---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 74.10"
title: "40"
number: "74.10"
heading: "Roles—EPA and permitting authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/74.10"
---

# §74.10. Roles—EPA and permitting authority.

- (a) **Administrator responsibilities.** The Administrator shall be responsible for the following activities under the opt-in provisions of the Acid Rain Program:
  - (1) **Calculating—** the baseline or alternative baseline and allowance allocation, and allocating allowances for combustion or process sources that become affected units under this part;
  - (2) Certifying or recertifying monitoring systems for combustion or process sources as provided under [§ 74.20](/cfr/40/74.20.md) of this chapter;
  - (3) Establishing allowance accounts, tracking allowances, assessing end-of-year compliance, determining reduced utilization, approving thermal energy transfer and accounting for the replacement of thermal energy, closing accounts for opt-in sources that shut down, are reconstructed, become affected under [§ 72.6](/cfr/40/72.6.md) of this chapter, or fail to renew their opt-in permit, and deducting allowances as provided under [subpart E](/cfr/40/subpartE.md) of this part; and
  - (4) Ensuring that the opt-in source meets all withdrawal conditions prior to withdrawal from the Acid Rain Program as provided under [§ 74.18](/cfr/40/74.18.md); and
  - (5) **Approving and disapproving the request to withdraw from the Acid Rain Program.**
- (b) **Permitting authority responsibilities.** The permitting authority shall be responsible for the following activities:
  - (1) Issuing the draft and final opt-in permit;
  - (2) Revising and renewing the opt-in permit; and
  - (3) Terminating the opt-in permit for an opt-in source as provided in [§ 74.18](/cfr/40/74.18.md) (withdrawal), [§ 74.46](/cfr/40/74.46.md) (shutdown, reconstruction or change in affected status) and [§ 74.50](/cfr/40/74.50.md) (deducting allowances).

## Notes

### Amendments

[60 FR 17115, Apr. 4, 1995, as amended at 63 FR 18841, Apr. 16, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7601 and 7651 et seq.

### Source

Source: 60 FR 17115, Apr. 4, 1995, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[60 FR 17115, Apr. 4, 1995, as amended at 63 FR 18841, Apr. 16, 1998]