Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date; 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Cleveland, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois Areas, 41444-41447 [2016-15050]

Download as PDF 41444 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 123 / Monday, June 27, 2016 / Rules and Regulations provide notification of this enforcement periods via the Local Notice to Mariners and Broadcast Notice to Mariners. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Coast Guard Dated: June 17, 2016. C.C. Gelzer, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port Boston. 33 CFR Part 165 [Docket No. USCG–2016–0415] [FR Doc. 2016–15090 Filed 6–24–16; 8:45 am] Safety Zones; Captain of the Port Boston Fireworks Display Zone, Boston Harbor, Boston, MA BILLING CODE 9110–04–P Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION: Notice of enforcement of regulation. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY The Coast Guard will enforce special local regulations for the Boston Harborfest in Boston Inner Harbor on July 2, 2016, to provide for the safety of life on navigable waterways during the fireworks. Our regulation for Captain of the Port Boston Fireworks display zone, Boston Harbor, Boston, MA identifies the regulated area for this fireworks display. During the enforcement period, no vessel may transit this regulated area without approval from the Captain of the Port or a designated representative. DATES: The regulation in 33 CFR 165.119(a)(2) will be enforced Saturday, July 2, 2016 from 9 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this notice of enforcement, call or email Mr. Mark Cutter, Sector Boston Waterways Management Division, U.S. Coast Guard; telephone 617–223–4000, email Mark.E.Cutter@uscg.mil. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce special local regulations in 33 CFR 165.119(a)(2) Saturday, July 2, 2016 from 9 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., for the Boston Harborfest in Boston Inner Harbor. This action is being taken to provide for the safety of life on navigable waterways during the fireworks display. Our regulation for Captain of the Port Boston Fireworks display zone, Boston Harbor, Boston, MA, § 165.119(a)(2), specifies the location of the regulated area as all U.S. navigable waters of Boston Inner Harbor within a 700-foot radius of the fireworks barge in approximate position 42°21′41.2″ N. 071°02′36.5″ W. (NAD 1983), located off of Long Wharf, Boston MA. As specified in § 165.119(e), during the enforcement period, no vessel may transit this regulated area without approval from the Captain of the Port Sector Boston (COTP) or a COTP designated representative. This notice of enforcement is issued under authority of 33 CFR 165.119 and 5 U.S.C. 552(a). In addition to this notice of enforcement in the Federal Register, the Coast Guard plans to [EPA–R05–OAR–2016–0276; FRL–9948–19– Region 5] AGENCY: Lhorne on DSK30JT082PROD with RULES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:06 Jun 24, 2016 Jkt 238001 40 CFR Part 52 Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date; 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Cleveland, Ohio and St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois Areas Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Direct final rule. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making a determination, under the Clean Air Act (CAA), that the Cleveland, Ohio (OH) and St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois (MO-IL) areas attained the 2008 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. This determination for each area is based on complete, quality-assured and certified ozone monitoring data for 2013–2015. DATES: This direct final rule will be effective August 26, 2016, unless EPA receives adverse comments by July 27, 2016. If adverse comments are received by EPA for an affected area, EPA will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule for that area in the Federal Register informing the public that the rule will not take effect there. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– OAR–2016–0276 at https:// www.regulations.gov or via email to Aburano.Douglas@epa.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written comment. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ commenting-epa-dockets. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen D’Agostino, Environmental Scientist, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR–18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886–1767, dagostino.kathleen@epa.gov. Deborah Bredehoft, Air Planning and Development Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, Kansas 66219, (913) 551–7164, Bredehoft.Deborah@ 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. Background II. How does EPA determine whether an area has attained the 2008 ozone standard? III. What action is EPA taking and what is the rationale? IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews I. Background On April 30, 2012, the Cleveland, OH and St. Louis, MO-IL areas were designated as nonattainment for the 2008 ozone NAAQS and were classified as marginal, effective July 20, 2012 (77 FR 30088, May 21, 2012). On March 6, 2015 (80 FR 12264), in the final 2008 ozone NAAQS SIP requirements rule, EPA established an attainment deadline for marginal areas of July 20, 2015. The CAA section 181(b)(2) requires the EPA to determine, based on an area’s ozone design value 1 as of the 1 An area’s ozone design value for the 8-hour ozone NAAQS is the highest 3-year average of the annual fourth-highest daily maximum 8-hour average concentrations of all monitors in the area. To determine whether