Delegation of National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Categories; State of Arizona, Maricopa County Air Quality Department; State of California, Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District, 14839-14840 [2011-6424]
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disapproval action does not include a
Federal mandate that may result in
estimated costs of $100 million or more
to either state, local, or tribal
governments in the aggregate, or to the
private sector. This action proposes to
disapprove pre-existing requirements
under State or local law, and imposes
no new requirements. Accordingly, no
additional costs to state, local, or tribal
governments, or to the private sector,
result from this action.
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Executive Order 13132, Federalism
Executive Order 13132, entitled
‘‘Federalism’’ (64 FR 43255, August 10,
1999), requires EPA to develop an
accountable process to ensure
‘‘meaningful and timely input by state
and local officials in the development of
regulatory policies that have federalism
implications.’’ ‘‘Policies that have
federalism implications’’ is defined in
the Executive Order to include
regulations that have ‘‘substantial direct
effects on the states, on the relationship
between the national government and
the states, or on the distribution of
power and responsibilities among the
various levels of government.’’
This action does not have federalism
implications. It will not have substantial
direct effects on the states, on the
relationship between the national
government and the states, or on the
distribution of power and
responsibilities among the various
levels of government, as specified in
Executive Order 13132. This action
merely disapproves certain state
requirements for inclusion into the SIP
and does not alter the relationship or
the distribution of power and
responsibilities established in the Clean
Air Act. However, today’s proposed
disapproval does not have federalism
implications. Thus, Executive Order
13132 does not apply to this action.
Executive Order 13175, Consultation
and Coordination With Indian Tribal
Governments
This action does not have tribal
implications, as specified in Executive
Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9,
2000), because the SIP EPA is proposing
to disapprove would not 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. Thus, Executive
Order 13175 does not apply to this
action.
Executive Order 13045, Protection of
Children From Environmental Health
Risks and Safety Risks
EPA interprets Executive Order 13045
(62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997) as
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applying only to those regulatory
actions that concern health or safety
risks, such that the analysis required
under Section 5–501 of the Executive
Order has the potential to influence the
regulation. This action is not subject to
Executive Order 13045 because it is not
an economically significant regulatory
action based on health or safety risks
subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997). This proposed
SIP disapproval under Section 110 and
subchapter I, part D of the Clean Air Act
will not in-and-of itself create any new
regulations but simply disapproves
certain state requirements for inclusion
into the SIP.
Executive Order 13211, Actions That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution or Use
This action is not subject to Executive
Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22,
2001) because it is not a significant
regulatory action under Executive Order
12866.
National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act
Section 12(d) of the National
Technology Transfer and Advancement
Act of 1995 (‘‘NTTAA’’), Public Law
104–113, Section 12(d) (15 U.S.C. 272
note) directs EPA to use voluntary
consensus standards in its regulatory
activities unless to do so would be
inconsistent with applicable law or
otherwise impractical. Voluntary
consensus standards are technical
standards (e.g., materials specifications,
test methods, sampling procedures, and
business practices) that are developed or
adopted by voluntary consensus
standards bodies. NTTAA directs EPA
to provide Congress, through OMB,
explanations when the Agency decides
not to use available and applicable
voluntary consensus standards.
The EPA believes that this action is
not subject to requirements of Section
12(d) of NTTAA because application of
those requirements would be
inconsistent with the Clean Air Act.
Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions
To Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low-Income
Populations
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629
(Feb. 16, 1994)) establishes federal
executive policy on environmental
justice. Its main provision directs
federal agencies, to the greatest extent
practicable and permitted by law, to
make environmental justice part of their
mission by identifying and addressing,
as appropriate, disproportionately high
and adverse human health or
environmental effects of their programs,
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policies, and activities on minority
populations and low-income
populations in the United States.
EPA lacks the discretionary authority
to address environmental justice in this
proposed action. In reviewing SIP
submissions, EPA’s role is to approve or
disapprove state choices, based on the
criteria of the Clean Air Act.
Accordingly, this action merely
proposes to disapproves certain state
requirements for inclusion into the SIP
under Section 110 and subchapter I,
part D of the Clean Air Act and will not
in-and-of itself create any new
requirements. Accordingly, it 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.
Statutory Authority
The statutory authority for this action
is provided by Sections 110 of the CAA,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 7410).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Intergovernmental
relations, Particulate matter.
Dated: March 10, 2011.
Karl Brooks,
Regional Administrator, Region 7.
