# Extension of Alternative Compliance Periods Under the Anti-Dumping Program > **Rule** · Direct final rule. · Published 2003-05-06 · Effective 2003-07-07 · 68 FR 24300 ## Document - **Document number:** 03-10889 - **Category:** other - **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 24300 - **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 80 - **Publication date:** 2003-05-06 - **Effective date:** 2003-07-07 - **EPA docket:** FRL-7492-1 ## Abstract Today's direct final rule will amend the provisions that EPA promulgated on September 8, 2000, when we published a direct final rule allowing start-up refineries to apply for a conventional gasoline anti- dumping compliance period of longer than one year. Alternative compliance periods are available only to start-up refineries that are facing significant hardship in complying with the anti-dumping statutory baseline oxides of nitrogen (NOX) standard. Today's direct final rule will amend the alternative anti-dumping compliance period provisions to permit an alternative compliance period of up to seven years for start-up refineries owned by small refiners (but in no case extending beyond calendar year 2007), while requiring refineries to provide additional environmental benefits for any cumulative NOX deficits remaining at the end of the fifth or sixth calendar years of any alternative compliance period. A refinery with an alternative compliance period is allowed to produce gasoline that does not comply with the statutory anti-dumping NOX standard on an annual average basis, thereby generating a NOX emissions deficit in the early part of the alternative compliance period. However, the refinery must produce NOX emissions benefits before the end of the alternative compliance period that make up for these early deficits and that provide an additional environmental NOX benefit at least equivalent to the overall cumulative NOX deficit generated during the course of the alternative compliance period. To track its NOX compliance, the refinery must calculate its NOX emissions benefit or deficit on a quarterly basis using specified equations. This direct final rule would modify the method for determining a refiner's quarterly NOX emissions deficit or benefit for a refinery with an approved alternative compliance period, to account for ordinary seasonal variation in gas ## Source - [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/05/06/03-10889/extension-of-alternative-compliance-periods-under-the-anti-dumping-program) --- *AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*