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requirements of 40 CFR part 75. The
testing and evaluation of the inlet
monitors and the calculations of relative
accuracy for lb/hr of NOX, SO2 and heat
input shall be performed each time the
40 CFR part 75 CEMS undergo relative
accuracy testing.
(ii) Compliance determinations for
NOX.
(A) [Reserved]
(B) Coronado Generating Station.
Compliance with the NOX emission
limits for Coronado Unit 1 and
Coronado Unit 2 in paragraph (f)(3)(i) of
this section shall be determined on a
rolling 30 boiler-operating-day basis.
The 30-boiler-operating-day rolling NOX
emission rate for each unit shall be
calculated in accordance with the
following procedure: Step one, sum the
total pounds of NOX emitted from the
unit during the current boiler operating
day and the previous twenty-nine (29)
boiler operating days; Step two, sum the
total heat input to the unit in MMBtu
during the current boiler operating day
and the previous twenty-nine (29) boiler
operating days; Step three, divide the
total number of pounds of NOX emitted
from that unit during the thirty (30)
boiler operating days by the total heat
input to the unit during the thirty (30)
boiler operating days. A new 30-boileroperating-day rolling average NOX
emission rate shall be calculated for
each new boiler operating day. Each 30boiler-operating-day average NOX
emission rate shall include all emissions
that occur during all periods within any
boiler operating day, including
emissions from startup, shutdown, and
malfunction.
(C) If a valid NOX pounds per hour or
heat input is not available for any hour
for a unit, that heat input and NOX
pounds per hour shall not be used in the
calculation of the 30-day rolling
average.
(iii) Compliance determinations for
SO2. (A) The 30-day rolling average SO2
emission rate for each coal-fired unit
shall be calculated in accordance with
the following procedure: Step one, sum
the total pounds of SO2 emitted from the
unit during the current boiler-operating
day and the previous twenty-nine (29)
boiler-operating days; step two, sum the
total heat input to the unit in MMBtu
during the current boiler-operating day
and the previous twenty-nine (29)
boiler-operating day; and step three,
divide the total number of pounds of
SO2 emitted during the thirty (30)
boiler-operating days by the total heat
input during the thirty (30) boileroperating days. A new 30-day rolling
average SO2 emission rate shall be
calculated for each new boiler-operating
day. Each 30-day rolling average SO2
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emission rate shall include all emissions
and all heat input that occur during all
periods within any boiler-operating day,
including emissions from startup,
shutdown, and malfunction.
(B) [Reserved]
(C) If a valid SO2 pounds per hour at
the outlet of the FGD system or heat
input is not available for any hour for
a unit, that heat input and SO2 pounds
per hour shall not be used in the
calculation of the 30-day rolling
average.
(D) If both a valid inlet and outlet SO2
lb/MMBtu and an outlet value of lb/hr
of SO2 are not available for any hour,
that hour shall not be included in the
efficiency calculation.
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(10) Equipment operations.
(i) [Reserved]
(ii) Coronado Generating Station. At
all times, including periods of startup,
shutdown, and malfunction, the owner
or operator of Coronado Generating
Station Unit 1 and Unit 2 shall, to the
extent practicable, maintain and operate
each unit in a manner consistent with
good air pollution control practices for
minimizing emissions. The owner or
operator shall continuously operate
pollution control equipment at all times
the unit it serves is in operation, and
operate pollution control equipment in
a manner consistent with technological
limitations, manufacturer’s
specifications, and good engineering
and good air pollution control practices
for minimizing emissions.
Determination of whether acceptable
operating and maintenance procedures
are being used will be based on
information available to the Regional
Administrator which may include, but
is not limited to, monitoring results,
review of operating and maintenance
procedures, and inspection of each unit.
