Environmental Protection Agency May 9, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with Section 311(B)(6)(C) of the Clean Water Act 33 U.S.C. 1321 (B)(6)(C), notice is hereby given of a proposed Class II consent Agreement (``Agreement'') Kinder Morgan facility in Sparks, Nevada. The Environmental Protection Agency determined that the facility had not conducted all of the spill response exercises and drills required by the Facility Response Plan. The Agreement requires the Respondent pay a civil penalty of $26,630 and provide emergency response equipment to the Truckee Fire Department as a supplemental environmental project. For thirty (30) days following the date of publication of this notice, the Agency will receive written comments relating to the Agreement. The agency will consider all comments received and may modify or withdraw its consent to the Agreement if comments received disclose facts or considerations which indicate that the Agreement is inappropriate, improper or inadequate. The Agency's response to any comments received will be available for public inspection at USEPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California.

The EPA is proposing to grant limited approval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) through the parallel processing mechanism. Specifically, we are proposing to grant limited approval of revisions to 30 TAC Chapter 101, General Air Quality Rules concerning excess emissions during startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM) activities. The action will have the effect of extending the expiration date of certain provisions from June 30, 2005 to no later than June 30, 2006. Texas is making this change to allow for additional time before these provisions expire from the SIP to submit a revised excess emissions rule for our approval into the SIP. See sections 2 and 3 of this document for more information.

The EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Georgia, through the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GAEPD), on March 15, 2005. These revisions pertain to Georgia's rules for Air Quality Control and were the subject of a public hearing held on March 18, 2004, and adopted by the Board of Natural Resources on April 28, 2004. The revisions became effective in the State on July 8, 2004. On September 26, 2003, EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register (see 68 FR 55469) reclassifying the Atlanta 1-hour ozone nonattainment area from serious to severe. These revisions satisfy the additional requirements for severe 1-hour ozone nonattainment areas. In the Final Rules section of this Federal Register, EPA is approving the State's SIP revision as a direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as noncontroversial and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no significant, material, and adverse comments are received in response to this 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 rule. The EPA will not institute a second comment period on this document. Any parties interested in commenting on this document should do so at this time.