Air Plan Approval; Massachusetts; Infrastructure State Implementation Plan Requirements for the 2015 Ozone Standard, 14605-14606 [2020-03204]

Download as PDF 14605 Proposed Rules Federal Register Vol. 85, No. 50 Friday, March 13, 2020 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 24 CFR Part 100 [Docket No. FR–6138–N–02] Fair Housing Act Design and Construction Requirements: Adoption of Additional Safe Harbors: Extension of Public Comment Period Office of the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, HUD. ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of public comment period. AGENCY: On January 15, 2020, HUD published a proposed rule in the Federal Register inviting public comment on amendments to HUD’s Fair Housing Act design and construction regulations. The January 15, 2020, proposed rule set March 16, 2020, as the comment due date. Because the proposed rule referred to documents that were not readily available, HUD is extending the public comment period for an additional 30-day period and making the referenced documents available through its website as described in this document. DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on January 15, 2020, (85 FR 2354), is extended to April 13, 2020. ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding this proposed rule to the Office of General Counsel, Rules Docket Clerk, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC 20410– 0500. Communications should refer to the above docket number and title. Electronic Submission of Comments. Interested persons may submit comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly encourages commenters to submit comments electronically. Electronic submission of comments allows the commenter maximum time to prepare jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with PROPOSALS SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:34 Mar 12, 2020 Jkt 250001 and submit a comment, ensures timely receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to make them immediately available to the public. Comments submitted electronically through the www.regulations.gov website can be viewed by other commenters and interested members of the public. Commenters should follow the instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically. No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable. In all cases, communications must refer to the docket number and title. Public Inspection of Public Comments. All comments and communications submitted to HUD will be available, without charge, for public inspection and copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above address. Due to security measures at the HUD Headquarters building, an advance appointment to review the public comments must be scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at (202) 708– 3055 (this is not a toll-free number). Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech impairments may access this number through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. Copies of all comments submitted are available for inspection and downloading at www.regulations.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynn Grosso, Director, Office of Enforcement, Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC 20410–2000; telephone number (202) 708–2333 (this is not a toll-free number). Hearing- or speech- impaired individuals may access this number via TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at (800) 877– 8339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 15, 2020, HUD published a proposed rule in the Federal Register inviting public comment on amendments to HUD’s Fair Housing Act design and construction regulations, which incorporated by reference the 2009 edition of International Code Council (ICC) Accessible and Usable Building and Facilities (ICC A117.1– 2009) standard, as a safe harbor. The proposed rule would also designate the 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 editions of the IBC as safe harbors under the Fair PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 Housing Act. Interested readers should refer to the supplementary information of the January 15, 2020 proposed rule for additional information. HUD is extending the public comment deadline to provide the time needed for relevant stakeholders and the general public to submit comments regarding the proposed amendments. Specifically, HUD has determined that additional time to submit public comment is necessary to permit the public to review certain matrices provided by the ICC that were not readily available. The Department had requested, and ICC provided, a side-by-side matrix comparing the relevant 2006 provisions of the IBC, which HUD had previously reviewed and declared as a safe harbor, with the 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 provisions in the IBC and related code documents. In addition, ICC provided a similar matrix for ICC/ANSI A117.1– 2003 and ICC A117.1–2009, along with copies of ICC A117.1–2009 and related documents. Links to the matrices are posted and available at https:// www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_ housing_equal_opp/safe_harbor_rule_ making. Therefore, HUD is announcing through this document that it is extending the public comment period for an additional 30-day period. Dated: March 9, 2020. Anna Marı´a Farı´as, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. [FR Doc. 2020–05175 Filed 3–12–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210–67–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA–R01–OAR–2019–0695; FRL–10005– 37–Region 1] Air Plan Approval; Massachusetts; Infrastructure State Implementation Plan Requirements for the 2015 Ozone Standard Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\13MRP1.SGM 13MRP1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with PROPOSALS 14606 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 50 / Friday, March 13, 2020 / Proposed Rules Massachusetts. Except as noted, this revision satisfies the infrastructure requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The infrastructure requirements are designed to ensure that the structural components of each state’s air quality management program are adequate to meet the state’s responsibilities under the CAA. We are proposing to issue a finding of failure to submit pertaining to various aspects of the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) requirements of infrastructure SIPs. The Commonwealth has long been subject to a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) regarding PSD, thus a finding of failure to submit will result in no state sanctions or further FIP requirements. We do not in this action address CAA requirements regarding interstate transport, because we previously approved the Commonwealth’s submittal addressing these requirements for the 2015 ozone standard (January 31, 2020). This action is being taken in accordance with the Clean Air Act. DATES: Written comments must be received on or before April 13, 2020 ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01– OAR–2019–0695 at https:// www.regulations.gov, or via email to rackauskas.eric@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://www.epa.gov/dockets/ commenting-epa-dockets. Publicly available docket materials are available at https://www.regulations.gov or at the VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:34 Mar 12, 2020 Jkt 250001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Region 1 Regional Office, Air and Radiation Division, 5 Post Office Square—Suite 100, Boston, MA. EPA requests that if at all possible, you contact the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to schedule your inspection. The Regional Office’s official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding legal holidays. Eric Rackauskas, Air Quality Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA New England Regional Office, 5 Post Office Square—Suite 100, (Mail code 05–2), Boston, MA 02109–3912, tel. 617–918–1628, email rackauskas.eric@ epa.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: In the Final Rules section of this issue of the Federal Register, EPA is approving the State’s SIP submittal 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 issue of the Federal Register. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dated: February 11, 2020. Dennis Deziel, Regional Administrator, EPA Region 1. [FR Doc. 2020–03204 Filed 3–12–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA–R08–OAR–2019–0688; FRL–10005– 97–Region 8] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Revisions to the Utah Division of Administrative Rules; R307–101–3 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Utah Division of Administrative Rules (DAR), specifically R307–101–3 submitted by the State of Utah on August 19, 2019, and R307–405–2 and R307–410–3 submitted by the State of Utah on December 16, 2019. The R307–101–3 submittal requests a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision to change the date of the referenced Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) from July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2017. The R307–405– 2 submittal revises the CFR date from the July 1, 2011 version to July 1, 2018 and the R307–410–3 submittal updates the version of the 40 CFR part 51, appendix W incorporated by reference from the July 1, 2005 version to the July 1, 2018 version. This action is being taken under the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act). DATES: Written comments must be received on or before April 13, 2020. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R08– OAR–2019–0688, to the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from www.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 SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\13MRP1.SGM 13MRP1

