[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 11842-11847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6091]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 52 and 81

[IL145-2a, IL152-2a; FRL-5958-3]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plan; Illinois 
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Illinois

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: On November 14, 1995, May 9, 1996, June 14, 1996, February 3, 
1997, and, October 16, 1997, the State of Illinois submitted State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) revision requests to meet commitments related 
to the conditional approval of Illinois' May 15, 1992, SIP submittal 
for the Lake Calumet (SE Chicago), McCook, and Granite City, Illinois, 
Particulate Matter (PM) nonattainment areas. The EPA is approving the 
SIP revision request as it applies to the Granite City area, including 
the attainment demonstration for the Granite City PM nonattainment 
area. The SIP revision request corrects, for the Granite City PM 
nonattainment area, all of the deficiencies of the May 15, 1992, 
submittal (as discussed in the November 18, 1994, conditional approval 
notice). No action is being taken on the submitted plan revisions for 
the Lake Calumet and McCook areas at this time. They will be addressed 
in separate rulemaking actions.
    On March 19, 1996, and October 15, 1996, Illinois submitted 
requests to redesignate the Granite City PM nonattainment area to 
attainment status for the PM National Ambient Air Quality Standards 
(NAAQS). The EPA is approving this request, as well as the maintenance 
plan for the Granite City area which was submitted with the 
redesignation request to ensure continued attainment of the NAAQS.

DATES: The ``direct final'' approval is effective on May 11, 1998, 
unless EPA receives written adverse or critical comments by April 10, 
1998. If the effective date is delayed, timely notice will be published 
in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the revision request and EPA's analysis are 
available for inspection at the following address: U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. (It is recommended that you 
telephone David Pohlman at (312) 886-3299 before visiting the Region 5 
Office.)
    Written comments should be sent to: J. Elmer Bortzer, Chief, 
Regulation Development Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 
Illinois 60604.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Pohlman at (312) 886-3299.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Under section 107(d)(4)(B) of the Clean Air Act (Act), as amended 
on November 15, 1990 (amended Act), certain areas (``initial areas'') 
were designated nonattainment for PM. Under section 188 of the amended 
Act these initial areas were classified as ``moderate''. The initial 
areas included the Lake Calumet, McCook, and Granite City, Illinois, PM 
nonattainment areas.

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The Granite City area includes Granite City and Nameoki Townships in 
Madison County, Illinois. (See 40 CFR 81.314 for a complete description 
of these areas.) Section 189 of the amended Act requires State 
submittal of a PM SIP for the initial areas by November 15, 1991. 
Illinois submitted the required SIP revision for the Granite City, 
Illinois, PM nonattainment area to EPA on May 15, 1992. Upon review of 
Illinois' submittal, EPA identified several concerns. Illinois 
submitted a letter on March 2, 1994, committing to satisfy all of these 
concerns within one year of final conditional approval. On May 25, 
1994, the EPA proposed to conditionally approve the SIP. Final 
conditional approval was published on November 18, 1994, and became 
effective on December 19, 1994. The final conditional approval allowed 
the State until November 20, 1995 to correct the five stated 
deficiencies:
    1. Invalid emissions inventory and attainment demonstration, due to 
failure to include emissions from the roof monitors for the Basic 
Oxygen Furnace shop (BOF) and underestimated emissions from the quench 
tower at the Granite City Division of National Steel Corporation (GCD).
    2. Failure to adequately address maintenance of the PM NAAQS for at 
least 3 years beyond the applicable attainment date.
    3. Lack of an opacity limit on coke oven combustion stacks.
    4. Lack of enforceable emissions limit for the electric arc furnace 
roof vents at American Steel Foundries.
    5. The following enforceability concerns:
    a. Section 212.107, Measurement Methods for Visible Emissions could 
be misinterpreted as requiring use of Method 22 for sources subject to 
opacity limits as well as sources subject to limits on detectability of 
visible emissions.
    b. Inconsistencies in the measurement methods for opacity, visible 
emissions, and ``PM'' in section 212.110, 212.107, 212.108, and 
212.109.
    c. Language in several rules which exempts from mass emissions 
limits those sources having no visible emissions.
    The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) held a public 
hearing on the proposed rules on January 5, 1996. The rules became 
effective at the State level on May 22, 1996, and were published in the 
Illinois Register on June 7, 1996. Illinois made submittals to meet the 
commitments related to the conditional approval on November 14, 1995, 
May 9, 1996, June 14, 1996, February 3, 1997, and October 16, 1997. At 
this time, the EPA is only acting on the portions of those submittals 
that pertain to the Granite City PM nonattainment area conditional 
approval, including the following new or revised rules in 35 Ill. Adm. 
Code:

