# Protocol Gas Verification Program and Minimum Competency Requirements for Air Emission Testing
> **Rule** · Final rule; Reconsideration. · Published 2011-03-28 · Effective 2011-04-27 · 76 FR 17288
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-6216
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 17288
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 72
- **Publication date:** 2011-03-28
- **Effective date:** 2011-04-27
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0837
## Abstract

EPA is finalizing rule revisions that modify existing requirements for sources affected by the federally administered emission trading programs including the NO<INF>X</INF> Budget Trading Program, the Acid Rain Program, and the Clean Air Interstate Rule. EPA is amending its Protocol Gas Verification Program (PGVP) and the minimum competency requirements for air emission testing (formerly air emission testing body requirements) to improve the accuracy of emissions data. EPA is also amending other sections of the Acid Rain Program continuous emission monitoring system regulations by adding and clarifying certain recordkeeping and reporting requirements, removing the provisions pertaining to mercury monitoring and reporting, removing certain requirements associated with a class-approved alternative monitoring system, disallowing the use of a particular quality assurance option in EPA Reference Method 7E, adding two incorporation by references that were inadvertently left out of the January 24, 2008 final rule, adding two new definitions, revising certain compliance dates, and clarifying the language and applicability of certain provisions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/03/28/2011-6216/protocol-gas-verification-program-and-minimum-competency-requirements-for-air-emission-testing)
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