[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 153 (Friday, August 8, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 46383-46384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18833]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR PART 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2005-OH-0002; FRL-9914-93-Region-5]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Ohio; Particulate Matter
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the
comment period for a proposed Clean Air Act rule published June 26,
2014. EPA solicited comment on whether events subsequent to a prior
comment period should alter EPA's proposed disapproval of a June 4,
2003, Ohio submission with respect to SIP opacity limitations. In
response to requests from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
(Ohio EPA) and from the Ohio Utility Group, EPA is reopening the
comment period for 30 days.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 8, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2005-OH-0002, by one of the following methods:
1. www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
2. Email: [email protected].
3. Fax: (312) 692-2551.
4. Mail or Delivery: Douglas Aburano, Chief, Attainment Planning
and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois 60604. Deliveries are only accepted during the Regional Office
normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information. The Regional Office official hours of
business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding
Federal holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-
2005-OH-0002. 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 docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays.
We recommend that you telephone John Summerhays, Environmental
Scientist, at (312) 886-6067, before visiting the Region 5 office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Summerhays, Environmental
Scientist, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs
Branch (AR-18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6067,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
On June 27, 2005, EPA proposed to disapprove provisions relating to
opacity limitations contained in an Ohio submittal dated June 4, 2003.
EPA is evaluating the public comments received in response to the
proposed disapproval. Given the passage of time,
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on June 26, 2014 (79 FR 36277), EPA solicited supplemental comment
specifically with respect to whether events subsequent to the prior
comment period should alter EPA's proposed disapproval of Ohio's
submission dated June 4, 2003, with respect to SIP opacity limitations.
EPA did not solicit comments on Ohio's submission or EPA's proposed
action of June 27, 2005, on that submission, except to the extent that
events subsequent to the original comment period are relevant to EPA's
evaluation of the submission and EPA's proposed action. This was not a
reopening of the original comment period, but the opening of a
supplemental comment period. In the supplemental proposal, we requested
comment by July 28, 2014. We received a request from the Ohio EPA, on
July 7, 2014, to extend the comment period an additional 90 days. We
also received a similar request from the Ohio Utility Group on July 17,
2014. EPA has considered these requests and has decided to reopen the
comment period for an additional 30 days. EPA considers a comment
period extended by more than 30 days (including time between July 28,
2014 and today) to be more than sufficient to research and analyze any
events subsequent to the original comment period which might be
relevant to this supplemental comment period. Neither Ohio EPA nor the
Ohio Utility Group identified any particularly time-consuming issues
relevant to the supplemental comment period, nor is EPA aware of any.
The comment period now closes on September 8, 2014.
Dated: July 29, 2014.
Susan Hedman,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2014-18833 Filed 8-7-14; 8:45 am]
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