Part 212: Visible and Particulate Matter Emissions

Subpart A: General

212.107  Measurement Method for Visible Emissions
212.108  Measurement Methods for PM-10 Emissions and Condensible PM-
10 Emissions
212.109  Measurement Methods for Opacity
212.110  Measurement Methods for Particulate Matter

Subpart K: Fugitive Particulate Matter

212.302  Geographic Areas of Application

Subpart L: Particulate Matter Emissions

212.324  Process Emission Units in Certain Areas

Subpart N: Food Manufacturing

212.362  Emission Units in Certain Areas

Subpart O: Stone, Clay, Glass and Concrete Manufacturing

212.425  Emission Units in Certain Areas

Subpart R: Primary and Fabricated Metal Products and Machinery 
Manufacture

212.446  Basic Oxygen Furnaces
212.458  Emission Units in Certain Areas

Subpart S: Agriculture

212.464  Sources in Certain Areas

    In addition to the rule changes needed to meet the commitments 
imposed on Illinois in the conditional approval, Illinois submitted 
other revised rules. Rules submitted, but not listed above, will be 
addressed in future rulemaking actions.
    On July 22, 1997, the EPA proposed limited approval, limited 
disapproval of the SIP revision request submitted by Illinois to meet 
the conditions of the May 18, 1994, conditional approval requirements. 
In the July 22, 1997, proposal, the EPA stated that Illinois had met 
all of the conditional approval requirements except for the requirement 
to provide an enforceable opacity limit for coke oven combustion 
stacks. In an October 16, 1997, letter, Illinois submitted a revised 
construction and operating permit for GCD. The Federally-enforceable 
permit includes a 30 percent opacity limit, and states that coke oven 
combustion stacks at GCD are not covered by the repair opacity 
exemption in 35 IAC 212.443(g)(2).
    The only other comment received by the EPA on the July 22, 1997, 
proposal was an October 17, 1997, letter from GCD, in support of 
Illinois' October 16, 1997, submittal.
    Title I, section 107(d)(3)(D) of the amended Act and the general 
preamble to Title I [57 FR 13498 (April 16, 1992)], allow the Governor 
of a State to request the redesignation of an area from nonattainment 
to attainment. The criteria used to review redesignation requests are 
derived from the Act, general preamble, and the following policy and 
guidance memoranda from the Director of the Air Quality Management 
Division to the Regional Air Directors, September 4, 1992, Procedures 
for Processing Requests to Redesignate Areas to Attainment. An area can 
be redesignated to attainment if the following conditions are met:
    1. The area has attained the applicable NAAQS;
    2. The area has a fully approved SIP under section 110(k) of the 
Act;
    3. The air quality improvement must be permanent and enforceable;
    4. The area has met all relevant requirements under section 110 and 
Part D of the Act; and,
    5. The area must have a fully approved maintenance plan pursuant to 
section 175A of the Act.
    On July 22, 1997, the EPA proposed to disapprove Illinois request 
to redesignate the Granite City PM nonattainment area to attainment 
based on the fact that the area did not have a fully approved SIP. 
Based on Illinois' October 16, 1997, submittal, the EPA is now fully 
approving the SIP for the Granite City area, as well as the 
redesignation request and maintenance plan.

