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Air Plan Approval; Texas; Clean Air
Act Requirements for Emissions
Inventories for Nonattainment Areas
for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient
Air Quality Standards
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is approving the portions
of the State Implementation Plan (SIP)
submitted by the State of Texas to meet
the Emissions Inventory (EI)
requirements of the Federal Clean Air
Act (CAA or the Act), for the Dallas-Fort
Worth (DFW), Houston-GalvestonBrazoria (HGB), and Bexar County
ozone nonattainment areas for the 2015
8-hour ozone national ambient air
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quality standards (NAAQS). EPA is
approving this action pursuant to
section 110 and part D of the CAA and
EPA’s regulations.
DATES: This final rule is effective on July
29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a
docket for this action Docket No. EPA–
R06–OAR–2021–0177. All documents in
the docket are listed on the https://
www.regulations.gov. Although listed in
the index, some information is not
publicly available, e.g., Confidential
Business Information or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket
materials are available either
electronically through https://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nevine Salem, EPA Region 6 Office,
Infrastructure and Ozone Section, 214–
665–7222, salem.nevine@epa.gov. Out
of an abundance of caution for members
of the public and our staff, the EPA
Region 6 office will be closed to the
public to reduce the risk of transmitting
COVID–19. Please call or email the
contact listed above if you need
alternative access to material indexed
but not provided in the docket.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document wherever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
the EPA.
I. Background
On March 26, 2021 (86 FR 16171), the
EPA published a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (NPRM) for the State of
Texas, for approval of the State’s 2017
base year emissions inventories for the
DFW, HGB, and the Bexar County
marginal ozone nonattainment areas for
the 2015 ozone NAAQS. The
background for this action and rational
for EPA’s proposed action are explained
in the NPRM and will not be restated
here.
II. Response to Comments
We received one anonymous
comment that did not raise any
substantive issues with the proposed
rule. The comment did not explain (or
provide any legal basis for) how the
proposed action should differ in any
way. We determined that the comment
is not germane to the final rulemaking
and therefore requires no further
response. We also noted a typographical
error in the NPRM—the numbers in
Tables 1, 2 and 3 that summarize the
2017 NOX and VOC emissions inventory
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in DFW, HGB and Bexar County
marginal nonattainment areas, were
transposed for the On-road Mobile and
Non-road Mobile sources. This
correction does not change or affect the
total NOX or VOC emissions in the 2017
emission inventory for these marginal
nonattainment areas for typical ozone
season day emissions. In the interest of
good government, we are including the
corrected Tables 1, 2 and 3 below. We
also note that the original and correct
tables were included in the State’s SIP
revision submittal and are included in
the docket for this rule making.1
TABLE 1—DFW 2017 EMISSIONS
INVENTORY
[Tons per day]
Source type
NOX
VOC
Point ..................
Nonpoint (Area)
Non-road Mobile
On-road Mobile
29.90
41.82
74.79
125.13
21.04
293.62
31.74
60.56
Total ...........
271.64
406.96
TABLE 2—HGB 2017 EMISSIONS
INVENTORY
[Tons per day]
Source type
NOX
VOC
Point ..................
Nonpoint (Area)
Non-road Mobile
On-road Mobile
97.31
32.12
86.34
101.49
73.34
287.74
32.29
58.65
Total ...........
317.26
452.02
TABLE 3—BEXAR COUNTY 2017
EMISSIONS INVENTORY
[Tons per day]
Source type
NOX
VOC
Point ..................
Nonpoint (Area)
Non-road Mobile
On-road Mobile
29.88
6.62
11.42
35.70
3.56
74.61
7.09
20.84
Total ...........
83.62
106.10
copy of the SIP revision is available online at
www.regulations.gov, Docket number EPA–R06–
OAR–2021–0177.
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III. Final Action
EPA is approving the portion of the
Texas SIP revisions submitted on June
24, 2020 to address the emissions
inventory requirements for the DFW,
HGB, and Bexar County nonattainment
areas for the 2015 ozone NAAQS.
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
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);
• 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
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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 in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,
Reporting and record keeping
requirements, Volatile organic
compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 22, 2021.
David Gray,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6.
For the reasons stated in the
preamble, the EPA amends 40 CFR part
52 as follows:
PART 52—APPROVAL AND
PROMULGATION OF
IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
1. The authority citation for part 52
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Subpart SS—Texas
2. In § 52.2270, the second table in
paragraph (e), titled ‘‘EPA Approved
Nonregulatory Provisions and QuasiRegulatory Measures in the Texas SIP,’’
is amended by adding an entry for
‘‘2017 Emissions Inventory for the 2015
Ozone NAAQS’’ at the end of the table
to read as follows:
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§ 52.2270
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EPA APPROVED NONREGULATORY PROVISIONS AND QUASI-REGULATORY MEASURES IN THE TEXAS SIP
Name of SIP provision
Applicable geographic or nonattainment area
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2017 Emissions Inventory for
the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.
