Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Utah; Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah PM2.5, 17762-17764 [2021-06844]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 52 and 81
[EPA–R08–OAR–2020–0098; FRL–10021–
83–Region 8]
Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; State of Utah;
Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah PM2.5
Redesignations to Attainment and
Utah State Implementation Plan
Revisions; Availability of Supplemental
Information and Reopening of the
Comment Period
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; availability of
supplemental information and
reopening of the comment period.
AGENCY:
On November 6, 2020, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
published a notice of proposed
rulemaking to approve redesignation of
the Salt Lake City, Utah and Provo, Utah
nonattainment areas (NAAs) to
attainment for the 2006 24-hour fine
particulate matter with an aerodynamic
diameter less than or equal to a nominal
2.5 microns (PM2.5) National Ambient
Air Quality Standard (NAAQS), and
also acted on multiple related State
Implementation Plan (SIP) submissions.
We also proposed to approve SIP
revisions submitted by the State of Utah
on January 19, 2017; April 19, 2018;
February 4 and 15, 2019; and January
13, May 21, and July 21, 2020. These
SIP submissions include revisions to
Utah Administrative Code (UAC)
Sections R307–110, R307–200, and
R307–300 Series; revisions to Utah SIP
Sections X.B and E; revisions to Utah
SIP Sections IX.H.11, 12, and 13; best
available control measures/best
available control technologies (BACM/
BACT) PM2.5 determinations for Salt
Lake City and Provo; maintenance plans
for the Salt Lake City and Provo areas
for PM2.5; and the request for
redesignation under the 2006 24-hour
PM2.5 standard. Additionally, the EPA
proposed to approve, through parallel
processing, a request to remove startup
and shutdown emission limits for
Kennecott’s Power Plant in the Utah SIP
and the accompanying R307–110–17
revisions (draft dated October 9, 2020).
Due to an administrative error, two
supporting documents were left out of
the docket during the initial comment
period from November 6, 2020 to
December 7, 2020. Thus, the EPA is
providing an additional 30 days for
public comment on these two
supporting documents. In this
document, we are not requesting
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comments on any other part of the
November 6, 2020 notice of proposed
rulemaking. The EPA is taking this
action pursuant to the Clean Air Act
(CAA or the Act).
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before May 6, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R08–
OAR–2020–0098, 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
submissions, and general guidance on
making effective comments, please visit
https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/
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Crystal Ostigaard, Air and Radiation
Division, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode
8ARD–IO, 1595 Wynkoop Street,
Denver, Colorado 80202–1129, (303)
312–6602, ostigaard.crystal@epa.gov.
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I. What action is the EPA taking?
On November 6, 2020 (85 FR 71023),
the EPA proposed to redesignate the
Salt Lake City and Provo 2006 24-hour
PM2.5 NAAs to attainment, and to
approve multiple related SIP
submissions. We proposed to approve
the Governor of Utah’s submittal of
January 13, 2020, containing revisions
to R307–110–10, and the Provo and Salt
Lake City 2006 24-hour PM2.5
maintenance plans and redesignation
requests. We proposed to approve the
Governor of Utah’s submittal of May 21,
2020, with revisions to R307–110–32,
R307–110–35, Utah SIP Section X.B.,
and Utah SIP Section X.E, which are the
inspection and maintenance (I/M)
programs for Davis and Weber Counties.
We also proposed to approve both
maintenance plans’ 2035 motor vehicle
emission budgets (MVEBs). In addition,
we proposed to approve a trading
mechanism in each maintenance plan
that would allow future increases in onroad mobile sources’ direct PM2.5
emissions to be offset by future
decreases in nitrogen oxide (NOX) or
volatile organic compound (VOC)
precursor emissions from on-road
mobile sources. We proposed approval
of these submissions because the Utah
Division of Air Quality (UDAQ) has
adequately addressed all of the
requirements of the Act for the SIP
revisions and the redesignation to
attainment applicable to the Provo and
Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour PM2.5
NAAs. We used the 2017–2019 ambient
air quality data from the Provo and Salt
Lake City NAAs as the basis for our
decision. Upon the effective date of a
subsequent final action, the designation
status of the Provo and Salt Lake City
areas under 40 CFR part 81 will be
revised to attainment.
