[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 125 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 33372-33373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16343]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[GA-30-3-9615a; FRL-5519-2]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Approval of 
Revisions to the State Implementation Plan; Georgia

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: This action approves a revision to the Georgia State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Georgia Department of 
Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) on 
November 15, 1994, for the purpose of deleting the volatile organic 
compound (VOC) reasonably available control technology (RACT) rule for 
Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaners. This SIP revision is consistent with 
requirements of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA).

DATES: This final rule is effective August 26, 1996 unless adverse or 
critical comments are received by July 29, 1996. If the effective date 
is delayed, timely notice will be published in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on this action should be addressed to Scott 
M. Martin at the EPA Regional Office listed below.
    Copies of the documents relative to this action are available for 
public inspection during normal business hours at the following 
locations. The interested persons wanting to examine these documents 
should make an appointment with the appropriate office at least 24 
hours before the visiting day.

Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center (Air Docket 6102), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 
20460.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4 Air Programs Branch, 345 
Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30365.
Air Protection Branch, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, 
Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 4244 International Parkway, 
Suite 120, Atlanta, Georgia 30354.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott M. Martin, Regulatory Planning 
and Development Section, Air Programs Branch, Air, Pesticides & Toxics 
Management Division, Region 4 Environmental Protection Agency, 345 
Courtland Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30365. The telephone number is 
404/347-3555, X4216. Reference file GA-30-3-9615.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 15, 1994, the State of Georgia 
through the Georgia Environmental Protection Division submitted SIP 
revisions to EPA Region 4. This submittal contains changes pursuant to 
requirements of part D of Title I of the CAA with regard to 
nonattainment areas.
    Specifically, Georgia submitted, and EPA is approving, the deletion 
of Subsection 391-3-1-.02(2)(ww), Perchloroethylene Dry Cleaners, in 
its entirety.
    This revision is pursuant to the publication of a Federal Register 
notice on February 7, 1996, (61 FR 4588) in which EPA adds 
perchloroethylene, also known as tetrachloroethylene, to the list of 
compounds excluded from the definition of VOC. The effective date of 
this rule is March 8, 1996.
    Perchloroethylene is a solvent commonly used in dry cleaning, 
maskant operations, and degreasing operations. This rule results in a 
more accurate assessment of ozone formation potential and will assist 
States in avoiding exceedances for the ozone health standard. The rule 
does this by causing control efforts to focus on compounds which are 
actual ozone precursors, rather than giving credit for control of a 
compound which has negligible photochemical reactivity. 
Perchloroethylene will continue to be regulated as a hazardous air 
pollutant (HAP) under Section 112 of the CAA.

Final Action

    EPA is approving the above referenced revision to the Georgia SIP. 
The EPA is publishing this action without a prior proposal for approval 
because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial amendment and 
anticipates no adverse comments. However, in a separate document in 
this Federal Register publication, the EPA is proposing to approve the 
SIP revisions should adverse or critical comments be filed. This action 
will be effective on August 26, 1996 unless, by July 29, 1996, adverse 
or critical comments are received.
    If the EPA receives such comments, this action will be withdrawn 
before the effective date by publishing a subsequent document that will

