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PART 52—APPROVAL AND
PROMULGATION OF
IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
Dated: June 18, 2019.
James Gulliford,
Regional Administrator, Region 7.
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Subpart-Q Iowa
1. The authority citation for part 52
continues to read as follows:
For the reasons stated in the
preamble, the EPA proposes to amend
40 CFR part 52 as set forth below:
2. In § 52.820, the table in paragraph
(e) is amended by adding entry ‘‘(51)’’
to read as follows:
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
§ 52.820
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Identification of plan.
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EPA–APPROVED IOWA NONREGULATORY PROVISIONS
Name of nonregulatory SIP provision
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(51) Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I)–significant contribution to nonattainment (prong 1), and interfering
with maintenance of the NAAQs
(prong 2) (Interstate Transport)
Infrastructure Requirements for
the 2012 Annual Fine Particulate
Matter (PM2.5) NAAQS.
Applicable geographic or
nonattainment
area
State submittal
date
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3. In § 52.1420, as proposed to be
amended May 9, 2019, at 84 FR 20319,
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Explanation
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[Date of publication of the final rule
in the FEDERAL REGISTER],
[FEDERAL REGISTER citation of
the final rule].
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This action approves the following
CAA elements: 110(a)(1) and
110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I)—prongs 1 and
2 [EPA–R07–OAR–2019–0332;
FRL–9995–31–Region 7].
the table in paragraph (e) is further
amended by adding entry ‘‘(36)’’ to read
as follows:
§ 52.1420
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nonattainment
area
State submittal
date
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(36) Section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) –sig- Statewide .......
nificant contribution to nonattainment (prong 1), and interfering
with maintenance of the NAAQs
(prong 2) (Interstate Transport)
Infrastructure Requirements for
the 2012 Annual Fine Particulate
Matter (PM2.5) NAAQS.
ACTION:
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Air Plan Approval; Indiana; Indiana
RACT SIP and Negative Declaration for
the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
Control Techniques Guidelines
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
AGENCY:
17:44 Jun 25, 2019
Explanation
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[Date of publication of the final rule
in the FEDERAL REGISTER],
[FEDERAL REGISTER citation of
the final rule].
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This action approves the following
CAA elements: 110(a)(1) and
110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I)—prongs 1 and
2 [EPA–R07–OAR–2019–0332;
FRL–9995–31-Region 7].
Proposed rule.
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a
‘‘Negative Declaration’’ for the State of
Indiana regarding the Control
Techniques Guidelines (CTG) for the Oil
and Gas Industry issued by EPA on
October 20, 2016. Indiana has evaluated
areas for which the Oil and Natural Gas
Industry CTG must be applied under the
2008 ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standard (NAAQS). EPA has
included Lake and Porter counties as
part of the Chicago-Naperville, IL–IN–
WI Moderate nonattainment area for the
2008 ozone NAAQS. Therefore,
reasonably available control technology
(RACT) requirements would be
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applicable for sources covered by the
CTGs in Lake and Porter counties. No
covered sources were found in Lake and
Porter counties. Approval of this
Negative Declaration supports EPA’s
February 13, 2019 approval of Indiana’s
volatile organic compounds (VOC)
RACT Certification for Lake and Porter
Counties.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 26, 2019.
Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05–
OAR–2018–0734, at https://
www.regulations.gov, or via email to
Aburano.Douglas@epa.gov. For
comments submitted at Regulations.gov,
follow the online instructions for
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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:
Steven Rosenthal, Environmental
Engineer, Attainment Planning and
Maintenance Section, Air Programs
Branch (AR–18J), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
60604, (312) 886–6052,
rosenthal.steven@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA. This supplementary information
section is arranged as follows:
I. What is the background for this action?
II. What is EPA’s evaluation of indiana’s
submittal?
III. What action is EPA proposing?
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
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I. What is the background for this
action?
