Appendix F

Appendix F:

Burden and Cost for General Stationary Combustion Sources

(Subpart C)

Table of Contents

Appendix F-1. Detailed Unit Burden and Costs for GHGRP Reporters Subject to Subpart C Only—Year 1 through Year 3 3

Appendix F-2. Footnotes Applicable to Appendix F-1 5

Appendix F-3. Detailed Unit Burden and Costs for GHGRP Reporters Subject to Subpart C Plus Another Subpart(s)—Year 1 through Year 3 6

Appendix F-4. Footnotes Applicable to Appendix F-3 7

Appendix F-1. Detailed Unit Burden and Costs for GHGRP Reporters Subject to Subpart C Only—Year 1 through Year 3

Year 1 - Year 3						(A) Hours per Occurrence	(B) Occurrences/ Respondent/Year	(C) Hours/ Respondent/ Year (A x B)	(D) Respondents/ Year	(E) Technical Hours/ Year (C x D)	Legal Hours/Year	Clerical Hours/ Year	Manager Hours/ Year	(H) Cost/ Year
1. APPLICATIONS (Not Applicable)
2. SURVEY AND STUDIES (Not Applicable)
3. ACQUISITION, INSTALLATION, AND UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS
4. REPORT REQUIREMENTS
	A1. Read Rule, Instructions, Guidance Documents for Subpart C 1,2,3					5.00	1	5.00	2,155	10,775.0				$713,844
	A2. Read Rule, Instructions, Guidance Documents for Subpart A 2,3,4					2.00	1	2.00	2,155	4,310.0				$285,538
	B. Required Activities
			Activity covering Tier 1 Methodology
				Conduct annual review of company records to determine mass or volume of fuel combusted 2,5,6		5.00	1.0	5.00	1,458	7,290.0				$482,963
			Activity covering Tier 3 Methodology
				Conduct annual review of company records to determine mass or volume of fuel combusted 5,7		5.00	1.0	5.00	87	435.0				$28,819
			Activity covering Tier 1 Methodology
				Conduct annual review of billing records to determine natural gas consumption in therms or mmBtu 2,5,6		5.00	1.0	5.00	1,458	7,290.0				$482,963
			Activity covering Tier 2 Methodology
				Conduct annual review of billing records to determine natural gas consumption in therms or mmBtu 5,8		5.00	1.0	5.00	974	4,870.0				$322,638
			Tier 1 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
				Perform engineering calculation to determine CO2 emissions using Eq C-1, C-1a, or C-1b, using default high heat values and/or default emission factors 6,9,10		0.17	0.5	0.08	1,458	121.5				$8,049
				Perform engineering calculation to determine CH4 and N2O emissions using Eq C-8, Eq C-8a, or Eq C-8b 6,11,12		0.33	0.5	0.17	1,458	243.0				$16,099
			Tier 2 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
				Conduct sampling to determine high heat value for each type of fuel or fuel mixture 8,13			4.1		974
					Daily measurements 14,15	182.50	0.2	43.68	58	2,514.1				$166,558
					Hourly measurements 16,17	4,380.00	0.0	163.80	9	1,473.1				$97,593
					Monthly measurements 18,19	6.00	3.2	19.49	781	15,221.2				$1,008,402
					Quarterly measurements 20,21	2.00	0.2	0.45	54	24.2				$1,604
					Semiannual measurements 22,23	1.00	0.2	0.24	58	13.8				$913
					Weekly measurements 24,25	26.00	0.1	1.60	15	23.8				$1,577
				Perform engineering calculation to determine CO2 emissions using Eq C-2a, along with Eq C-2b or Eq C-2c. 9,13		0.17	4.1	0.68	974	657.5				$43,556
				Perform engineering calculation to determine CH4 and N2O emissions using Eq C-9a or Eq 9b 11,13		0.33	4.1	1.35	974	1,314.9				$87,112
			Tier 3 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
				Conduct sampling to determine carbon content for each type of fuel or fuel mixture 7,26			7.1		87
					Daily measurements 14,27	182.50	0.3	49.84	3	166.8				$11,048
					Hourly measurements 16,28	4,380.00	0.2	897.06	3	2,251.3				$149,147
					Monthly measurements 18,29	6.00	5.5	32.97	67	2,220.5				$147,109
					Quarterly measurements 20,30	2.00	0.3	0.55	3	1.8				$121
					Semiannual measurements 22,31	1.00	0.5	0.48	6	2.8				$185
					Weekly measurements 24,32	26.00	0.4	9.76	5	44.9				$2,976
				Determine annual volume of liquid or gaseous fuel using fuel flow meters 33,34,35		0.50	5.3	2.66	53	140.7				$9,322
				Determine annual average molecular weight of gaseous fuel 33,36,37		0.50	2.6	1.29	31	40.0				$2,649
				Perform engineering calculation to determine CO2 emissions using Eq C-3, Eq C-4, or Eq C-5. 7,9,26		0.17	7.1	1.18	87	103.0				$6,820
				Perform engineering calculation to determine CH4 and N2O emissions using Eq C-8 11,26		0.33	7.1	2.37	87	205.9				$13,641
			Tier 4 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
				Gather CEMS data for e-GGRT reporting and QA 38,39		20.00	4.0	80.00	73	5,840.0				$386,900
		C. Create Information (Included in 4B)
		D. Gather Existing Information (Included in 4E)
		E. Write Report
				Annual Compliance Reporting through e-GGRT and data QA 3,40		10.00	1.0	10.00	2,155	21,550.0				$1,427,688
5. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS
		A. Read Instructions (Included in 4A)
		B. Plan Activities (Included in 4B)
		C. Implement Activities (Included in 4B)
		D. Recordkeeping 3,41				5.00	1.0	5.00	2,155	10,775.0				$713,844
		E. Time to Transmit or Disclose Information (included in 4E)
		F. Time to Train Personnel (included in 4A)
		G. Time for Audits (Not Applicable)
TOTAL ANNUAL LABOR BURDEN AND COST										99,919.6				$6,619,676
ANNUAL TESTING COSTS (O&M)
		Sampling costs for Tier 2 units
			Annual gas and liquid samples and analyses 42,43				4.1		974					$1,577,880
ANNUALIZED CAPITAL COSTS
		Flow meter costs for Tier 3 units 44,45					5.3		53					$164,732
TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS (Labor, O&M, and annualized capital)														$8,362,288

