Public Hearing for Revisions of Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources; Electric Utility Steam Generating Units; Federal Plan Requirements for Clean Air Mercury Rule; and Revisions of Acid Rain Program Rules, 77356-77357 [E6-22051]
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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 247 / Tuesday, December 26, 2006 / Proposed Rules
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Dated: December 14, 2006
William T. Wisniewski,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. E6–22058 Filed 12–22–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 60, 62, 72, and 78
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0905; FRL–8260–9]
Public Hearing for Revisions of
Standards of Performance for New and
Existing Stationary Sources; Electric
Utility Steam Generating Units; Federal
Plan Requirements for Clean Air
Mercury Rule; and Revisions of Acid
Rain Program Rules
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Announcement of Public
Hearing.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing a
public hearing for the proposed
‘‘Revisions of Standards of Performance
for New and Existing Stationary
Sources; Electric Utility Steam
Generating Units; Federal Plan
Requirements for Clean Air Mercury
Rule; and Revisions of Acid Rain
Program Rules’’. For convenience, we
refer to the proposal as the Clean Air
Mercury Rule (CAMR) Federal Plan. The
hearing will be held on January 18, 2007
in Washington, DC.
DATES: The public hearing for the
proposal for the CAMR Federal Plan
will be held on January 18, 2007. Please
refer to the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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of this notice, and the public hearing
information given in the proposal, for
additional information on the public
hearing.
ADDRESSES: The hearing will be held at
the EPA East Building, 1201
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC, 20004. The hearing will take place
in room 1153. Written comments on the
proposal may also be submitted to EPA
electronically, by mail, by facsimile, or
through hand delivery/courier. Please
refer to the proposal for the addresses
and detailed instructions for submitting
comments. Documents relevant to this
action are available for public
inspection at the EPA Docket Center,
located at 1301 Constitution Avenue,
NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC
between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. A reasonable fee may be
charged for copying. Documents are also
available through EPA’s electronic
Docket System at www.regulations.gov.
The EPA website for CAMR and the
federal plan Proposal, which will
include information about the public
hearing, is at www.epa.gov/CAMR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you would like to speak at the public
hearing or have questions concerning it,
please contact Doran Stegura at (434)
979–3700 (ext. 161) and at the address
given below under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION. Questions concerning the
proposed CAMR federal plan should be
addressed to Meg Victor, U.S. EPA,
Office of Air and Radiation, Clean Air
Markets Division, Washington, DC,
20005, (202) 343–9193.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May
18, 2005 EPA finalized CAMR and
established standards of performance for
mercury (Hg) for new and existing coalfired electric utility steam generating
units (utility units or EGUs). On
December 8, 2006 a CAMR Federal Plan
Proposal was signed by the EPA
Administrator. CAA section 111(d)(2)
grants the Administrator the authority to
prescribe a plan for a State in cases
where the State fails to submit a
satisfactory plan as he would have
under section 110(c) of the CAA in the
case of a State’s failure to submit an
implementation plan. Section 60.27 of
40 CFR part 60 directs the
Administrator to promptly prepare and
publish proposed regulations for a State
if the State fails to submit a plan by the
prescribed deadline or the
Administrator disapproves the State’s
submitted plan and to promulgate those
regulations by the date 6 months after
the date required for plan submission.
The CAMR Federal Plan Proposal
indicated that a public hearing for the
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CAMR Federal Plan would be held, and
the date, time, and location of the event
would be announced in a separate
notice. This action constitutes that
notice. The public hearing will provide
interested parties the opportunity to
present data, views, or arguments
concerning issues raised in the
proposed CAMR Federal Plan. The EPA
may ask clarifying questions during the
oral presentations, but will not respond
to the presentations at that time. 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
hearing. The public hearing for the
proposal for the CAMR Federal Plan
will be held on January 18, 2007, in
Washington, DC. The hearing will begin
at 1 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. The meeting
facility address is provided above under
ADDRESSES. The hearing may end early
if all of the registered speakers have
presented. If you would like to present
oral testimony at the hearing, please
notify Doran Stegura, Perrin Quarles
Associates, 675 Peter Jefferson Parkway,
Suite 200, Charlottesville, VA 22911,
telephone (434) 979–3700 (ext. 161),
doranstegura@pqa.com. She will
provide you with a specific time to
speak. Oral testimony will be limited to
5 minutes for each commenter, after
which there will be an opportunity for
the panel to ask clarifying questions.
EPA will be able to provide equipment
for commenters to show overhead slides
or make computerized slide
presentations only if we receive requests
in advance. Commenters should notify
Doran Stegura if they will need specific
equipment. The EPA encourages
commenters to provide written versions
of their oral testimonies either
electronically on computer disk or CD
ROM or in paper copy. The hearing
schedule, including the speaker list,
will be posted on EPA’s Web pages for
the Proposal at https://www.epa.gov/
CAMR. A verbatim transcript of the
hearing and written statements will be
included in the rulemaking docket.
How Can I Obtain Copies of This
Document and Other Related
Information?
