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TABLE 1—AVERAGE EXPECTED EXCEEDANCE RATE FOR THE ONE-HOUR OZONE STANDARD IN THE BOSTON-LAWRENCEWORCESTER, MA-NH AREA FOR 2005–2007
Exceedances (days over 0.124 ppm)
EPA AQS ID
Site
Year
Adjusted for
missing data
Actual
Massachusetts:
250250041 .....................
Boston-Long Island ...............
250250042 .....................
Boston-Roxbury ....................
250170009 .....................
Chelmsford ...........................
250051002 .....................
Fairhaven ..............................
250095005 .....................
Haverhill ................................
250092006 .....................
Lynn ......................................
250213003 .....................
Milton ....................................
250094004 .....................
Newbury ................................
250070001 .....................
Oak Bluffs .............................
250171102 .....................
Stow ......................................
250010002 .....................
Truro .....................................
250270015 .....................
Worcester .............................
New Hampshire
330111011 .....................
Nashua .................................
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Revisions to the California State
Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley
Air Quality Management District and
Imperial Valley Air Pollution Control
District
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Proposed rule.
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EPA is proposing to approve
revisions to the Antelope Valley Air
Quality Management District
(AVAQMD) and Imperial County Air
Pollution Control District (ICAPCD)
portions of the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These
revisions concern oxides of nitrogen
(NOX) emissions from stationary gas
turbines. We are proposing to approve
local rules to regulate these emission
sources under the Clean Air Act as
amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).
SUMMARY:
Any comments on this proposal
must arrive by February 17, 2012.
DATES:
Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
OAR–2011–0987, by one of the
following methods:
ADDRESSES:
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1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions.
2. Email: 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 email.
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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 email 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: Generally, documents in the
docket for this action are 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 at
www.regulations.gov, some information
may be publicly available only at the
hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted
material, large maps), 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:
Idalia Perez, EPA Region IX, (415) 972–
3248, perez.idalia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
proposal addresses the following local
rules: AVAQMD Rule 1134, Stationary
Gas Turbines and ICAPCD Rule 400.1,
Stationary Gas Turbine(s)—Reasonably
Available Control Technology (RACT).
In the Rules and Regulations section of
this Federal Register, we are approving
these local rules in a direct final action
without prior proposal because we
believe these SIP revisions are not
controversial. If we receive adverse
comments, however, we will publish a
timely withdrawal of the direct final
rule and address the comments in
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.
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Dated: December 27, 2011.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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Great Lakes Steamship Repower
Incentive Program
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
AGENCY:
EPA is proposing to simplify
an existing provision in our marine
diesel engine program that is intended
to encourage owners of Great Lakes
steamships to repower those steamships
with cleaner marine diesel engines. The
simplified program would automatically
permit the use of residual fuel, through
December 31, 2025, in a steamship if it
has been repowered with a certified Tier
2 or later marine diesel engine, provided
the steamship was operated exclusively
on the Great Lakes and was in service
on October 30, 2009. Steamships are
powered by old, inefficient steam
boilers. Voluntary replacement of these
boilers with modern fuel-efficient
marine diesel engines would result in
reductions of particulate matter and
sulfur oxides, even while the
replacement diesel engines are operated
on higher sulfur residual fuel, and
would provide human health and
welfare benefits for the people who live
in the Great Lakes region. Conversion to
new diesel engines would also result in
considerable carbon dioxide reductions
and fuel savings. In the ‘‘Rules and
Regulations’’ section of this Federal
Register, we are making this
modification to the Great Lakes
steamship incentive program as a direct
final rule without a prior proposed rule.
If we receive no adverse comment, we
will not take further action on this
proposed rule.
DATES: Written comments must be
received by February 17, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OAR–2011–0928, by mail to:
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
Docket, Mail-code 6102T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20460. Comments may also be
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submitted electronically or through
hand delivery/courier by following the
detailed instructions in the ADDRESSES
section of the direct final rule located in
the rules section of this Federal
Register.
Public Hearing: If anyone contacts us
requesting to speak at a public hearing
on or before February 2, 2012, we will
hold a public hearing. Additional
information about the hearing would be
published in a subsequent Federal
Register notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean
Marie Revelt, Environmental Protection
Agency, Office of Transportation and
Air Quality, Assessment and Standards
Division, 2000 Traverwood Drive, Ann
Arbor, Michigan 48105; telephone
number: (734) 214–4822; fax number:
(734) 214–4816; email address:
revelt.jean-marie@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Why is EPA issuing this proposed
rule?
This document proposes to take
action on our national marine diesel
emission control program. We have
published a direct final rule to simplify
our Great Lakes steamship repower
incentive program in the ‘‘Rules and
Regulations’’ section of this Federal
Register because we view this as a
noncontroversial action and anticipate
no adverse comment. We have
explained our reasons for this action in
the preamble to the direct final rule.
If we receive no adverse comment, we
will not take further action on this
proposed rule. If we receive adverse
comment, we will withdraw the direct
final rule and it will not take effect. We
would address all public comments in
any subsequent final rule based on this
proposed rule.
We do not intend to institute a second
comment period on this action. Any
parties interested in commenting must
do so at this time. For further
information, please see the ADDRESSES
section of this document.
II. Does this action apply to me?
This action will affect companies that
own steamships operating exclusively
on the Great Lakes that were in service
on October 30, 2009. The following
table gives some examples of entities
that may be affected by this rule;
however, since these are only examples,
you should carefully examine the
regulations. You may direct questions
regarding the applicability of this action
as noted in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0987; FRL-9617-5]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope
Valley Air Quality Management District and Imperial Valley Air
Pollution Control District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley
Air Quality Management District (AVAQMD) and Imperial County Air
Pollution Control District (ICAPCD) portions of the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern oxides of nitrogen
(NOX) emissions from stationary gas turbines. We are
proposing to approve local rules to regulate these emission sources
under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by February 17, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2011-0987, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
2. Email: 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 email.
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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 email
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: Generally, documents in the docket for this action are
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 at www.regulations.gov, some
information may be publicly available only at the hard copy location
(e.g., copyrighted material, large maps), 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: Idalia Perez, EPA Region IX, (415)
972-3248, perez.idalia@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local
rules: AVAQMD Rule 1134, Stationary Gas Turbines and ICAPCD Rule 400.1,
Stationary Gas Turbine(s)--Reasonably Available Control Technology
(RACT). In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register,
we are approving these local rules in a direct final action without
prior proposal because we believe these SIP revisions are not
controversial. If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish
a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments
in 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: December 27, 2011.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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