docket ID Nos. OAR-2002-0059 and A-95-35.   RICE are major sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) emissions such as formaldehyde, acrolein, methanol, and acetaldehyde.   This NESHAP will implement section 112(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) by requiring all major sources to meet HAP emission standards reflecting the application of the maximum achievable control technology (MACT) for RICE.

Approximately 40 percent of stationary RICE are located at major sources and thus, subject to the final rule.   The final rule will protect public health by reducing exposure to air pollution, by reducing total national HAP emissions by an estimated 5,600 tons per year (tpy) in the 5th year after the rule is promulgated.   The emissions reductions achieved by these standards will provide protection to the public and achieve a primary goal of the CAA.   The final rule is effective August 16, 2004.