Additionally, we proposed to
approve:
• SIP revisions submitted on January
19, 2017 (Utah SIP Section IX.H.13).
• SIP revisions submitted February
15, 2019 (Utah SIP Section IX.H.11 and
12).
• Utah’s draft October 9, 2020
submission removing the startup/
shutdown emission limits for the
Kennecott Power Plant found in Utah
SIP Section IX.H.12.i.i.C, and the
accompanying R307–110–17 through a
parallel process. Utah officially
submitted these revisions on December
17, 2020.
• Utah UAC section R307–200 and
R307–300 Series revisions and new
rules submitted by UDAQ on April 19,
2018, May 21, 2020 and July 21, 2020
(R307–208, R307–230, R307–304, R307–
335, R307–343, R307–344, R307–345,
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R307–346, R307–347, R307–348, R307–
349, R307–350, R307–351, R307–352,
R307–353, R307–354 and R307–355),
which are intended to strengthen the
SIP and to serve as BACM for certain
area sources for the Utah PM2.5 SIP.
• BACM/BACT analyses for area
sources, major stationary sources, onroad mobile sources, and non-road
mobile sources in the Provo and Salt
Lake City 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAs,
submitted on February 4, 2019 and
February 15, 2019.
We received multiple comments on
the original proposal. A comment
submitted on December 7, 2020 by the
Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity
Project (EIP), and Western Resource
Advocates 1 noted that the EPA had
neglected to include an amended
approval order 2 and the calculation of
the banked emission reduction credits 3
for the Kennecott Power Plant in the
docket. As the comment noted, these
documents were part of the basis for our
BACM determination for Units #4 and
#5 at the Kennecott Power Plant.
Because of this administrative error, the
EPA is providing an additional 30 days
for public comment on our proposed
approval of the State’s BACM/BACT
determination and Utah’s Part H
subsection for Kennecott’s Power Plant
Units #4 and #5. Aside from
supplementing the docket with the two
inadvertently omitted documents
related to the Kennecott Power Plant,
we are making no changes to our
original November 6, 2020 proposed
action. In this document, we are not
requesting comments on any other part
of the November 6, 2020 notice of
proposed rulemaking.
We will address all pertinent
comments received on this
supplemental action in our final rule, as
well as all pertinent comments received
during the comment period on the
original proposed action.
1 EPA–R08–OAR–2020–0098–0087.
2 February 4, 2020; Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah
Copper LLC; Approval Order: Administrative
Amendment to Approval Order DAQE–
AN105720031–15 to Remove Power Plant Boilers,
Turbine, and Supporting Equipment. Project
Number: N105720040. Available within the docket
and at: https://daqpermitting.utah.gov/DocViewer?
IntDocID=117327&contentType=application/pdf.
3 February 4, 2020; Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah
Copper LLC; Emission Reduction Credits for Rio
Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper—Utah Power Plant
Project Number: N105720040. Available within the
docket and also at: https://eqedocs.utah.gov and
specifically at: https://eqedocs.utah.gov/
TempEDocsFiles/995158151_995158151_
AgencyInterest_10501-10600_10572%20%20Rio%20Tinto%20Kennecott%20Utah%20
Copper%20LLC-%20Power%20Plant%20
Lab%20Tailings%20Impoundment_
New%20Source%20Review_2020_DAQ-2020001806.pdf.
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II. Incorporation by Reference
In this document, the EPA is
proposing to include regulatory text in
an EPA final rule that includes
incorporation by reference. In
accordance with requirements of 1 CFR
51.5, the EPA is proposing to
incorporate by reference revisions to:
R307–110–10; R307–110–17; R307–110–
32; R307–110–35; R307–208; R307–230;
R307–304; R307–335; R307–343; R307–
344; R307–345; R307–346; R307–347;
R307–348; R307–349; R307–350; R307–
351; R307–352; R307–353; R307–354;
R307–355; Utah SIP Section X.B.; Utah
SIP Section X.E.; Utah SIP Section
IX.H.11, 12, and 13; Utah SIP Section
IX.A.27 (Provo 2006 24-hour PM2.5
Maintenance Plan); Utah SIP Section
IX.A.36 (Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour
PM2.5 Maintenance Plan); and the
redesignation requests for the Provo and
Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAs
to attainment. The EPA has made, and
will continue to make, these materials
generally available through
www.regulations.gov and at the EPA
Region 8 Office (please contact the
person identified in the FOR FUTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
preamble for more information).
III. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
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 action
merely proposes to approve 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
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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).
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 proposed 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
40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Greenhouse gases, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations,
Lead, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,
Particulate matter, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur
oxides, Volatile organic compounds.
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Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, National parks, and
Wilderness areas.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: March 29, 2021.
Debra H. Thomas,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 8.
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50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No. 210331–0074]
RIN 0648–BK32
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Recreational Management
Measures for the Summer Flounder
Fishery; Fishing Year 2021
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Proposed rule; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
NMFS proposes management
measures for the 2021 summer flounder
recreational fishery. The implementing
regulations for this fishery require
NMFS to publish recreational measures
for the fishing year and to provide an
opportunity for public comment. The
intent of this action is to constrain
recreational catch to the summer
flounder recreational harvest limit and
thereby prevent overfishing on the
summer flounder stock.
DATES: Comments must be received by
April 21, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this document, identified by NOAA–
NMFS–2021–0034, by the following
method:
• Electronic Submission: Submit all
electronic public comments via the
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to
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NOAA–NMFS–2021–0034 in the Search
box. Click on the ‘‘Comment ’’ icon,
complete the required fields, and enter
or attach your comments.
Instructions: Comments sent by any
other method, to any other address or
individual or received after the end of
the comment period, may not be
considered by NMFS. All comments
received are a part of the public record
and will generally be posted for public
viewing on www.regulations.gov
without change. All personal identifying
information (e.g., name, address, etc.),
confidential business information, or
otherwise sensitive information
submitted voluntarily by the sender will
be publicly accessible. NMFS will
accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/
A’’ in the required fields if you wish to
remain anonymous).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Emily Keiley, Fishery Policy Analyst,
(978) 281–9116.
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Background
Summer flounder is cooperatively
managed by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council and the Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission.
The Council and the Commission’s
Summer Flounder Management Board
meet jointly each year to recommend
recreational management measures for
summer flounder. NMFS must
implement coastwide measures or
approve conservation equivalent
measures per 50 CFR 648.102(d) as soon
as possible following the Council and
Commission’s recommendation. This
action proposes maintaining
conservation equivalency for 2021, as
jointly recommended by the Council
and Board.
Recreational Management Measures
Process
The Summer Flounder, Scup, and
Black Sea Bass Fishery Management
Plan (FMP) establishes a Monitoring
Committee for summer flounder
consisting of representatives from the
Commission, the Council, state marine
fishery agencies from Massachusetts to
North Carolina, and NMFS. The FMP’s
implementing regulations require the
Monitoring Committee to review
scientific and other relevant information
annually. The objective of this review is
to recommend management measures to
the Council that will constrain landings
within the recreational harvest limit
(RHL) for the upcoming fishing year.
The FMP limits the choices for the types
of measures to minimum and/or
maximum fish size, per angler
possession limit, and fishing season.
The Council and the Board then
consider the Monitoring Committee’s
recommendations and any public
comment in making their
recommendations. The Council
forwards its recommendations to NMFS
for review. The Commission similarly
adopts recommendations for the states.
NMFS is required to review the
Council’s recommendations to ensure
that they are consistent with the target
specified for summer flounder in the
FMP and with all applicable laws and
Executive Orders before ultimately
implementing measures for Federal
waters. Commission measures are final
at the time they are adopted.
Summer Flounder Conservation
Equivalency Process
Conservation equivalency, as
established by Framework Adjustment 2
(66 FR 36208; July 11, 2001), allows
each state to establish its own
recreational management measures
(possession limits, size limits, and
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 52 and 81
[EPA-R08-OAR-2020-0098; FRL-10021-83-Region 8]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Utah;
Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah PM2.5 Redesignations to Attainment and
Utah State Implementation Plan Revisions; Availability of Supplemental
Information and Reopening of the Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; availability of supplemental information and
reopening of the comment period.
