[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 42 (Friday, March 1, 1996)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 8008-8009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4572]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[CA 71-8-6938b; FRL-5424-1]


Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; 
California State Implementation Plan Revision, Kern County Air 
Pollution Control District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality 
Management District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern the control of oxides of 
nitrogen (NOx) emissions from the operations of stationary gas 
turbines and the removal of a rule from the SIP that controls NOx 
emissions from steam generators used in the oil production operations.
    The intended effect of proposing approval of these rules is to 
regulate emissions of NOx in accordance with the requirements of 
the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). In the Final 
Rules Section of this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the 
state's SIP revision as a direct final rule without prior proposal 
because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial revision amendment 
and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for this 
approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no adverse comments 
are received in response to this proposed 

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rule, no further activity is contemplated in relation to this rule. 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EPA receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn 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. The EPA will not institute a 
second comment period on this document. Any parties interested in 
commenting on this action should do so at this time.

DATES: Comments on this proposed rule must be received in writing by 
April 1, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on this action should be addressed to: 
Daniel A. Meer, Rulemaking Section (A-5-3), Air and Toxics Division, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, 
San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
    Copies of the rules and EPA's evaluation report of each rule are 
available for public inspection at EPA's Region 9 office during normal 
business hours. Copies of the submitted rules are also available for 
inspection at the following locations:

California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule 
Evaluation Section, 2020 ``L'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
Kern County Air Pollution Control District, 2700 M Street, Suite 290, 
Bakersfield, CA 93301.
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, 8411 Jackson 
Road, Sacramento, CA 95826.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel A. Meer, Rulemaking Section (A-
5-3), Air and Toxics Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901, Telephone: 
(415) 744-1185.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document concerns Kern County Air 
Pollution Control District's (KCAPCD) Rule 425, Cogeneration Gas 
Turbine Engines (Oxides of Nitrogen), and Sacramento Metropolitan Air 
Quality Management District's (SMAQMD) Rule 413, Stationary Gas 
Turbines. The rule being removed from the SIP is KCAPCD Rule 425, 
Oxides of Nitrogen Emissions from Steam Generators Used in Thermally 
Enhanced Oil Recovery--Western Kern County Fields. The KCPACD rules 
were submitted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to EPA on 
November 18, 1993 and the SMAQMD rule was submitted on June 16, 1995. 
For further information, please see the information provided in the 
Direct Final action which is located in the Rules Section of this 
Federal Register.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.

    Dated: January 30, 1996.
Felicia Marcus,
Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-4572 Filed 2-29-96; 8:45 am]
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