an area has attained the ozone NAAQS prior to the attainment date, EPA considers the monitor-specific ozone design values in the area for the most recent three years with complete, quality-assured, and certified ozone monitoring data prior to the attainment deadline (or for an earlier 3-year period if the area attains the ozone standard ahead of the attainment deadline). E:\FR\FM\27JNR1.SGM 27JNR1 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 123 / Monday, June 27, 2016 / Rules and Regulations area’s attainment deadline, whether the area has attained the ozone standard by that date. The statute provides a mechanism by which states that meet certain criteria may request and be granted by the EPA Administrator a 1year extension of an area’s attainment deadline. On May 4, 2016 (81 FR 26697), based on EPA’s evaluation and determination that the areas met the attainment date extension criteria of CAA section 181(8)(5), EPA granted the Cleveland and St. Louis areas a 1-year extension of the marginal area attainment date to July 20, 2016. II. How does EPA determine whether an area has attained the 2008 ozone standard? Under EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 50, appendix P, the 2008 ozone NAAQS is attained at a site when the 3-year average of the annual fourth highest daily maximum 8-hour average ambient air quality ozone concentration is less than or equal to 0.075 parts per million (ppm). This 3-year average is referred to as the design value. When the design value is less than or equal to 0.075 ppm at each ambient air quality monitoring site within the area, then the area is deemed to be meeting the NAAQS. The rounding convention under 40 CFR part 50, appendix P, dictates that concentrations shall be reported in ppm to the third decimal place, with additional digits to the right being truncated. Thus, a computed 3-year average ozone concentration of 0.076 ppm is greater than 0.075 ppm and, therefore, over the standard. EPA’s determination of attainment is based upon data that have been collected and quality-assured in accordance with 40 CFR part 58 and recorded in the EPA’s Air Quality System database (formerly known as the Aerometric Information Retrieval System). Ambient air quality monitoring data for the 3-year period must meet a data completeness requirement. The ambient air quality monitoring data completeness requirement is met when the average percent of required monitoring days with valid ambient monitoring data is greater than 90 percent, and no single year has less than 75 percent data completeness as determined according to appendix P of part 50. 41445 III. What action is EPA taking and what is the rationale? EPA is taking this action pursuant to the agency’s statutory obligation under CAA section 181(b)(2) to determine whether the Cleveland and St. Louis nonattainment areas have attained the 2008 ozone NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. In this action, EPA is making a determination that the Cleveland and St. Louis areas attained the 2008 ozone NAAQS by the applicable deadline of July 20, 2016, based upon complete, quality-assured and certified ozone monitoring data for 2013–2015.2 EPA evaluated data from air quality monitors in the Cleveland and St. Louis areas in order to determine the areas’ attainment status as of the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. The data were supplied and quality-assured by state and local agencies responsible for monitoring ozone air monitoring networks. Table 1 displays the 2013– 2015 design value for each monitor as well as the fourth high daily maximum 8-hour ozone concentration for each of the three years used to calculate the design value. TABLE 1—ANNUAL 4TH HIGH DAILY MAXIMUM 8-HOUR OZONE CONCENTRATION AND DESIGN VALUE BY MONITOR 2013 4th high 2014 4th high 2015 4th high 2013–2015 design value Area County Monitor St. Louis, MO-IL .. Madison, IL ........ Alton 171190008 ............................ Maryville 171190009 ...................... Wood River 171193007 ................. 5403 State Road 160 171199991 East Saint Louis 171630010 .......... Arnold 290990019 .......................... West Alton 291831002 .................. Orchard Farm 291831004 ............. Pacific 291890005 ......................... Maryland Heights 291890014 ........ St. Louis 295100085 ...................... 0.072 0.075 0.069 0.071 0.066 0.069 0.071 0.071 0.067 0.070 0.066 0.072 0.070 0.070 0.068 0.067 0.072 0.072 0.072 0.065 0.072 0.066 0.069 0.064 0.069 0.067 0.066 0.069 0.070 0.066 0.065 0.069 0.063 0.071 0.069 0.069 0.068 0.066 0.070 0.071 0.069 0.065 0.070 0.065 Conneaut 390071001 .................... 891 E. 152 St. 390350034 ............. E. 14th & Orange 390350060 ........ Berea 390350064 .......................... Mayfield 390355002 ....................... 13000 Auburn 390550004 ............. Eastlake 390850003 ...................... Painesville 390850007 ................... Sheffield 390930018 ...................... Ballash Road 391030004 .............. 1570 Ravenna Rd. 391331001 ...... Akron 391530020 ........................... 