[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 2010)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 69373-69374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28498]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 49
[EPA-R09-OAR-2010-0683; FRL-9225-1]
Source Specific Federal Implementation Plan for Implementing Best
Available Retrofit Technology for Four Corners Power Plant: Navajo
Nation
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of public hearings.
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SUMMARY: On October 6, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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signed a proposal to promulgate a source specific Federal
Implementation Plan (FIP) requiring the Four Corners Power Plant
(FCPP), located on the Navajo Nation, to achieve emissions reductions
required by the Clean Air Act's Best Available Retrofit Technology
(BART) provision. The proposal was published in the Federal Register on
October 19, 2010 (75 FR 64221). Given the significant public interest
in this source specific FIP and to further public participation
opportunities, EPA has scheduled three open houses and public hearings.
These open houses and public hearings will occur in Shiprock, New
Mexico on December 7, 2010, Farmington, New Mexico on December 8, 2010,
and Durango, Colorado on December 9, 2010. More information on the
locations is provided in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: The hearings will occur in Shiprock, New Mexico on December 7,
2010, Farmington, New Mexico, on December 8, 2010, and Durango,
Colorado on December 9, 2010.
ADDRESSES: The open houses and public hearings will be held at the
following locations: Shiprock, New Mexico--December 7, 2010, Phil L.
Thomas Performing Arts Center, Highway 64 West, Shiprock, New Mexico
87420, (505) 368-2490; Farmington, New Mexico--December 8, 2010, San
Juan College Henderson Fine Arts Building Rooms 9006 and 9008,
Farmington, New Mexico, 97402, (505) 326-3311; and Durango, Colorado--
December 9, 2010, Double Tree Hotel, Mesa Verde La Plata Room, 501
Camino Del Rio, Durango, Colorado, 81301, (970) 259-6580.
The open houses will begin at 3 p.m. and end at 5 p.m., local time.
The public hearings will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. or later, if
necessary, depending on the number of speakers wishing to participate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions concerning the
public hearings please contact Anita Lee, EPA Region IX, (415) 972-
3958, [email protected]. If you require a reasonable
accommodation, please contact Terisa Williams, EPA Region 9 Reasonable
Accommodations Coordinator, by Friday, November 18, 2010, at (415) 972-
3829, or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public hearings will provide interested
parties the opportunity to present views or arguments concerning the
proposed FIP. Written statements and supporting information submitted
during the comment period will be considered with the same weight as
any oral comments and supporting information presented at the public
hearings. Written comments must be postmarked on or before the last day
of the comment period, December 20, 2010. EPA will not respond to
comments during the public hearing. When we publish our final action,
we will provide written responses to all oral and written comments
received on our proposal. To provide opportunities for questions and
discussion, EPA will hold open houses prior to the public hearings.
During these open houses, EPA staff will be available to informally
answer questions on our proposed action. Any comments made to EPA staff
during the open houses must still be provided formally in writing or
orally during the public hearing in order to be considered in the
record.
Oral testimony may be limited to 5 minutes for each commenter to
address the proposal. We will not be providing equipment for commenters
to show overhead slides or make computerized slide presentations. Any
person may provide written or oral comments, in English or Dine, and
data pertaining to our proposal at the Public Hearing. English-Dine
translation services will be provided at both the Open Houses and the
Public Hearings in Shiprock and Farmington. English-Dine translation
services will not be provided at the Durango Open House and Public
Hearing unless it is requested by November 18, 2010. Verbatim
transcripts, in English, of the hearings and written statements will be
included in the rulemaking docket.
The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on October
19, 2010 (75 FR 64221) and can be accessed the following Web site:
http://www.epa.gov/region9/airnavajo/index.html#proposed. EPA has
established a public docket for the proposed rulemaking under the
docket number EPA-R09-OAR-2010-0683.
If you are unable to attend the public hearings but wish to submit
written comments on the proposed rule, you may submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-2010-0683, by one of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: [email protected].
Mail or deliver: Anita Lee (Air-3), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
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 Confidential Business Information (CBI) or
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Information that you consider CBI or otherwise protected should be
clearly identified as such and should not be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http://www.regulations.gov is an
``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not know your identity or
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the public comment. 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.
Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all
documents in the docket are listed in the index, some information may
be publicly available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted
material), and some may not be publicly available in either location
(e.g., CBI). Due to building security procedures, to inspect the hard
copy materials, please schedule an appointment at least 24 hours in
advance during normal business hours with the contact listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
Dated: November 2, 2010.
Deborah Jordan,
Air Division Director, Region IX.
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