[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 99 (Friday, May 22, 2015)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 29535-29537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12355]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0969; EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0991; EPA-R05-OAR-2013-0435;
FRL-9927-94-Region-5]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Illinois; Emission Limit Infrastructure SIP Requirements for the 2008
Ozone, 2010 NO2, and 2010 SO2 NAAQS
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final
action to approve some elements of state implementation plan (SIP)
submissions from Illinois regarding the infrastructure requirements of
section 110 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 2008 ozone, 2010
nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and 2010 sulfur dioxide
(SO2) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The
infrastructure requirements are designed to ensure that the structural
components of each state's air quality management program are adequate
to meet the state's responsibilities under the CAA. In this action, EPA
is specifically approving infrastructure requirements concerning
emission limits and other control measures. The proposed rulemaking
associated with today's final action was published on February 27,
2015, and EPA received no comments during the comment period, which
ended on March 30, 2015.
DATES: This final rule is effective on June 22, 2015.
ADDRESSES: EPA has established dockets for this action under Docket ID
No. EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0969 (2008 ozone infrastructure SIP elements),
Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0991 (2010 NO2 infrastructure
SIP elements), and Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-2013-0435 (2010
SO2 infrastructure SIP elements). All documents in the
docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in
the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g.,
Confidential Business Information or other information whose disclosure
is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted
material, will be publicly-available only in hard copy. Publicly-
available docket materials are available either electronically in
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal
holidays. We recommend that you telephone Sarah Arra at (312) 886-9401
before visiting the Region 5 office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Arra, Environmental Scientist,
Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-
18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-9401, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. This supplementary information
section is arranged as follows:
I. What is the background of these SIP submissions?
II. What is our response to comments received on the proposed
rulemaking?
III. What action is EPA taking?
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews.
I. What is the background of these SIP submissions?
A. What state SIP submission does this rulemaking address?
This rulemaking addresses three submissions from December 31, 2012,
and a January 9, 2015, clarification from the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) intended to address all applicable
infrastructure requirements for the 2008 ozone, 2010 NO2,
and 2010 SO2 NAAQS.
B. Why did the state make these SIP submissions?
Under sections 110(a)(1) and (2) of the CAA, states are required to
submit infrastructure SIPs to ensure that their SIPs provide for
implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of the NAAQS, including
the 2008 ozone, 2010 NO2, and 2010 SO2 NAAQS.
These submissions must contain any revisions needed for meeting the
applicable SIP requirements of section 110(a)(2), or certifications
that their existing SIPs for the NAAQS already meet those requirements.
EPA has highlighted this statutory requirement in multiple guidance
documents, including the most recent guidance document entitled
``Guidance on Infrastructure State Implementation Plan (SIP) Elements
under Clean Air Act Sections 110(a)(1) and (2)'' issued on September
13, 2013.
C. What is the scope of this rulemaking?
EPA is acting upon the SIP submissions from Illinois that address
the infrastructure requirements of CAA sections 110(a)(1) and 110(a)(2)
for the 2008 ozone, 2010 NO2, and 2010 SO2 NAAQS.
The requirement for states to make a SIP submission of this type arises
out of CAA section 110(a)(1). Pursuant to section 110(a)(1), states
must make SIP submissions ``within 3 years (or such shorter period as
the Administrator may prescribe) after the promulgation of a national
primary ambient air quality standard (or any revision thereof),'' and
these SIP submissions are to provide for the ``implementation,
maintenance, and enforcement'' of such NAAQS. The statute directly
imposes on states the duty to make these SIP submissions, and the
requirement to make the submissions is not conditioned upon EPA's
taking any action other than promulgating a new or revised NAAQS.
Section 110(a)(2) includes a list of specific elements that ``[e]ach
such plan'' submission must address.
In this specific rulemaking, EPA is only taking action on the CAA
110(a)(2)(A) requirements of these submittals. The majority of the
other infrastructure elements were finalized in an October 16, 2014 (79
FR 62042), rulemaking.
II. What is our response to comments received on the proposed
rulemaking?
The proposed rulemaking associated with today's final action was
published on February 27, 2015 (80 FR 10652), and EPA received no
comments during the comment period, which ended on March 30, 2015.
III. What action is EPA taking?
To meet the infrastructure element under CAA section 110(a)(2)(A),
IEPA has identified rules and regulations that provide control measures
and limit emissions of pollutants relevant to the 2008 ozone, 2010
NO2, and 2010 SO2 NAAQS. For the reasons
discussed in our proposed rulemaking, EPA is taking final action to
approve, as proposed, Illinois' submittal certifying that its current
SIP is sufficient to meet the required infrastructure element under CAA
section 110(a)(2)(A) for the 2008 ozone, 2010 NO2, and 2010
SO2 NAAQS.