Appendix F-2. Footnotes Applicable to Appendix F-1

¹ Assumed 5 hours per reporter per year to read rule.

² Assumed activity occurs once per year per reporter.

³ There are 2,155 facilities that reported only subpart C in RY2014.

⁴ Assumed 2 hours per reporter per year to read rule.

⁵ Assumed 5 hours per year to review company records.

⁶ There are 1,458 facilities that reported only subpart C under Tier 1 in RY2014.

⁷ There are 87 facilities that reported only subpart C under Tier 3 in RY2014.

⁸ There are 974 facilities that reported only subpart C under Tier 2 in RY2014.

⁹ Assumed 10 minutes per pollutant per fuel [1 pollutant].

¹⁰ Using RY2014 data, there are 0.4 fuels per facility using Eq C-1a; 0.01 fuels per facility using Eq C-1b; 0.49 fuels per facility using Eq. C-1.

¹¹ Assumed 10 minutes per pollutant per fuel [2 pollutants].

¹² Using RY2014 data, there are 0 fuels per facility using Eq C-1a; 0.01 fuels per facility using Eq C-1b; 0.49 fuels per facility using Eq. C-1.

¹³ Using RY2014 data, there are 4.1 fuels per respondent using Tier 2 methodology.

¹⁴ Assumed 0.5 hour per fuel and 365 measurements per year.

¹⁵ Using RY2014 data, 5.9% of Tier 2 fuels are measured daily.

¹⁶ Assumed 0.5 hour per fuel and 8,760 measurements per year.

¹⁷ Using RY2014 data, 0.9% of Tier 2 fuels are measured hourly.

¹⁸ Assumed 0.5 hour per fuel and 12 measurements per year.

¹⁹ Using RY2014 data, 80.2% of Tier 2 fuels are measured monthly.

