[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 21, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 55339-55340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-25169]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 60
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0442; FRL-9971-03-OAR]
RIN 2060-AS92
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the
Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry; Residual Risk and Technology
Review
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of data availability.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this
notice of data availability (NODA) in support of the proposed rule
titled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From
the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry; Residual Risk and
Technology Review,'' which was published on September 21, 2017. In this
document, the EPA is soliciting public comment on information added to
the docket (EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0442) on November 3, 2017.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 4, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2016-0442, at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 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, the full EPA
public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions,
and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Brian Storey, Sector Policies and
Programs Division (D243-04), Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919) 541-1103; fax
number: (919) 541-4991; and email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Organization of This Document. The information presented in this
document is organized as follows:
I. Background
II. Purpose of the NODA
I. Background
On September 21, 2017, the EPA proposed amendments to the National
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From the Portland
Cement Manufacturing Industry to address the results of the residual
risk and technology review (RTR) in accordance with section 112 of the
Clean Air Act (CAA). The proposed rule indicated that the EPA found
risks due to emissions of air toxics to be acceptable from this source
category, and identified no cost-effective controls under the
technology review to achieve further emissions reductions. In addition,
the proposed rule included amendments to correct and clarify rule
testing and monitoring provisions. In support of the proposed rule, the
EPA posted over 160 documents to the docket to allow the public to
provide comment on the rule and on documents used to develop the rule,
in accordance with section 307(d) of the CAA. The subject matter of
these docketed items included various correspondence with stakeholders,
summary of meeting minutes, and technical memoranda related to the risk
assessment and technology review process.
II. Purpose of the NODA
On November 1, 2017, the EPA became aware that two memoranda
prepared to support the September 21, 2017, proposed rule were
inadvertently omitted from the docket. The subject of the two memoranda
are ``Development of the RTR Risk Modeling Dataset for the Portland
Cement Manufacturing Source Category,'' and ``Technology Review for the
Portland Cement Production Source Category.''
The purpose of the memorandum with the subject title of
``Development of the RTR Risk Modeling Dataset for the Portland Cement
Manufacturing Source Category'' is to document the technical approach
and rationale used to develop the risk modeling input data used to
perform the residual risk assessment, pursuant to section 112(f) of the
CAA. It includes discussions of the methods used to develop a list of
facilities subject to the source category; the development of actual,
acute, and allowable emissions datasets; and discussions of how stack
parameter data and stack locations were derived. The memorandum was
actually included in the docket as Appendix 1 of the document,
``Residual Risk Assessment for the Portland Cement Manufacturing Source
Category in Support of the September 2017 Risk and Technology Review
Proposed Rule.'' This document was posted to the docket prior to
publication of the proposed rule as Docket Item No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-
0442-0153. However, we also intended to include this memorandum as a
stand-alone document.
The purpose of the memorandum with the subject title of
``Technology Review for the Portland Cement Production Source
Category'' is to provide a summary of the methods used to determine
what, if any, new developments in practices, processes, and control
technologies exist for the Portland Cement Manufacturing source
category to support our proposed determination regarding whether
revisions to the rule are warranted under section 112(d)(6) of the CAA.
The information provided by this memorandum was summarized in the
preamble of the September 21, 2017, proposed rule.
The EPA recognizes the importance of these two documents, and
posted both documents to the docket on November 3, 2017. The docket
item numbers are EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0442-0188 for ``Development of the RTR
Risk Modeling Dataset for the Portland Cement Manufacturing Source
Category'' and EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0442-0189 for ``Technology Review for
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the Portland Cement Production Source Category.''
We are issuing this NODA to provide notice and ensure that parties
have an opportunity to submit comments on these documents for a period
of 30 days after their insertion in the docket. Although the public
comment period for the proposed rule is scheduled to close on November
21, 2017, the public will be allowed to submit their comments, as well
as provide comments on the proposed conclusions the EPA reached when it
relied on these documents to propose the RTR rulemaking, for a period
of 30 days, as required by the CAA. The comment period for the two
aforementioned documents added to the docket was opened on November 3,
2017, and will close on December 4, 2017.
Dated: November 14, 2017.
Stephen Page,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2017-25169 Filed 11-20-17; 8:45 am]
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