[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 6]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR60.27]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 60--STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B--Adoption and Submittal of State Plans for Designated 
                               Facilities
 
Sec. 60.27  Actions by the Administrator.

    (a) The Administrator may, whenever he determines necessary, extend 
the period for submission of any plan or plan revision or portion 
thereof.
    (b) After receipt of a plan or plan revision, the Administrator will 
propose the plan or revision for approval or disapproval. The 
Administrator will, within four months after the date required for 
submission of a plan or plan revision, approve or disapprove such plan 
or revision or each portion thereof.
    (c) The Administrator will, after consideration of any State hearing 
record, promptly prepare and publish proposed

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regulations setting forth a plan, or portion thereof, for a State if:
    (1) The State fails to submit a plan within the time prescribed;
    (2) The State fails to submit a plan revision required by 
Sec. 60.23(a)(2) within the time prescribed; or
    (3) The Administrator disapproves the State plan or plan revision or 
any portion thereof, as unsatisfactory because the requirements of this 
subpart have not been met.
    (d) The Administrator will, within six months after the date 
required for submission of a plan or plan revision, promulgate the 
regulations proposed under paragraph (c) of this section with such 
modifications as may be appropriate unless, prior to such promulgation, 
the State has adopted and submitted a plan or plan revision which the 
Administrator determines to be approvable.
    (e)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (e)(2) of this section, 
regulations proposed and promulgated by the Administrator under this 
section will prescribe emission standards of the same stringency as the 
corresponding emission guideline(s) specified in the final guideline 
document published under Sec. 60.22(a) and will require final compliance 
with such standards as expeditiously as practicable but no later than 
the times specified in the guideline document.
    (2) Upon application by the owner or operator of a designated 
facility to which regulations proposed and promulgated under this 
section will apply, the Administrator may provide for the application of 
less stringent emission standards or longer compliance schedules than 
those otherwise required by this section in accordance with the criteria 
specified in Sec. 60.24(f).
    (f) Prior to promulgation of a plan under paragraph (d) of this 
section, the Administrator will provide the opportunity for at least one 
public hearing in either:
    (1) Each State that failed to hold a public hearing as required by 
Sec. 60.23(c); or
    (2) Washington, DC or an alternate location specified in the Federal 
Register.

[40 FR 53346, Nov. 17, 1975, as amended at 65 FR 76384, Dec. 6, 2000]