[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 90 (Thursday, May 9, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 27160-27161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-11058]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR PART 52
[EPA-R03-OAR-2013-0132; FRL-9809-6]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia; Attainment Demonstration
for the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the
Washington, DC-MD-VA Moderate Nonattainment Area; Reopening of Comment
Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is reopening the comment period for a notice published on
March 20, 2013. In the March 20, 2013 notice of proposed rulemaking,
EPA proposed to approve the attainment demonstration portion of the
attainment plan for the Washington DC-MD-VA (Washington area) ozone
nonattainment area submitted by the District of Columbia, the State of
Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia as revisions to each of their
State Implementation Plans (SIPs). At the request of the Maryland
Department of the Environment (MDE), EPA is reopening the comment
period. Comments
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submitted between the close of the original comment period and the re-
opening of this comment period will be accepted and considered.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on March 20,
2013 (78 FR 17161) is reopened through June 10, 2013. All comments
received on or before June 10, 2013 will be entered into the public
record and considered by EPA before taking final action on the proposed
rule.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-
R03-OAR-2013-0132 by one of the following methods:
A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
B. Email: [email protected].
C. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2013-0132, Cristina Fernandez, Associate
Director, Office of Air Planning Program, Mailcode 3AP30, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
D. Hand Delivery: At the previously-listed EPA Region III address.
Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R03-OAR-
2013-0132. EPA's policy is that all comments received 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 information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or email. The
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 email comment
directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, your email
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.
Docket: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the
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 in www.regulations.gov or
in hard copy during normal business hours at the Air Protection
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Copies of the States'
submittals are available at the District of Columbia, Department of the
Environment, Air Quality Division, 1200 1st Street, NE 5th floor,
Washington, DC 20002; Maryland Department of the Environment, 1800
Washington Boulevard, Suite 705, Baltimore, Maryland 21230; and the
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23219.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Cripps, (215) 814-2179, or
by email at [email protected]. Please note that while
questions on this reopening of the comment period for the proposed
approval of the attainment demonstration portion of attainment plans
for the Washington area may be posed via telephone and email, formal
comments must be submitted in writing, as indicated in the ADDRESSES
section of this document.
Dated: April 24, 2013.
W.C. Early,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2013-11058 Filed 5-8-13; 8:45 am]
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