II. Analysis of State Submittal

    Only the issue involving the coke oven combustion stacks and the 
redesignation criteria will be discussed in this notice. For a 
discussion of how Illinois addressed the other noted deficiencies, see 
the July 22, 1997, proposed partial approval notice (62 FR 39199).
    Because coke oven operations are generally covered by special 
opacity limits, Illinois' SIP exempts coke oven sources from the 
statewide 30 percent opacity limit. This State exemption was approved 
by EPA on September 3, 1981. It was later realized that this exemption 
left coke oven combustion stacks without an opacity limit. Coke oven 
combustion stacks in Illinois are subject to grain loading limits which 
require stack tests for compliance determinations. Because stack tests 
can take months to perform and only last a few hours, an opacity limit, 
for which compliance can be determined by visual observations, is 
needed to ensure continuous compliance. This deficiency was cited in 
the November 18, 1994,

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conditional approval of Illinois' PM nonattainment area SIP submittal.
    In response to the conditional approval of Illinois' PM plan, the 
State adopted a 30 percent opacity limit for coke oven combustion 
stacks. However, this rule also includes an exemption for ``when a leak 
between any coke oven and the oven's vertical or crossover flue(s) is 
being repaired * * *'' for up to 3 hours per repair. The EPA believes 
this rule is unacceptable. (See 62 FR 39199.)
    In an October 16, 1997, letter, Illinois submitted a revised 
construction and operating permit for GCD. The permit, which was issued 
on October 21, 1997, includes a 30 percent opacity limit, and states 
that coke oven combustion stacks at GCD are not covered by the repair 
opacity exemption in 35 IAC 212.443(g)(2). GCD is the only source in 
the Granite City nonattainment area which would have been covered by 
the repair exemption, and this permit eliminates the exemption for GCD. 
Since there are now no coke oven combustion stacks in the nonattainment 
area without enforceable opacity limits, this deficiency has been 
corrected for the Granite City nonattainment area. The issue of the 
repair exemption rule as it applies to the remainder of the State will 
be addressed in subsequent rulemaking actions.
    Under cover letters dated March 19, 1996, and October 15, 1996, the 
State submitted a redesignation request for the Granite City PM 
nonattainment area. A public hearing was held on May 6, 1996.
    All five of the redesignation criteria given under section 
107(d)(3)(E) of the Clean Air Act must be satisfied in order for the 
EPA to redesignate an area from nonattainment to attainment. (See the 
Background section of this notice.) The following is a description of 
how the State's redesignation request meets these requirements.

1. Attainment of the PM NAAQS

    According to EPA guidance, the demonstration that the area has 
attained the PM NAAQS involves submittal of ambient air quality data 
from an ambient air monitoring network representing peak PM 
concentrations, which should be recorded in the Aerometric Information 
Retrieval System (AIRS). The area must show that the average annual 
number of expected exceedances of the 24-hour PM standard is less than 
or equal to 1.0, and that the annual arithmetic mean concentration is 
less than or equal to 50 micrograms per cubic meter, pursuant to 40 CFR 
Part 50, section 50.6. The data must represent the most recent three 
consecutive years of complete ambient air quality monitoring data 
collected in accordance with EPA methodologies.
    The IEPA operates four PM monitoring sites in the nonattainment 
area. Illinois submitted ambient air quality data from the monitoring 
sites which demonstrates that the area has attained the PM NAAQS. This 
air quality data was verified in AIRS. Quality assurance procedures are 
a component of the AIRS data entry process. No exceedance of the 24-
hour or annual PM NAAQS has been measured since 1990. Therefore, the 
State has adequately demonstrated, through ambient air quality data, 
that the PM NAAQS have been attained in the Granite City PM 
nonattainment area.

2. State Implementation Plan Approval

    Those States containing initial moderate PM nonattainment areas 
were required to submit a SIP by November 15, 1991, which implemented 
reasonably available control measures (RACM) by December 10, 1993, and 
demonstrated attainment of the PM NAAQS by December 31, 1994. Illinois 
submitted the required SIP revision for the Granite City PM 
nonattainment areas to EPA on May 15, 1992. On May 25, 1994, the EPA 
proposed to conditionally approve the SIP. Final conditional approval 
was published on November 18, 1994, and became effective on December 
19, 1994. The final conditional approval allowed the State until 
November 20, 1995, to correct five stated deficiencies. Illinois made 
submittals to meet the commitments related to the conditional approval 
on November 14, 1995, May 9, 1996, June 14, 1996, February 3, 1997, and 
October 16, 1997. On July 22, 1997, the EPA proposed limited approval, 
limited disapproval of the SIP revision request submitted by Illinois 
to meet the conditions of the May 18, 1994, conditional approval 
requirements. In an October 16, 1997, letter, Illinois submitted a 
revised construction and operating permit for GCD. This permit 
corrected the final deficiency, and the EPA is, in this notice, fully 
approving the SIP for the Granite City PM nonattainment area.