²⁰ Assumed 0.5 hour per fuel and 4 measurements per year.

²¹ Using RY2014 data, 5.5% of Tier 2 fuels are measured quarterly.

²² Assumed 0.5 hour per fuel and 2 measurements per year.

²³ Using RY2014 data, 5.9% of Tier 2 fuels are measured semiannually.

²⁴ Assumed 0.5 hour per fuel and 52 measurements per year.

²⁵ Using RY2014 data, 1.5% of Tier 2 fuels are measured weekly.

²⁶ Using RY2014 data, there are 7.1 fuels per respondent using Tier 3 methodology.

²⁷ Using RY2014 data, 3.8% of Tier 3 fuels are measured daily.

²⁸ Using RY2014 data, 2.9% of Tier 3 fuels are measured hourly.

²⁹ Using RY2014 data, 77.4% of Tier 3 fuels are measured monthly.

³⁰ Using RY2014 data, 3.8% of Tier 3 fuels are measured quarterly.

³¹ Using RY2014 data, 6.7% of Tier 3 fuels are measured semiannually.

³² Using RY2014 data, 5.3% of Tier 3 fuels are measured weekly.

³³ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel to determine the annual volume of fuel or annual average molecular weight of gaseous fuel.

³⁴ Using RY2014 data, there are 5.3 liquid or gaseous fuels per respondent using Tier 3 methodology.

³⁵ Using RY2014 data, there are 53 facilities reporting only subpart C used liquid or gaseous fuel in RY2014.

³⁶ Using RY2014 data, there are 2.6 gaseous fuels per respondent using Tier 3 methodology.

³⁷ Using RY2014 data, there are 31 facilities reporting only subpart C used gaseous fuel in RY2014.

³⁸ Assumed 20 hours per quarter to gather and QA the CEMS data.

³⁹ Using RY2014 data, there are 73 facilities reporting only subpart C used Tier 4 in RY2014.

⁴⁰ Assumed 10 hours per reporter per year to submit report through e-GGRT and QA the data.

⁴¹ Assumed 5 hours per reporter per year to maintain records.

⁴² Number of occurrences per respondent based on average number of fuels reported by segment for Tier 2 units in RY2014.

⁴³ Assumed testing cost of $400 per fuel.

⁴⁴ Number of occurrences per respondent based on average number of fuels reported by segment for Tier 3 units in RY2014.

⁴⁵ Assumed capital cost of $2,400 per fuel per flow meter, which is an annualized cost of $585.34.

Appendix F-3. Detailed Unit Burden and Costs for GHGRP Reporters Subject to Subpart C Plus Another Subpart(s)—Year 1 through Year 3

