[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 2010)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 82363-82365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32928]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2010-0259; FRL-9245-8]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Ohio; Volatile
Organic Compound Emission Control Measures for Lithographic and
Letterpress Printing in Cleveland
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: On March 9, 2010, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
(Ohio EPA) submitted revisions to its previously approved offset
lithographic and letterpress printing volatile organic compound (VOC)
rule for approval into the Ohio State Implementation Plan (SIP). This
submittal revises certain compliance date and recordkeeping
requirements of this rule, which was previously approved as satisfying
the VOC reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirement for
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit
Counties. These rule revisions are approvable because they satisfy the
requirements of RACT and the Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 31, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2010-0259, by one of the following methods:
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http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: [email protected].
Fax: (312) 692-2551.
Mail: John M. Mooney, Chief, Attainment Planning and
Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604.
Hand Delivery: John M. Mooney, Chief, Attainment Planning
and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 18th floor,
Chicago, Illinois 60604. Such deliveries are only accepted during the
Regional Office's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed information. The Regional Office
official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., excluding Federal holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-
2010-0259. 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 instructions on submitting
comments, go to Section I of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
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 Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal
holidays. We recommend that you telephone Steven Rosenthal at (312)
886-6052 before visiting the Region 5 office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Rosenthal, Environmental
Engineer, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs
Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6052.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. This SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section is arranged as follows:
I. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
II. What action is EPA taking today?
III. What is the purpose of this action?
IV. What is EPA's analysis of Ohio's submitted VOC rule?
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
When submitting comments, remember to:
1. Identify the rulemaking by docket number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date, and page number).
2. Follow directions--The EPA may ask you to respond to specific
questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
3. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and
substitute language for your requested changes.
4. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
5. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
6. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and
suggest alternatives.
7. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats.
8. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline
identified.
II. What action is EPA taking today?
EPA is proposing to approve Ohio's revised offset lithographic and
letterpress printing rule (OAC 3745-21-22), submitted to EPA on March
9, 2010, into the Ohio SIP. This VOC rule applies to offset
lithographic and letterpress printing operations in Ashtabula,
Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit Counties.
III. What is the purpose of this action?
The primary purpose of this action is to allow an alternative for
demonstrating compliance with add-on control requirements, and to
specify recordkeeping requirements, when a recipe log is maintained for
each batch of fountain solution or cleaning solution.
IV. What is EPA's analysis of Ohio's submitted VOC rule?
General discussion of rule--This rule applies to offset
lithographic and letterpress printing facilities in Ashtabula,
Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit Counties,
the former Cleveland-Akron 8-hour ozone nonattainment area whose actual
VOC emissions, before the application of control systems, are equal to
or greater than three tons of VOCs per rolling twelve-month period.
Under this rule, a heatset web offset lithographic printing press, or a
heatset web letterpress printing press, with potential VOC ink oil
emissions from the press dryer that are greater than 25 tons per year
before control must maintain dryer air pressure lower than the
pressroom air pressure and have a control system that achieves 90
percent control (or 95 percent control for a control system installed
after the effective date of this rule) or maintain a maximum VOC outlet
concentration of 20 ppmv. This rule restricts the VOC content of
fountain solutions used by offset lithographic presses, based on the
type of offset lithographic press in use at a facility. Cleaning
solutions used on subject lithographic or letterpress printing presses
must either be at or below 70 percent by weight VOC, or be at or below
ten millimeters of mercury at 20 degrees Celsius. This rule also
contains the appropriate test methods
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for determining the VOC concentration of the exhaust stream and the VOC
content of the fountain solution and cleaning solution. This rule
includes methods to determine the vapor pressure of the cleaning
solution. The rule also includes monitoring and recordkeeping
requirements to ensure that the control systems are operating properly,
to establish whether the VOC content of the cleaning solution and
fountain solution are in compliance with the applicable limits, and to
establish whether an offset lithographic or letterpress printing
facility is subject to one or more of the control requirements of the
rule. This rule is consistent with the VOC control requirements in the
September 2006 EPA guidance document ``Control Techniques Guidelines
for Offset Lithographic Printing and Letterpress Printing.'' The
Control Technique Guideline documents were required to be established
by the CAA and establish RACT for their respective source categories.
In addition, the recordkeeping and other provisions result in
enforceable control requirements.
Discussion of Rule Revisions
The rule at 3745-21-22(E)(2)(a) specifies compliance dates for
offset lithographic or letterpress printing facilities that are
achieving compliance by using an add-on control device. These
facilities are allowed to demonstrate compliance with an emission test
conducted prior to the effective date of the rule if an approved EPA
test method was used, the operation of the press(es) was consistent
with their current operating conditions and, if requested, the test was
witnessed by the Ohio EPA. This is a reasonable alternative which
allows a printing facility to take advantage of a well documented test
to demonstrate compliance and is therefore approvable.
The rule at 3745-21-22(G)(3) specifies recordkeeping requirements
for owners or operators maintaining a recipe log for each batch of
fountain solution prepared for use in their press. This recipe log must
identify all recipes used to prepare the as-applied fountain solution
and clearly identify the VOC content of each concentrated alcohol
substitute added to make the fountain solution as well as the
proportions in which the fountain solution is mixed and the calculated
VOC content of the final, mixed recipe.
The rule at 3745-21-22(G)(4) specifies recordkeeping requirements
for owners or operators maintaining a recipe log for each batch of
cleaning solution prepared. This recipe log must identify all recipes
used to prepare the as-applied cleaning solution and clearly identify
the VOC content of each cleaning solution or the VOC composite partial
vapor pressure. The revisions to the recordkeeping requirements in
3745-21-22(G)(3) and 3745-21-22(G)(4) are approvable because the
resulting records are sufficient to determine whether complying
fountain and cleaning solutions have been used.
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR Part 52.02(a). Thus, in
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve State choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this
action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and
does not impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by State
law. For that reason, this action:
Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to
review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Order
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993);
Does not impose an information collection burden under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
Is certified as not having a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or
uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
Does not have Federalism implications as specified in
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
Is not an economically significant regulatory action based
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997);
Is not a significant regulatory action subject to
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
Is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent
with the CAA; and
Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to
address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental
effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, this rule does not have tribal implications as specified
by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000), because the
SIP is not approved to apply in Indian country located in the state,
and EPA notes that it will not impose substantial direct costs on
tribal governments or preempt tribal law.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Intergovernmental
relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Volatile organic compounds.
Dated: December 17, 2010.
Bharat Mathur,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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