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[EPA–R08–OAR–2016–0221; FRL–9948–88–
Region 8]
Approval and Promulgation of State
Implementation Plan Revisions to
Permits, Rules and Approval Orders;
Utah
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
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The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revisions submitted by the State of Utah
on February 10, 2012 and August 29,
2014. These submittals request SIP
revisions to remove changes to the
major source baseline date that were
disapproved by the EPA on July 15,
2011. The submittals also address the
EPA’s February 6, 2014 disapproval of
several permit rules related to the public
availability of good engineering practice
stack height demonstrations in the
public comment process for an approval
order, and the process for making
emission reductions enforceable in an
approval order. The EPA is taking this
action in accordance with section 110 of
the Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before August 18, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R08–
OAR–2016–0221, at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from Regulations.gov.
The 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. The 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, 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: Jody
Ostendorf, Air Program, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Region 8, Mail Code 8P–AR,
1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado
80202–1129, (303) 312–7814,
ostendorf.jody@epa.gov.
SUMMARY:
Incorporation by Reference
In this rule, the EPA is finalizing
regulatory text that includes
incorporation by reference. In
accordance with requirements of 1 CFR
51.5, the EPA is proposing to
incorporate by reference the Utah rules
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described in the amendments to 40 CFR
part 52 set forth below. The EPA has
made, and will continue to make, these
materials generally available through
www.regulations.gov and/or at the EPA
Region 8 Office (please contact the
person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
preamble for more information).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’
section of this Federal Register, the EPA
is approving the State’s SIP revision as
a direct final rule without prior proposal
because the agency views this as a
noncontroversial SIP revision and
anticipates no adverse comments. A
detailed rationale for the approval is set
forth in the preamble to the direct final
rule.
If the EPA receives no adverse
comments, the EPA will not take further
action on this proposed rule. If the EPA
receives adverse comments, the EPA
will withdraw the direct final rule and
it will not take effect. The EPA will
address all public comments in a
subsequent final rule based on this
proposed rule.
The EPA will not 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 notice.
Please note that if the EPA receives
adverse comment on a distinct
provision of this rule and if that
provision may be severed from the
remainder of the rule, the EPA may
adopt as final those provisions of the
rule that are not the subject of an
adverse comment. See the information
provided in the Direct Final action of
the same title which is located in the
Rules and Regulations Section of this
Federal Register.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 22, 2016.
Shaun L. McGrath,
Regional Administrator, Region 8.
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Region 1]
Air Plan Approval; New Hampshire;
Regional Haze 5-Year Report
ACTION:
Proposed rule.
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The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision submitted by the State of New
Hampshire on December 16, 2014. New
Hampshire’s SIP revision addresses
requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA)
and EPA’s rules that require states to
submit periodic reports describing
progress toward reasonable progress
goals (RPGs) established for regional
haze and a determination of the
adequacy of the State’s existing Regional
Haze SIP. In addition, the December 16,
2014 submittal includes a revised
regulation that reduces the total
suspended particulate (TSP) emission
limit for the State’s sole TangentialFiring, Dry-Bottom Boiler.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before August 18, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID Number EPA–
R01–OAR–2014–0909 at https://
www.regulations.gov, or via email to
arnold.anne@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, the 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. The 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:
Anne McWilliams, Air Quality Unit,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA New England Regional Office, 5
Post Office Square—Suite 100, (Mail
Code OEP05–02), Boston, MA 02109—
3912, telephone number (617) 918–
1697, fax number (617) 918–0697, email
mcwilliams.anne@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document whenever
SUMMARY:
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‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA.
Organization of this document. The
following outline is provided to aid in
locating information in this preamble.
