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case of South Coast Air Quality
Management Dist. v. EPA (472 F.3d 882
(D.C. Cir. 2006)), EPA will be
reevaluating the classification of ozone
nonattainment areas that were formerly
classified as ‘‘basic’’ (i.e. under subpart
1) for the .08 ppm standard. One
possible outcome could be the
reestablishment of a requirement for I/
M for the Cincinnati area.5 However, for
the reasons stated above, EPA believes
that Ohio has satisfied currently
applicable criteria for discontinuing I/M
in the Cincinnati and Dayton areas.
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VII. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
Under the Clean Air Act, the
Administrator is required to approve a
SIP submission that complies with the
provisions of the Act and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k);
40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in reviewing SIP
submissions, EPA’s role is to approve
state choices, provided that they meet
the criteria of the Clean Air Act.
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
5 Because the Dayton area is designated
attainment for the 0.08 ppm 8-hour ozone standard,
EPA’s future classification rule for that standard
would not aply to that area.
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Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because
application of those requirements would
be inconsistent with the Clean Air Act;
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, Carbon monoxide,
Intergovernmental relations, Ozone,
Particulate matter, Volatile organic
compounds.
Dated: July 16, 2008.
Walter W. Kovalick Jr,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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Revisions to the California State
Implementation Plan, Approval of the
South Coast Air Quality Management
District—Reasonably Available Control
Technology Analysis
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve
revisions to the South Coast Air Quality
Management District (SCAQMD) portion
of the California State Implementation
Plan (SIP). These revisions concern the
District’s analysis of whether its rules
meet Reasonably Available Control
Technology (RACT) under the 8-hour
ozone National Ambient Air Quality
Standard (NAAQS). We are approving
the analysis under the Clean Air Act as
amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). We
are taking comments on this proposal
and plan to follow with a final action.
DATES: Any comments must arrive by
August 25, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
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OAR–2008–0537, by one of the
following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions.
2. E-mail: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel
(Air–4), 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 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
www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
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 email 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
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). 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:
Stanley Tong, EPA Region IX, (415)
947–4122, tong.stanley@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’
and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA.
Table of Contents
I. The State’s Submittal
A. What document did the State submit?
B. Are there other versions of this
document?
C. What is the purpose of the submitted
RACT SIP analysis?
II. EPA’s Evaluation and Action
A. How is EPA evaluating the RACT SIP
analysis?
B. Does the analysis meet the evaluation
criteria?
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C. EPA Recommendation To Strengthen
the SIP
D. Public Comment and Final Action
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. The State’s Submittal
A. What document did the State submit?
Table 1 lists the document addressed
by this proposal with the date that it
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was adopted by the local air agency and
submitted by the California Air
Resources Board.
TABLE 1.—SUBMITTED DOCUMENT
Local agency
Document
Adopted
Submitted
SCAQMD .........................................
Reasonably Available Control Technology Analysis .................................
07/14/06
01/31/07
This submittal became complete by
operation of law on July 31, 2007.
B. Are there other versions of this
document?
There is no previous version of this
document in the SIP.
C. What is the purpose of the submitted
RACT SIP analysis?
VOCs and NOX help produce groundlevel ozone and smog, which harm
human health and the environment.
Section 110(a) of the CAA requires
States to submit regulations that control
VOC and NOX emissions. Section
172(c)(1) and 182 require areas that are
designated at moderate or above for
ozone non-attainment to adopt RACT.
The SCAQMD falls under this
requirement as it is designated as a
severe ozone non-attainment area under
the 8-hour NAAQS for ozone (40 CFR
81.305). Therefore, the SCAQMD must,
at a minimum, adopt RACT level
controls for sources covered by a
Control Technique Guidelines (CTG)
document and for any major non-CTG
source. Section IV.G. of EPA’s final rule
to implement the 8-hour ozone NAAQS
(70 FR 71612, November 29, 2005)
discusses RACT requirements. It states
in part that where a RACT SIP is
required, State SIPs implementing the 8hour standard generally must assure
that RACT is met, either through a
certification that previously required
RACT controls represent RACT for 8hour implementation purposes or
through a new RACT determination.
The submitted document provides
SCAQMD’s analysis of why their rules
meet RACT for the 8-hour NAAQS for
ozone. EPA’s technical support
document (TSD) has more information
about SCAQMD’s RACT analysis.
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II. EPA’s Evaluation and Action
A. How is EPA evaluating the RACT SIP
analysis?
