Q184. Can facilities with manure management systems report under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program?

A184. EPA is not implementing subpart JJ (Manure Management) of 40 CFR part 98 using funds provided in its FY2010 appropriations or Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (Public Law 111-242), due to a Congressional restriction prohibiting the expenditure of funds for this purpose. 40 CFR 98.5 requires that "[e]ach GHG report and certificate of representation for a facility or supplier must be submitted electronically in accordance with the requirements of §98.4 and in a format to be specified by the Administrator." Although the electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT) is available for reporters subject to Part 98 to register their facilities and submit Certificates of Representation, consistent with the Congressional restriction, e-GGRT has not been built out with step-by-step forms to support unit and facility level reporting requirements for subpart JJ. All reporters will have the option to submit the annual GHG report in the e-GGRT Extensible Markup Language (XML) reporting schema format. Consistent with the Congressional restriction, although the XML reporting schema includes the general reporting requirements of subpart A for all facilities, it does not include subpart JJ-specific requirements. Therefore, facilities that contain the manure management source category could use the XML reporting schema to meet the general reporting requirements of subpart A, however, the XML schema will not contain subpart JJ specific reporting requirements. EPA has not developed an electronic system to report subpart JJ specific requirements.