[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 154 (Thursday, August 9, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 47581-47582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19316]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0332; FRL-9687-7]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Mojave
Desert, Northern Sierra, Sacramento Metropolitan and San Diego Air
Pollution Agencies
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Mojave Desert Air
Quality Management District (MDAQMD), Northern Sierra Air Quality
Management District (NSAQMD), Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality
Management District (SMAQMD) and San Diego County Air Pollution Control
District (SDCAPCD) portions of the California State Implementation Plan
(SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compound (VOC)
emissions from automotive parts and component, automobile refinishing,
metal parts and products, and miscellaneous coating and refinishing
operations. We are proposing to approve local rules to regulate these
emission sources under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the
Act).
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by September 10, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number R09-OAR-2012-
0332, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
2. Email: [email protected].
3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA
94105-3901.
Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket
without change and may be made available online at www.regulations.gov,
including any personal information provided, unless the comment
includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Information that you
consider CBI or otherwise protected should be clearly identified as
such and should not be submitted through www.regulations.gov or email.
www.regulations.gov is an ``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment. If you send email directly to EPA, your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
public comment. 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.
Docket: Generally, documents in the docket for this action are
available electronically at www.regulations.gov
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and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
California. While all documents in the docket are listed at
www.regulations.gov, some information may be publicly available only at
the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material, large maps), and
some may not be publicly available in either location (e.g., CBI). To
inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an appointment during
normal business hours with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andy Steckel, EPA Region IX, (415)
947-4115, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local
rules: MDAQMD Rule 1116, Automotive Refinishing Operations; NSAQMD Rule
228, Surface Coating and Metal Parts and Products; SMAQMD Rule 459,
Automotive, Mobile Equipment and Associated Parts and Components
Coating, and SDCAPCD Rule 66.1, Miscellaneoous Coating. In the Rules
and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are approving
these local rules in a direct final action without prior proposal
because we believe these SIP revisions are not controversial. If we
receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal
of the direct final rule and address the comments in subsequent action
based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we receive adverse
comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that
provision may be severed from the remainder of the rule, we may adopt
as final those provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an
adverse comment.
We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further
information, please see the direct final action.
Dated: May 22, 2012.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2012-19316 Filed 8-8-12; 8:45 am]
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