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40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R03–OAR–2018–0741; FRL–9994–41–
Region 3]
Approval and Promulgation of Air
Quality Implementation Plans;
Delaware; Removal of Unnecessary
Electric Arc Furnace Regulation and
References to the Electric Arc Furnace
Regulation
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve
three state implementation plan (SIP)
revisions submitted by the State of
Delaware. One revision requests EPA
remove from the Delaware SIP a state
regulation governing emissions from
Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) because
there are no such sources in Delaware
and the State has already repealed this
regulation. EPA is further proposing to
approve minor revisions to two SIP
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approved regulations which reference
the repealed EAF regulation in order to
remove references to the EAF
regulation. EPA is proposing approval of
these SIP revisions in accordance the
Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before July 1, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03–
OAR–2018–0741 at https://
www.regulations.gov, or via email to
spielberger.susan@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
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information you consider to be
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Gaige, Air Quality Analysis
Branch (3AD40), Air & Radiation
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. The
telephone number is (215) 814–5676.
Ms. Gaige can also be reached via
electronic mail at gaige.elizabeth@
epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May
25, 2018, the State of Delaware, through
the Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Control (DNREC),
formally submitted a SIP revision
requesting the removal of a state
regulation found at 7 Delaware Admin.
Code 1123—Standards of Performance
for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces,
from the Delaware SIP because it is
outdated. Delaware requested removal
of 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123
because there are currently no such
sources in the state of Delaware, and
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more restrictive State and Federal
requirements are in place if any new
EAF are constructed in Delaware in the
future. Delaware has already repealed
and removed 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1123 from Delaware’s regulations.
Subsequently, on March 19, 2019, the
State of Delaware, through the DNREC,
formally submitted two more SIP
revisions requesting a minor revision to
state regulation 7 Delaware Admin.
Code 1114—Source Monitoring, Record
Keeping and Reporting, and to state
regulation 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1117—Visible Emissions. Both of these
regulations contain cross references to
the EAF regulation which Delaware has
repealed, and these two SIP revisions
remove these cross references.
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I. Background
Delaware House Bill 147 requires
each Executive Branch agency to
perform a periodic review of existing
regulations to determine if any should
be modified or eliminated. The review
identified 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1123—Standards of Performance for
Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces as
needing to be eliminated because there
are currently no such sources in the
State of Delaware and more restrictive
State and Federal requirements are in
place should any new EAF be
constructed in Delaware. The State
subsequently identified language in 7
Delaware Admin. Code 1114—Source
Monitoring, Record Keeping and
Reporting and 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1117—Visible Emissions, that needed to
be updated because these regulations
both refer to 7 Delaware Admin Code
1123—Standards of Performance for
Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces.
II. Summary of SIP Revision and EPA
Analysis
On May 25, 2018, the State of
Delaware, through the DNREC, formally
submitted a SIP revision requesting
removal of state regulation 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1123—Standards of
Performance for Steel Plants: Electric
Arc Furnaces from the Delaware SIP
because there are no EAFs in Delaware
and any future EAF constructed in
Delaware would be subject to more
stringent Federal and State regulations
than 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123.
The removal of 7 Delaware Admin.
Code 1123 has no expected emissions
impact on any pollutant because there
are no existing EAFs in Delaware and
the removal of the regulation is not
expected to interfere with reasonable
further progress, any National Ambient
Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) or any
other CAA requirement. Therefore, the
removal of 7 Delaware Admin. Code
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1123 from the Delaware SIP is in
accordance with section 110(l) of the
CAA.
On March 19, 2019, the DNREC
formally submitted two SIP revisions
requesting minor amendments to the
SIP approved versions of 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1114—Source Monitoring,
Record Keeping and Reporting and to
state regulation 7 Delaware Admin.
Code 1117—Visible Emissions. In order
to be consistent with the elimination of
7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123, the State
has already changed 7 Delaware Admin.
