Environmental Protection Agency November 27, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents
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Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments
EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to riparian areas and water quality, and requested adding water quality monitoring to the adaptive management plan. Rating EC2.
EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Notification of a Meeting of the Health Effects Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council)
The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public face-to-face meeting of the Health Effects Subcommittee (HES) of the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis (Council). The HES, supplemented with additional members from the Council, will review technical assessments related to health benefits analyses and uncertainty analyses to support of the Office of Air and Radiation's Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean Air Act.
Finding of Failure To Submit State Implementation Plans Required for the 1997 Particulate Matter Less Than 2.5 Micrometer (PM2.5
The EPA is taking a final action in which it finds that three States, Georgia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, have failed to submit State Implementation Plans (SIPs) to satisfy requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for attaining the 1997 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5). Under the CAA and EPA's implementing regulations, States with nonattainment areas were required to submit SIPs by April 5, 2008, demonstrating how each nonattainment area would attain the 1997 PM2.5 standards as expeditiously as practicable. If within 18 months of the effective date of this notice EPA has not determined that the State has submitted the required nonattainment plan, then any new or modified source in the nonattainment area will be required to obtain emission reduction offsets that exceed its emission increases on a two-to-one basis. If within 24 months of the effective date of this notice EPA has not determined that the State has submitted the required SIP, then the highway funding sanction also will apply in the nonattainment area. No later than 2 years after EPA makes the finding, EPA must promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) if the State has not submitted the required nonattainment SIP and EPA has not approved it.
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Indiana; Chicago and Evansville Nonattainment Areas; Determination of Attainment of the Fine Particle Standards
EPA is determining that the Chicago-Gary-Lake County, Illinois-Indiana (``Chicago'') and Evansville, Indiana nonattainment areas have attained the 1997 fine particle (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). These determinations are based upon quality-assured and certified ambient air monitoring data that show that the areas have monitored attainment of the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS for the 2006 to 2008 monitoring period. Currently available preliminary data for 2009 are consistent with continued attainment of the standard. As a result of these determinations, the requirements for these areas to submit an attainment demonstration and associated reasonably available control measures (RACM), a reasonable further progress plan (RFP), contingency measures, and other State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions related to attainment of the standard are suspended for so long as the areas continue to attain the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS.
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Georgia: Revisions to State Implementation Plan
EPA is taking final action to approve revisions to the Georgia State Implementation Plan (SIP), submitted by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) in three submittals dated October 31, 2006, March 5, 2007, and August 22, 2007. The submittals include modifications to Georgia's Rules for Air Quality Control, Chapter 391- 3-1. EPA is not acting on the August 22, 2007, revisions to rule 391-3- 1-.03(6) ``Exemptions, Combustion Equipment'' in this action. EPA is also not acting on the August 22, 2007, revisions to rule 391-3- 1-.03(9), as it is not part of the Federally-approved SIP. These submittals also included revisions to Georgia's Prevention of Signification Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattainment New Source Review
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