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SUMMARY: On November 6, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
published a notice of proposed rulemaking to approve redesignation of
the Salt Lake City, Utah and Provo, Utah nonattainment areas (NAAs) to
attainment for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter with an
aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to a nominal 2.5 microns
(PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS), and
also acted on multiple related State Implementation Plan (SIP)
submissions. We also proposed to approve SIP revisions submitted by the
State of Utah on January 19, 2017; April 19, 2018; February 4 and 15,
2019; and January 13, May 21, and July 21, 2020. These SIP submissions
include revisions to Utah Administrative Code (UAC) Sections R307-110,
R307-200, and R307-300 Series; revisions to Utah SIP Sections X.B and
E; revisions to Utah SIP Sections IX.H.11, 12, and 13; best available
control measures/best available control technologies (BACM/BACT)
PM2.5 determinations for Salt Lake City and Provo;
maintenance plans for the Salt Lake City and Provo areas for
PM2.5; and the request for redesignation under the 2006 24-
hour PM2.5 standard. Additionally, the EPA proposed to
approve, through parallel processing, a request to remove startup and
shutdown emission limits for Kennecott's Power Plant in the Utah SIP
and the accompanying R307-110-17 revisions (draft dated October 9,
2020). Due to an administrative error, two supporting documents were
left out of the docket during the initial comment period from November
6, 2020 to December 7, 2020. Thus, the EPA is providing an additional
30 days for public comment on these two supporting documents. In this
document, we are not requesting comments on any other part of the
November 6, 2020 notice of proposed rulemaking. The EPA is taking this
action pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 6, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-
OAR-2020-0098, 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 submissions, and general
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available electronically in
www.regulations.gov. To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, for
this action we do not plan to offer hard copy review of the docket.
Please email or call the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section if you need to make alternative arrangements for access
to the docket.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Crystal Ostigaard, Air and Radiation
Division, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 8ARD-IO, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver,
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I. What action is the EPA taking?
On November 6, 2020 (85 FR 71023), the EPA proposed to redesignate
the Salt Lake City and Provo 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAs to
attainment, and to approve multiple related SIP submissions. We
proposed to approve the Governor of Utah's submittal of January 13,
2020, containing revisions to R307-110-10, and the Provo and Salt Lake
City 2006 24-hour PM2.5 maintenance plans and redesignation
requests. We proposed to approve the Governor of Utah's submittal of
May 21, 2020, with revisions to R307-110-32, R307-110-35, Utah SIP
Section X.B., and Utah SIP Section X.E, which are the inspection and
maintenance (I/M) programs for Davis and Weber Counties. We also
proposed to approve both maintenance plans' 2035 motor vehicle emission
budgets (MVEBs). In addition, we proposed to approve a trading
mechanism in each maintenance plan that would allow future increases in
on-road mobile sources' direct PM2.5 emissions to be offset
by future decreases in nitrogen oxide (NOX) or volatile
organic compound (VOC) precursor emissions from on-road mobile sources.
We proposed approval of these submissions because the Utah Division of
Air Quality (UDAQ) has adequately addressed all of the requirements of
the Act for the SIP revisions and the redesignation to attainment
applicable to the Provo and Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour
PM2.5 NAAs. We used the 2017-2019 ambient air quality data
from the Provo and Salt Lake City NAAs as the basis for our decision.
Upon the effective date of a subsequent final action, the designation
status of the Provo and Salt Lake City areas under 40 CFR part 81 will
be revised to attainment.
Additionally, we proposed to approve:
SIP revisions submitted on January 19, 2017 (Utah SIP
Section IX.H.13).
SIP revisions submitted February 15, 2019 (Utah SIP
Section IX.H.11 and 12).
Utah's draft October 9, 2020 submission removing the
startup/shutdown emission limits for the Kennecott Power Plant found in
Utah SIP Section IX.H.12.i.i.C, and the accompanying R307-110-17
through a parallel process. Utah officially submitted these revisions
on December 17, 2020.
