[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 19591]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08419]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0832; FRL-9925-34-Region 9]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern
Sierra Air Quality Management District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a revision to the Northern Sierra Air Quality Management
District (NSAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan
(SIP). The submitted SIP revision contains the District's demonstration
regarding Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) requirements
for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS). The submitted SIP revision also contains negative declarations
for volatile organic compound (VOC) source categories for the NSAQMD.
We are proposing to approve the submitted SIP revision under the Clean
Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). We are taking comments on
this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by May 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2014-0832, 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 and in hard copy at EPA
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105-3901.
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: James Shears, EPA Region IX, (213)
244-1810, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the revisions to the
NSAQMD portion of the California SIP. In the rules and regulations
section of the Federal Register, we are approving the SIP revision in a
direct final action without prior proposal because we believe this SIP
revision is 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 proposal.
Please note that if we receive adverse comment on a specific provision
of this SIP revision and if that provision may be severed from the
remainder of the SIP revision, we may adopt as final those provisions
of the SIP revision 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: February 12, 2015.
Alexis Strauss,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2015-08419 Filed 4-10-15; 8:45 am]
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