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4. December 21, 2001
Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Esq.
Assistant Administrator
Office of Air and Radiation
U.S. Environmnental Protection Agency
Mail Stop 6101 A
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Ariel Rios Building - North
Washington, DC 20460
Re: Request for Comment on Draft Third U.S. Climate Action
Report, 66 -Fed. 57456
Reg.
(Nov. 15, 2001)
Dear Mr. Hrolmstead:
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) respectfully submits
these comments in response to the
above-referenced Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
notice requesting comments on the
draft Third U.S. Climate Action Report, as supplemented
by the publication of an additional
chapter on the EPA website on which comments are due by
January 2, 2002. EEI is the
association of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies,
international affiliates and industry
associates worldwide. EEI's U.S-. members serve more than
90 percent of all customers served
by the shareholder-owned segment of the industry, generate
approximately three-quarters of all
of the electricity generated by electric companies in the country,
and serve about 70 percent of
all ultimate customers in the nation.
EEl has a number of concerns with the draft report. First,
the draft report is missing information
on the role of voluntary initiatives and programs in reducing
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions,
particularly in Chapter 4 and in Appendix A. EEl and its
member companies have been
especially active in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-Utility
Climate Challenge Program,
which is the largest voluntary greenhouse gas reduction program
in the world. Climate Challenge
participants, which include over 650 utilities, pledged over
170 million metric tons of C02-
equivalent reductions, avoidances and sequestrations in the
year 2000, and in 1999 achieved 124
million metric tons of C02-equivalent reductions.

5. Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Esq.
December 2 1, 2001
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EEI and its members also continue to be active Participants
in the U.S. Initiative on Joint
Implementation (USIJI), a voluntary program that focuses
on the mitigation of greenhouse gas
emissions internationally and represents an important
contribution by the United States to
addressing the issue of global greenhouse gas emissions.
We are concerned that the underlying
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (FCCC) program on which USIJI is
based, called activities implemented jointly (AIJ), remains
in a pilot phase, and that the required
criteria for AIJ have not been adopted by the Conference
of the Parties. The U.S. National
Communication should address these concerns, as their
resolution could be helpffil in stimulating
additional private sector involvement.
Second, the draft report should include more robust
informnation on the voluntary reporting of
emission reductions under the 1605(b) program established
in the 1992 Energy Policy Act.
While the current draft contains extensive information
on state-level reporting programs, it
scarcely mentions this national level voluntary reporting
program, which has resulted in actual
projects that have reduced, avoided and sequestered
greenhouse gas emissions.
Third, the draft report reflects unbalanced reporting
of actual or projected emission reductions
from various policies and programs by citing only EPA
estimates of results from EPA programs.
Programs run by the DOE and other federal agencies,
which are referenced in the report, carry no
estimates of actual or projected emission reductions,
yet these agencies routinely cite such
projections in their public literature. Including such
estimates would help further demonstrate
the broad impact of voluntary programs being undertaken
in the United States.
Voluntary programs, such as Climate Challenge and
the 1605(b) reporting program, are
important areas in which the United States is demonstrating
its leadership in addressing climate
change and the reduction, avoidance or sequestration
of greenhouse gas emissions, and should be
included in the final Climate Action Report.
Finally, we are concerned that such a short period of
time has been allowed for comments on the
report, particularly since the U.S. is already late in filing
its National Communication and only
13 countries have filed their communications within
the deadline. We understand that originally
the 30-day period was based on the U.S. meeting the
submission deadline for National
Communications, yet since the U.S. will not meet this
deadline there is no imperative for having
such a short comment period. We think it would be
useful to extend the time for comments so
that additional comments could be submitted. In addition,
when this project was announced
earlier in the year, we wrote to the State Department
asking why EPA was preparing the report
when the State Department has historically been the
agency to file the final report with the FCCC
Secretariat. We hope that the practice of having the
State Department file the U.S. National
Communication will be continued.

6. Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Esq.
December 21, 2001
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If you have any questions about
our
me at (202) 508-5617 (bf~ang6eei comments, or if we can be of any assistance, please contact
owor) or Eric Holdsworth,
508-5103ehlsnh eio Director, Climate Programs,
at (202)
Sincerely,
William L. Fang
Deputy General Counsel and
Climate Issue Director
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cc: James Connaughton, Chairman,
Council on Environmental
Under Secretary of State Paula Quality
Reid P. Harvey, EPA Office Dobriansky
of Atmospheric Programs