0.070 0.069 0.057 0.064 0.065 0.065 0.070 0.068 0.060 0.065 0.058 0.060 0.069 0.071 0.066 0.059 0.061 0.065 0.075 0.062 0.067 0.064 0.061 0.058 0.070 0.067 0.063 0.066 0.072 0.073 0.074 0.070 0.062 0.063 0.064 0.065 0.069 0.069 0.062 0.063 0.066 0.067 0.073 0.066 0.063 0.064 0.061 0.061 Saint Clair, IL ..... Jefferson, MO .... Saint Charles, MO. Saint Louis, MO Cleveland, OH ..... St. Louis City, MO. Ashtabula ........... Cuyahoga .......... Geauga .............. Lake ................... Lhorne on DSK30JT082PROD with RULES Lorain ................. Medina ............... Portage .............. Summit ............... All monitoring sites in the Cleveland and St. Louis areas had design values less than 0.075 ppm based on the 2013– 2015 monitoring period. Thus, EPA is determining, in accordance with section 181(b)(2)(A) of the CAA and the provisions of the SIP Requirements Rule (40 CFR 51.1103), that these areas attained the standard by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. EPA’s determination is based upon three years of complete, quality-assured and certified data. We are publishing this action without prior proposal because we view this as 2 These determinations of attainment do not constitute a redesignation to attainment. Redesignations require states to meet a number of additional criteria, including EPA approval of a state plan to maintain the air quality standard for 10 years after redesignation. VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:06 Jun 24, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\27JNR1.SGM 27JNR1 41446 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 123 / Monday, June 27, 2016 / Rules and Regulations a noncontroversial amendment and anticipate no adverse comments. However, in the proposed rules section of this Federal Register publication, we are publishing a separate document that will serve as the proposal to approve each determination if relevant adverse written comments are filed. This rule will be effective August 26, 2016 without further notice unless we receive relevant adverse written comments by July 27, 2016. If we receive such comments, we will withdraw this action, for any affected area, before the effective date by publishing a subsequent document that will withdraw the final action. All public comments received will then be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed action. 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. If we do not receive any comments, this action will be effective August 26, 2016. Lhorne on DSK30JT082PROD with RULES IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews Under section 181(b)(2) of the CAA, a determination of attainment is a factual determination based upon air quality considerations. These determinations of attainment would, if finalized, result in the suspension of certain Federal requirements. For that reason, this action: • Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21, 2011); • 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); VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:06 Jun 24, 2016 Jkt 238001 • 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 because it will not have a substantial direct effect on any Indian reservation land or in any other area where EPA or an Indian tribe has demonstrated that a tribe has jurisdiction. Determinations of attainment do not have tribal implications as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000), because a determination of attainment is an action that affects the status of a geographical area and does not impose any new regulatory requirements on tribes, impact any existing sources of air pollution on tribal lands, nor impair the maintenance of ozone national ambient air quality standards in tribal lands. The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. EPA will submit a report containing this action and other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register. This action is not a ‘‘major rule’’ as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by August 26, 2016. Filing a petition for reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor does it extend the time within which a petition PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 for judicial review may be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or action. Parties with objections to this direct final rule are encouraged to file a comment in response to the parallel notice of proposed rulemaking for this action published in the proposed rules section of this Federal Register, rather than file an immediate petition for judicial review of this direct final rule, so that EPA can withdraw this direct final rule and address the comment in the proposed rulemaking. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).) List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, Air pollution control, Designations and classifications, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen oxides, Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Volatile organic compounds. Dated: June 15, 2016. Robert A. Kaplan, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. Dated: June 3, 2016. Mark Hague, Regional Administrator, Region 7. Part 52, chapter I, title 40 of Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows: PART 52—APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows: ■ Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 2. Section 52.726 is amended by adding paragraph (qq) to read as follows: ■ § 52.726 Control strategy: Ozone. * * * * * (qq) Determination of attainment. As required by section 181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the St. Louis, MO-IL marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained the NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. ■ 3. Section 52.1342 is amended by adding paragraph (d) to read as follows: § 52.1342 Control strategy: Ozone. * * * * * (d) Determination of attainment. As required by section 181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the St. Louis, MO-IL marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained E:\FR\FM\27JNR1.SGM 27JNR1 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 123 / Monday, June 27, 2016 / Rules and Regulations the NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. ■ 4. Section 52.1885 is amended by adding paragraph (oo) to