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Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; Texas;
Procedures for Stringency
Determinations and Minor Permit
Revisions for Federal Operating
Permits
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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In the
final rules section of this Federal
Register, EPA is approving the State’s
SIP submittal as a direct final rule
without prior proposal because the
Agency views this as a noncontroversial
submittal and anticipates no adverse
comments. A detailed rationale for the
approval is set forth in the direct final
rule. If no relevant adverse comments
are received in response to this action,
no further activity is contemplated. If
EPA receives relevant adverse
comments, the direct final rule will be
withdrawn and all public comments
received will be addressed in a
subsequent final rule based on this
proposed rule. EPA will not institute a
second comment period. Any parties
interested in commenting on this action
should do so at this time. Please note
that if EPA receives adverse comment
on an amendment, paragraph, or section
of this rule and if that provision may be
severed from the remainder of the rule,
EPA may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an
adverse comment.
For additional information, see the
direct final rule which is located in the
rules section of this Federal Register.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: August 28, 2013.
Ron Curry,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
EPA is proposing to approve
portions of three revisions to the Texas
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
concerning the Texas Federal Operating
Permits Program. EPA has determined
that these SIP revisions, submitted on
December 17, 1999, October 4, 2001 and
August 11, 2003, comply with the Clean
Air Act and EPA regulations and are
consistent with EPA policies. This
action is being taken under section 110
of the Act.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 10, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to
Ms. Adina Wiley, Air Permits Section
(6PD-R), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200,
Dallas, Texas 75202–2733. Comments
may also be submitted electronically or
SUMMARY:
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Adina Wiley, Air Permits Section (6PDR), Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite
1200, Dallas, Texas 75202–2733,
telephone (214) 665–2115; fax number
(214) 665–6762; email address
wiley.adina@epa.gov.
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Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; Indiana; Volatile
Organic Compound Emission Control
Measures for Industrial Solvent
Cleaning for Northwest Indiana
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
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On May 29, 2012, the Indiana
Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM) submitted
revisions to its volatile organic
compound (VOC) industrial solvent
cleaning rule for manufacturers of
coatings, inks, adhesives, and resins for
approval into its State Implementation
Plan (SIP). These revisions are
approvable because they are consistent
with EPA’s Industrial Solvent Cleaning
Control Technique Guideline (CTG)
document and therefore satisfy the
reasonably available control technology
(RACT) requirements of the Clean Air
Act (Act).
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 10, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05–
OAR–2012–0453, by one of the
following methods:
• www.regulations.gov: Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Email: aburano.douglas@epa.gov.
• Fax: (312) 408–2279.
• Mail: Douglas Aburano, Chief,
Attainment Planning and Maintenance
Section (AR–18J), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604.
• Hand Delivery: Douglas Aburano,
Chief, Attainment Planning and
Maintenance Section (AR–18J), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, 18th floor,
Chicago, Illinois 60604. Such deliveries
are only accepted during the Regional
Office’s normal hours of operation, and
special arrangements should be made
for deliveries of boxed information. The
Regional Office official hours of
business are Monday through Friday,
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding
Federal holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–R05–OAR–2012–
0453. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received 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 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 www.regulations.gov
or email. The 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 email
comment directly to EPA without going
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through www.regulations.gov your email
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.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional instructions on
submitting comments, go to Section I of
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
of this document.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the www.regulations.gov
index. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
Illinois 60604. This facility is open from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding Federal holidays. We
recommend that you telephone Steven
Rosenthal at (312) 886–6052 before
visiting the Region 5 office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Rosenthal, Environmental
Engineer, Attainment Planning &
Maintenance Section, Air Programs
Branch (AR–18J), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
60604, (312) 886–6052,
rosenthal.steven@epa.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA. This supplementary information
section is arranged as follows:
I. What should I consider as I prepare my
comments for EPA?
II. What is the background for this action?
III. What are Indiana’s submitted VOC rule
revisions and what is EPA’s analysis of
the revisions?
