[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 6827]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3144]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[CA 164-0112b; FRL-6227-3]


Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; 
California State Implementation Plan Revision, San Joaquin Valley 
Unified Air Pollution Control District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air 
Quality Management District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern the control of oxides of 
nitrogen (NOX) emissions from solid fuel fired boilers, 
steam generators and process heaters within the San Joaquin Valley 
Unified Air Pollution Control District and from stationary gas turbine 
operations within the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management 
District.
    The intended effect of proposing approval of these rules is to 
regulate emissions of NOX in accordance with the 
requirements of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). 
In the Final Rules Section of this Federal Register, the EPA is 
approving the state's SIP revision as a direct final rule without prior 
proposal because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial revision 
amendment and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for 
this approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no adverse 
comments are received in response to this rule, no further activity is 
contemplated in relation to this rule. If EPA receives adverse 
comments, the direct final rule will not take effect and all public 
comments received will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on 
this proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period on 
this document. Any parties interested in commenting on this action 
should do so at this time.

DATES: Written comments must be received by March 15, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to: Andrew Steckel, 
Rulemaking Office (AIR-4), Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
    Copies of the rule revisions and EPA's evaluation report of each 
rule are available for public inspection at EPA's Region IX office 
during normal business hours. Copies of the submitted rules are also 
available for inspection at the following locations:

California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule 
Evaluation Section, 2020 ``L'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, 1999 
Tuolumne Street, Suite 200, Fresno, CA 93721.
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, 8411 Jackson 
Road, Sacramento, CA 95826

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Steckel, Rulemaking Office 
(AIR-4), Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 
75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901, Telephone: (415) 
744-1185.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document concerns San Joaquin Valley 
Unified Air Pollution Control District's (SJVUAPCD) Rule 4352, Solid 
Fuel Fired Boilers, Steam Generators and Process Heaters, and 
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District's (SMAQMD) Rule 
413, Stationary Gas Turbines. The SJVUAPCD rule was submitted by the 
California Air Resources Board (CARB) to EPA on March 26, 1996 and the 
SMAQMD rule was submitted on May 18, 1998. For further information, 
please see the information provided in the direct final action which is 
located in the Rules Section of this Federal Register.

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

    Dated: January 14, 1999.
Felicia Marcus,
Regional Administrator, Region 9.
[FR Doc. 99-3144 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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