Code Sections 1114 and 1117 to remove
the references to the repealed EAF
regulation. Delaware’s March 19, 2019
SIP submittal requests that these
changes be incorporated into the SIP
approved versions of these regulations.
III. Proposed Action
EPA is proposing to approve
Delaware’s May 25, 2018 and March 19,
2019 SIP revisions, as the submissions
meet the requirements of CAA section
110. EPA’s review of this material
indicates that there are no sources in the
state of Delaware subject to 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1123—Standards of
Performance for Steel Plants: Electric
Arc Furnaces. If an EAF is constructed
in the future in the State of Delaware,
the EAF would be subject to more
stringent State or Federal requirements.
EPA is proposing to approve the
Delaware SIP revisions, which were
submitted on May 25, 2018 and March
19, 2019. EPA is soliciting public
comments on the issues discussed in
this document. These comments will be
considered before taking final action.
IV. Incorporation by Reference
In this document, EPA is proposing to
include in a final EPA rule regulatory
text that includes incorporation by
reference. In accordance with
requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, EPA is
proposing to incorporate by reference
the updated definition of VOC in 7
Delaware Admin. Code 1114—Source
Monitoring, Record Keeping and
Reporting, and to state regulation 7
Delaware Admin. Code 1117—Visible
Emissions, which remove references to
7 Delaware Admin Code 1123—
Standards of Performance for Steel
Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces. EPA has
made, and will continue to make, these
materials generally available through
https://www.regulations.gov and at the
EPA Region III Office (please contact the
person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
preamble for more information).
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V. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
Under the CAA, the Administrator is
required to approve a SIP submission
that complies with the provisions of the
CAA and applicable Federal regulations.
42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a).
Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions,
EPA’s role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of
the CAA. 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 proposed 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);
• Is not an Executive Order 13771 (82
FR 9339, February 2, 2017) regulatory
action because SIP approvals are
exempted under Executive Order 12866.
• 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).
The SIP is not approved to apply on
any Indian reservation land as defined
in 18 U.S.C. 1151 or in any other area
where EPA or an Indian tribe has
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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).
In addition, this proposed rule, to
remove an outdated EAF regulation
from the Delaware SIP and to amend
two other SIP approved regulations to
remove cross references to the EAF
regulation, 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,
Particulate matter, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: May 17, 2019.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R03-OAR-2018-0741; FRL-9994-41-Region 3]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Delaware; Removal of Unnecessary Electric Arc Furnace Regulation and
References to the Electric Arc Furnace Regulation
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve three state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by
the State of Delaware. One revision requests EPA remove from the
Delaware SIP a state regulation governing emissions from Electric Arc
Furnaces (EAF) because there are no such sources in Delaware and the
State has already repealed this regulation. EPA is further proposing to
approve minor revisions to two SIP approved regulations which reference
the repealed EAF regulation in order to remove references to the EAF
regulation. EPA is proposing approval of these SIP revisions in
accordance the Clean Air Act (CAA).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 1, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R03-
OAR-2018-0741 at https://www.regulations.gov, or via email to
[email protected]. 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: Elizabeth Gaige, Air Quality Analysis
Branch (3AD40), Air & Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
The telephone number is (215) 814-5676. Ms. Gaige can also be reached
via electronic mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 25, 2018, the State of Delaware,
through the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
(DNREC), formally submitted a SIP revision requesting the removal of a
state regulation found at 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123--Standards of
Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces, from the Delaware
SIP because it is outdated. Delaware requested removal of 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1123 because there are currently no such sources in the
state of Delaware, and
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more restrictive State and Federal requirements are in place if any new
EAF are constructed in Delaware in the future. Delaware has already
repealed and removed 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123 from Delaware's
regulations.
Subsequently, on March 19, 2019, the State of Delaware, through the
DNREC, formally submitted two more SIP revisions requesting a minor
revision to state regulation 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1114--Source
Monitoring, Record Keeping and Reporting, and to state regulation 7
Delaware Admin. Code 1117--Visible Emissions. Both of these regulations
contain cross references to the EAF regulation which Delaware has
repealed, and these two SIP revisions remove these cross references.