IV. What action is EPA taking?
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
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I. What should I consider as I prepare
my comments for EPA?
When submitting comments,
remember to:
1. Identify the rulemaking by docket
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date, and page number).
2. Follow directions—EPA may ask
you to respond to specific questions or
organize comments by referencing a
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part
or section number.
3. Explain why you agree or disagree;
suggest alternatives and substitute
language for your requested changes.
4. Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
5. If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced.
6. Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns, and suggest
alternatives.
7. Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
8. Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. What is the background for this
action?
On February 24, 2010, EPA approved
into Indiana’s SIP several VOC rules in
order to satisfy Indiana’s VOC RACT
requirements for the Lake and Porter
County portion of the Chicago-GaryLake County, IL–IN, 1997 8-hour ozone
nonattainment area. See 75 FR 8246.
These rules included new rule 326 IAC
8–17 for Industrial Solvent Cleaning
operations that was based on a CTG
issued by EPA in 2006.
Subsequent to the approval of
Indiana’s rule, EPA concluded that low
VOC content cleaning solvents were not
adequate to clean process equipment
and tanks at facilities that manufacture
coatings, inks, adhesives and resins. As
a result, EPA determined that RACT for
these operations was the alternative
requirements in the (California) Bay
Area Air Quality Management District’s
rules, which are referenced in EPA’s
industrial solvent cleaning CTG.
EPA approved Wisconsin’s industrial
solvent cleaning rules for coating, ink,
adhesive and resin manufacturing,
based on the Bay Area rules, on August
7, 2012 (77 FR 46961). The American
Coatings Association requested that that
IDEM also adopt a solvent cleaning rule
based on the Bay Area rules. In
addition, IDEM realized that it had used
limits in its rule that were inconsistent
with RACT and EPA’s 2006 CTG.
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IDEM adopted these revisions on
April 3, 2012, after public hearings on
November 2, 2011, and February 1,
2012. IDEM submitted the revised rules
to EPA on May 29, 2012.
III. What are Indiana’s submitted VOC
rule revisions and what is EPA’s
analysis of the revisions?
Indiana has revised its Industrial
Solvent Cleaning rule, 326 IAC 8–17, for
sources in Lake and Porter Counties as
follows:
326 IAC 8–17–2(c)(11)—An
exemption for the cleaning of
application equipment used to apply
solvent-borne fluoropolymer coatings
has been added to the list of solvent
cleaning operations exempted from the
VOC content limitations in 326 IAC 8–
17–4. This exemption corrects a mistake
in Indiana’s adoption of RACT and is
consistent with EPA’s 2006 CTG. It
should not result in an increase in VOC
emissions, as there are no known
sources to which it will apply.
326 IAC 8–17–4(a)—The allowable
VOC content for cleaning ultraviolet ink
and electron beam application
equipment, except for screen printing,
has been increased from 4.2 to 5.4
pounds VOC/gallon. This corrects a
mistake in Indiana’s adoption of RACT
and is consistent with EPA’s 2006 CTG.
It should not result in an increase in
VOC emissions, as there are no known
sources to which it will apply.
326 IAC 8–17–4(g)—Alternative
cleaning requirements have been added
for manufacturers of coatings, inks,
adhesives and resins and corresponding
recordkeeping requirements have been
added in 326 IAC 8–17–7(f). These
requirements are based on the Bay Area
rules. These requirements apply to
cleaning mixing vats, high dispersion
mills, grinding mills, tote tanks, and
roller mills, and consist of four options:
(1) The solvent or solvent solution used
must either contain less than 1.67
pounds VOC per gallon or have a VOC
composite partial vapor pressure of less
than or equal to 8 millimeters of
mercury; (2) several work practices must
be implemented, including storing all
VOC-containing cleaning materials in
closed containers; (3) the emissions
from equipment cleaning must be
collected and vented to an emission
control system with an overall control
efficiency of 80 percent or more on a
mass basis; or (4) no more than 60
gallons of fresh solvent per month may
be used and all VOC-containing
cleaning materials must be stored in
closed containers. The recordkeeping
requirements in 326 IAC 8–17–7(f) have
been added to determine whether the
60-gallon limit has been exceeded.
