[Federal Register: January 18, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 13)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 3446-3447]
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-2007-1709; FRL-8509-3]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Nevada; Washoe County 8-Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve a revision to the Washoe County
portion of the Nevada State Implementation Plan. Submitted by the State
of Nevada on May 30, 2007, this plan revision consists of a maintenance
plan prepared for the purpose of providing for continued attainment of
the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard in Washoe County
through the year 2014 and thereby satisfying the related requirements
under section 110(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act and EPA's phase 1 rule
implementing the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard.
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 and plan.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by February 19, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by EPA-R09-OAR-2007-1079,
by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: Eleanor Kaplan at kaplan.eleanor@epa.gov. Please
also send a copy by e-mail to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section below.
Fax: Eleanor Kaplan, Planning Office (AIR-2), at fax
number (415) 947-4147.
Mail or deliver: Eleanor Kaplan, Planning Office (AIR-2),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, California 94105-3901. Hand or courier deliveries are
accepted only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays except
for legal holidays. Special arrangements should be made for deliveries
of boxed information.
Instructions: All comments 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.
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.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Planning Office (AIR-2),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, California, 94105-3901. To inspect the hard copy
materials, please schedule an appointment during normal business hours
with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eleanor Kaplan, Planning Office (AIR-
2), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, California 94105-3901, telephone (415) 947-4147;
fax (415) 947-3579; e-mail address kaplan.eleanor@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 30, 2007, the Nevada Division of
Environmental Protection (NDEP) submitted the Maintenance Plan for the
Washoe County 8-Hour Ozone Attainment Area (April 2007) (``Washoe
County Ozone Maintenance Plan'') to EPA for approval as a revision to
the
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Washoe County portion of the Nevada State Implementation Plan (SIP).
The Washoe County Ozone Maintenance Plan was developed by the Washoe
County District Health Department, Air Quality Management Division
(Washoe County AQMD) and adopted by the Washoe County District Board of
Health (District Board of Health) on April 26, 2007. Washoe County AQMD
prepared the plan to provide for continued attainment of the 8-hour
ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) through 2014 and to
thereby satisfy the requirements of section 110(a)(1) of the Clean Air
Act (CAA or ``Act'') and EPA's phase 1 rule implementing the 8-hour
ozone NAAQS. EPA is proposing to approve the Washoe County Ozone
Maintenance Plan as a revision to the Washoe County portion of the
Nevada SIP because we find that the submitted ozone maintenance plan
meets all of the applicable requirements of CAA section 110(a)(1) and
our phase 1 rule implementing the 8-hour ozone NAAQS.
In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we
are approving the Washoe County Ozone Maintenance Plan 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: November 29, 2007.
Wayne Nastri,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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