[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 13, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 1927-1929]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-772]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[KY-96-9801a; FRL-5946-8]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Commonwealth 
of Kentucky

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is approving a source specific revision to the 
Commonwealth of Kentucky's State implementation plan (SIP) for the 
Reynolds Metals Company. The revision was submitted to EPA on May 20, 
1997, by the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the Kentucky Natural 
Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet (KNREPC). The Reynolds 
Metals Company currently has a source-specific SIP that was approved on 
May 16, 1990.

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This revision removes the limit on the operating speed for each of the 
nine machines while lowering the actual emissions of volatile organic 
compounds (VOCs) through the use of water-based inks and coatings.

DATES: This final rule is effective March 16, 1998 unless adverse or 
critical comments are received by February 12, 1998. 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 Joey 
LeVasseur at the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, Air 
Planning Branch, 61 Forsyth Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Copies 
of 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. Reference file KY-96-9801. The Region 4 office may have 
additional background documents not available at the other 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, Region 4, Air Planning Branch, 61 
Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joey LeVasseur at 404/562-9035.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    On May 16, 1990, EPA approved a source-specific SIP revision which 
allows nine rotogravure printing/coating machines at the Reynolds 
Metals plant (formerly Alcan Foil Products) to achieve compliance with 
the applicable VOC reasonably available control technology (RACT) 
regulations by using a plan which averages emissions and emission 
reduction credits within the facility. This bubble includes a daily and 
annual VOC limit and a limit on the number of days of operation. The 
limits are a maximum of 2,164 pounds of VOCs per day, 266.2 tons of 
VOCs per year and 246 operating days per year. The original SIP also 
contained a limit on the line speeds that the machines were allowed to 
operate. These limits were based on typical usage of each machine but 
had no regulatory significance.
    On May 20, 1997, the Commonwealth of Kentucky through the Kentucky 
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet (KNREPC) 
submitted a revision to the Reynolds Metals source-specific SIP to the 
EPA. The SIP revision proposes to reduce the daily limit to 1,458 
pounds of VOCs, to increase the operating days to 365 per year, and to 
keep the annual limit of 266.2 tons per year. This will reduce the 
daily limit by 706 pounds of VOCs per day while allowing the company 
the flexibility to operate more days per year. The company also 
proposes to have the operating speed limits of the machines rescinded 
as they will not cause an increase in emissions.

II. Final Action

    The EPA is approving and publishing this action 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 16, 1998 unless, by February 12, 1998, 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 be 
addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this action serving as a 
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 March 16, 1998.
    Nothing in this action should be construed as permitting or 
allowing or establishing a precedent for any future request for 
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.

III. Administrative Requirements

A. Executive Order 12866

    The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has exempted this 
regulatory action from E.O. 12866 review.

B. Regulatory Flexibility Act

    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 
Clean Air Act 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, the Regional 
Administrator certifies 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 flexibility 
analysis would constitute Federal inquiry into the economic 
reasonableness of state action. The Clean Air Act forbids EPA to base 
its actions concerning SIPs on such grounds. Union Electric Co. v. U.S. 
EPA, 427 U.S. 246, 255-66 (1976); 42 U.S.C. 7410(a)(2) and 7410(k)(3).

C. Unfunded Mandates

    Under section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
(``Unfunded Mandates Act''), signed into law on March 22, 1995, EPA 
must prepare a budgetary impact statement to accompany any proposed or 
final rule that includes a Federal mandate that may result in estimated 
costs to State, local, or tribal governments in the aggregate; or to 
private sector, of $100 million or more. Under section 205, EPA must 
select the most cost-effective and least burdensome alternative that 
achieves the objectives of the rule and is consistent with statutory 
requirements. Section 203 requires EPA to establish a plan for 
informing and advising any small governments that may be significantly 
or uniquely impacted by the rule.
    EPA has determined that the approval action promulgated does not 
include a Federal mandate that may result in estimated costs of $100 
million or more to either State, local, or tribal governments in the 
aggregate, or to the private sector. This Federal action approves pre-
existing requirements under State or local law, and imposes no new 
requirements. Accordingly, no additional costs to State, local, or 
tribal governments, or to the private sector, result from this action.

D. Submission to Congress and the General Accounting Office

    Under 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A) as added by the Small Business 
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, EPA submitted a report 
containing this rule

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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).

E. Petitions for Judicial Review

    Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, petitions for 
judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court 
of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by March 16, 1998. Filing a 
petition for reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule 
does not affect the finality of this rule for the 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).)

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: October 29, 1997.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IV.

    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 et seq.

Subpart S--Kentucky

    2. Section 52.920, is amended by adding paragraph (c)(86) to read 
as follows:


Sec. 52.920  Identification of plan.

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    (c) * * *
    (86) Revision to the Kentucky State Implementation Plan submitted 
by the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet on May 
20, 1997. The revision is for the Reynolds Metals Company.
    (i) Incorporation by reference. Air Pollution Control District of 
Jefferson County Permit numbers 103-74, 104-74, 105-74, 106-74, 110-74, 
and 111-74, effective April 16, 1997.
    (ii) Other material. None.
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