read as follows: § 52.1885 Control strategy: Ozone. * * * * * (oo) Determination of attainment. As required by section 181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the Cleveland, OH marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained the NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. ■ 5. Section 52.1892 is amended by adding paragraph (g) to read as follows: § 52.1892 Determination of attainment. * * * * * (g) As required by section 181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the Cleveland, OH marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained the NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. This determination is based on complete, quality-assured and certified data for the 3-year period 2013–2015. [FR Doc. 2016–15050 Filed 6–24–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA–R05–OAR–2015–0366; FRL–9948–21– Region 5] Air Plan Approval; Minnesota; Sulfur Dioxide Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Direct final rule. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a revision to the Minnesota sulfur dioxide (SO2) State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Flint Hills Resources, LLC Pine Bend Refinery (FHR) as submitted on May 1, 2015. The revision will consolidate existing permanent and enforceable SO2 SIP conditions into the facility’s joint Title I/Title V SIP document. This action highlights process modifications necessary to meet EPA’s Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards; a comprehensive monitoring strategy to better quantify SO2 emissions from fuel gas-fired emission units; a new restrictive flaring procedure for refinery process units, and other updates and administrative changes. This revision results in a modeled reduction in SO2 emissions from FHR and modeled SO2 ambient air concentrations less than half of the Lhorne on DSK30JT082PROD with RULES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:06 Jun 24, 2016 Jkt 238001 national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). DATES: This direct final rule will be effective August 26, 2016, unless EPA receives adverse comments by July 27, 2016. If adverse comments are received, EPA will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in the Federal Register informing the public that the rule will not take effect. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– OAR–2015–0366 at https:// www.regulations.gov or via email to blakley.pamela@epa.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e. on the Web, cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, please contact the person identified in the ‘‘For Further Information Contact’’ section. For the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ commenting-epa-dockets. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Maietta, Environmental Protection Specialist, Control Strategies Section, Air Programs Branch (AR–18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353–8777, maietta.anthony@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 is the background for this action? A. EPA’s Tier 3 Gasoline Standards B. Administrative Order and Title I SO2 SIP Conditions II. What is EPA’s analysis of the SIP revision? A. EPA’s Tier 3 Gasoline Standards B. Administrative Order and Title I SO2 SIP Conditions C. Miscellaneous Revisions PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 41447 III. What action is EPA taking? IV. Incorporation by Reference V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews I. What is the background for this action? A. EPA’s Tier 3 Gasoline Standards On April 28, 2014 (79 FR 23414 and amended on April 22, 2016, at 81 FR 23641), EPA established more stringent vehicle emissions standards to reduce the sulfur content of gasoline beginning January 1, 2017. The Tier 3 gasoline fuel standards (Tier 3 standards) will reduce both tailpipe and evaporative emissions from both new and existing passenger cars, light-duty trucks, medium-duty passenger vehicles, and some heavyduty vehicles. This will result in significant reductions in pollutants such as ozone, particulate matter, and air toxics across the country and help state and local agencies in their efforts to attain and maintain health-based NAAQS. In order to meet the Tier 3 standards, FHR plans to increase its use of hydrotreating to remove sulfur from intermediate fuel products. The increased hydrotreating will also increase the removal of nitrogen. To address the increased removal of nitrogen and sulfur, FHR proposes to install a process to convert gas containing sulfur and nitrogen into a salable, non-hazardous, aqueous liquid fertilizer: ammonium thiosulfate (ATS). B. Administrative Order and Title I SO2 SIP Conditions Minnesota also requested EPA’s approval of the transfer of Title I SO2 SIP conditions from an Administrative Order (Order) into the FHR Title I/Title V SO2 SIP document. Until 1990, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) had placed SIP control measures in permits issued to culpable sources. In 1990, EPA determined that limits in state-issued permits were not federally enforceable because the permits expired. Subsequently, MPCA then issued permanent Orders to affected sources in nonattainment areas from 1991 to February of 1996. In 1995, EPA approved into the Minnesota SIP Minnesota’s consolidated permitting regulations. (60 FR 21447, May 2, 1995). The consolidated permitting regulations included the term ‘‘Title I condition’’ which was written, in part, to satisfy EPA requirements that SIP control measures remain permanent. 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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2016-0276; FRL-9948-19-Region 5]


Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date; 2008 Ozone 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Cleveland, Ohio and St. Louis, 
Missouri-Illinois Areas

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making a 
determination, under the Clean Air Act (CAA), that the Cleveland, Ohio 
(OH) and St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois (MO-IL) areas attained the 2008 
ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), by the applicable 
attainment date of July 20, 2016. This determination for each area is 
based on complete, quality-assured and certified ozone monitoring data 
for 2013-2015.

DATES: This direct final rule will be effective August 26, 2016, unless 
EPA receives adverse comments by July 27, 2016. If adverse comments are 
received by EPA for an affected area, EPA will publish a timely 
withdrawal of the direct final rule for that area in the Federal 
Register informing the public that the rule will not take effect there.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2016-0276 at https://www.regulations.gov or via email to 
Aburano.Douglas@epa.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, 
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, 
comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either 
manner of submission, EPA may publish any comment received to its 
public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you 
consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia 
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written 
comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and 
should include discussion of all points you wish to make. EPA will 
generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of 
the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 
system). For additional submission methods, please contact the person 
identified in the For Further Information Contact section. For the full 
EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia 
submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please 
visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen D'Agostino, Environmental 
Scientist, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs 
Branch (AR-18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-1767, 
dagostino.kathleen@epa.gov.
    Deborah Bredehoft, Air Planning and Development Branch, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, 
Kansas 66219, (913) 551-7164, Bredehoft.Deborah@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. Background
II. How does EPA determine whether an area has attained the 2008 
ozone standard?
III. What action is EPA taking and what is the rationale?
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

I. Background

    On April 30, 2012, the Cleveland, OH and St. Louis, MO-IL areas 
were designated as nonattainment for the 2008 ozone NAAQS and were 
classified as marginal, effective July 20, 2012 (77 FR 30088, May 21, 
2012). On March 6, 2015 (80 FR 12264), in the final 2008 ozone NAAQS 
SIP requirements rule, EPA established an attainment deadline for 
marginal areas of July 20, 2015.
    The CAA section 181(b)(2) requires the EPA to determine, based on 
an area's ozone design value \1\ as of the

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area's attainment deadline, whether the area has attained the ozone 
standard by that date. The statute provides a mechanism by which states 
that meet certain criteria may request and be granted by the EPA 
Administrator a 1-year extension of an area's attainment deadline.
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    \1\ An area's ozone design value for the 8-hour ozone NAAQS is 
the highest 3-year average of the annual fourth-highest daily 
maximum 8-hour average concentrations of all monitors in the area. 
To determine whether an area has attained the ozone NAAQS prior to 
the attainment date, EPA considers the monitor-specific ozone design 
values in the area for the most recent three years with complete, 
quality-assured, and certified ozone monitoring data prior to the 
attainment deadline (or for an earlier 3-year period if the area 
attains the ozone standard ahead of the attainment deadline).
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    On May 4, 2016 (81 FR 26697), based on EPA's evaluation and 
determination that the areas met the attainment date extension criteria 
of CAA section 181(8)(5), EPA granted the Cleveland and St. Louis areas 
a 1-year extension of the marginal area attainment date to July 20, 
2016.

