ECMPS Support

Many stakeholders are not aware that, as required by the Clean Air Act, the Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) hosts an annual auction of SO2 allowances each March. The 250,000 available allowances can be bid on by anyone who has provided sufficient funds to cover the bid. (See the Auction Fact Sheet for more information.)

This year's bidding will be from March 10th until March 18th, and the actual auction, during which the winners are decided, will take place on March 23rd. Prior to this year, bids were submitted on paper forms. However, this year the bidding is to be made online through the CAMD Business System (CBS). (The financial portion of the bid is handled separately from CBS.)

For more information on how to bid, click on the CAMD forms page and scroll to the "EPA SO2 Allowance Auction" section.

Also, results from previous auctions, can be viewed here.

Labels: CAMD Business System

The CAMD Business System (CBS) is currently unavailable in order to complete a scheduled upgrade. CBS is scheduled to be available again on Thursday, December 17th.

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The CAMD Business System (CBS) is currently unavailable due to a database system issue. There is no current estimated time for CBS to become available. Please check back on the CBS home page for more information.

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Recently, the CAMD Business System (CBS) was updated in order to make the online Certificate of Representation (COR) compliant with CROMERR. This is an important area of functionality in CBS because industry sources use the COR, among other reasons, to inform the EPA who are the designated and alternate representatives for a unit.

In order to be compliant with CROMERR, the process to complete the new online COR was modified. In order to assist users with becoming familiar with the new process, a tutorial has been added to CBS which explains how to complete the COR.

Similar to the ECMPS tutorials, the CBS Certificate of Representation tutorial is an interactive, audiovisual presentation with closed captioning available. The tutorial should only take about 15 minutes to complete.

The tutorial can be viewed by logging in to the CBS and clicking on the tutorial link located under the Certification of Representation link.


Note, in order to view the tutorial, you must be logged in to CBS and you must have an active relationship as a representative or source management agent with at least one facility.

This is the first of a series of CBS tutorials. Other tutorials will be available in the coming months including ones on agents, emissions compliance, and the annual auction. If you have any suggestions for other tutorial topics for CBS, contact Laurel DeSantis.

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