Approval and Promulgation of State Plans (Negative Declarations) for Designated Facilities and Pollutants: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Revisions to State Plan for Designated Facilities and Pollutants: New Hampshire, 26016-26017 [2017-10917]
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TABLE 2—LIST OF SOUTH DAKOTA INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS AND REVISIONS THAT THE EPA IS PROPOSING TO TAKE
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December 20, 2013 submittal—2010 SO2 NAAQS:
(D)(i)(I) prongs 1 and 2.
January 25, 2016 submittal—2012 PM2.5 NAAQS:
(D)(i)(I) prongs 1 and 2.
VIII. Statutory and Executive Orders
Review
Under the CAA, 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 52.02(a)).
Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, the
EPA’s role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of
the CAA. Accordingly, this proposed
action merely approves some state law
as meeting federal requirements and
disapproves other state law because it
does not meet federal requirements; this
proposed action does not impose
additional requirements beyond those
imposed by state law. For that reason,
this proposed action:
• Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory
action’’ subject to review by the Office
of Management and Budget under
Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735,
Oct. 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, Aug. 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 the EPA with the
discretionary authority to address, as
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appropriate, disproportionate human
health or environmental effects, using
practicable and legally permissible
methods, under Executive Order 12898
(59 FR 7629, Feb. 16, 1994).
The SIP is not approved to apply on
any Indian reservation land or in any
other area where the EPA or an Indian
tribe has demonstrated that a tribe has
jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian
country, the rule does not have tribal
implications and will not impose
substantial direct costs on tribal
governments or preempt tribal law as
specified by Executive Order 13175 (65
FR 67249, November 9, 2000).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Incorporation by reference,
Intergovernmental relations,
Greenhouse gases, Lead, Nitrogen
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter,
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile
organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: May 16, 2017.
Suzanne J. Bohan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 8.
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40 CFR Part 62
[EPA–R01–OAR–2017–0202; FRL–9962–40–
Region 1]
Approval and Promulgation of State
Plans (Negative Declarations) for
Designated Facilities and Pollutants:
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont; Revisions to
State Plan for Designated Facilities
and Pollutants: New Hampshire
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve:
Negative declarations for commercial
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and industrial solid waste incinerators
for the State of Connecticut, the State of
New Hampshire, the State of Rhode
Island, and the State of Vermont;
negative declarations for hospital/
medical/infectious waste incinerators
for the State of Rhode Island; and
revisions to the state plan for existing
large and small municipal waste
combustors for the State of New
Hampshire. This action is being made in
accordance with sections 111 and 129 of
the Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before July 6, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01–
OAR–2017–0202 at https://
www.regulations.gov, or via email to
bird.patrick@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:
Patrick Bird, Air Permits, Toxics, &
Indoor Programs Unit, Air Programs
Branch, Office of Ecosystem Protection,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
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Code: OEP05–2, Boston, MA 02109–
0287. Telephone: 617–918–1584. Fax:
617–918–0668. Email bird.patrick@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
Final Rules Section of this Federal
Register, EPA is approving the State
Plan revisions 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 adverse comments are
received in response to this action rule,
no further activity is contemplated. If
EPA receives 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.
Dated: April 20, 2017.
Deborah A. Szaro,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA New
England.
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40 CFR Part 423
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OW]
RIN 2040–AF76
Postponement of Certain Compliance
Dates for the Effluent Limitations
Guidelines and Standards for the
Steam Electric Power Generating Point
Source Category
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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AGENCY:
In response to administrative
petitions for reconsideration, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
proposes to postpone certain
compliance dates in the effluent
limitations guidelines and standards for
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the steam electric point source category
under the Clean Water Act (‘‘CWA’’),
published in the Federal Register on
November 3, 2015. Specifically, EPA
proposes to postpone the compliance
dates for the new, and more stringent,
best available technology economically
achievable (‘‘BAT’’) effluent limitations
and pretreatment standards for each of
the following wastestreams: Fly ash
transport water, bottom ash transport
water, flue gas desulfurization (‘‘FGD’’)
wastewater, flue gas mercury control
wastewater, and gasification
wastewater. These compliance dates
would be postponed until EPA
completes reconsideration of the 2015
Rule.