I. Background
II. Requirements for Regional Haze 5-Year
Progress Report SIPs and Adequacy
Determinations
III. EPA’s Evaluation of New Hampshire’s SIP
Revision
A. Regional Haze Progress Report
B. Determination of Adequacy of Existing
Regional Haze Plan
C. Revised Env–A 2302.02 Emission
Standards Applicable to TangentialFiring, Dry-Bottom Boilers
IV. Proposed Action
V. Incorporation by Reference
VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. Background
States are required to submit a
progress report in the form of a SIP
revision every five years that evaluates
progress towards the RPGs for each
mandatory Class I Federal area 1 (Class
I area) within the state and in each Class
I area outside the state which may be
affected by emissions from within the
state. See 40 CFR 51.308(g). In addition,
the provisions under 40 CFR 51.308(h)
require states to submit, at the same
time as the 40 CFR 51.308(g) progress
report, a determination of the adequacy
of the state’s existing Regional Haze SIP.
The first progress report SIP is due five
years after submittal of the initial
Regional Haze SIP. On January 29, 2010,
the New Hampshire Department of
Environmental Services (NH DES)
submitted the State’s first Regional Haze
SIP in accordance with 40 CFR 51.308.2
On December 16, 2014, NH DES
submitted a revision to the New
Hampshire SIP detailing the progress
made in the first planning period
toward implementation of the Long
Term Strategy (LTS) outlined in the
2010 Regional Haze SIP submittal, the
visibility improvement measured at the
State’s Class I areas, and a
determination of the adequacy of the
State’s existing Regional Haze SIP. EPA
is proposing to approve New
Hampshire’s December 16, 2014 SIP
revision on the basis that it satisfies the
requirements of 40 CFR 51.308(g) and
(h).
1 Areas designated as mandatory Class I Federal
areas consist of national parks exceeding 6000
acres, wilderness areas and national memorial parks
exceeding 5000 acres, and all international parks
that were in existence on August 7, 1977 (42 U.S.C.
7472(a)).
2 On August 22, 2012, EPA approved New
Hampshire’s Regional Haze SIP submittal
addressing the requirements of the first
implementation period for regional haze. See 77 FR
50602.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R08-OAR-2016-0221; FRL-9948-88-Region 8]
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plan Revisions
to Permits, Rules and Approval Orders; Utah
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the
State of Utah on February 10, 2012 and August 29, 2014. These
submittals request SIP revisions to remove changes to the major source
baseline date that were disapproved by the EPA on July 15, 2011. The
submittals also address the EPA's February 6, 2014 disapproval of
several permit rules related to the public availability of good
engineering practice stack height demonstrations in the public comment
process for an approval order, and the process for making emission
reductions enforceable in an approval order. The EPA is taking this
action in accordance with section 110 of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 18, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-
OAR-2016-0221, at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. The 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. The 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, 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: Jody Ostendorf, Air Program, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, Mail Code 8P-AR, 1595
Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129, (303) 312-7814,
ostendorf.jody@epa.gov.
Incorporation by Reference
In this rule, the EPA is finalizing regulatory text that includes
incorporation by reference. In accordance with requirements of 1 CFR
51.5, the EPA is proposing to incorporate by reference the Utah rules
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described in the amendments to 40 CFR part 52 set forth below. The EPA
has made, and will continue to make, these materials generally
available through www.regulations.gov and/or at the EPA Region 8 Office
(please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this preamble for more information).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this Federal Register,
the EPA is approving the State's SIP revision as a direct final rule
without prior proposal because the agency views this as a
noncontroversial SIP revision and anticipates no adverse comments. A
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the preamble to the
direct final rule.
If the EPA receives no adverse comments, the EPA will not take
further action on this proposed rule. If the EPA receives adverse
comments, the EPA will withdraw the direct final rule and it will not
take effect. The EPA will address all public comments in a subsequent
final rule based on this proposed rule.
The EPA will not 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 notice.
Please note that if the EPA receives adverse comment on a distinct
provision of this rule and if that provision may be severed from the
remainder of the rule, the EPA may adopt as final those provisions of
the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. See the
information provided in the Direct Final action of the same title which
is located in the Rules and Regulations Section of this Federal
Register.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 22, 2016.
Shaun L. McGrath,
Regional Administrator, Region 8.
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