3. Improvement in Air Quality Due to Permanent and Enforceable Measures

    The State must be able to reasonably attribute the improvement in 
air quality to permanent and enforceable emission reductions. In making 
this showing, the State must demonstrate that air quality improvements 
are the result of actual enforceable emission reductions.
    The PM dispersion modeling conducted as part of the Granite City PM 
SIP predicted that the control measures included in the SIP were 
sufficient to provide for attainment and maintenance of the PM NAAQS. 
The State has adequately demonstrated that the improvement in air 
quality is due to permanent and enforceable emission reductions of PM 
as a result of implementing the federally enforceable control measures 
in the SIP.

4. Meeting Applicable Requirements of Section 110 and Part D of the Act

    To be redesignated to attainment, section 107(d)(3)(E) requires 
that an area must have met all applicable requirements of section 110 
and part D of title I of the Act. The EPA interprets this to mean that 
for a redesignation request to be approved, the State must have met all 
requirements that applied to the subject area prior to or at the time 
of a complete redesignation request.
A. Section 110 Requirements
    Section 110(a)(2) contains general requirements for nonattainment 
plans. For purposes of redesignation, the Illinois SIP was reviewed to 
ensure that all applicable requirements under the amended Act were 
satisfied. Many of these requirements were met with Illinois' May 15, 
1992 submittal. The EPA proposed conditional approval of the SIP at 
that time because certain requirements had not been met. With the 
November 14, 1995, May 9, 1996, June 14, 1996, February 3, 1997, and 
October 16, 1997, submittals Illinois has corrected the deficiencies in 
the May 15, 1992 submittal, and the EPA is, in this notice, fully 
approving the Granite City PM SIP under Section 110.
B. Part D Requirements
    Before a PM nonattainment area may be redesignated to attainment, 
the State must have fulfilled the applicable requirements of part D. 
Subpart 1 of part D establishes the general requirements applicable to 
all nonattainment areas and subpart 4 of part D establishes specific 
requirements applicable to PM nonattainment areas.
    The requirements of sections 172(c) and 189(a) for providing for 
attainment of the PM NAAQS, and the requirements of section 172(c) for 
requiring reasonable further progress, imposition of RACM, the adoption 
of contingency measures, and the submission of an emission inventory 
have been satisfied through today's direct final approval of the 
Granite City PM SIP, the July 13, 1995, approval of the Illinois PM 
contingency measures SIP (60 FR 36060), and the demonstration that the 
area is now attaining the standard. The

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requirements of the Part D--New Source Review (NSR) permit program will 
be replaced by the Part C--Prevention of Significant Deterioration 
(PSD) program once the area has been redesignated. However, in order to 
ensure that the PSD program will become fully effective immediately 
upon redesignation, either the State must be delegated the Federal PSD 
program or the State must make any needed modifications to its rules to 
have the approved PSD program apply to the affected area upon 
redesignation. The PSD program was delegated to the State of Illinois 
on January 29, 1981 (46 FR 9584).