Guidance and policy documents that
we use to help evaluate whether the
analysis fulfills RACT include the
following:
1. Final Rule to Implement the 8-Hour
Ozone National Ambient Air Quality
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Standard (70 FR 71612; November 29,
2005).
2. Letter from William T. Harnett to
Regional Air Division Directors, (May
18, 2006), ‘‘RACT Qs & As—Reasonably
Available Control Technology (RACT)
Questions and Answers’’.
3. State Implementation Plans,
General Preamble for the
Implementation of Title I of the Clean
Air Act Amendments of 1990 (57 FR
13498; April 16, 1992).
4. RACT SIPs, Letter dated March 9,
2006 from EPA Region IX (Andrew
Steckel) to CARB (Kurt Karperos)
describing Region IX’s understanding of
what constitutes a minimally acceptable
RACT SIP.
5. RACT SIPs, Letter dated April 4,
2006 from EPA Region IX (Andrew
Steckel) to CARB (Kurt Karperos) listing
EPA’s current CTGs, ACTs, and other
documents which may help to establish
RACT.
6. Comment letter dated June 28, 2006
from EPA Region IX (Andrew Steckel) to
SCAQMD (Joe Cassmassi) on the 8-hour
Ozone Reasonably Available Control
Technology—State Implementation Plan
(RACT SIP) Analysis, draft staff report
dated May 2006.
B. Does the analysis meet the evaluation
criteria?
SCAQMD’s staff report included a
listing of all CTG source categories and
cross matched those CTG categories
against the corresponding District rule
which implemented RACT. Given its
designation as a severe ozone nonattainment area, SCAQMD was also
required to analyze RACT for all sources
that emit or have the potential to emit
at least 25 tons per year (tpy) of VOC or
NOX. SCAQMD staff searched their
permitting database for all facilities that
emitted at least 10 tpy of VOC or NOX
and identified approximately 1,311 such
facilities. The staff report states these
facilities have a total of 17,607 permits.
SCAQMD’s staff report provides a
listing of the Title V facilities along with
an example of how each permitted
source in a Title V facility is associated
with a district rule and then those rules
are compared to the applicable CTGs
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and ACTs. SCAQMD’s RACT SIP
analysis was made available for public
comment prior to being adopted by the
District. No public comments were
received by the SCAQMD during the
public workshop or during their 45-day
comment period. We propose to find
that the RACT SIP analysis performed
by the SCAQMD is reasonable and
demonstrates their rules meet RACT.
We also propose to find that the analysis
is consistent with the CAA, EPA
regulations and the relevant policy and
guidance documents listed above. The
TSD has more information on our
evaluation.
C. EPA Recommendation To Strengthen
the SIP
The TSD describes recommendations
for strengthening the SCAQMD SIP by
amending and submitting Rules 1146.1
and 1110.2. SCAQMD’s amendments to
Rule 1146.1, ‘‘Emissions of NOX from
Small Industrial, Institutional, and
Commercial Boilers’’, are planned for a
Board hearing in the fall of 2008. We
believe the emission limits in the
existing SIP-approved Rule 1146.1
meets RACT and the anticipated
amendments will further strengthen it.
Rule 1110.2, ‘‘Emissions from Gaseous
and Liquid Fueled Internal Combustion
Engines’’, was amended on February 1,
2008. In a separate action, Rule 1110.2
will be proposed for approval into the
SIP.
D. Public Comment and Final Action
Because EPA believes the submitted
analysis fulfills all relevant
requirements, we are proposing to fully
approve it as described in section
110(k)(3) of the Act. We will accept
comments from the public on this
proposal for the next 30 days. Unless we
receive convincing new information
during the comment period, we intend
to publish a final approval action that
will incorporate this document into the
federally enforceable SIP.
III. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
Under the Clean Air Act, the
Administrator is required to approve a
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SIP submission that complies with the
provisions of the Act and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k);
40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in reviewing SIP
submissions, EPA’s role is to approve
state choices, provided that they meet
the criteria of the Clean Air Act.
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 Clean Air Act;
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.
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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.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: July 3, 2008.
Kathleen H. Johnson,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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47 CFR Part 73
[DA 08–1588; MB Docket No. 08–133; RM–
11465]
Television Broadcasting Services;
Greenville, NC
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Commission requests
comments on a channel substitution
proposed by Esteem Broadcasting of
North Carolina, LLC (‘‘Esteem’’),
licensee of WYDO–DT, DTV channel 14,
Greenville, North Carolina. Esteem
requests the substitution of DTV
channel 47 for channel 14 at Greenville.
