[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 192 (Monday, October 5, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 60108-60109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-25160]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2015-0510; FRL-9934-03-Region 9]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope 
Valley Air Quality Management District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve revisions to the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management 
District (AVAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan 
(SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic compound (VOC) 
emissions from graphic arts facilities and aerospace assembly and 
component manufacturing operations. The EPA is proposing to approve 
local rules to regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act 
(CAA or the Act). These revisions also address rescission of two rules 
no longer required, and approval of administrative revisions to the 
emergency episode plan requirements.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by November 4, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number [EPA-R09-OAR-
2015-0510, 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 the 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 the EPA, your 
email address will be automatically captured and included as part of 
the public comment. If the EPA cannot read your

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comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for 
clarification, the 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: Vanessa Graham, EPA Region IX, (415) 
947-4120, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local 
rules: AVAQMD 701--Air Pollution Emergency Contingency Actions, 
rescission of AVAQMD 1110--Emissions from Stationary Internal 
Combustion Engines (Demonstration), AVAQMD 1124--Aerospace Assembly and 
Component Manufacturing Operations, rescission of AVAQMD 1128--Paper, 
Fabric and Film Coating Operations, and AVAQMD 1130--Graphic Arts. In 
the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, the EPA is 
approving these local rules and rule rescissions in a direct final 
action without prior proposal because the EPA believes these SIP 
revisions are not controversial. If the EPA receives adverse comments, 
however, the EPA 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 the 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, the EPA may adopt as 
final those provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an 
adverse comment.
    The EPA does not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone 
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If the EPA does not 
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further 
information, please see the direct final action.

    Dated: September 1, 2015.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2015-25160 Filed 10-2-15; 8:45 am]
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