Comments on this proposed rule
must be received on or before July 6,
2017.
DATES:
Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OW–2009–0819, 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.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Ronald Jordan, United States
Environmental Protection Agency,
Engineering and Analysis Division;
telephone number: (202) 564–1003;
email address: jordan.ronald@epa.gov.
Electronic copies of this document
and related materials are available on
EPA’s Web site at https://www.epa.gov/
eg/steam-electric-power-generatingeffluent-guidelines-2015-final-rule.
Copies of this proposed rule are also
available at https://www.regulations.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background and Discussion of
Postponement
On November 3, 2015, the EPA issued
a final rule amending 40 CFR part 423,
the effluent limitations guidelines and
standards for the steam electric power
generating point source category, under
Sections 301, 304, 306, 307, 308, 402,
and 501 of the CWA (33 U.S.C. 1311,
1314, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1342, and
1361). The amendments addressed and
contained limitations and standards on
various wastestreams at steam electric
power plants: Fly ash transport water,
bottom ash transport water, flue gas
mercury control wastewater, flue gas
desulfurization (FGD) wastewater,
gasification wastewater, and combustion
residual leachate. Collectively, this
rulemaking is known as the ‘‘Effluent
Limitations Guidelines and Standards
for the Steam Electric Power Generating
Point Source Category’’ (‘‘Rule’’). For
further information on the Rule, see 80
FR 67838 (Nov. 3, 2015).
EPA received seven petitions for
review of the Rule. The United States
Judicial Panel on Multi-District
Litigation issued an order on December
8, 2015, consolidating all of the
petitions in the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit, Southwestern
Electric Power Co., et al. v. EPA, No. 15–
60821.
In a letter dated March 24, 2017, the
Utility Water Act Group (‘‘UWAG’’) 1
submitted a petition for reconsideration
of the Rule and requested that EPA
suspend the Rule’s approaching
deadlines. UWAG supplemented its
petition with additional information in
a letter dated April 13, 2017. In a letter
dated April 5, 2017, the Small Business
Administration (SBA) Office of
Advocacy sent EPA a second petition
for reconsideration of the Rule, which
expressly supports the UWAG’s petition
and raises issues that SBA considers are
pertinent to small businesses. The
petitions raise wide-ranging and
sweeping objections to the Rule.2
Among other things, the UWAG petition
points to new data, claiming that plants
burning subbituminous and bituminous
coal cannot comply with the rule’s
limitations and standards for FGD
wastewater through use of EPA’s model
technology. EPA wishes to review these
data. UWAG also requested that EPA
1 According to the petition, UWAG is a voluntary,
ad hoc, unincorporated group of 163 individual
energy companies and three national trade
associations of energy companies: Edison Electric
Institute, the National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association, and the American Public Power
Association.
2 A copy of each petition and the supplemental
information is included in the docket for this rule,
Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0819.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 62
[EPA-R01-OAR-2017-0202; FRL-9962-40-Region 1]
Approval and Promulgation of State Plans (Negative Declarations)
for Designated Facilities and Pollutants: Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, and Vermont; Revisions to State Plan for Designated
Facilities and Pollutants: New Hampshire
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve: Negative declarations for commercial and industrial solid
waste incinerators for the State of Connecticut, the State of New
Hampshire, the State of Rhode Island, and the State of Vermont;
negative declarations for hospital/medical/infectious waste
incinerators for the State of Rhode Island; and revisions to the state
plan for existing large and small municipal waste combustors for the
State of New Hampshire. This action is being made in accordance with
sections 111 and 129 of the Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 6, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R01-
OAR-2017-0202 at https://www.regulations.gov, or via email to
bird.patrick@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: Patrick Bird, Air Permits, Toxics, &
Indoor Programs Unit, Air Programs Branch, Office of Ecosystem
Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
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Region 1, 5 Post Office Square, Mail Code: OEP05-2, Boston, MA 02109-
0287. Telephone: 617-918-1584. Fax: 617-918-0668. Email
bird.patrick@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Rules Section of this Federal
Register, EPA is approving the State Plan revisions 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 adverse comments are received in response to this action
rule, no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives 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.
Dated: April 20, 2017.
Deborah A. Szaro,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA New England.
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