[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 7259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02724]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0028; FRL-9942-02-Region 9]
Approval of Air Plan Revisions; Arizona; Rescissions and
Corrections
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 Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP) under
the Clean Air Act. These revisions include rescissions of certain
statutory provisions, administrative and prohibitory rules, and test
methods. The EPA is also proposing to correct certain errors in
previous actions on prior revisions to the Arizona SIP and to make
certain other corrections. The intended effect is to rescind
unnecessary provisions from the applicable SIP and to correct certain
errors in previous SIP actions.
DATES: Comments must be received by March 14, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2016-0028 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to Andrew
Steckel, Rules Office Chief, at [email protected]. For comments
submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or
removed from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, the EPA
may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be
accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the
official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish
to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment
contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the Web,
cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission
methods, please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the full EPA public comment policy,
information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance
on making effective comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Steckel, EPA Region IX, (415)
947-4115, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of
this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the rescissions from the
Arizona SIP, and correcting the errors from previous Arizona SIP
rulemakings, in a direct final action without prior proposal because we
believe the SIP revision and error corrections are not controversial.
The rescissions involve statutory and regulatory provisions related to
declarations of policy and legal authority, jurisdiction over Indian
lands, prohibitory rules, and test methods and performance test
specifications. The error corrections relate to an inadvertent listing
of a rule on which the EPA did not take action in the Arizona SIP, a
typographical error, and erroneous approvals of non-SIP submittals as
part of the SIP.
A detailed rationale for the approval of the rescissions and the
correction of the errors is set forth in the direct final rule. If we
receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal
of the direct final rule and address the comments in a subsequent final
rule 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.
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, see please see the direct final action.
Dated: January 25, 2016.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2016-02724 Filed 2-10-16; 8:45 am]
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