[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 160 (Wednesday, August 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44436-44437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22338]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6147-7]


Acid Rain Program: Permit Modification

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of permit modification.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing, as 
a direct final action, a permit modification revising the early 
election plan for the Rockport plant in Indiana in accordance with the 
Acid Rain Program regulations (40 CFR parts 72 and 76). Because the 
Agency does not anticipate receiving adverse comments, the modification 
is being issued as a direct final action.

DATES: The permit modification issued in this direct final action will 
be final on September 28, 1998 or 40 days after publication of a 
similar notice in a local publication, whichever is later, unless 
significant, adverse comments are received by September 18, 1998 or 30 
days after publication of a similar notice in a local publication, 
whichever is later. If significant, adverse comments are timely 
received on the permit modification, the permit modification will be 
withdrawn through a notice in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: Administrative Records. The administrative record for the 
permit, except information protected as confidential, may be viewed 
during normal operating hours at EPA Region 5, 77 West Jackson Blvd., 
Chicago, IL, 60604.
    Comments. Send comments, requests for public hearings, and requests 
to receive notice of future actions to EPA Region 5, Air and Radiation 
Division, Attn: Cecilia Mijares (address above). Submit comments in 
duplicate and identify the permit to which the comments apply, the 
commenter's name, address, and telephone number, and the commenter's 
interest in the matter and affiliation, if any, to the owners and 
operators of all units in the plan. All timely comments will be 
considered, except those pertaining to standard provisions under 40 CFR 
72.9 or issues not relevant to the permit modification.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Cecilia Mijares (312) 886-0968.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title IV of the Clean Air Act directs EPA to 
establish a program to reduce the adverse effects of acidic deposition 
by requiring reductions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions 
from coal-fired electric utility boilers and by issuing permits 
reflecting this requirement. Today, EPA is taking action to delete a 
provision in the early election plan in the Acid Rain permit for the 
Rockport plant in Indiana. Under the plan, Rockport units 1 and 2 must 
comply with a NOx emission limit of 0.50 lb/mmBtu from

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1997 through 2007 and with a NOx emission limit of 0.46 lb/mmBtu 
thereafter. The eliminated provision requires Rockford units 1 and 2 to 
burn only Powder River Basin coal during 1997-2007. The designated 
representative is John McManus.
    If significant, adverse comments are timely received on the permit 
modification, comments on the permit modification will be addressed in 
a subsequent notice of permit modification based on the draft permit 
modification that is published elsewhere in this Federal Register and 
that is identical to this direct final action.

    Dated: August 11, 1998.
Brian J. McLean,
Director, Acid Rain Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Office of 
Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 98-22338 Filed 8-18-98; 8:45 am]
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