I. Background
Delaware House Bill 147 requires each Executive Branch agency to
perform a periodic review of existing regulations to determine if any
should be modified or eliminated. The review identified 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1123--Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric
Arc Furnaces as needing to be eliminated because there are currently no
such sources in the State of Delaware and more restrictive State and
Federal requirements are in place should any new EAF be constructed in
Delaware. The State subsequently identified language in 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1114--Source Monitoring, Record Keeping and Reporting and 7
Delaware Admin. Code 1117--Visible Emissions, that needed to be updated
because these regulations both refer to 7 Delaware Admin Code 1123--
Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces.
II. Summary of SIP Revision and EPA Analysis
On May 25, 2018, the State of Delaware, through the DNREC, formally
submitted a SIP revision requesting removal of state regulation 7
Delaware Admin. Code 1123--Standards of Performance for Steel Plants:
Electric Arc Furnaces from the Delaware SIP because there are no EAFs
in Delaware and any future EAF constructed in Delaware would be subject
to more stringent Federal and State regulations than 7 Delaware Admin.
Code 1123.
The removal of 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123 has no expected
emissions impact on any pollutant because there are no existing EAFs in
Delaware and the removal of the regulation is not expected to interfere
with reasonable further progress, any National Ambient Air Quality
Standards (NAAQS) or any other CAA requirement. Therefore, the removal
of 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1123 from the Delaware SIP is in accordance
with section 110(l) of the CAA.
On March 19, 2019, the DNREC formally submitted two SIP revisions
requesting minor amendments to the SIP approved versions of 7 Delaware
Admin. Code 1114--Source Monitoring, Record Keeping and Reporting and
to state regulation 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1117--Visible Emissions. In
order to be consistent with the elimination of 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1123, the State has already changed 7 Delaware Admin. Code Sections
1114 and 1117 to remove the references to the repealed EAF regulation.
Delaware's March 19, 2019 SIP submittal requests that these changes be
incorporated into the SIP approved versions of these regulations.
III. Proposed Action
EPA is proposing to approve Delaware's May 25, 2018 and March 19,
2019 SIP revisions, as the submissions meet the requirements of CAA
section 110. EPA's review of this material indicates that there are no
sources in the state of Delaware subject to 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1123--Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces.
If an EAF is constructed in the future in the State of Delaware, the
EAF would be subject to more stringent State or Federal requirements.
EPA is proposing to approve the Delaware SIP revisions, which were
submitted on May 25, 2018 and March 19, 2019. EPA is soliciting public
comments on the issues discussed in this document. These comments will
be considered before taking final action.
IV. Incorporation by Reference
In this document, EPA is proposing to include in a final EPA rule
regulatory text that includes incorporation by reference. In accordance
with requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, EPA is proposing to incorporate by
reference the updated definition of VOC in 7 Delaware Admin. Code
1114--Source Monitoring, Record Keeping and Reporting, and to state
regulation 7 Delaware Admin. Code 1117--Visible Emissions, which remove
references to 7 Delaware Admin Code 1123--Standards of Performance for
Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces. EPA has made, and will continue to
make, these materials generally available through https://www.regulations.gov and at the EPA Region III Office (please contact
the person identified in the For Further Information Contact section of
this preamble for more information).
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. 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 proposed 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);
Is not an Executive Order 13771 (82 FR 9339, February 2,
2017) regulatory action because SIP approvals are exempted under
Executive Order 12866.
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).
The SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian reservation land as
defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151 or in any other area where EPA or an Indian
tribe has
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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).
In addition, this proposed rule, to remove an outdated EAF
regulation from the Delaware SIP and to amend two other SIP approved
regulations to remove cross references to the EAF regulation, 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, Particulate matter, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: May 17, 2019.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
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