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In addition, the owner or operator of
a facility engaged in wipe cleaning may
not use open containers for the storage
of organic compounds to be used for
cleaning, or for the storage or disposal
of any material impregnated with
organic compounds used for cleaning.
These alternative cleaning
requirements are consistent with EPA’s
CTG, and will not result in an increase
in emissions because there are no
coating, ink, adhesive and resin
manufacturers in Lake and Porter
Counties, where they apply.
IV. What action is EPA taking?
EPA has determined that these
revisions are consistent with this CTG
and applicable EPA RACT guidance at
www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ozone/
ozonetech/#ref. Therefore, EPA is
proposing to approve the revisions to
Indiana’s Industrial Solvent Cleaning
rules (in 326 IAC 8–17) as meeting the
RACT requirements in the Act.
V. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
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Under the 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 Part 52.02(a).
Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions,
EPA’s role is to approve State choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of
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the 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);
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• 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 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, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations,
Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Volatile organic
compounds.
Dated: August 28, 2013.
Susan Hedman,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0453; FRL-9900-78-Region5]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Indiana;
Volatile Organic Compound Emission Control Measures for Industrial
Solvent Cleaning for Northwest Indiana
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: On May 29, 2012, the Indiana Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM) submitted revisions to its volatile organic compound
(VOC) industrial solvent cleaning rule for manufacturers of coatings,
inks, adhesives, and resins for approval into its State Implementation
Plan (SIP). These revisions are approvable because they are consistent
with EPA's Industrial Solvent Cleaning Control Technique Guideline
(CTG) document and therefore satisfy the reasonably available control
technology (RACT) requirements of the Clean Air Act (Act).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 10, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2012-0453, by one of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
Email: aburano.douglas@epa.gov.
Fax: (312) 408-2279.
Mail: Douglas Aburano, Chief, Attainment Planning and
Maintenance Section (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604.
Hand Delivery: Douglas Aburano, Chief, Attainment Planning
and Maintenance Section (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
77 West Jackson Boulevard, 18th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60604. Such
deliveries are only accepted during the Regional Office's normal hours
of operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information. The Regional Office official hours of business are
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding Federal
holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-
2012-0453. EPA's policy is that all comments received 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 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 www.regulations.gov or email. The
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 email comment
directly to EPA without going
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through www.regulations.gov your email 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. Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses. For additional instructions on submitting comments, go to
Section I of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West Jackson
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays.
We recommend that you telephone Steven Rosenthal at (312) 886-6052
before visiting the Region 5 office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Rosenthal, Environmental
Engineer, Attainment Planning & Maintenance Section, Air Programs
Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6052,
rosenthal.steven@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. This supplementary information
section is arranged as follows:
I. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
II. What is the background for this action?
III. What are Indiana's submitted VOC rule revisions and what is
EPA's analysis of the revisions?
IV. What action is EPA taking?
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
When submitting comments, remember to:
1. Identify the rulemaking by docket number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date, and page number).
2. Follow directions--EPA may ask you to respond to specific
questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
3. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and
substitute language for your requested changes.
4. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
5. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
6. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and
suggest alternatives.
7. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats.
8. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline
identified.
II. What is the background for this action?
On February 24, 2010, EPA approved into Indiana's SIP several VOC
rules in order to satisfy Indiana's VOC RACT requirements for the Lake
and Porter County portion of the Chicago-Gary-Lake County, IL-IN, 1997
8-hour ozone nonattainment area. See 75 FR 8246. These rules included
new rule 326 IAC 8-17 for Industrial Solvent Cleaning operations that
was based on a CTG issued by EPA in 2006.
