Subpart A. General Provisions
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- Q1. What is the action being taken?
- Q2. What is the purpose of the rule?
- Q3. What is the effective date of the rule?
- Q5. Who will have to report under the final rule?
- Q7. Which greenhouse gases (GHGs) are covered under the rule?
- Q9. Are mobile sources included in this rule?
- Q10. What is the definition of a "facility"?
- Q11. Will EPA collect data at the unit-, facility-, or corporate-wide level?
- Q12. Will EPA accept voluntary emissions information from facilities that are not required to report?
- Q13. Can you please describe what constitutes a facility? For example, if a hospital has four buildings, does the rulemaking pertain to the four buildings as a composite, or to each individually?
- Q14. What is the estimated cost to implement this rule?
- Q15. What impact does this rule have on small businesses?
- Q18. Is this rule a cap and trade regulation?
- Q20. Does the rule apply to U.S. Territories?
- Q21. How did EPA develop the general threshold of 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) per year?
- Q22. How much is 25,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent (mtCO2e)?
- Q23. Who is required to report to the GHGRP?
- Q26. Is there a simple way for facilities with stationary fuel combustion units to determine if they will be required to report?
- Q27. Are individual home owners required to report under this rule?
- Q28. Are individual car or truck owners required to report?
- Q29. Are owners of commercial buildings required to report?
- Q30. Are federal, state, or local facilities required to report emissions?
- Q31. Are terrestrial carbon sequestration ("sinks") and offsets projects included in this rule?
- Q32. Why are both downstream and upstream reporting required?
- Q33. Is there double-reporting of emissions under this rule?
- Q35. How is the reporting of ethanol production and or biogenic emissions being handled in the rule?
- Q36. The applicability tool says I need to report, but I don't think the tool is right.
- Q37. Is applicability based on actual emissions or potential emissions?
- Q42. How are emissions data verified?
- Q43. Does EPA provide training for reporters?
- Q45. If facility intends to obtain fuel usage data from utility bills, but its utility bills reflect fuel usage through middle of the month, how does EPA recommend a facility estimate fuel use for the calendar year? Is it acceptable to pro-rate fuel use?
- Q50. When are reporters required to complete their GHG Monitoring Plan?
- Q51. What representative of a reporting facility is in charge of reporting? Is it the operator or facility owner? Can a third party be hired to report on behalf of the reporting facility?
- Q53. Does this final rule preempt states from regulating or requiring reporting of greenhouse gases (GHGs)?
- Q54. Does EPA delegate data collection to state agencies?
- Q56. How is this reporting rule different from the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks report (Inventory)?
- Q57. Does this rule negate the need for the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks in the future?
- Q58. Would this rule need to be addressed in Title V operating permits?
- Q59. How could the passing of the Waxman-Markey Bill affect this regulation?
- Q60. How will the greenhouse gas reporting rule fit in or be harmonized with state and local reporting obligations for criteria pollutants, toxics, and state-specific GHG reporting requirements?
- Q61. How is data shared among state greenhouse gas (GHG) programs and the federal reporting program?
- Q110. If two entities share a Title V permit would that preclude them from reporting separately even if there is no common ownership or control?
- Q126. If a campus is divided by several blocks of property not owned by the entity - can that area be defined as a facility by itself?
- Q127. If a campus is divided by a non-owned body of water (e.g., a river), does that create two distinct facilities?
- Q129. I leased space within my definition of "facility", if I do not track fuel use for that space, do I have to include it in my report?
- Q130. I have space which I own, but lease to a third party within my "facility" and the tenant pays the utilities, do I have to include that building space?
- Q131. Can a reporter include all greenhouse emissions in their GHG reporting? If state or region cap and trade rules on greenhouse gas emissions were promulgated, could reporters restate their emissions?
- Q132. Provide one or two specific examples of what would be acceptable to EPA under ยง98.3(g)(5)( i )(B), "Explanation of processes and methods used to collect the necessary data for the GHG calculations".
- Q142. In the event fuel volume is based on third-party fuel billing meters that meet the exemption in 98.3(i)4, what are the record keeping requirements?
- Q179. Section 98.4(b) states the designated representative shall be an individual selected by an agreement binding on the owner or operator of the facility. What constitutes the "agreement"?
- Q284. The definition of "owner" and "operator" under 98.6 refers to a "person." Is a person only a single individual?
- Q299. What does EPA mean by the term "sequential or simultaneous" in the definition of co-generation?
- Q321. Does the roll-up calculator distinguish between direct emitters and suppliers?
- Q388. Who must submit requests and one-time reports to EPA under Part 98?
- Q420. Will EPA be specifying an electronic submission format for facilities needing to notify EPA of delayed 2012 reporting under 98.3(b)(1)?
- Q448. When must I submit my annual GHG report?
- Q450. Can I use BAMMs beyond December 31, 2011 for subparts I, L and W?
- Q451. What are the flow meter calibration requirements?
- Q455. Will EPA provide a template for the monitoring plans and review plans?
- Q637. What should I do if my facility ceased operations?
- Q703. What must I do if EPA notifies me of a potential substantive error in an annual GHG report?
- Q758. My facility does not have a physical street address. How do I report my latitude and longitude to EPA?
- Q759. My facility does not have a physical street address thus, a latitude and longitude is reported as the address on the COR. If the facility's operations have moved do I need to update the facility's latitude and longitude on the COR?
- Q807. My facility is not required to report for RY 2014. Am I still required to report inputs to emissions equations that were deferred from reporting until 2015 for previous reporting years?
- Q808. My facility has had ownership changes occur in the past few years. Who is responsible for reporting inputs to emissions equations that were deferred from reporting until 2015 for previous years?
- Q811. A GHGRP facility is being sold by my company to another company. My company does not want to be responsible for monitoring GHG data or submitting annual reports after the sale. What should we do?
- Q823. Who is eligible to discontinue complying with the GHGRP using the "offramp"?
- Q824. What must I do if I discover a substantive error in an annual GHG report?
- Q830. Will the change to the missing data provisions in Subpart A of the December 9, 2016 rule greatly increase reporting burden?
- Q847. What should I do if my facility merged into another facility?
- Q862. How is parent company information for subpart W facilities related to Waste Emissions Charge rule implementation?
- Q863. How is owner(s) and operator(s) information for subpart W facilities related to Waste Emissions Charge rule implementation?