[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 60 (Thursday, March 30, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 15683-15684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06311]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R10-OAR-2015-0067; FRL-9960-99-Region 10]
Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval of Attainment Plan for
the Idaho Portion of the Logan, Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area;
Proposed Further Delay of Effective Date
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; further delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Presidential directive as expressed in
the memorandum of January 20, 2017, from the Assistant to the President
and Chief of Staff, entitled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' and
the Federal Register document published by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA or Agency) on January 26, 2017, the EPA is proposing to
further delay the effective date for Partial Approval and Partial
Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the Logan,
Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area for up to 90 days.
DATES: Written comments on the proposed rule must be received by April
6, 2017.
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ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID EPA-R10-OAR-
2015-0067, online at www.regulations.gov. For comments submitted at
www.regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from
www.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, 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: Jeff Hunt, Air Planning Unit, Office
of Air and Waste (OAW-150), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10,
1200 Sixth Ave, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101; telephone number: (206)
553-0256; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 26, 2017, the EPA published a
document in the Federal Register entitled ``Delay of Effective Date for
30 Final Regulations Published by the Environmental Protection Agency
Between October 28, 2016 and January 17, 2017'' (82 FR 8499). In that
document, the EPA delayed the effective date of Partial Approval and
Partial Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the
Logan, Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area to March 21,
2017, as requested in the memorandum of January 20, 2017, from the
Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled ``Regulatory
Freeze Pending Review'' (January 20 Memo). That memo directed the heads
of Executive Departments and Agencies to temporarily postpone for 60
days from the date of the January 20 Memo the effective dates of all
regulations that had been published in the Federal Register but had not
yet taken effect.
The January 20 Memo also states: ``Where appropriate and as
permitted by applicable law, [agencies] should consider proposing for
notice and comment a rule to delay the effective date for regulations
beyond that 60-day period.'' The EPA subsequently proposed (82 FR
11517) and then finalized (82 FR 14463) an action on March 21, 2017 to
further delay the effective date for Partial Approval and Partial
Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the Logan,
Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area until April 20, 2017.
The EPA is proposing this additional delay of up to 90 days to give
Agency officials the opportunity to decide whether they would like to
conduct a substantive review of this rule. If Agency officials decide
to conduct a substantive review of Partial Approval and Partial
Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the Logan,
Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area, the EPA will take
appropriate actions to conduct such a review, including, but not
limited to, issuing a document in the Federal Register addressing any
further delays of the effective date of Partial Approval and Partial
Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the Logan,
Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area or extensions of
compliances dates in the rule. If Agency officials decide not to
conduct a substantive review of Partial Approval and Partial
Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the Logan,
Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area, it will become
effective no later than July 19, 2017.
The EPA solicits comment only on its proposal to further delay the
effective date and the length of the delay of Partial Approval and
Partial Disapproval of Attainment Plan for the Idaho Portion of the
Logan, Utah/Idaho PM2.5 Nonattainment Area. The EPA is not
soliciting and will not consider comments on any other aspect of the
rule itself.
Dated: March 24, 2017.
Michelle L. Pirzadeh,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
[FR Doc. 2017-06311 Filed 3-29-17; 8:45 am]
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