Subsequent to the approval of Indiana's rule, EPA concluded that
low VOC content cleaning solvents were not adequate to clean process
equipment and tanks at facilities that manufacture coatings, inks,
adhesives and resins. As a result, EPA determined that RACT for these
operations was the alternative requirements in the (California) Bay
Area Air Quality Management District's rules, which are referenced in
EPA's industrial solvent cleaning CTG.
EPA approved Wisconsin's industrial solvent cleaning rules for
coating, ink, adhesive and resin manufacturing, based on the Bay Area
rules, on August 7, 2012 (77 FR 46961). The American Coatings
Association requested that that IDEM also adopt a solvent cleaning rule
based on the Bay Area rules. In addition, IDEM realized that it had
used limits in its rule that were inconsistent with RACT and EPA's 2006
CTG.
IDEM adopted these revisions on April 3, 2012, after public
hearings on November 2, 2011, and February 1, 2012. IDEM submitted the
revised rules to EPA on May 29, 2012.
III. What are Indiana's submitted VOC rule revisions and what is EPA's
analysis of the revisions?
Indiana has revised its Industrial Solvent Cleaning rule, 326 IAC
8-17, for sources in Lake and Porter Counties as follows:
326 IAC 8-17-2(c)(11)--An exemption for the cleaning of application
equipment used to apply solvent-borne fluoropolymer coatings has been
added to the list of solvent cleaning operations exempted from the VOC
content limitations in 326 IAC 8-17-4. This exemption corrects a
mistake in Indiana's adoption of RACT and is consistent with EPA's 2006
CTG. It should not result in an increase in VOC emissions, as there are
no known sources to which it will apply.
326 IAC 8-17-4(a)--The allowable VOC content for cleaning
ultraviolet ink and electron beam application equipment, except for
screen printing, has been increased from 4.2 to 5.4 pounds VOC/gallon.
This corrects a mistake in Indiana's adoption of RACT and is consistent
with EPA's 2006 CTG. It should not result in an increase in VOC
emissions, as there are no known sources to which it will apply.
326 IAC 8-17-4(g)--Alternative cleaning requirements have been
added for manufacturers of coatings, inks, adhesives and resins and
corresponding recordkeeping requirements have been added in 326 IAC 8-
17-7(f). These requirements are based on the Bay Area rules. These
requirements apply to cleaning mixing vats, high dispersion mills,
grinding mills, tote tanks, and roller mills, and consist of four
options: (1) The solvent or solvent solution used must either contain
less than 1.67 pounds VOC per gallon or have a VOC composite partial
vapor pressure of less than or equal to 8 millimeters of mercury; (2)
several work practices must be implemented, including storing all VOC-
containing cleaning materials in closed containers; (3) the emissions
from equipment cleaning must be collected and vented to an emission
control system with an overall control efficiency of 80 percent or more
on a mass basis; or (4) no more than 60 gallons of fresh solvent per
month may be used and all VOC-containing cleaning materials must be
stored in closed containers. The recordkeeping requirements in 326 IAC
8-17-7(f) have been added to determine whether the 60-gallon limit has
been exceeded.
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In addition, the owner or operator of a facility engaged in wipe
cleaning may not use open containers for the storage of organic
compounds to be used for cleaning, or for the storage or disposal of
any material impregnated with organic compounds used for cleaning.
These alternative cleaning requirements are consistent with EPA's
CTG, and will not result in an increase in emissions because there are
no coating, ink, adhesive and resin manufacturers in Lake and Porter
Counties, where they apply.
IV. What action is EPA taking?
EPA has determined that these revisions are consistent with this
CTG and applicable EPA RACT guidance at www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ozone/ozonetech/#ref. Therefore, EPA is proposing to approve the revisions to
Indiana's Industrial Solvent Cleaning rules (in 326 IAC 8-17) as
meeting the RACT requirements in the Act.
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the 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 Part 52.02(a). Thus, in
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve State choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of the 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 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 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, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Volatile organic compounds.
Dated: August 28, 2013.
Susan Hedman,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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