[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 11, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 31931-31932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14398]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2017-0278; FRL-9964-64-Region 5]
Air Plan Approval; Illinois; Emissions Statement Rule
Certification for the 2008 Ozone Standard
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) submission from the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) dated May 9, 2017. The
submission provides IEPA's certification that its existing emission
statement program, titled ``Annual Emissions Report'', remains in
effect and satisfies the Clean Air Act (CAA) emissions statement
requirement for the Illinois portions of the Chicago-Naperville,
Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin and St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington,
Missouri-Illinois nonattainment areas under the 2008 ozone National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). Under the CAA, states' SIPs must
require stationary sources in ozone nonattainment areas classified as
marginal or above to annually report emissions of Volatile Organic
Compounds (VOC) and Oxides of Nitrogen (NOX).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 10, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2017-0278 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, 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: Kathleen D'Agostino, Air Programs
Branch (AR-18J), Environmental
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Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604,
(312) 886-1767, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Rules section of this issue of
the Federal Register, EPA is approving IDEM's SIP revisions as a direct
final rule without prior proposal because EPA 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 rule, 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.
Please note that, if 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, EPA may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. For
additional information see the direct final rule, which is located in
the Rules section of this issue of the Federal Register.
Dated: June 20, 2017.
Robert A. Kaplan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2017-14398 Filed 7-10-17; 8:45 am]
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