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[EPA–R03–OAR–2011–0287; FRL–9309–2]
Approval and Promulgation of Air
Quality Implementation Plans;
Pennsylvania; Control of Nitrogen
Oxides Emissions From Portland
Cement Kilns
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
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EPA is proposing to approve
a State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision submitted by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This
revision pertains to the control of
nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from
Portland cement kilns. This action is
being taken under the Clean Air Act
(CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before June 20, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID Number EPA–
R03–OAR–2011–0287 by one of the
following methods:
A. https://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
B. E-mail:
fernandez.cristina@epa.gov.
C. Mail: EPA–R03–OAR–2011–0287,
Cristina Fernandez, Associate Director,
Office of Air Program Planning,
Mailcode 3AP30, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region III, 1650
Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19103.
D. Hand Delivery: At the previouslylisted EPA Region III address. 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–R03–OAR–2011–
0287. 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 or e-mail. 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
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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: All documents in the
electronic docket are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
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 in https://
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy
during normal business hours at the Air
Protection Division, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region III, 1650
Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19103. Copies of the State submittal are
available at the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental
Protection, Bureau of Air Quality
Control, P.O. Box 8468, 400 Market
Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rose
Quinto, (215) 814–2182, or by e-mail at
quinto.rose@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA. On July 23, 2010, the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection
(PADEP) submitted a revision to its
State Implementation Plan for the
control of NOX from Portland cement
kilns.
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I. Background
The SIP revision consists of a
regulation to control NOX emissions
from Portland cement kilns. Portland
cement manufacturing is an energy
intensive process in which cement is
made by grinding and heating a mixture
of raw materials such as limestone, clay,
sand, and iron ore in a rotary kiln. NOX
emissions are generated during fuel
combustion by oxidation of chemicallybound nitrogen in the fuel and by
thermal fixation of nitrogen in the
combustion air. This SIP revision is
based on the Ozone Transport
Commission (OTC) control measure to
reduce NOX emissions from cement
kilns. The OTC members include
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and
the District of Columbia. The OTC was
created under section 184 of the CAA to
establish regulatory programs to reduce
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ozone precursor emissions, which
includes the reduction of NOX
emissions from cement kilns.
II. Summary of SIP Revision
The SIP revision amends the NOX
emission standards in the Title 25 of the
Pennsylvania Code (25 Pa. Code)
Chapter 145, Subchapter C (Emissions
of NOX from Cement Manufacturing),
for Portland cement kilns during the
ozone season, from May 1 through
September 30, 2011, and for each year
thereafter. The SIP revision added new
definitions and terms, and revised the
following: standard requirements which
include emission requirements;
compliance determination by operating
and maintaining continuous emissions
monitoring systems (CEMS) for NOX
emissions; compliance demonstration
on a kiln-by-kiln basis, a facility-wide
emissions averaging basis or a systemwide averaging basis; and reporting and
recordkeeping requirements by
reporting CEMS emissions data and
maintaining an operating log for each
Portland cement kiln on a monthly basis
that is maintained onsite for 5 years. A
detailed summary of EPA’s review of
and rationale for proposing to approve
this SIP revision may be found in the
Technical Support Document (TSD) for
this action which is available on line at
https://www.regulations.gov, Docket
number EPA–R03–OAR–2011–0287.
III. Proposed Action
EPA is proposing to approve the
Pennsylvania SIP revision for the
control of NOX emissions from Portland
cement kilns submitted on July 23,
2010. This regulation will reduce
emissions of NOX from cement kilns to
reduce levels of ozone. The reduction of
NOX emissions will also help protect
the public health from high levels of
fine particulate matter (PM2.5), of which
NOX is a precursor component. The
reduction of NOX emissions also
reduces visibility impairment and acid
deposition. EPA is soliciting public
comments on the issues discussed in
this document. These comments will be
considered before taking final action.