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews.
Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this
action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and
does not
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impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by state law. For
that reason, this action:
Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to
review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21,
2011);
does not impose an information collection burden under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
is certified as not having a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or
uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
does not have Federalism implications as specified in
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
is not an economically significant regulatory action based
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997);
is not a significant regulatory action subject to
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent
with the CAA; and
does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to
address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental
effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, the SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian
reservation land or in any other area where EPA or an Indian tribe has
demonstrated that a tribe has jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian
country, the rule does not have tribal implications and will not impose
substantial direct costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law as
specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000).
The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally
provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating
the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule,
to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the
United States. EPA will submit a report containing this action and
other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior
to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot
take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal
Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C.
804(2).
Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review
of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for
the appropriate circuit by July 21, 2015. Filing a petition for
reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect
the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor
does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may
be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or
action. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to
enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).)
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Nitrogen dioxide, Sulfur
dioxide, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: May 13, 2015.
Susan Hedman,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
40 CFR part 52 is amended as follows:
PART 52--APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
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1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
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2. Section 52.745 is amended by revising paragraphs (e), (f), and (g)
to read as follows:
Sec. 52.745 Section 110(a)(2) infrastructure requirements.
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(e) Approval and Disapproval--In a December 31, 2012, submittal,
Illinois certified that the State has satisfied the infrastructure SIP
requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A) through (H), and (J) through (M)
for the 2008 ozone NAAQS except for 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I). EPA is
approving Illinois' submission addressing the infrastructure SIP
requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A), (B), (C) with respect to
enforcement, (D)(i)(II) with respect to visibility protection, (D)(ii),
(E) except for state board requirements, (F) through (H), (J) except
for prevention of significant deterioration, and (K) through (M). EPA
is disapproving Illinois' submission addressing the prevention of
significant deterioration, in (C), (D)(i)(II), and the prevention of
significant deterioration (PSD) portion of (J). EPA is not taking
action on the state board requirements of (E). Although EPA is
disapproving portions of Illinois' submission addressing the prevention
of significant deterioration, Illinois continues to implement the
Federally promulgated rules for this purpose as they pertain to (C),
(D)(i)(II), and the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD)
portion of (J).
(f) Approval and Disapproval--In a December 31, 2012, submittal,
Illinois certified that the state has satisfied the infrastructure SIP
requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A) through (H), and (J) through (M)
for the 2010 nitrogen dioxide (NO2) NAAQS. EPA is approving
Illinois' submission addressing the infrastructure SIP requirements of
section 110(a)(2)(A), (B), (C) with respect to enforcement, (D)(i)(I),
(D)(i)(II) with respect to visibility protection, (D)(ii), (E) except
for state board requirements, (F) through (H), (J) except for
prevention of significant deterioration, and (K) through (M). EPA is
disapproving Illinois' submission addressing the prevention of
significant deterioration, in (C), (D)(i)(II), and the prevention of
significant deterioration (PSD) portion of (J). EPA is not taking
action on the state board requirements of (E). Although EPA is
disapproving portions of Illinois' submission addressing the prevention
of significant deterioration, Illinois continues to implement the
Federally promulgated rules for this purpose as they pertain to (C),
(D)(i)(II), and the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD)
portion of (J).
(g) Approval and Disapproval--In a December 31, 2012, submittal,
Illinois certified that the state has satisfied the infrastructure SIP
requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A) through (H), and (J) through (M)
for the 2010 sulfur dioxide (SO2) NAAQS except for
110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I). EPA is approving Illinois' submission addressing
the infrastructure SIP requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A), (B), (C)
with respect to enforcement, (D)(i)(II) with respect to visibility
protection, (D)(ii), (E) except for state board requirements, (F)
through (H), (J) except for prevention of significant deterioration,
and (K) through (M). EPA is disapproving Illinois' submission
addressing the prevention of significant deterioration, in (C),
(D)(i)(II), and the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD)
portion of (J). EPA is not taking action on the state board
requirements of (E).
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Although EPA is disapproving portions of Illinois' submission
addressing the prevention of significant deterioration, Illinois
continues to implement the Federally promulgated rules for this purpose
as they pertain to (C), (D)(i)(II), and the prevention of significant
deterioration (PSD) portion of (J).
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