(a) The U.S. EPA Administrator retains the following authorities which are not transferred to a state:

(1) Approval of exemption claims in § 60.5700(a), (b), (c), (d), (g), and (h).

(2) Enforceability under federal law of the federally enforceable (as defined in § 60.6145) permits specified in § 60.5700(a) and (g).

(3) Determination of compliance with the siting requirements as specified in § 60.5790.

(4) Acceptance of relationship between carbon dioxide and oxygen as part of initial and annual performance tests as specified in §§ 60.6080(g) and 60.6090(k).

(5) Approval of other monitoring systems used to obtain emissions data when data is not obtained by CEMS as specified in §§ 60.5955 and 60.5985(g)(11).

(6) Approval of a site-specific monitoring plan for the continuous emission monitoring system specified in § 60.5985(c) and (d) or the continuous automated sampling system specified in § 60.5985(g)(10) and (h) of this section.

(7) Approval of major alternatives to test methods.

(8) Approval of major alternatives to monitoring.

(9) Waiver of recordkeeping.

(10) Performance test and data reduction waivers under § 60.8(b).

(11) Approval of an alternative to any electronic reporting to the EPA required by this subpart.

(b) The Administrator can delegate all other authorities in all other sections of this subpart to the state for direct state enforcement.