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withdraw the final action. All public comments received will then be 
addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the separate proposed 
rule. The EPA will not institute a second comment period on this 
action. Any parties interested in commenting on this action should do 
so at this time. If no such comments are received, the public is 
advised that this action will be effective August 26, 1996.
    Under Section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), petitions 
for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States 
Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by August 26, 1996. Filing 
a petition for reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule 
does not affect the finality of this rule for purposes of judicial 
review nor does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial 
review may be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such 
rule or action. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings 
to enforce its requirements. (See Section 307(b)(2) of the CAA, 42 
U.S.C. 7607(b)(2)).
    This action has been classified as a Table 3 action for signature 
by the Regional Administrator under the procedures published in the 
Federal Register on January 19, 1989 (54 FR 2214-2225), as revised by a 
July 10, 1995, memorandum from Mary Nichols, Assistant Administrator 
for Air and Radiation. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has 
exempted this regulatory action from E.O. 12866 review.
    Nothing in this action shall be construed as permitting or allowing 
or establishing a precedent for any future request for a revision to 
any state implementation plan. Each request for revision to the state 
implementation plan shall be considered separately in light of specific 
technical, economic, and environmental factors and in relation to 
relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
    Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 600 et seq., EPA 
must prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis assessing the impact of 
any proposed or final rule on small entities. 5 U.S.C. 603 and 604. 
Alternatively, EPA may certify that the rule will not have a 
significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. Small 
entities include small businesses, small not-for-profit enterprises, 
and government entities with jurisdiction over populations of less than 
50,000.
    SIP approvals under Section 110 and subchapter I, part D of the CAA 
do not create any new requirements, but simply approve requirements 
that the State is already imposing. Therefore, because the Federal SIP-
approval does not impose any new requirements, I certify that it does 
not have a significant impact on any small entities affected. Moreover, 
due to the nature of the Federal-state relationship under the CAA, 
preparation of a regulatory flexibility analysis would constitute 
Federal inquiry into the economic reasonableness of state action. The 
CAA forbids EPA to base its actions concerning SIPs on such grounds. 
Union Electric Co. v. U.S. E.P.A., 427 U.S. 246, 256-66 (S.Ct. 1976); 
42 U.S.C. 7410(a)(2) and 7410(k)(3).
    Under Sections 202, 203, and 205 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform 
Act of 1995 (``Unfunded Mandates Act''), signed into law on March 22, 
1995, EPA must undertake various actions in association with proposed 
or final rules that include a Federal mandate that may result in 
estimated costs of $100 million or more to the private sector, or to 
State, local, or tribal governments in the aggregate.
    Through submission of this state implementation plan or plan 
revision, the State and any affected local or tribal governments have 
elected to adopt the revisions provided for under part D of Title I of 
the CAA. These rules may bind State, local and tribal governments to 
perform certain actions and also require the private sector to perform 
certain duties. To the extent that the rules being approved by this 
action will impose no new requirements, since such sources are already 
subject to these regulations under State law. Accordingly, no 
additional costs to State, local, or tribal governments, or to the 
private sector, result from this action, and therefore there will be no 
significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. EPA has 
also determined that this final action does not include a mandate that 
may result in estimated costs of $100 million or more to State, local, 
or tribal governments in the aggregate or to the private sector.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Hydrocarbons, 
Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, 
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: April 19, 1996.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator.

    Part 52 of chapter I, title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, is 
amended as follows:

PART 52--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:

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

Subpart L--Georgia

    2. Section 52.570 is amended by revising subparagraph (c)(37)(i)(A) 
to read as follows:


Sec. 52.570  Identification of plan.

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    (c) * * *
    (37) * * *
    (i) * * *
    (A) The following Rules of the Georgia Department of Natural 
Resources, Chapter 391-3-1, Air Quality Control, became State effective 
on January 9, 1991.

391-3-1-.01(jjj);
391-3-1-.02(2)(a)4.;
391-3-1-.02(2)(t);
391-3-1-.02(2)(u)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(v)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(w)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(x)2.(i), (iii), and (x)3.(v);
391-3-1-.02(2)(y)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(z)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(aa)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(bb)1.(ii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(cc);
391-3-1-.02(2)(ee)1.(iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(ff)2.(ii)(V) and 3.(iii)(III);
391-3-1-.02(2)(ii)4.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(jj)2.(i) and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(mm)1.(i), (ii), and (iii);
391-3-1-.02(2)(pp);
391-3-1-.02(2)(qq);
391-3-1-.0292)(rr);
391-3-1-.02(2)(ss);
391-3-1-.02(3)(a);
391-3-1-.02(6)(a)3.
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