[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 16, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 22501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-08840]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 81
[EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0104; FRL-9802-5]
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; State of
Nevada; Total Suspended Particulate
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to delete certain area designations for total
suspended particulate within the State of Nevada because the
designations are no longer necessary. These designations relate to the
attainment or unclassifiable areas for total suspended particulate in
Clark County as well as the following nonattainment areas for total
suspended particulate elsewhere within the State of Nevada: Carson
Desert, Winnemucca Segment, Lower Reese Valley, Fernley Area, Mason
Valley, and Clovers Area. EPA is proposing this action under the Clean
Air Act.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 16, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2013-0104, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-
line instructions for submitting comments.
2. Email: [email protected].
3. Mail or deliver: Karina O'Connor (AIR-2), 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.
Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA Region
IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all documents
in the docket are listed in the index, some information may be publicly
available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material),
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 below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karina O'Connor, EPA Region IX, (775)
434-8176, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal relates to deletions of
certain area designations for total suspended particulate (TSP) in the
State of Nevada. Specifically, EPA proposes to delete the attainment or
unclassifiable areas for total suspended particulate in Clark County as
well as the following nonattainment areas for total suspended
particulate elsewhere within the State of Nevada: Carson Desert,
Winnemucca Segment, Lower Reese Valley, Fernley Area, Mason Valley, and
Clovers Area. EPA is proposing this action under section 107(d)(4)(B)
of the Clean Air Act based on the Agency's determination that the TSP
designations for these areas are no longer necessary.
In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, EPA
is deleting these area designations in a direct final rule without
prior proposal because the Agency views this as a non-controversial
action and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for
the deletions is set forth in the preamble to the direct final rule. If
EPA receives no adverse comments, EPA will not take further action on
this proposed rule. If EPA receives adverse comments, EPA will publish
a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in the Federal Register to
notify the public that the direct final rule will not take effect. EPA
will address all public comments in a subsequent final rule based on
this proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period on
this action. Any parties interested in commenting must do so at this
time. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment,
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed
from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. For
additional information, please see the direct final rule of the same
title which is located in the Rules and Regulations section of this
Federal Register.
Dated: April 1, 2013.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2013-08840 Filed 4-15-13; 8:45 am]
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