On June 11, 2012,1 EPA designated
the Chicago area as a marginal
nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS. The Chicago area includes
Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry,
and Will Counties and parts of Grundy
and Kendall Counties in Illinois; Lake
and Porter Counties in Indiana; and part
of Kenosha County in Wisconsin. On
May 4, 2016,2 pursuant to section
181(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA),
EPA determined that the Chicago area
failed to attain the 2008 ozone NAAQS
by the July 20, 2015, marginal area
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FR 34221, effective July 20, 2012.
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attainment deadline and thus
reclassified the area from marginal to
moderate nonattainment. In that action,
EPA established January 1, 2017, as the
due date for the state to submit all
moderate area nonattainment plan state
implementation plan (SIP) requirements
applicable to newly reclassified areas.
Indiana submitted a SIP revision
request on February 28, 2017, and
submitted supplemental information on
January 9, 2018, to address the moderate
area requirements for the Indiana
portion of the Chicago area for the 2008
ozone NAAQS. The submission
contained a number of nonattainment
plan elements, including a certification
that the existing VOC rules contained in
326 Indiana Administrative Code (IAC)
8 satisfy the VOC RACT requirements of
Section 182(b)(2) of the CAA and have
been approved into the SIP by EPA. The
submission addressed the SIP elements
that were due on January 1, 2017.
Indiana also certified that the Negative
Declaration approved into the SIP by
EPA for the fiberglass boat
manufacturing materials CTG is still
current. EPA approved Indiana’s
moderate SIP element submission on
February 13, 2019 (84 FR 3711).
On October 20, 2016, EPA issued a
CTG for the Oil and Natural Gas
Industry (Oil and Gas CTG). Under
sections 182 and 184 of the CAA, states
must implement RACT to limit VOC
emissions from sources covered by the
Oil and Gas CTG in ozone
nonattainment areas classified as
‘‘moderate’’ or above for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS.
The Oil and Gas CTG includes RACT
recommendations for storage tanks,
centrifugal and reciprocating
compressors, pneumatic controllers and
pumps, and equipment leaks from
natural gas processing plants, as well as
VOC leaks at gathering and boosting
stations and oil and gas well sites.
Requirements are also established for
storage tanks, pneumatic controllers and
pneumatic pumps at low-producing
well sites.
States that are subject to RACT
requirements must revise their SIPs to
include their determinations for sources
covered by the Oil and Gas CTG. If a
state confirms there are no covered
sources within its jurisdiction, it can
submit a Negative Declaration. The
Indiana Department of Environmental
Management (IDEM) has determined
that no emission sources covered by the
Oil and Gas CTG exist within the
portions of Lake and Porter Counties,
which are part of the ChicagoNaperville, IL–IN–WI Moderate
Nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS. As a result, IDEM submitted a
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Negative Declaration on October 25,
2018.
II. What is EPA’s evaluation of
Indiana’s submittal?
IDEM searched its oil and gas well
records and air permit records and
evaluated potentially affected emissions
sources to determine whether there
were any sources covered by the Oil and
Natural Gas Industry CTG.
The Indiana Department of Natural
Resources’ (IDNR) Division of Oil and
Gas administers Indiana’s oil and gas
statutes and regulates petroleum
exploration and production operations
including: well spacing, exploration,
permitting, drilling, completion,
production, and abandonment
operations; underground injection of
fluids for enhanced oil recovery or for
production fluid disposal; and the
underground storage of natural gas or
other petroleum products in
underground formations. IDEM
conducted a search of permitted oil and
natural gas wells in Lake and Porter
counties using IDNR’s online permit
database. This search showed that no
active oil or gas production wells exist
in Lake or Porter counties.
EPA’s CTG lists six source categories
along with the applicability criteria and
RACT recommendation for each
emission source category. As an
example, storage vessels are one of these
potentially subject emission sources.