II. How does EPA determine whether an area has attained the 2008 ozone 
standard?

    Under EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 50, appendix P, the 2008 ozone 
NAAQS is attained at a site when the 3-year average of the annual 
fourth highest daily maximum 8-hour average ambient air quality ozone 
concentration is less than or equal to 0.075 parts per million (ppm). 
This 3-year average is referred to as the design value. When the design 
value is less than or equal to 0.075 ppm at each ambient air quality 
monitoring site within the area, then the area is deemed to be meeting 
the NAAQS. The rounding convention under 40 CFR part 50, appendix P, 
dictates that concentrations shall be reported in ppm to the third 
decimal place, with additional digits to the right being truncated. 
Thus, a computed 3-year average ozone concentration of 0.076 ppm is 
greater than 0.075 ppm and, therefore, over the standard.
    EPA's determination of attainment is based upon data that have been 
collected and quality-assured in accordance with 40 CFR part 58 and 
recorded in the EPA's Air Quality System database (formerly known as 
the Aerometric Information Retrieval System). Ambient air quality 
monitoring data for the 3-year period must meet a data completeness 
requirement. The ambient air quality monitoring data completeness 
requirement is met when the average percent of required monitoring days 
with valid ambient monitoring data is greater than 90 percent, and no 
single year has less than 75 percent data completeness as determined 
according to appendix P of part 50.

III. What action is EPA taking and what is the rationale?

    EPA is taking this action pursuant to the agency's statutory 
obligation under CAA section 181(b)(2) to determine whether the 
Cleveland and St. Louis nonattainment areas have attained the 2008 
ozone NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. In this 
action, EPA is making a determination that the Cleveland and St. Louis 
areas attained the 2008 ozone NAAQS by the applicable deadline of July 
20, 2016, based upon complete, quality-assured and certified ozone 
monitoring data for 2013-2015.\2\
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    \2\ These determinations of attainment do not constitute a 
redesignation to attainment. Redesignations require states to meet a 
number of additional criteria, including EPA approval of a state 
plan to maintain the air quality standard for 10 years after 
redesignation.
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    EPA evaluated data from air quality monitors in the Cleveland and 
St. Louis areas in order to determine the areas' attainment status as 
of the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. The data were 
supplied and quality-assured by state and local agencies responsible 
for monitoring ozone air monitoring networks. Table 1 displays the 
2013-2015 design value for each monitor as well as the fourth high 
daily maximum 8-hour ozone concentration for each of the three years 
used to calculate the design value.

                              Table 1--Annual 4th High Daily Maximum 8-Hour Ozone Concentration and Design Value by Monitor
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                                                                                                                                             2013-2015
                Area                         County                    Monitor            2013  4th high  2014  4th high  2015  4th high   design value
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St. Louis, MO-IL...................  Madison, IL...........  Alton 171190008............           0.072           0.072           0.069           0.071
                                                             Maryville 171190009........           0.075           0.070           0.064           0.069
                                                             Wood River 171193007.......           0.069           0.070           0.069           0.069
                                                             5403 State Road 160                   0.071           0.068           0.067           0.068
                                                              171199991.
                                     Saint Clair, IL.......  East Saint Louis 171630010.           0.066           0.067           0.066           0.066
                                     Jefferson, MO.........  Arnold 290990019...........           0.069           0.072           0.069           0.070
                                     Saint Charles, MO.....  West Alton 291831002.......           0.071           0.072           0.070           0.071
                                                             Orchard Farm 291831004.....           0.071           0.072           0.066           0.069
                                     Saint Louis, MO.......  Pacific 291890005..........           0.067           0.065           0.065           0.065
                                                             Maryland Heights 291890014.           0.070           0.072           0.069           0.070
                                     St. Louis City, MO....  St. Louis 295100085........           0.066           0.066           0.063           0.065
Cleveland, OH......................  Ashtabula.............  Conneaut 390071001.........           0.070           0.069           0.070           0.069
                                     Cuyahoga..............  891 E. 152 St. 390350034...           0.069           0.071           0.067           0.069
                                                             E. 14th & Orange 390350060.           0.057           0.066           0.063           0.062
                                                             Berea 390350064............           0.064           0.059           0.066           0.063
                                                             Mayfield 390355002.........           0.065           0.061           0.072           0.066
                                     Geauga................  13000 Auburn 390550004.....           0.065           0.065           0.073           0.067
                                     Lake..................  Eastlake 390850003.........           0.070           0.075           0.074           0.073
                                                             Painesville 390850007......           0.068           0.062           0.070           0.066
                                     Lorain................  Sheffield 390930018........           0.060           0.067           0.062           0.063
                                     Medina................  Ballash Road 391030004.....           0.065           0.064           0.063           0.064
                                     Portage...............  1570 Ravenna Rd. 391331001.           0.058           0.061           0.064           0.061
                                     Summit................  Akron 391530020............           0.060           0.058           0.065           0.061
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    All monitoring sites in the Cleveland and St. Louis areas had 
design values less than 0.075 ppm based on the 2013-2015 monitoring 
period. Thus, EPA is determining, in accordance with section 
181(b)(2)(A) of the CAA and the provisions of the SIP Requirements Rule 
(40 CFR 51.1103), that these areas attained the standard by the 
applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016. EPA's determination is 
based upon three years of complete, quality-assured and certified data.
    We are publishing this action without prior proposal because we 
view this as

