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On November 5, 2010, the Governing Board of the South Coast Air
Quality Management District (AQMD) adopted amendments to
its Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) program that will result
in cumulative reductions of 5.7 tons per day, or more than 51 percent
reduction, of oxides of sulfur (SOx) from all RECLAIM facilities by 2019.
The changes are to be implemented in phases: 3 tons per day in 2013, 4 tons
per day in each year from 2014 through 2016, 5 tons per day in 2017 and
2018, and 5.7 tons per day in 2019 and beyond.
Pursuant to the amended Rule 2002 (f)(1), the SOx RTC Holdings as
of November 5, 2010 for Compliance Year 2013 and thereafter are adjusted by
multiplying the amounts of the current RTC holdings by the following
adjustment factors for the corresponding compliance years, to obtain
tradable/usable and non-tradable/non-usable holdings:
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Compliance
Year
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Tradable/Usable RTC
Adjustment Factor
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Non-Tradable/Non-Usable
RTC Adjustment Factor
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2013
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0.7312
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Not Applicable
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2014
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0.6416
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Not Applicable
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2015
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0.6416
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Not Applicable
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2016
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0.6416
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Not Applicable
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2017
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0.5520
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0.0896
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2018
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0.5520
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0.0896
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2019
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0.4893
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0.1523
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All Years after 2019
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0.4893
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Not Applicable
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The amended rules specified that the above adjustment factors are
to be applied differently to the following three groups of RTC holders:
- List of SOx RTC holders subject to adjustments of all SOx RTC holdings - List (PDF, 52k)
- List of SOx facilities subject to adjustments of
the SOx RTC holdings over the facilities' allocations as
initially issued by the AQMD -
List (PDF, 50k)
- List of SOX RTC holders exempt from adjustments -
List (PDF, 53k)
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