Year 1 - Year 3					(A) Hours per Occurrence	(B) Occurrences/ Respondent/Year	(C) Hours/ Respondent/ Year (A x B)	(D) Respondents/ Year	(E) Technical Hours/ Year (C x D)	Legal Hours/Year	Clerical Hours/ Year	Manager Hours/ Year	(H) Cost/ Year
1. APPLICATIONS (Not Applicable)
2. SURVEY AND STUDIES (Not Applicable)
3. ACQUISITION, INSTALLATION, AND UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS
4. REPORT REQUIREMENTS
	A. Read Rule, Instructions, Guidance Documents 1,2,3				5.00	1.0	5.00	1,395	6,975.0				$462,094
	B. Required Activities
		Activity covering Tier 1 Methodology
			Conduct annual review of company records to determine mass or volume of fuel combusted 1,2,4		5.00	1.0	5.00	891	4,455.0				$295,144
		Activity covering Tier 3 Methodology
			Conduct annual review of company records to determine mass or volume of fuel combusted 1,2,5		5.00	1.0	5.00	79	395.0				$26,169
		Activity covering Tier 1 Methodology
			Conduct annual review of billing records to determine natural gas consumption in therms or mmBtu 1,2,4		5.00	1.0	5.00	891	4,455.0				$295,144
		Activity covering Tier 2 Methodology
			Conduct annual review of billing records to determine natural gas consumption in therms or mmBtu 1,2,6		5.00	1.0	5.00	674	3,370.0				$223,263
		Tier 1 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
			Perform engineering calculation to determine CO2 emissions using Eq C-1, C-1a, or C-1b, using default high heat values and/or default emission factors 4,7,8		0.17	4.7	0.79	891	702.4				$46,534
			Perform engineering calculation to determine CH4 and N2O emissions using Eq C-8, Eq C-8a, or Eq C-8b 4,8,9		0.33	4.7	1.58	891	1,404.8				$93,069
		Tier 2 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
			Conduct sampling to determine high heat value for each type of fuel or fuel mixture 6,10			3.4		674
				Daily measurements 11,12	182.50	0.2	44.70	49	2,170.7				$143,809
				Hourly measurements 13,14	4,380.00	0.1	421.82	19	8,053.0				$533,510
				Monthly measurements 15,16	6.00	2.7	16.30	539	8,783.5				$581,907
				Quarterly measurements 17,18	2.00	0.0	0.08	7	0.6				$37
				Semiannual measurements 19,20	1.00	0.3	0.25	50	12.5				$829
				Weekly measurements 21,22	26.00	0.1	1.36	10	14.1				$935
			Perform engineering calculation to determine CO2 emissions using Eq C-2a, along with Eq C-2b or Eq C-2c. 6,7,10		0.17	3.4	0.57	674	381.9				$25,303
			Perform engineering calculation to determine CH4 and N2O emissions using Eq C-9a or Eq 9b 6,9,10		0.33	3.4	1.13	674	763.9				$50,606
		Tier 3 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
			Conduct sampling to determine carbon content for each type of fuel or fuel mixture 5,23			6.8		79
				Daily measurements 11,24	182.50	0.4	80.67	5	414.2				$27,442
				Hourly measurements 13,25	4,380.00	0.0	0.00	0	-				$0
				Monthly measurements 15,26	6.00	5.6	33.46	65	2,167.3				$143,582
				Quarterly measurements 17,27	2.00	0.3	0.61	4	2.2				$144
				Semiannual measurements 19,28	1.00	0.0	0.03	0	0.0				$1
				Weekly measurements 21,29	26.00	0.4	11.49	5	59.0				$3,910
			Determine annual volume of liquid or gaseous fuel using fuel flow meters 30,31,32		0.50	4.5	2.25	24	54.0				$3,578
			Determine annual average molecular weight of gaseous fuel 30,33,34		0.50	2.6	1.30	16	20.8				$1,378
			Perform engineering calculation to determine CO2 emissions using Eq C-3, Eq C-4, or Eq C-5. 5,7,35		0.17	6.8	1.13	79	89.5				$5,932
			Perform engineering calculation to determine CH4 and N2O emissions using Eq C-8 5,9,35		0.33	6.8	2.27	79	179.1				$11,863
		Tier 4 Methodology for combustion emissions reported under subpart C
			Gather CEMS data for e-GGRT reporting 36,37		20.00	4.0	80.00	34	2,720.0				$180,200
	C. Create Information (Included in 4B)
	D. Gather Existing Information (Included in 4E)
	E. Write Report
			Annual Compliance Reporting through e-GGRT and QA 3,38		10.00	1.0	10.00	1,395	13,950.0				$924,188
5. RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS
	A. Read Instructions (Included in 4A)
	B. Plan Activities (Included in 4B)
	C. Implement Activities (Included in 4B)
	D. Recordkeeping 3,39				5.00	1.0	5.00	1,395	6,975.0				$462,094
	E. Time to Transmit or Disclose Information (included in 4E)
	F. Time to Train Personnel (included in 4A)
	G. Time for Audits (Not Applicable)
TOTAL ANNUAL LABOR BURDEN AND COST									68,568.5				$4,542,662
ANNUAL TESTING COSTS (O&M)
	Sampling costs for Tier 2 units
		Annual gas and liquid samples and analyses 40,41				3.4		674					$916,640
ANNUALIZED CAPITAL COSTS
	Flow meter costs for Tier 3 units 42,43					4.5		24					$63,216
TOTAL ANNUAL COSTS (Labor, O&M, and annualized capital)													$5,522,519

Appendix F-4. Footnotes Applicable to Appendix F-3

¹ Assumed 5 hours per reporter per year to read rule.