IV. 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 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 proposes to approve state law as
meeting Federal requirements and does
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not impose additional requirements
beyond those imposed by state law. For
that reason, this proposed 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 proposed rule,
pertaining to Pennsylvania’s control of
NOx emissions from Portland cement
kilns, 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, Nitrogen dioxide,
Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
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W.C. Early,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
Any comments on this proposal
must arrive by June 20, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
OAR–2011–0030, 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 eDATES:
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Revisions to the California State
Implementation Plan, Mojave Desert
Air Quality Management District
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
EPA is proposing to approve
revisions to the Mojave Desert Air
Quality Management District
(MDAQMD) portion of the California
State Implementation Plan (SIP). These
revisions concern negative declarations
for volatile organic compound (VOC)
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comment. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties
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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:
Cynthia Allen, EPA Region IX, (415)
947–4120, allen.cynthia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposal addresses the following
negative declarations listed in Table 1:
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[EPA-R03-OAR-2011-0287; FRL-9309-2]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Pennsylvania; Control of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions From Portland Cement
Kilns
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision submitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This revision
pertains to the control of nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions
from Portland cement kilns. This action is being taken under the Clean
Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 20, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-
R03-OAR-2011-0287 by one of the following methods:
A. https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
B. E-mail: fernandez.cristina@epa.gov.
C. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2011-0287, Cristina Fernandez, Associate
Director, Office of Air Program Planning, Mailcode 3AP30, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
D. Hand Delivery: At the previously-listed EPA Region III address.
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-R03-OAR-
2011-0287. 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 or e-mail. 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
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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: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the
https://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other 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 in https://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy during normal business hours at the
Air Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region
III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Copies of the
State submittal are available at the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Quality Control, P.O. Box 8468,
400 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rose Quinto, (215) 814-2182, or by e-
mail at quinto.rose@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. On July 23, 2010, the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) submitted a
revision to its State Implementation Plan for the control of
NOX from Portland cement kilns.
I. Background
The SIP revision consists of a regulation to control NOX
emissions from Portland cement kilns. Portland cement manufacturing is
an energy intensive process in which cement is made by grinding and
heating a mixture of raw materials such as limestone, clay, sand, and
iron ore in a rotary kiln. NOX emissions are generated
during fuel combustion by oxidation of chemically-bound nitrogen in the
fuel and by thermal fixation of nitrogen in the combustion air. This
SIP revision is based on the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) control
measure to reduce NOX emissions from cement kilns. The OTC
members include Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island,
Vermont, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The OTC was created
under section 184 of the CAA to establish regulatory programs to reduce
ozone precursor emissions, which includes the reduction of
NOX emissions from cement kilns.
II. Summary of SIP Revision
The SIP revision amends the NOX emission standards in
the Title 25 of the Pennsylvania Code (25 Pa. Code) Chapter 145,
Subchapter C (Emissions of NOX from Cement Manufacturing),
for Portland cement kilns during the ozone season, from May 1 through
September 30, 2011, and for each year thereafter. The SIP revision
added new definitions and terms, and revised the following: standard
requirements which include emission requirements; compliance
determination by operating and maintaining continuous emissions
monitoring systems (CEMS) for NOX emissions; compliance
demonstration on a kiln-by-kiln basis, a facility-wide emissions
averaging basis or a system-wide averaging basis; and reporting and
recordkeeping requirements by reporting CEMS emissions data and
maintaining an operating log for each Portland cement kiln on a monthly
basis that is maintained onsite for 5 years. A detailed summary of
EPA's review of and rationale for proposing to approve this SIP
revision may be found in the Technical Support Document (TSD) for this
action which is available on line at https://www.regulations.gov, Docket
number EPA-R03-OAR-2011-0287.
III. Proposed Action
EPA is proposing to approve the Pennsylvania SIP revision for the
control of NOX emissions from Portland cement kilns
submitted on July 23, 2010. This regulation will reduce emissions of
NOX from cement kilns to reduce levels of ozone. The
reduction of NOX emissions will also help protect the public
health from high levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5),
of which NOX is a precursor component. The reduction of
NOX emissions also reduces visibility impairment and acid
deposition. EPA is soliciting public comments on the issues discussed
in this document. These comments will be considered before taking final
action.
IV. 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 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 proposes to approve state law as meeting Federal
requirements and does not impose additional requirements beyond those
imposed by state law. For that reason, this proposed 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 proposed rule, pertaining to Pennsylvania's
control of NOx emissions from Portland cement kilns, 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, Nitrogen dioxide,
Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
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Dated: May 9, 2011.
W.C. Early,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
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