DATES: Comments must be filed on or
before August 25, 2008, and reply
comments on or before September 8,
2008.
Federal Communications
Commission, Office of the Secretary 445
12th Street, SW., TW–A325,
Washington, DC 20554. In addition to
filing comments with the FCC,
interested parties should serve counsel
for petitioner as follows: Howard M.
Liberman, Esq., Drinker Biddle & Reath,
LLP, 1500 K Street, NW., Suite 1100,
Washington, DC 20005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Brown, david.brown@fcc.gov,
Media Bureau, (202) 418–1600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
synopsis of the Commission’s Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, MB Docket No.
08–133, adopted July 1, 2008, and
released July 3, 2008. The full text of
this document is available for public
inspection and copying during normal
business hours in the FCC’s Reference
Information Center at Portals II, CY–
A257, 445 12th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, 20554. This document
will also be available via ECFS (https://
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www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/). (Documents
will be available electronically in ASCII,
Word 97, and/or Adobe Acrobat.) This
document may be purchased from the
Commission’s duplicating contractor,
Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th
Street, SW., Room CY–B402,
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1–
800–478–3160 or via e-mail
www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this
document in accessible formats
(computer diskettes, large print, audio
recording, and Braille), send an e-mail
to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the
Commission’s Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202)
418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432
(TTY). This document does not contain
proposed information collection
requirements subject to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–
13. In addition, therefore, it does not
contain any proposed information
collection burden ‘‘for small business
concerns with fewer than 25
employees,’’ pursuant to the Small
Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002,
Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4).
Provisions of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply to
this proceeding. Members of the public
should note that from the time a Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking is issued until
the matter is no longer subject to
Commission consideration or court
review, all ex parte contacts are
prohibited in Commission proceedings,
such as this one, which involve channel
allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for
rules governing permissible ex parte
contacts.
For information regarding proper
filing procedures for comments, see 47
CFR 1.415 and 1.420.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73
Television, Television broadcasting.
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Federal Communications
Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR
part 73 as follows:
PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST
SERVICES
1. The authority citation for part 73
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336.
§ 73.202
[Amended]
2. Section 73.622(i), the DTV Table of
Allotments under North Carolina, is
amended by substituting channel 47 for
channel 14 at Greenville.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2008-0537; FRL-8697-5]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Approval
of the South Coast Air Quality Management District--Reasonably
Available Control Technology Analysis
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the South Coast Air
Quality Management District (SCAQMD) portion of the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern the District's
analysis of whether its rules meet Reasonably Available Control
Technology (RACT) under the 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality
Standard (NAAQS). We are approving the analysis under the Clean Air Act
as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). We are taking comments on this
proposal and plan to follow with a final action.
DATES: Any comments must arrive by August 25, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2008-0537, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
2. E-mail: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), 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 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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
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 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).
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: Stanley Tong, EPA Region IX, (415)
947-4122, tong.stanley@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and
``our'' refer to EPA.
Table of Contents
I. The State's Submittal
A. What document did the State submit?
B. Are there other versions of this document?
C. What is the purpose of the submitted RACT SIP analysis?
II. EPA's Evaluation and Action
A. How is EPA evaluating the RACT SIP analysis?
B. Does the analysis meet the evaluation criteria?
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C. EPA Recommendation To Strengthen the SIP
D. Public Comment and Final Action
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. The State's Submittal
A. What document did the State submit?
Table 1 lists the document addressed by this proposal with the date
that it was adopted by the local air agency and submitted by the
California Air Resources Board.
Table 1.--Submitted Document
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Local agency Document Adopted Submitted
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SCAQMD.................................... Reasonably Available Control 07/14/06 01/31/07
Technology Analysis.
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This submittal became complete by operation of law on July 31,
2007.
B. Are there other versions of this document?
There is no previous version of this document in the SIP.
C. What is the purpose of the submitted RACT SIP analysis?
VOCs and NOX help produce ground-level ozone and smog,
which harm human health and the environment. Section 110(a) of the CAA
requires States to submit regulations that control VOC and
NOX emissions. Section 172(c)(1) and 182 require areas that
are designated at moderate or above for ozone non-attainment to adopt
RACT. The SCAQMD falls under this requirement as it is designated as a
severe ozone non-attainment area under the 8-hour NAAQS for ozone (40
CFR 81.305). Therefore, the SCAQMD must, at a minimum, adopt RACT level
controls for sources covered by a Control Technique Guidelines (CTG)
document and for any major non-CTG source. Section IV.G. of EPA's final
rule to implement the 8-hour ozone NAAQS (70 FR 71612, November 29,
2005) discusses RACT requirements. It states in part that where a RACT
SIP is required, State SIPs implementing the 8-hour standard generally
must assure that RACT is met, either through a certification that
previously required RACT controls represent RACT for 8-hour
implementation purposes or through a new RACT determination. The
submitted document provides SCAQMD's analysis of why their rules meet
RACT for the 8-hour NAAQS for ozone. EPA's technical support document
(TSD) has more information about SCAQMD's RACT analysis.