² Assumed activity occurs once per year per reporter.

³ There are 1,395 facilities that reported subpart C plus another subpart(s) in RY2014.

⁴ There are 891 facilities that reported subpart C plus another subpart(s) used Tier 1 in RY2014.

⁵ There are 79 facilities that reported subpart C plus another subpart(s) used Tier 1 and/or Tier 3 in RY2014. No duplicates are included.

⁶ There are 674 facilities that reported subpart C plus another subpart(s) used Tier 2 in RY2014.

⁷ Assumed 10 minutes per pollutant per fuel [1 pollutant].

⁸ Using RY2014 data, there are 1.47 fuels per facility using Eq C-1a; 1.26 fuels per facility using Eq C-1b; 2.0 fuels per facility using Eq. C-1.

⁹ Assumed 10 minutes per pollutant per fuel [2 pollutants].

¹⁰ Using RY2014 data, there are 2.4 fuels per facility using C-2a; 1 fuel using C-2c.

¹¹ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel and 365 measurements per year.

¹² Using RY2014 data, 7.2% of Tier 2 fuels are measured daily.

¹³ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel and 8,760 measurements per year.

¹⁴ Using RY2014 data, 2.8% of Tier 2 fuels are measured hourly.

¹⁵ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel and 12 measurements per year.

¹⁶ Using RY2014 data, 79.9% of Tier 2 fuels are measured monthly.

¹⁷ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel and 4 measurements per year.

¹⁸ Using RY2014 data, 1.1% of Tier 2 fuels are measured quarterly.

¹⁹ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel and 2 measurements per year.

²⁰ Using RY2014 data, 7.4% of Tier 2 fuels are measured semiannually.

²¹ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel and 52 measurements per year.

²² Using RY2014 data, 1.5% of Tier 2 fuels are measured weekly.

²³ Using RY2014 data, there are 2.3 fuels using C-3; 1.9 fuels using C-4, and 2.6 fuels using C-5.

²⁴ Using RY2014 data, 6.5% of Tier 3 fuels are measured daily.

²⁵ Using RY2014 data, 0% of Tier 3 fuels are measured hourly.

²⁶ Using RY2014 data, 82.0% of Tier 3 fuels are measured monthly.

²⁷ Using RY2014 data, 4.5% of Tier 3 fuels are measured quarterly.

²⁸ Using RY2014 data, 0.5% of Tier 3 fuels are measured semiannually.

²⁹ Using RY2014 data, 6.5% of Tier 3 fuels are measured weekly.

³⁰ Assumed 0.5 hours per fuel to determine the annual volume of fuel or annual average molecular weight of gaseous fuel.

³¹ Using RY2014 data, there are 1.9 fuels using C-4 (liquid fuels), and 2.6 fuels using C-5 (gaseous fuels).

³² There are 24 facilities reporting subpart C plus another subpart(s) that reported liquid or gaseous fuel use in RY2014.

³³ Using RY2014 data, there are 2.6 fuels using C-5 (equation is only for gaseous fuels).

³⁴ There are 16 facilities reporting subpart C plus another subpart(s) that reported gaseous fuel use in RY2014.

³⁵ Using RY2014 data, there are 2.3 fuels using C-3; 1.9 fuels using C-4, and 2.6 fuels using C-5.

³⁶ Assumed 20 hours per quarter to gather and QA the CEMS data.

³⁷ There are 34 facilities reporting subpart C plus another subpart(s) that used Tier 4 methodology in RY2014.

³⁸ Assumed 10 hours per reporter per year to submit report through e-GGRT and QA the data.

³⁹ Assumed 5 hours per reporter per year to maintain records.

⁴⁰ Number of occurrences per respondent based on average number of fuels reported by segment for Tier 2 units in RY2014.

⁴¹ Assumed testing cost of $400 per fuel.

⁴² Number of occurrences per respondent based on average number of fuels reported by segment for Tier 3 units in RY2014.

⁴³ Assumed capital cost of $2,400 per fuel per flow meter, which is an annualized cost of $585.34.