[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 31547]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14205]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R03-OAR-2016-0561; FRL-9964-57-Region 3]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Pennsylvania; Volatile Organic Compound Reasonably Available Control
Technology for 1997 Ozone Standard
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve
the state implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This SIP revision pertains to the
requirements for reasonably available control technology (RACT)
controls for certain sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) under
the 1997 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). This SIP
revision includes Pennsylvania's certification that previously adopted
RACT controls in Pennsylvania's SIP that were approved by EPA under the
1-hour ozone NAAQS are based on the currently available technically and
economically feasible controls, and that they continue to represent
RACT for the 1997 ozone NAAQS and a negative declaration that certain
categories of sources do not exist in Pennsylvania. This SIP revision
does not address Pennsylvania's May 2016 VOC and nitrogen oxides
(NOX) RACT rule, ``Additional RACT Requirements for Major
Sources of NOX and VOCs,'' also known as RACT II. EPA will
take separate action on RACT II. In the Final Rules section of this
Federal Register, EPA is approving the State's SIP submittal as a
direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this
as a noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final
rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to this action,
no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives adverse comments,
the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all public comments
received will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this
proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period. Any
parties interested in commenting on this action should do so at this
time.
DATES: Comments must be received in writing by August 7, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R03-
OAR-2016-0561 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to
[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. 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: Maria A. Pino, (215) 814-2181, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please see the
information provided in the direct final action, with the same title,
that is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this
Federal Register publication.
Dated: June 22, 2017.
Cecil Rodrigues,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2017-14205 Filed 7-6-17; 8:45 am]
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