[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 5 (Monday, January 9, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 2308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-31636]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 52 and 81
[EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0287; FRL-9957-63-Region 9]
Approval of Arizona Air Plan Revisions; Ajo and Morenci, Arizona;
Second 10-Year Sulfur Dioxide Maintenance Plans and Technical
Correction
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve the second ten-year maintenance plans for the Ajo and Morenci
areas in Arizona for the 1971 National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) for sulfur dioxide (SO2), and to correct an error in
the description of the Ajo, Arizona SO2 maintenance area in
the Code of Federal Regulations.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by February 8, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2016-0287 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to Wienke
Tax, at [email protected]. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov,
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted,
comments cannot be removed or edited 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: Wienke Tax, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-
4192, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and
``our'' refer to the EPA. This proposal addresses the second ten-year
maintenance plans submitted by the Arizona Department of Environmental
Quality to address the 1971 SO2 NAAQS in the Ajo and Morenci
maintenance areas, AZ. In the Rules and Regulations section of this
Federal Register, we are approving these second ten-year maintenance
plans in a direct final action without prior proposal because we
believe these SIP revisions are not controversial. If we receive
adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal of the
direct final rule and address the comments in subsequent action based
on this proposed rule. If we receive adverse comment on a distinct
provision of this rulemaking, i.e., our action regarding only one
maintenance plan, we will publish a timely withdrawal in the Federal
Register indicating which provisions we are withdrawing. The provisions
that are not withdrawn, i.e., our approval of the other maintenance
plan that is not the subject of an adverse comment, will become
effective on the date set out above, notwithstanding adverse comment on
the other maintenance plan.
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, please see the direct final action.
Dated: December 15, 2016.
Alexis Strauss,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2016-31636 Filed 1-6-17; 8:45 am]
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