This notice and the CAMR Federal
Plan proposal are available on EPA’s
web site for the CAMR rulemaking at
https://www.epa.gov/CAMR and are
published in the Federal Register. The
EPA has established the official public
docket for the CAMR Federal Plan
under Docket ID No. OAR–2006–0905.
Please refer to the proposal for detailed
information on accessing information
related to the proposal.
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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 247 / Tuesday, December 26, 2006 / Proposed Rules
Dated: December 19, 2006.
Edward Callahan,
Acting Director, Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. E6–22051 Filed 12–22–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 112
[EPA–HQ–OPA–2006–0949; FRL–8258–4]
RIN 2050–AG36
Oil Pollution Prevention; NonTransportation Related Onshore
Facilities
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency is proposing to extend the dates
by which facilities must prepare or
amend Spill Prevention, Control, and
Countermeasure Plans (SPCC Plans),
and implement those Plans. This action
would allow the Agency time to
promulgate further revisions to the July
17, 2002 SPCC rule (in addition to those
published elsewhere in this Federal
Register) before owners and operators
are required to meet requirements of the
rule related to preparing or amending,
and implementing SPCC Plans. EPA
expects to propose further revisions to
the SPCC rule in 2007.
DATES: Written comments must be
received by January 25, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
directed to Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OPA–2006–0949. Comments may be
submitted by one of the following
methods:
(1) Federal Rulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments; or
(2) Mail: The mailing address of the
docket for this rulemaking is EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC), Docket ID No.
EPA–HQ–OPA–2006–0949, EPA West,
Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave.,
NW., Washington, DC 20460.
(3) Hand Delivery: Such deliveries are
only accepted during the Docket’s
normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
Please note that per EPA’s policy, all
comments received will be included in
the public docket without change, and
may be made available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes
information claimed to be Confidential
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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
regulations.gov.
Please also note that the Federal
regulations.gov website is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means that EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless
you provide it in the body of your
comment. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact
information in the body of the comment
and along 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.
All documents in the docket are listed
in the docket index at https://
www.regulations.gov. Although listed in
the index, some information is not
publicly available (i.e., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by a statute). Certain material,
such as copyrighted material, is not
placed on the Internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form.
Publicly available docket materials
are available either electronically at
https://www.regulations.gov or in hard
copy at the EPA Docket Center, EPA/DC,
EPA West, Room B102, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC. The Public Reading Room is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744,
and the telephone number to make an
appointment to view the docket is (202)
566–0276.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information, contact the
Superfund, TRI, EPCRA, RMP and Oil
Information Center at (800) 424–9346 or
TDD (800) 553–7672 (hearing impaired).
In the Washington, DC metropolitan
area, call (703) 412–9810 or TDD (703)
412–3323. For more detailed
information on specific aspects of this
proposed rule, contact either Vanessa
Rodriguez at (202) 564–7913
(rodriguez.vanessa@epa.gov) or Mark W.
Howard at (202) 564–1964
(howard.markw@epa.gov), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460–0002, Mail Code
5104A.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Authority
33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. 2720;
E.O. 12777 (October 18, 1991), 3 CFR,
1991 Comp., p. 351.
II. Background
On July 17, 2002, the Agency
published a final rule that amended the
SPCC regulations (see 67 FR 47042). The
rule became effective on August 16,
2002. The final rule included
compliance dates in § 112.3 for
preparing, amending, and implementing
SPCC Plans. The original compliance
dates were amended on January 9, 2003
(see 68 FR 1348), again on April 17,
2003 (see 68 FR 18890), a third time on
August 11, 2004 (see 69 FR 48794), and
a fourth time on February 17, 2006 (see
71 FR 8462).
Under the current provisions in
§ 112.3(a) and (b), a facility that was in
operation on or before August 16, 2002
must make any necessary amendments
to its SPCC Plan and fully implement it
by October 31, 2007; a facility that came
into operation after August 16, 2002, but
before October 31, 2007, must prepare
and fully implement an SPCC Plan on
or before October 31, 2007. In addition,
§ 112.3(c) requires onshore and offshore
mobile facilities to prepare or amend
and implement SPCC Plans on or before
October 31, 2007.
Elsewhere in today’s Federal Register,
EPA finalized a set of SPCC rule
amendments that address certain
targeted areas of the SPCC requirements
and a number of issues and concerns
raised by the regulated community. As
highlighted in the EPA Regulatory
Agenda and the 2005 OMB report on
‘‘Regulatory Reform of the U.S.
Manufacturing Sector,’’ EPA is
considering further amendments to
address other areas where regulatory
reform may be appropriate. For these
additional areas, the Agency expects to
issue a proposed rule in 2007. Areas
where regulatory reform may be
appropriate include, and are not limited
to, oil and natural gas exploration and
production, farms, and Tier I facilities.
Because the Agency may not be able to
promulgate such regulatory
amendments before the current October
31, 2007 compliance date for SPCC
becomes effective, EPA believes it is
appropriate to provide an extension of
the compliance date.