II. EPA's Evaluation and Action
A. How is EPA evaluating the RACT SIP analysis?
Guidance and policy documents that we use to help evaluate whether
the analysis fulfills RACT include the following:
1. Final Rule to Implement the 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standard (70 FR 71612; November 29, 2005).
2. Letter from William T. Harnett to Regional Air Division
Directors, (May 18, 2006), ``RACT Qs & As--Reasonably Available Control
Technology (RACT) Questions and Answers''.
3. State Implementation Plans, General Preamble for the
Implementation of Title I of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (57
FR 13498; April 16, 1992).
4. RACT SIPs, Letter dated March 9, 2006 from EPA Region IX (Andrew
Steckel) to CARB (Kurt Karperos) describing Region IX's understanding
of what constitutes a minimally acceptable RACT SIP.
5. RACT SIPs, Letter dated April 4, 2006 from EPA Region IX (Andrew
Steckel) to CARB (Kurt Karperos) listing EPA's current CTGs, ACTs, and
other documents which may help to establish RACT.
6. Comment letter dated June 28, 2006 from EPA Region IX (Andrew
Steckel) to SCAQMD (Joe Cassmassi) on the 8-hour Ozone Reasonably
Available Control Technology--State Implementation Plan (RACT SIP)
Analysis, draft staff report dated May 2006.
B. Does the analysis meet the evaluation criteria?
SCAQMD's staff report included a listing of all CTG source
categories and cross matched those CTG categories against the
corresponding District rule which implemented RACT. Given its
designation as a severe ozone non-attainment area, SCAQMD was also
required to analyze RACT for all sources that emit or have the
potential to emit at least 25 tons per year (tpy) of VOC or
NOX. SCAQMD staff searched their permitting database for all
facilities that emitted at least 10 tpy of VOC or NOX and
identified approximately 1,311 such facilities. The staff report states
these facilities have a total of 17,607 permits. SCAQMD's staff report
provides a listing of the Title V facilities along with an example of
how each permitted source in a Title V facility is associated with a
district rule and then those rules are compared to the applicable CTGs
and ACTs. SCAQMD's RACT SIP analysis was made available for public
comment prior to being adopted by the District. No public comments were
received by the SCAQMD during the public workshop or during their 45-
day comment period. We propose to find that the RACT SIP analysis
performed by the SCAQMD is reasonable and demonstrates their rules meet
RACT. We also propose to find that the analysis is consistent with the
CAA, EPA regulations and the relevant policy and guidance documents
listed above. The TSD has more information on our evaluation.
C. EPA Recommendation To Strengthen the SIP
The TSD describes recommendations for strengthening the SCAQMD SIP
by amending and submitting Rules 1146.1 and 1110.2. SCAQMD's amendments
to Rule 1146.1, ``Emissions of NOX from Small Industrial,
Institutional, and Commercial Boilers'', are planned for a Board
hearing in the fall of 2008. We believe the emission limits in the
existing SIP-approved Rule 1146.1 meets RACT and the anticipated
amendments will further strengthen it. Rule 1110.2, ``Emissions from
Gaseous and Liquid Fueled Internal Combustion Engines'', was amended on
February 1, 2008. In a separate action, Rule 1110.2 will be proposed
for approval into the SIP.
D. Public Comment and Final Action
Because EPA believes the submitted analysis fulfills all relevant
requirements, we are proposing to fully approve it as described in
section 110(k)(3) of the Act. We will accept comments from the public
on this proposal for the next 30 days. Unless we receive convincing new
information during the comment period, we intend to publish a final
approval action that will incorporate this document into the federally
enforceable SIP.
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the Clean Air Act, the Administrator is required to approve a
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SIP submission that complies with the provisions of the Act and
applicable Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a).
Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state
choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act.
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 Clean Air Act; 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.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: July 3, 2008.
Kathleen H. Johnson,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E8-16980 Filed 7-23-08; 8:45 am]
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