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 50 (Friday, March 13, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 14605-14606]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-03204]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R01-OAR-2019-0695; FRL-10005-37-Region 1]


Air Plan Approval; Massachusetts; Infrastructure State 
Implementation Plan Requirements for the 2015 Ozone Standard

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the 
State of

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Massachusetts. Except as noted, this revision satisfies the 
infrastructure requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the 2015 
ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The 
infrastructure requirements are designed to ensure that the structural 
components of each state's air quality management program are adequate 
to meet the state's responsibilities under the CAA. We are proposing to 
issue a finding of failure to submit pertaining to various aspects of 
the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) requirements of 
infrastructure SIPs. The Commonwealth has long been subject to a 
Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) regarding PSD, thus a finding of 
failure to submit will result in no state sanctions or further FIP 
requirements. We do not in this action address CAA requirements 
regarding interstate transport, because we previously approved the 
Commonwealth's submittal addressing these requirements for the 2015 
ozone standard (January 31, 2020). This action is being taken in 
accordance with the Clean Air Act.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before April 13, 2020

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R01-
OAR-2019-0695 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, 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://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets. Publicly 
available docket materials are available at https://www.regulations.gov 
or at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Region 1 Regional 
Office, Air and Radiation Division, 5 Post Office Square--Suite 100, 
Boston, MA. EPA requests that if at all possible, you contact the 
contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to 
schedule your inspection. The Regional Office's official hours of 
business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding 
legal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Rackauskas, Air Quality Branch, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA New England Regional Office, 
5 Post Office Square--Suite 100, (Mail code 05-2), Boston, MA 02109-
3912, tel. 617-918-1628, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Rules section of this issue of 
the Federal Register, EPA is approving the State's SIP submittal 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 issue of the Federal Register.

    Dated: February 11, 2020.
Dennis Deziel,
Regional Administrator, EPA Region 1.
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