[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 21, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2915-2916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1333]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52

[KY-092-9649a; FRL-5653-9]


Approval and Promulgation of Revisions to the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky's State Implementation Plan (SIP)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: On June 19, 1996, the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the 
Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet 
(KNREPC) submitted revisions to the Kentucky SIP. This revision exempts 
acetone and perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene) from the list of 
compounds regulated as volatile organic compounds (VOC) for ozone 
control purposes.

DATES: This action will be effective March 24, 1997 unless adverse or 
critical comments are received by February 20, 1997. If the effective 
date is delayed, timely notice will be published in the Federal 
Register.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to Kimberly Bingham at the EPA Region 
4 address listed below. Copies of the material submitted by KNREPC may 
be examined during normal business hours at the following locations:

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, Atlanta Federal Center, Region 4 Air 
Planning Branch, 100 Alabama Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104.
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, 803 Schenkel 
Lane, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kimberly Bingham, Regulatory Planning 
Section, Air Planning Branch, Air Pesticides and Toxics Management 
Division, Region 4, Environmental Protection Agency, 100 Alabama 
Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104. The telephone number is (404) 
562-9038.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 19, 1996, the Commonwealth of 
Kentucky through the KNREPC submitted revisions to the Kentucky SIP. 
The EPA is approving the following revisions to the Kentucky SIP. 401 
KAR Chapters 50, 51, 59, 61, 63, and 65 were amended to add acetone and 
perchloroethylene (tetrachloroethylene) to the list of compounds 
excluded from the definition of VOC on the basis that these compounds 
have been determined to have negligible photochemical reactivity. 
Hence, acetone and perchloroethylene will be excluded as a VOC for 
ozone control purposes. The EPA published notices in the Federal 
Register on June 16, 1995, (60 FR 31633) and February 7, 1996, (61 FR 
4590), that document the Agency's decision to add acetone and 
perchloroethylene to this list of excluded compounds, respectively.

Final Action

    The EPA is approving the aforementioned revisions because they meet 
the Agency requirements. This action is being published without prior 
proposal 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 revision, should adverse or critical comments be filed. This action 
will be effective March 24, 1997 unless, within 30 days of its 
publication, 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 
withdraw the final action. All public comments received will then be 
addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed rule 
published with this action. 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 March 24, 1997.
    Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act (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 March 
24, 1997. 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.
    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).
    Nothing in this action shall be construed as permitting or allowing 
or establishing a precedent for any future request for a revision to 
any SIP. Each request for revision to the SIP 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.
    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 program provided for under Section 110 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. EPA has examined whether the rules being approved by this 
action would impose no new requirements, since such sources are already 
subject to these

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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.
    Under 801(a)(1)(A) of the Administrative Procedures Act (APAA) as 
amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 
1996, EPA submitted a report containing this rule and other required 
information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and 
the Comptroller General of the General Accounting Office prior to 
publication of the rule in today's Federal Register. This rule is not a 
``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2) of the APAA as amended.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by 
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone.

    Dated: November 4, 1996.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator.

    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. 7401-7671q.

Subpart S--Kentucky

    2. Section 52.920 is amended by adding paragraph (c)(85) to read as 
follows:


Sec. 52.920  Identification of plan.

* * * * *
    (c) * * *
    (85) The Commonwealth of Kentucky submitted revisions to the 
Kentucky SIP on June 19, 1996. These revisions involve changes to 401 
KAR Chapters 50, 51, 59, 61, 63, and 65.
    (i) Incorporation by reference. 401 KAR Chapters 50:010(62), 
51.001(62), 59:001(63), 61:001(63), 63:001(62), and 65:001(31) of the 
Kentucky regulations effective on June 6, 1996.
    (ii) Other material. None.

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