The applicability criteria are any
individual storage vessel with a
potential to emit greater than or equal to
six tons per year (tpy) of VOC. The
RACT recommendation is 95 percent
reduction or maintain less than 4 tpy
uncontrolled actual VOC emissions. The
other source categories are pneumatic
controllers, pneumatic pumps,
centrifugal and reciprocating
compressors, equipment leaks and
fugitive emissions.
IDEM conducted a search of Indiana’s
air permit database to identify
potentially affected emissions sources,
based upon applicable SIC codes, in
Lake and Porter counties. No covered
emissions sources were identified in
Porter County. Three facilities in Lake
County were identified and selected for
further evaluation based on their SIC
codes and descriptions. These facilities
are:
• Northern Indiana Public Service
Company LLC—North Hayden
Substation, which is described as a
stationary natural gas transmission and
distribution facility,
• Northern Indiana Public Service
Company LLC—Vector Crown Point
Substation, which is described as a
natural gas fired pipeline heater, and
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• ANR Pipeline Company—St. John
Station, which is described as a
stationary natural gas compressor
station.
IDEM reviewed the 6 emission source
categories, described above, for each of
these three facilities and found that
either there were no potentially subject
sources or that the source was below the
applicability cutoff. As an example,
neither Northern Indiana Public Service
Company LLC has storage tanks and
ANR Pipeline Company—St. John
Station has one condensate storage tank
with a PTE of 0.35 tpy VOC, which is
below the RACT cutoff of six tpy VOC.
During its public comment period,
IDEM received a comment from the
Hoosier Environmental Council, who
inquired about the absence of bulk
storage tank facilities in northern Lake
County in the applicability analysis.
The commenter provided Enbridge and
Citgo as examples.
In response to the comment IDEM
identified and evaluated bulk petroleum
storage facilities in the affected area.
IDEM performed a search for bulk
petroleum storage facilities associated
with the extraction and production of
crude oil. None of the bulk petroleum
storage facilities in Lake and Porter
counties are located at extraction sites
or associated with crude oil production.
Therefore, the bulk petroleum storage
facilities in Lake and Porter Counties do
not meet the applicability criteria in the
CTG.
EPA has reviewed Indiana’s Negative
Declaration regarding the Oil and Gas
CTG issued on October 20, 2016. As
discussed in detail above, Indiana found
no sources covered by the CTG in Lake
or Porter Counties. Therefore, EPA is
proposing to approve the state’s
submission as meeting the VOC RACT
requirement for the Indiana portion of
the Chicago area for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS. Approval of this Negative
Declaration supports EPA’s February 13,
2019 approval of Indiana’s VOC RACT
Certification for Lake and Porter
Counties.
III. What action is EPA proposing?
EPA is proposing to approve Indiana’s
Negative Declaration for the Oil and Gas
CTG. Approval of this negative
declaration will support the February
13, 2019 approval of Indiana’s VOC
RACT Certification for Lake and Porter
counties.
IV. 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.
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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 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 (Public Law 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, the SIP is not approved
to apply on any Indian reservation land
or in any other area where 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).
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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations,
Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Volatile organic
compounds.
Dated: June 13, 2019.
Cathy Stepp,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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Approval of Air Quality Improvement
Plan, Operating Permits Program, and
112(l) Plan; Missouri; Operating
Permits
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing approval of
revisions to the State Implementation
Plan (SIP), the Operating Permit
Program (OPP), and the 112(l) plan
submitted on March 7, 2019, by the
State of Missouri. The submission
revises Missouri’s regulations relating to
the requirement for sources of air
contaminants to obtain operating
permits and to establish procedures for
sources of air contaminants to obtain
and comply with operating permits.