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a noncontroversial amendment and anticipate no adverse comments. 
However, in the proposed rules section of this Federal Register 
publication, we are publishing a separate document that will serve as 
the proposal to approve each determination if relevant adverse written 
comments are filed. This rule will be effective August 26, 2016 without 
further notice unless we receive relevant adverse written comments by 
July 27, 2016. If we receive such comments, we will withdraw this 
action, for any affected area, before the effective date by publishing 
a subsequent document that will withdraw the final action. All public 
comments received will then be addressed in a subsequent final rule 
based on the proposed action. 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. If we do not receive any comments, this action will be 
effective August 26, 2016.

IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under section 181(b)(2) of the CAA, a determination of attainment 
is a factual determination based upon air quality considerations. These 
determinations of attainment would, if finalized, result in the 
suspension of certain Federal requirements. For that reason, this 
action:
     Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to 
review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders 
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21, 
2011);
     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 because it 
will not have a substantial direct effect on any Indian reservation 
land or in any other area where EPA or an Indian tribe has demonstrated 
that a tribe has jurisdiction. Determinations of attainment do not have 
tribal implications as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, 
November 9, 2000), because a determination of attainment is an action 
that affects the status of a geographical area and does not impose any 
new regulatory requirements on tribes, impact any existing sources of 
air pollution on tribal lands, nor impair the maintenance of ozone 
national ambient air quality standards in tribal lands.
    The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the 
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally 
provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating 
the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, 
to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the 
United States. EPA will submit a report containing this action and 
other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of 
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior 
to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot 
take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal 
Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 
804(2).
    Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review 
of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for 
the appropriate circuit by August 26, 2016. Filing a petition for 
reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect 
the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor 
does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may 
be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or 
action. Parties with objections to this direct final rule are 
encouraged to file a comment in response to the parallel notice of 
proposed rulemaking for this action published in the proposed rules 
section of this Federal Register, rather than file an immediate 
petition for judicial review of this direct final rule, so that EPA can 
withdraw this direct final rule and address the comment in the proposed 
rulemaking. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to 
enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).)

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, 
Air pollution control, Designations and classifications, Incorporation 
by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen oxides, Ozone, 
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Volatile organic compounds.

    Dated: June 15, 2016.
Robert A. Kaplan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
    Dated: June 3, 2016.
Mark Hague,
Regional Administrator, Region 7.

    Part 52, chapter I, title 40 of Code of Federal Regulations is 
amended as follows:

PART 52--APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS

0
1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

0
2. Section 52.726 is amended by adding paragraph (qq) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  52.726  Control strategy: Ozone.

* * * * *
    (qq) Determination of attainment. As required by section 
181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the St. 
Louis, MO-IL marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained the 
NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016.
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3. Section 52.1342 is amended by adding paragraph (d) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  52.1342  Control strategy: Ozone.

* * * * *
    (d) Determination of attainment. As required by section 
181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the St. 
Louis, MO-IL marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained

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the NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016.

0
4. Section 52.1885 is amended by adding paragraph (oo) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  52.1885  Control strategy: Ozone.

* * * * *
    (oo) Determination of attainment. As required by section 
181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA has determined that the 
Cleveland, OH marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment area has attained the 
NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2016.

0
5. Section 52.1892 is amended by adding paragraph (g) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  52.1892  Determination of attainment.

* * * * *
    (g) As required by section 181(b)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act, EPA 
has determined that the Cleveland, OH marginal 2008 ozone nonattainment 
area has attained the NAAQS by the applicable attainment date of July 
20, 2016. This determination is based on complete, quality-assured and 
certified data for the 3-year period 2013-2015.

[FR Doc. 2016-15050 Filed 6-24-16; 8:45 am]
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