5. Fully Approved Maintenance Plan Under Section 175A of the Act

    Section 175A of the Act requires states that submit a redesignation 
request for a nonattainment area under section 107(d) to include a 
maintenance plan to ensure that the attainment of the NAAQS for any 
pollutant is maintained. The plan must demonstrate continued attainment 
of the applicable NAAQS for at least ten years after the approval of a 
redesignation to attainment. Eight years after the redesignation, the 
State must submit a revised maintenance plan demonstrating attainment 
for the ten years following the initial ten year period.
    The State of Illinois adequately demonstrated attainment and 
maintenance of the PM NAAQS through the dispersion modeling submitted 
as part of the SIP. Since emissions in the area are not expected to 
increase substantially in the next 10 years, that initial attainment 
demonstration is still adequate. Also, the State has indicated that 
industries in the area are currently operating at about 30 percent of 
the emissions allowed under their SIP, so even if production should 
increase, emissions would likely not exceed the amounts used to 
demonstrate attainment of the NAAQS. Also, emissions from any new 
sources would be restricted by PSD requirements.
    Once an area has been redesignated, the State must continue to 
operate an appropriate air quality monitoring network, in accordance 
with 40 CFR Part 58, to verify the attainment status of the area. The 
maintenance plan should contain provisions for continued operation of 
air quality monitors that will provide such verification. Illinois 
operates four PM air monitoring sites in the nonattainment area. These 
sites are approved annually by the EPA, and any future change would 
require discussion with EPA. In its submittal, the State commits to 
continue to operate the PM monitoring station to demonstrate ongoing 
compliance with the PM NAAQS.
    Section 175A of the Act also requires that a maintenance plan 
include contingency provisions, as necessary, to promptly correct any 
violation of the NAAQS that occurs after redesignation of the area. 
These contingency measures are distinguished from those generally 
required for nonattainment areas under section 172(c)(9). However, if 
the contingency measures in a nonattainment SIP have not been 
implemented to attain the standards and they include a requirement that 
the State will implement all of the PM control measures which were 
contained in the SIP before redesignation to attainment, then they can 
be carried over into the area's maintenance plan.
    Under a cover letter dated July 29, 1994, IEPA submitted a State 
Rule to satisfy the contingency measures requirements specified in 
section 172(c)(9) for the Granite City PM nonattainment area, among 
others. This rule is eligible to also be used as the section 175A 
contingency measures, because the State was able to attain the PM NAAQS 
with the limitations and control measures already contained in the SIP. 
On July 13, 1995, the EPA approved the rule into the Illinois SIP in a 
direct final rulemaking (60 FR 36060), which became effective on 
September 11, 1995.
    Section 179(a) of the amended Act states that if the Administrator 
finds that a State has failed to make a required submission, finds that 
a SIP or SIP revision submitted by the State does not satisfy the 
minimum criteria established under section 110(k) of the amended Act, 
or disapproves a SIP submission in whole or in part, unless the 
deficiency has been corrected within 18 months after the finding, one 
of the sanctions referred to in section 179(b) of the amended Act shall 
apply until the Administrator determines that the State has come into 
compliance. (Pursuant to 40 CFR 52.31, the first sanction shall be a 
sanction requiring 2 to 1 offsets, in the absence of a case-specific 
selection otherwise.) If the deficiency has not been corrected within 6 
months of the selection of the first sanction, the second sanction 
under section 179(b) shall also apply. In addition, section 110(c) of 
the Act requires promulgation of a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) 
within 2 years after the finding or disapproval, as discussed above, 
unless the State corrects the deficiency and the SIP is approved before 
the FIP is promulgated.
    On December 17, 1991, a letter was sent to the Governor of Illinois 
notifying him that the EPA was making a finding that the State of 
Illinois had failed to submit a PM SIP for the Granite City 
nonattainment area. This letter triggered both the sanctions and FIP 
processes as explained above. Illinois submitted a PM SIP revision for 
the nonattainment area on May 15, 1992, and in an April 30, 1993, 
letter to the State the EPA informed the State that the SIP was 
determined to be complete. Therefore, the deficiency which started the 
sanctions and FIP processes was corrected, and the sanctions process 
ended. The FIP process, however, was not stopped by the correction of 
the deficiency and EPA was to promulgate a FIP within 2 years of the 
failure-to-submit letter (or December 17, 1993), unless a PM SIP for 
the nonattainment area was finally approved before then.
    On November 18, 1994, the EPA conditionally approved the SIP. The 
final conditional approval allowed the State until November 20, 1995, 
to correct the five stated deficiencies. Conditional approval does not 
start a new sanctions process, unless the state fails to make a 
submittal to address the deficiencies, makes an incomplete submittal, 
or the submittal is ultimately disapproved. Illinois made a submittal 
to meet the commitments related to the conditional approval on November 
14, 1995. Supplemental information was submitted on May 9, 1996, June 
14, 1996, February 3, 1997, and October 16, 1997. This submittal became 
complete by operation of law on May 14, 1996. No sanctions process is 
currently running. Upon full approval of the Granite City PM plan, FIP 
liability will also end.

