[Federal Register: October 30, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 210)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 61782]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[CA284-0407b; FRL-7577-2]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Bay Area
Air Quality Management District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Bay Area Air
Quality Management District portion of the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic
compound (VOC) emissions from solvent and surface cleaning operations
during large appliance and metal furniture coating, miscellaneous metal
parts coating, plastic parts and products coating, and marine vessel
coating. We are proposing to approve local rules to regulate these
emission sources under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the
Act).
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by December 1, 2003.
ADDRESSES: Mail comments to Andy Steckel, Rulemaking Office Chief (AIR-
4), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901 or e-mail to steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
You can inspect copies of the submitted SIP revisions and EPA's
technical support documents (TSDs) at our Region IX office during
normal business hours. You may also see copies of the submitted SIP
revisions at the following locations:
California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule
Evaluation Section, 1001 ``I'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95814; and,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District, 939 Ellis Street, San
Francisco, CA 94109.
A copy of the rule may also be available via the Internet at http://www.arb.ca.gov/drdb/drdbltxt.htm.
Please be advised that this is not
an EPA Web site and may not contain the same version of the rule that
was submitted to EPA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerald S. Wamsley, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-4111, or e-mail at wamsley.jerry@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following BAAQMD
rules: Rule 8-14, Surface Preparation and Coating of Large Appliances
and Metal Furniture; Rule 8-19, Surface Preparation and Coating of
Miscellaneous Metal Parts and Products; Rule 8-31, Surface Preparation
and Coating of Plastic Parts and Products; and Rule 8-43, Surface
Preparation and Coating of Marine Vessels. In the Rules and Regulations
section of this Federal Register, we are approving these local rules 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. Please note that if we receive adverse comment on an amendment,
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed
from the remainder of the rule, we may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.
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: October 6, 2003.
Laura Yoshii,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 03-27268 Filed 10-29-03; 8:45 am]
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