These revisions are primarily
administrative in nature and do not
impact the stringency of the SIP, the
OPP, or the 112(l) plan. Specifically, the
revisions correct references, change the
term ‘‘regulated pollutant’’ to ‘‘regulated
air pollutant’’, removes unnecessary
words, and add definitions. Approval of
these revisions will not impact air
quality and ensures Federal
enforceability of the State’s rules.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 26, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07–
OAR–2019–0325 to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the Docket ID No. for this
rulemaking. Comments received will be
posted without change to https://
www.regulations.gov/, including any
personal information provided. For
detailed instructions on sending
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R05-OAR-2018-0734; FRL-9995-68-Region 5]
Air Plan Approval; Indiana; Indiana RACT SIP and Negative
Declaration for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Control Techniques
Guidelines
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a ``Negative Declaration'' for the State of Indiana regarding
the Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG) for the Oil and Gas Industry
issued by EPA on October 20, 2016. Indiana has evaluated areas for
which the Oil and Natural Gas Industry CTG must be applied under the
2008 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). EPA has
included Lake and Porter counties as part of the Chicago-Naperville,
IL-IN-WI Moderate nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
Therefore, reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirements
would be applicable for sources covered by the CTGs in Lake and Porter
counties. No covered sources were found in Lake and Porter counties.
Approval of this Negative Declaration supports EPA's February 13, 2019
approval of Indiana's volatile organic compounds (VOC) RACT
Certification for Lake and Porter Counties.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 26, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2018-0734, at https://www.regulations.gov, or via email to
[email protected]. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov,
follow the online instructions for
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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: Steven Rosenthal, Environmental
Engineer, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs
Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6052,
[email protected].
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?
II. What is EPA's evaluation of indiana's submittal?
III. What action is EPA proposing?
IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. What is the background for this action?
On June 11, 2012,\1\ EPA designated the Chicago area as a marginal
nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone NAAQS. The Chicago area includes
Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties and parts of
Grundy and Kendall Counties in Illinois; Lake and Porter Counties in
Indiana; and part of Kenosha County in Wisconsin. On May 4, 2016,\2\
pursuant to section 181(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), EPA
determined that the Chicago area failed to attain the 2008 ozone NAAQS
by the July 20, 2015, marginal area attainment deadline and thus
reclassified the area from marginal to moderate nonattainment. In that
action, EPA established January 1, 2017, as the due date for the state
to submit all moderate area nonattainment plan state implementation
plan (SIP) requirements applicable to newly reclassified areas.
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Indiana submitted a SIP revision request on February 28, 2017, and
submitted supplemental information on January 9, 2018, to address the
moderate area requirements for the Indiana portion of the Chicago area
for the 2008 ozone NAAQS. The submission contained a number of
nonattainment plan elements, including a certification that the
existing VOC rules contained in 326 Indiana Administrative Code (IAC) 8
satisfy the VOC RACT requirements of Section 182(b)(2) of the CAA and
have been approved into the SIP by EPA. The submission addressed the
SIP elements that were due on January 1, 2017. Indiana also certified
that the Negative Declaration approved into the SIP by EPA for the
fiberglass boat manufacturing materials CTG is still current. EPA
approved Indiana's moderate SIP element submission on February 13, 2019
(84 FR 3711).
On October 20, 2016, EPA issued a CTG for the Oil and Natural Gas
Industry (Oil and Gas CTG). Under sections 182 and 184 of the CAA,
states must implement RACT to limit VOC emissions from sources covered
by the Oil and Gas CTG in ozone nonattainment areas classified as
``moderate'' or above for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
The Oil and Gas CTG includes RACT recommendations for storage
tanks, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, pneumatic controllers
and pumps, and equipment leaks from natural gas processing plants, as
well as VOC leaks at gathering and boosting stations and oil and gas
well sites. Requirements are also established for storage tanks,
pneumatic controllers and pneumatic pumps at low-producing well sites.
States that are subject to RACT requirements must revise their SIPs
to include their determinations for sources covered by the Oil and Gas
CTG. If a state confirms there are no covered sources within its
jurisdiction, it can submit a Negative Declaration. The Indiana
Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) has determined that no
emission sources covered by the Oil and Gas CTG exist within the
portions of Lake and Porter Counties, which are part of the Chicago-
Naperville, IL-IN-WI Moderate Nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS. As a result, IDEM submitted a Negative Declaration on October
25, 2018.