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Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston GalvestonBrazoria, and Bexar County Ozone Nonattainment Areas.
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Air Quality Designations for the 2010
1-Hour SO2 NAAQS: Responses to
Petitions for Reconsideration and
Administrative Stay of the
Designations for Portions of Freestone
and Anderson Counties, Rusk and
Panola Counties, and Titus County in
Texas
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notification of actions denying
petitions for reconsideration and
administrative stay.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is providing notice that it
has responded to petitions for
reconsideration and/or administrative
stay of a final action under the Clean Air
Act (CAA) published in the Federal
Register on December 13, 2016, titled,
‘‘Air Quality Designations for the 2010
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Primary National
Ambient Air Quality Standard—
Supplement to Round 2 for Four Areas
in Texas: Freestone and Anderson
Counties, Milam County, Rusk and
Panola Counties, and Titus County.’’
The EPA has denied these petitions in
letters to the petitioners for the reasons
that the EPA explains in those
documents.
SUMMARY:
The Administrator signed the
associated notification letters on June
10, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Corey Mocka, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards, Air Quality
Policy Division, 109 T.W. Alexander
Drive, Mail Code C539–04, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711; phone
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DATES:
State
submittal/
effective
date
I. Background
The EPA is providing notice that it
has responded to petitions for
reconsideration and/or administrative
stay of a final action under the CAA
published in the Federal Register on
December 13, 2016, titled, ‘‘Air Quality
Designations for the 2010 Sulfur
Dioxide (SO2) Primary National
Ambient Air Quality Standard—
Supplement to Round 2 for Four Areas
in Texas: Freestone and Anderson
Counties, Milam County, Rusk and
Panola Counties, and Titus County’’ (81
FR 89870). On February 13, 2017, Vistra
Energy submitted a petition requesting
that the EPA reconsider and stay the
effective date of the EPA’s
nonattainment designations for portions
of Freestone and Anderson Counties,
Rusk and Panola Counties, and Titus
County. Vistra Energy later
supplemented this petition on
December 19, 2017. On March 15, 2017,
the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
submitted a request for administrative
stay of the effective date for the EPA’s
final designations for these areas in
Texas. The TCEQ also submitted a
petition for reconsideration of the
nonattainment designations on
December 11, 2017. The EPA has denied
these petitions in letters to the
petitioners for the reasons that the EPA
explains in those documents.
II. Where can I get copies of this
document and other related
information?
This Federal Register document, the
petitions for reconsideration and
administrative stay, and the response
letters to the petitioners are available in
the docket that the EPA established for
the rulemaking, under Docket ID NO.
EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–0464.
All documents in the docket are listed
in the index at https://
www.regulations.gov. Although listed in
the index, some information may not be
publicly available, i.e., Confidential
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EPA approval date
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June 29, 2021 [Insert Federal
Register citation].
Comments
*
Business Information or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form.
Out of an abundance of caution for
members of the public and our staff, the
EPA is temporarily suspending the
Docket Center and Reading Room for
public visitors to reduce the risk of
transmitting COVID–19. Our Docket
Center staff will continue to provide
remote customer service via email,
phone, and webform. For further
information and updates on EPA Docket
Center services, please visit us online at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets. The EPA
continues to carefully and continuously
monitor information from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention,
local area health departments, and our
federal partners so we can respond
rapidly as conditions change regarding
COVID–19.
In addition, the EPA has established
a website for SO2 designations
rulemakings at: https://www.epa.gov/
sulfur-dioxide-designations. This
Federal Register notice, the petitions for
reconsideration and administrative stay,
and the response letters denying the
petitions are also available on this
website along with other information.
III. Judicial Review
Section 307(b)(1) of the CAA governs
judicial review of final actions by the
EPA. This section provides, in part, that
petitions for review must be filed in the
Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit: (i) When the agency
action consists of ‘‘nationally applicable
regulations promulgated, or final actions
taken, by the Administrator,’’ or (ii)
when such action is locally or regionally
applicable, if ‘‘such action is based on
a determination of nationwide scope or
effect and if in taking such action the
Administrator finds and publishes that
such action is based on such a
determination.’’ For locally or regionally
applicable final actions, the CAA
reserves to the EPA complete discretion
whether to invoke the exception in (ii).