Utah UAC section R307-200 and R307-300 Series revisions
and new rules submitted by UDAQ on April 19, 2018, May 21, 2020 and
July 21, 2020 (R307-208, R307-230, R307-304, R307-335, R307-343, R307-
344, R307-345, R307-346, R307-347, R307-348, R307-349, R307-350, R307-
351, R307-352, R307-353, R307-354 and R307-355), which are intended to
strengthen the SIP and to serve as BACM for certain area sources for
the Utah PM2.5 SIP.
BACM/BACT analyses for area sources, major stationary
sources, on-road mobile sources, and non-road mobile sources in the
Provo and Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAs, submitted
on February 4, 2019 and February 15, 2019.
We received multiple comments on the original proposal. A comment
submitted on December 7, 2020 by the Sierra Club, Environmental
Integrity Project (EIP), and Western Resource Advocates \1\ noted that
the EPA had neglected to include an amended approval order \2\ and the
calculation of the banked emission reduction credits \3\ for the
Kennecott Power Plant in the docket. As the comment noted, these
documents were part of the basis for our BACM determination for Units
#4 and #5 at the Kennecott Power Plant. Because of this administrative
error, the EPA is providing an additional 30 days for public comment on
our proposed approval of the State's BACM/BACT determination and Utah's
Part H subsection for Kennecott's Power Plant Units #4 and #5. Aside
from supplementing the docket with the two inadvertently omitted
documents related to the Kennecott Power Plant, we are making no
changes to our original November 6, 2020 proposed action. In this
document, we are not requesting comments on any other part of the
November 6, 2020 notice of proposed rulemaking.
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\1\ EPA-R08-OAR-2020-0098-0087.
\2\ February 4, 2020; Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper LLC;
Approval Order: Administrative Amendment to Approval Order DAQE-
AN105720031-15 to Remove Power Plant Boilers, Turbine, and
Supporting Equipment. Project Number: N105720040. Available within
the docket and at: https://daqpermitting.utah.gov/DocViewer?IntDocID=117327&contentType=application/pdf.
\3\ February 4, 2020; Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper LLC;
Emission Reduction Credits for Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper--Utah
Power Plant Project Number: N105720040. Available within the docket
and also at: https://eqedocs.utah.gov and specifically at: https://eqedocs.utah.gov/TempEDocsFiles/995158151_995158151_AgencyInterest_10501-10600_10572%20-%20Rio%20Tinto%20Kennecott%20Utah%20Copper%20LLC-%20Power%20Plant%20Lab%20Tailings%20Impoundment_New%20Source%20Review_2020_DAQ-2020-001806.pdf.
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We will address all pertinent comments received on this
supplemental action in our final rule, as well as all pertinent
comments received during the comment period on the original proposed
action.
II. Incorporation by Reference
In this document, the EPA is proposing to include regulatory text
in an EPA final rule that includes incorporation by reference. In
accordance with requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, the EPA is proposing to
incorporate by reference revisions to: R307-110-10; R307-110-17; R307-
110-32; R307-110-35; R307-208; R307-230; R307-304; R307-335; R307-343;
R307-344; R307-345; R307-346; R307-347; R307-348; R307-349; R307-350;
R307-351; R307-352; R307-353; R307-354; R307-355; Utah SIP Section
X.B.; Utah SIP Section X.E.; Utah SIP Section IX.H.11, 12, and 13; Utah
SIP Section IX.A.27 (Provo 2006 24-hour PM2.5 Maintenance
Plan); Utah SIP Section IX.A.36 (Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour
PM2.5 Maintenance Plan); and the redesignation requests for
the Provo and Salt Lake City 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAs to
attainment. The EPA has made, and will continue to make, these
materials generally available through www.regulations.gov and at the
EPA Region 8 Office (please contact the person identified in the FOR
FUTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this preamble for more
information).
III. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
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
action merely proposes to approve 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
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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).
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 proposed 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
40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Greenhouse gases, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental
relations, Lead, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic
compounds.
40 CFR Part 81
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, National parks,
and Wilderness areas.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: March 29, 2021.
Debra H. Thomas,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 8.
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