II. What is EPA's evaluation of Indiana's submittal?
IDEM searched its oil and gas well records and air permit records
and evaluated potentially affected emissions sources to determine
whether there were any sources covered by the Oil and Natural Gas
Industry CTG.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) Division of Oil
and Gas administers Indiana's oil and gas statutes and regulates
petroleum exploration and production operations including: well
spacing, exploration, permitting, drilling, completion, production, and
abandonment operations; underground injection of fluids for enhanced
oil recovery or for production fluid disposal; and the underground
storage of natural gas or other petroleum products in underground
formations. IDEM conducted a search of permitted oil and natural gas
wells in Lake and Porter counties using IDNR's online permit database.
This search showed that no active oil or gas production wells exist in
Lake or Porter counties.
EPA's CTG lists six source categories along with the applicability
criteria and RACT recommendation for each emission source category. As
an example, storage vessels are one of these potentially subject
emission sources. The applicability criteria are any individual storage
vessel with a potential to emit greater than or equal to six tons per
year (tpy) of VOC. The RACT recommendation is 95 percent reduction or
maintain less than 4 tpy uncontrolled actual VOC emissions. The other
source categories are pneumatic controllers, pneumatic pumps,
centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, equipment leaks and fugitive
emissions.
IDEM conducted a search of Indiana's air permit database to
identify potentially affected emissions sources, based upon applicable
SIC codes, in Lake and Porter counties. No covered emissions sources
were identified in Porter County. Three facilities in Lake County were
identified and selected for further evaluation based on their SIC codes
and descriptions. These facilities are:
Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC--North Hayden
Substation, which is described as a stationary natural gas transmission
and distribution facility,
Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC--Vector Crown
Point Substation, which is described as a natural gas fired pipeline
heater, and
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ANR Pipeline Company--St. John Station, which is described
as a stationary natural gas compressor station.
IDEM reviewed the 6 emission source categories, described above,
for each of these three facilities and found that either there were no
potentially subject sources or that the source was below the
applicability cutoff. As an example, neither Northern Indiana Public
Service Company LLC has storage tanks and ANR Pipeline Company--St.
John Station has one condensate storage tank with a PTE of 0.35 tpy
VOC, which is below the RACT cutoff of six tpy VOC.
During its public comment period, IDEM received a comment from the
Hoosier Environmental Council, who inquired about the absence of bulk
storage tank facilities in northern Lake County in the applicability
analysis. The commenter provided Enbridge and Citgo as examples.
In response to the comment IDEM identified and evaluated bulk
petroleum storage facilities in the affected area. IDEM performed a
search for bulk petroleum storage facilities associated with the
extraction and production of crude oil. None of the bulk petroleum
storage facilities in Lake and Porter counties are located at
extraction sites or associated with crude oil production. Therefore,
the bulk petroleum storage facilities in Lake and Porter Counties do
not meet the applicability criteria in the CTG.
EPA has reviewed Indiana's Negative Declaration regarding the Oil
and Gas CTG issued on October 20, 2016. As discussed in detail above,
Indiana found no sources covered by the CTG in Lake or Porter Counties.
Therefore, EPA is proposing to approve the state's submission as
meeting the VOC RACT requirement for the Indiana portion of the Chicago
area for the 2008 ozone NAAQS. Approval of this Negative Declaration
supports EPA's February 13, 2019 approval of Indiana's VOC RACT
Certification for Lake and Porter Counties.
III. What action is EPA proposing?
EPA is proposing to approve Indiana's Negative Declaration for the
Oil and Gas CTG. Approval of this negative declaration will support the
February 13, 2019 approval of Indiana's VOC RACT Certification for Lake
and Porter counties.
IV. 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 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 (Public Law 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, the SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian
reservation land or in any other area where 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, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Volatile organic compounds.
Dated: June 13, 2019.
Cathy Stepp,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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