III. Proposal to Extend the Compliance
Dates
This proposed rule would extend the
dates in § 112.3(a), (b) and (c) by which
a facility must prepare or amend and
implement its SPCC Plan. As a result of
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 60, 62, 72, and 78
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0905; FRL-8260-9]
Public Hearing for Revisions of Standards of Performance for New
and Existing Stationary Sources; Electric Utility Steam Generating
Units; Federal Plan Requirements for Clean Air Mercury Rule; and
Revisions of Acid Rain Program Rules
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Announcement of Public Hearing.
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SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing a public hearing for the proposed
``Revisions of Standards of Performance for New and Existing Stationary
Sources; Electric Utility Steam Generating Units; Federal Plan
Requirements for Clean Air Mercury Rule; and Revisions of Acid Rain
Program Rules''. For convenience, we refer to the proposal as the Clean
Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) Federal Plan. The hearing will be held on
January 18, 2007 in Washington, DC.
DATES: The public hearing for the proposal for the CAMR Federal Plan
will be held on January 18, 2007. Please refer to the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION of this notice, and the public hearing information given in
the proposal, for additional information on the public hearing.
ADDRESSES: The hearing will be held at the EPA East Building, 1201
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, 20004. The hearing will take
place in room 1153. Written comments on the proposal may also be
submitted to EPA electronically, by mail, by facsimile, or through hand
delivery/courier. Please refer to the proposal for the addresses and
detailed instructions for submitting comments. Documents relevant to
this action are available for public inspection at the EPA Docket
Center, located at 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 3334,
Washington, DC between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
excluding legal holidays. A reasonable fee may be charged for copying.
Documents are also available through EPA's electronic Docket System at
www.regulations.gov. The EPA website for CAMR and the federal plan
Proposal, which will include information about the public hearing, is
at www.epa.gov/CAMR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you would like to speak at the
public hearing or have questions concerning it, please contact Doran
Stegura at (434) 979-3700 (ext. 161) and at the address given below
under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. Questions concerning the proposed CAMR
federal plan should be addressed to Meg Victor, U.S. EPA, Office of Air
and Radiation, Clean Air Markets Division, Washington, DC, 20005, (202)
343-9193.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 18, 2005 EPA finalized CAMR and
established standards of performance for mercury (Hg) for new and
existing coal-fired electric utility steam generating units (utility
units or EGUs). On December 8, 2006 a CAMR Federal Plan Proposal was
signed by the EPA Administrator. CAA section 111(d)(2) grants the
Administrator the authority to prescribe a plan for a State in cases
where the State fails to submit a satisfactory plan as he would have
under section 110(c) of the CAA in the case of a State's failure to
submit an implementation plan. Section 60.27 of 40 CFR part 60 directs
the Administrator to promptly prepare and publish proposed regulations
for a State if the State fails to submit a plan by the prescribed
deadline or the Administrator disapproves the State's submitted plan
and to promulgate those regulations by the date 6 months after the date
required for plan submission. The CAMR Federal Plan Proposal indicated
that a public hearing for the CAMR Federal Plan would be held, and the
date, time, and location of the event would be announced in a separate
notice. This action constitutes that notice. The public hearing will
provide interested parties the opportunity to present data, views, or
arguments concerning issues raised in the proposed CAMR Federal Plan.
The EPA may ask clarifying questions during the oral presentations, but
will not respond to the presentations at that time. 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 hearing. The public hearing for the
proposal for the CAMR Federal Plan will be held on January 18, 2007, in
Washington, DC. The hearing will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 5 p.m. The
meeting facility address is provided above under ADDRESSES. The hearing
may end early if all of the registered speakers have presented. If you
would like to present oral testimony at the hearing, please notify
Doran Stegura, Perrin Quarles Associates, 675 Peter Jefferson Parkway,
Suite 200, Charlottesville, VA 22911, telephone (434) 979-3700 (ext.
161), doranstegura@pqa.com. She will provide you with a specific time
to speak. Oral testimony will be limited to 5 minutes for each
commenter, after which there will be an opportunity for the panel to
ask clarifying questions. EPA will be able to provide equipment for
commenters to show overhead slides or make computerized slide
presentations only if we receive requests in advance. Commenters should
notify Doran Stegura if they will need specific equipment. The EPA
encourages commenters to provide written versions of their oral
testimonies either electronically on computer disk or CD ROM or in
paper copy. The hearing schedule, including the speaker list, will be
posted on EPA's Web pages for the Proposal at https://www.epa.gov/CAMR.
A verbatim transcript of the hearing and written statements will be
included in the rulemaking docket.
How Can I Obtain Copies of This Document and Other Related Information?
This notice and the CAMR Federal Plan proposal are available on
EPA's web site for the CAMR rulemaking at https://www.epa.gov/CAMR and
are published in the Federal Register. The EPA has established the
official public docket for the CAMR Federal Plan under Docket ID No.
OAR-2006-0905. Please refer to the proposal for detailed information on
accessing information related to the proposal.
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Dated: December 19, 2006.
Edward Callahan,
Acting Director, Office of Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. E6-22051 Filed 12-22-06; 8:45 am]
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