III. Final Rulemaking Action

    Illinois has corrected all of the deficiencies listed in the 
November 18, 1994, conditional approval as they relate to the Granite 
City PM nonattainment area. Because Illinois has met all of the 
commitments of the conditional approval, the EPA is approving the plan 
for the Granite City PM nonattainment area.
    The EPA is also approving Illinois' March 19, 1996, and October 15, 
1996, maintenance plan and request to redesignate the Granite City area 
to attainment for PM because all requirements for redesignation have 
been met, as discussed above.
    The EPA is publishing this action without prior proposal because 
EPA views this as a noncontroversial revision 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 written adverse or critical comments be filed. This action will 
be effective on

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May 11, 1998 unless, by April 10, 1998, adverse or critical written 
comments are received.
    If the EPA receives such comments, this action will be withdrawn 
before the effective date by publishing a subsequent rulemaking 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 on May 11, 1998.
    Nothing in this action should be construed as permitting, 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.

IV. Administrative Requirements

A. Executive Order 12866

    The Office of Management and Budget has exempted this regulatory 
action from Executive Order 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.
    Pursuant to section 605(b) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, I 
certify that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities. This Federal action approves pre-
existing requirements under federal, State or local law, and imposes no 
new requirements on any entity affected by this rule, including small 
entities. Therefore, these amendments will not have a significant 
impact on a substantial number of small entities.

C. Unfunded Mandates

    Under Section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, 
signed into law on March 22, 1995, EPA must undertake various actions 
in association with 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 the private sector, of $100 million 
or more. 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 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 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).

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 May 11, 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), 42 
U.S.C. 7607(b)(2)).

List of Subjects

40 CFR Part 52

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

40 CFR Part 81

    Air Pollution control, National parks, Wilderness areas.

    Dated: January 16, 1998.
David A. Ullrich,
Acting Regional Administrator.

    For the reasons set out in the preamble, chapter I, title 40 of the 
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 O--Illinois

    2. Section 52.720 is amended by adding paragraph (c)(141) to read 
as follows:


Sec. 52.720  Identification of plan.

* * * * *
    (c) * * *
    (141) On November 14, 1995, May 9, 1996, June 14, 1996, and 
February 3, 1997, October 16, 1997, and October 21, 1997, the State of 
Illinois submitted State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision requests to 
meet commitments related to the conditional approval of Illinois' May 
15, 1992, SIP submittal for the Lake Calumet (SE Chicago), McCook, and 
Granite City, Illinois, Particulate Matter (PM) nonattainment areas. 
The EPA is approving the portion of the SIP revision request that 
applies to the Granite City area. The SIP revision request corrects, 
for the Granite City PM nonattainment area, all of the deficiencies of 
the May 15, 1992, submittal.
    (i) Incorporation by reference. (A) Illinois Administrative Code 
Title 35: Environmental Protection, Subtitle B: Air Pollution, Chapter 
1: Pollution Control Board, Subchapter c: Emission Standards and 
Limitations for Stationary Sources, Part 212: Visible and Particulate 
Matter Emissions, Subpart A: General, Sections 212.107, 212.108, 
212.109, 212.110; Subpart L: Particulate Matter from Process Emission 
Sources, Section 212.324; Subpart N: Food Manufacturing, Section 
212.362; Subpart Q: Stone, Clay, Glass and Concrete Manufacturing, 
Section 212.425; Subpart R: Primary and Fabricated Metal Products and 
Machinery Manufacture, Sections 212.446, 212.458; Subpart S: 
Agriculture, Section 212.464. Adopted at 20 Illinois Register 7605, 
effective May 22, 1996.
    (B) Joint Construction and Operating Permit: Application Number 
95010005, Issued on October 21, 1997, to Granite City Division of 
National Steel Corporation.
    3. Section 52.725 is amended by adding paragraph (e) to read as 
follows:


Sec. 52.725  Control Strategy: Particulates.

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    (e) Approval--On March 19, 1996, and October 15, 1996, Illinois 
submitted requests to redesignate the Granite City Particulate Matter 
(PM) nonattainment area to attainment status for the PM National 
Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), as well as a maintenance plan 
for the Granite City area to ensure continued attainment of the NAAQS.

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The redesignation request and maintenance plan satisfy all applicable 
requirements of the Clean Air Act.

PART 81--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for part 81 continues to read as follows:

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

    2. In Sec. 81.314, the table entitled ``Illinois PM-10'' is amended 
by revising the entry for ``Madison County'' to read as follows:


Sec. 81.314  Illinois.

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[FR Doc. 98-6091 Filed 3-10-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P