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40 CFR Part 63
[EPA–R09–OAR–2011–0213; FRL–9283–5]
Delegation of National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
for Source Categories; State of
Arizona, Maricopa County Air Quality
Department; State of California, Santa
Barbara County Air Pollution Control
District
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to section 112(l) of
the 1990 Clean Air Act, EPA granted
delegation of specific national emission
standards for hazardous air pollutants
(NESHAP) to the Maricopa County Air
Quality Department on May 6, 2010,
and December 14, 2010, and to the
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution
Control District on July 30, 2010. EPA
is proposing to revise the Code of
Federal Regulations to reflect the
SUMMARY:
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current delegation status of NESHAP in
Arizona and California.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal
must arrive by April 18, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
OAR–2011–0213, by one of the
following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://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 https://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
https://www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
https://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. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses.
Docket: The index to the docket for
this action is available electronically at
https://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: Mae
Wang, EPA Region IX, (415) 947–4124,
wang.mae@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
document concerns the delegation of
unchanged NESHAP to the Maricopa
County Air Quality Department, and the
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution
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Control District. In the Rules and
Regulations section of this Federal
Register, EPA is amending regulations
to reflect the current delegation status of
NESHAP in Arizona and California.
EPA is taking direct final action without
prior proposal because the Agency
believes this action is not controversial.
If we receive adverse comments,
however, we will publish a timely
withdrawal of the direct final rule and
address the comments in a subsequent
action based on this proposed rule.
Please note that if we receive adverse
comment on an amendment, paragraph,
or section of this rule and if that
provision may be severed from the
remainder of the rule, we may adopt as
final those provisions of the rule that are
not the subject of an adverse comment.
We do not plan to open a second
comment period, so anyone interested
in commenting should do so at this
time. If we do not receive adverse
comments, no further activity is
planned. For further information, please
see the direct final action.
Dated: March 3, 2011.
Deborah Jordan,
Director, Air Division, Region IX.
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–0161, –0162, –0163, –0164, –0165, –0166,
–0167, –0168]
Extension of Comment Period: EPA’s
Plan for Retrospective Review Under
Executive Order 13563
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Extension of comment period.
AGENCY:
On February 23, 2011, EPA
published in the Federal Register a
document seeking public input on the
design of a plan to use for periodic
retrospective review of its regulations
(76 FR 9988). This input is being
solicited in response to Executive Order
13563, ‘‘Improving Regulation and
Regulatory Review,’’ wherein all federal
agencies are directed to conduct a
‘‘retrospective analysis of rules that may
be outmoded, ineffective, insufficient,
or excessively burdensome and to
modify, streamline, expand, or repeal
them in accordance with what has been
learned.’’
DATES: Comments should be submitted
no later than April 4, 2011.
SUMMARY:
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You may submit your
comments, identified by Docket ID No.
EPA–HQ–OA–2011–0154, –0155,
–0156, –0157, –0158, –0159, –0160,
–0161, –0162, –0163, –0164, –0165,
–0166, –0167 or –0168 by any one of the
following methods:
• https://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: ImprovingRegulations.
SuggestionBox@epa.gov
• Fax: 202–566–9744
• Mail: Send a copy of your
comments and any enclosures to:
Improving Regulations Docket,
Environmental Protection Agency, EPA
Docket Center, Mailcode: 2822T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460.
• Hand Delivery: Improving
Regulations Docket,
EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Docket’s normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed
information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OA–2011–
0154, –0155, –0156, –0157, –0158,
–0159, –0160, –0161, –0162, –0163,
–0164, –0165, –0166, –0167, –0168.
EPA’s policy is that 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 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 https://www.
regulations.gov. The https://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 https://
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.
ADDRESSES:
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 63
[EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0213; FRL-9283-5]
Delegation of National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air
Pollutants for Source Categories; State of Arizona, Maricopa County Air
Quality Department; State of California, Santa Barbara County Air
Pollution Control District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 112(l) of the 1990 Clean Air Act, EPA
granted delegation of specific national emission standards for
hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) to the Maricopa County Air Quality
Department on May 6, 2010, and December 14, 2010, and to the Santa
Barbara County Air Pollution Control District on July 30, 2010. EPA is
proposing to revise the Code of Federal Regulations to reflect the
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current delegation status of NESHAP in Arizona and California.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by April 18, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2011-0213, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://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 https://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 https://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. https://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. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters,
any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at https://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: Mae Wang, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-
4124, wang.mae@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document concerns the delegation of
unchanged NESHAP to the Maricopa County Air Quality Department, and the
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District. In the Rules and
Regulations section of this Federal Register, EPA is amending
regulations to reflect the current delegation status of NESHAP in
Arizona and California. EPA is taking direct final action without prior
proposal because the Agency believes this action is not controversial.
If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely
withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments in a
subsequent action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we
receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this
rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the
rule, we may adopt as final those provisions of the rule that are not
the subject of an adverse comment.
We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further
information, please see the direct final action.
Dated: March 3, 2011.
Deborah Jordan,
Director, Air Division, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2011-6424 Filed 3-17-11; 8:45 am]
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