[Federal Register: July 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 146)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 41657-41658]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2007-AZ-0295; FRL-8443-6]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; States of
Arizona and Nevada; Interstate Transport of Pollution
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve state implementation plans
submitted by the States of Arizona and Nevada that address interstate
transport with respect to the 8-hour ozone and fine particulate matter
national ambient air quality standards. In so doing, EPA has determined
that the plans submitted by Arizona and Nevada and approved herein
satisfy requirements under Clean Air Act section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) for
each State to submit a plan containing adequate provisions to prohibit
interstate transport with respect to the standards for 8-hour ozone and
fine particulate matter. EPA is proposing this action pursuant to those
provisions of the Clean Air Act that obligate the Agency to take action
on submittals of state implementation plans. The effect of this
proposal would be to approve the Arizona and Nevada state
implementation plans addressing interstate transport with respect to
the 8-hour ozone and fine particulate standards and to eliminate
obligations on the Agency to promulgate Federal Implementation Plans
for these States addressing this same requirement.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by August 30, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2007-AZ-0295 by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: tax.wienke@epa.gov.
Fax: (415) 947-3579 (please alert the individual listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT if you are faxing comments).
Mail: Wienke Tax, Office of Air Planning, Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), Region IX, Mailcode AIR-2, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, California 94105-3901.
Hand Delivery: Wienke Tax, Office of Air Planning,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region IX, Mailcode AIR-2, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105-3901. Such deliveries
are only accepted Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:55 p.m., excluding
federal holidays. Special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R09-OAR-
2007-AZ-0295. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA, without
going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm
.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the
Office of Air Planning, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region
IX, Mailcode AIR-2, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California
94105-3901. EPA requests that if at all possible, you contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
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INFORMATION CONTACT section to view the hard copy of the docket. You
may view the hard copy of the docket Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4
p.m., excluding federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Arizona issues, contact Wienke
Tax, Office of Air Planning, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region IX, (520) 622-1622, e-mail: tax.wienke@epa.gov. For Nevada
issues, contact Karina O'Connor, Office of Air Planning, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, (775) 833-1276,
oconnor.karina@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, wherever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
EPA is proposing to approve state implementation plans submitted by
the States of Arizona and Nevada that address interstate transport with
respect to the 8-hour ozone and fine particulate matter national
ambient air quality standards. In so doing, EPA has determined that the
plans submitted by Arizona and Nevada and approved herein satisfy
requirements under Clean Air Act section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) for each State
to submit a plan containing adequate provisions to prohibit interstate
transport with respect to the standards for 8-hour ozone and fine
particulate matter. The effect of this proposal would be to approve the
Arizona and Nevada state implementation plans addressing interstate
transport with respect to the 8-hour ozone and fine particulate
standards and to eliminate obligations on the Agency to promulgate
Federal Implementation Plans for these States addressing this same
requirement.
In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we
are taking direct final action to take these actions because we believe
that they 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. 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 comments, no further activity is planned. For further
information on this proposal and the rationale underlying our proposed
action, please see the direct final rule.
Dated: June 11, 2007.
Laura Yoshii,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E7-14475 Filed 7-30-07; 8:45 am]
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