[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 26, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 44534-44535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18833]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R04-OAR-2009-0786-201143; FRL-9443-8]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Tennessee; Regional Haze State Implementation Plan; Limited Reopening
of the Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; limited reopening of the comment period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a limited reopening of the public comment
period for the proposed rule entitled ``Approval and Promulgation of
Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Tennessee; Regional Haze
State Implementation Plan.'' The proposed rule was initially published
in the Federal Register on June 9, 2011. Written comments on the
proposed rule were to be submitted to EPA on or before July 11, 2011
(30-day comment period). On June 29, 2011, and July 1, 2011, two
Commenters requested that EPA extend the comment period for the June 9,
2011, Tennessee Regional Haze proposed rulemaking for 30 to 60 days in
order to review the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), which
replaced the Clean Air Interstate Rule on July 6, 2011. The Commenters
requested the extension in order to determine any potential impacts of
the CSAPR on the June 9, 2011, proposed rule. EPA is now reopening the
public comment period for 15 days from the date of publication of
today's action for the limited purpose of public review and comment on
the potential impacts of the final CSAPR on EPA's proposed rulemaking
to approve Tennessee's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP).
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on June 9,
2011 (76 FR 33662), is reopened. Comments must be received on or before
August 10, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R04-
OAR-2009-0786, by one of the following methods:
1. http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
2. E-mail: [email protected].
3. Fax: 404-562-9019.
4. Mail: ``EPA-R04-OAR-2009-0786,'' Regulatory Development Section,
Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960.
5. Hand Delivery or Courier: Steven Scofield, Acting Chief,
Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides
and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. Such
deliveries are only accepted during the Regional Office's normal hours
of operation. The Regional Office's official hours of business are
Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding Federal holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. ``EPA-R04-OAR-
2009-0786.'' EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit through
http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov or e-mail, information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected. The
http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access''
system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through
http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at
http:[sol][sol]www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket
Identification No. EPA-R04-OAR-2009-0786. All documents in the docket
are listed on the http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov index. Although
listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e.,
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on
the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
through http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the
Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides
and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. EPA
requests that, if at all possible, you contact the person listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to schedule your inspection.
The Regional Office's official hours of business are Monday through
Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara Waterson or Michele Notarianni,
Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides
and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. Sara
Waterson can be reached at telephone number (404) 562-9061 and by
electronic mail at [email protected]. Michele Notarianni can be
reached at telephone number (404) 562-9031 and by electronic mail at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 31, 2011, the EPA Region 4 Acting
Regional Administrator signed a proposed rulemaking to approve, on a
limited basis, the State of Tennessee's Regional Haze State
Implementation Plan. This action was published in the Federal Register
on June 9, 2011, (76 FR 33662) and provided a 30-day comment period.
All written comments were due to EPA Region 4, as instructed in the
proposed rule, on or before July 11, 2011. During the comment period,
EPA received comments from two separate Commenters requesting that EPA
extend the comment period suggesting a range of 30-60 days. The purpose
of the Commenters' requests was to allow time to review the final CSAPR
\1\ and assess the correlation between the CSAPR and the Regional Haze
requirements and, specifically, any potential impacts on the Tennessee
Regional Haze SIP
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rulemaking. EPA has considered these requests and has decided to reopen
the comment period for an additional 15 days from the date of
publication of today's rulemaking.
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\1\ The final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was signed by the
EPA Administrator on July 6, 2011, and made available on the
Internet at: http:[sol][sol]www.epa.gov/crossstaterule/pdfs/TR_
070611_WEB.pdf. The signed version is not the official version of
this rule. For the purposes of compliance, the July 6, 2011, signed
version will be replaced with a forthcoming Federal Register
publication.
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This reopening is for the limited purpose of public review and
comment on the potential impacts of the final CSAPR on EPA's proposed
rulemaking to approve Tennessee's Regional Haze SIP. EPA does not
anticipate any impacts from the CSAPR on the proposed rulemaking on the
Tennessee Regional Haze SIP. As noted in the CSAPR, EPA has not
conducted any technical analysis to determine whether compliance with
the CSAPR would satisfy Regional Haze Best Available Retrofit
Technology (BART)-related requirements for electric generating units
(EGUs). For that reason, EPA has neither made any determinations nor
established any presumptions that compliance with the CSAPR satisfies
BART-related requirements for EGUs. EPA intends to undertake a separate
analysis to determine if compliance with the CSAPR would provide
sufficient reductions to satisfy BART requirements for EGUs in
accordance with Regional Haze Rule requirements for alternative BART
compliance options as soon as practicable following official
promulgation of the CSAPR.
Dated: July 15, 2011.
Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2011-18833 Filed 7-25-11; 8:45 am]
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