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Air Plan Approval; Texas; Clean Air Act Requirements for
Emissions Inventories for Nonattainment Areas for the 2015 Ozone
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving the
portions of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State
of Texas to meet the Emissions Inventory (EI) requirements of the
Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), for the Dallas-Fort Worth
(DFW), Houston-Galveston-Brazoria (HGB), and Bexar County ozone
nonattainment areas for the 2015 8-hour ozone national ambient air
quality standards (NAAQS). EPA is approving this action pursuant to
section 110 and part D of the CAA and EPA's regulations.
DATES: This final rule is effective on July 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a docket for this action Docket No.
EPA-R06-OAR-2021-0177. All documents in the docket are listed on the
https://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., Confidential Business
Information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not
placed on the internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket materials are available either
electronically through https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nevine Salem, EPA Region 6 Office,
Infrastructure and Ozone Section, 214-665-7222, [email protected].
Out of an abundance of caution for members of the public and our staff,
the EPA Region 6 office will be closed to the public to reduce the risk
of transmitting COVID-19. Please call or email the contact listed above
if you need alternative access to material indexed but not provided in
the docket.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
I. Background
On March 26, 2021 (86 FR 16171), the EPA published a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the State of Texas, for approval of the
State's 2017 base year emissions inventories for the DFW, HGB, and the
Bexar County marginal ozone nonattainment areas for the 2015 ozone
NAAQS. The background for this action and rational for EPA's proposed
action are explained in the NPRM and will not be restated here.
II. Response to Comments
We received one anonymous comment that did not raise any
substantive issues with the proposed rule. The comment did not explain
(or provide any legal basis for) how the proposed action should differ
in any way. We determined that the comment is not germane to the final
rulemaking and therefore requires no further response. We also noted a
typographical error in the NPRM--the numbers in Tables 1, 2 and 3 that
summarize the 2017 NOX and VOC emissions inventory
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in DFW, HGB and Bexar County marginal nonattainment areas, were
transposed for the On-road Mobile and Non-road Mobile sources. This
correction does not change or affect the total NOX or VOC
emissions in the 2017 emission inventory for these marginal
nonattainment areas for typical ozone season day emissions. In the
interest of good government, we are including the corrected Tables 1, 2
and 3 below. We also note that the original and correct tables were
included in the State's SIP revision submittal and are included in the
docket for this rule making.\1\
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\1\ A copy of the SIP revision is available online at
www.regulations.gov, Docket number EPA-R06-OAR-2021-0177.
Table 1--DFW 2017 Emissions Inventory
[Tons per day]
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Source type NOX VOC
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Point......................................... 29.90 21.04
Nonpoint (Area)............................... 41.82 293.62
Non-road Mobile............................... 74.79 31.74
On-road Mobile................................ 125.13 60.56
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Total..................................... 271.64 406.96
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Table 2--HGB 2017 Emissions Inventory
[Tons per day]
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Source type NOX VOC
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Point......................................... 97.31 73.34
Nonpoint (Area)............................... 32.12 287.74
Non-road Mobile............................... 86.34 32.29
On-road Mobile................................ 101.49 58.65
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Total..................................... 317.26 452.02
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Table 3--Bexar County 2017 Emissions Inventory
[Tons per day]
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Source type NOX VOC
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Point......................................... 29.88 3.56
Nonpoint (Area)............................... 6.62 74.61
Non-road Mobile............................... 11.42 7.09
On-road Mobile................................ 35.70 20.84
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Total..................................... 83.62 106.10
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III. Final Action
EPA is approving the portion of the Texas SIP revisions submitted
on June 24, 2020 to address the emissions inventory requirements for
the DFW, HGB, and Bexar County nonattainment areas for the 2015 ozone
NAAQS.
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 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);
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).
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 in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Reporting and record keeping
requirements, Volatile organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 22, 2021.
David Gray,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6.
For the reasons stated in the preamble, the EPA amends 40 CFR part
52 as follows:
PART 52--APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
0
1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Subpart SS--Texas
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2. In Sec. 52.2270, the second table in paragraph (e), titled ``EPA
Approved Nonregulatory Provisions and Quasi-Regulatory Measures in the
Texas SIP,'' is amended by adding an entry for ``2017 Emissions
Inventory for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS'' at the end of the table to read as
follows:
Sec. 52.2270 Identification of plan.
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EPA Approved Nonregulatory Provisions and Quasi-Regulatory Measures in the Texas SIP
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State
Applicable submittal/
Name of SIP provision geographic or effective EPA approval date Comments
nonattainment area date
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2017 Emissions Inventory for the Dallas-Fort Worth, June 24, June 29, 2021
2015 Ozone NAAQS. Houston Galveston- 2020 [Insert Federal
Brazoria, and Register citation].
Bexar County Ozone
Nonattainment
Areas.
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[FR Doc. 2021-13771 Filed 6-28-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
