[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13529-13530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5415]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6940-8]


Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to 
State Operating Permit for Fort James Camas Mill, Camas, Washington

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final order on petition to object to state operating 
permit.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Clean Air Act Section 505(b)(2) and 40 CFR 
70.8(d), the EPA Administrator is hereby granting in part and denying 
in part a petition to object to a State operating permit issued by the 
Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) to Fort James Camas Mill, 
Camas, Washington. This order constitutes final action on the petition 
submitted by Mr. Carl D. Larkins. Pursuant to section 505(b)(2) of the 
Clean Air Act (Act), petitioner may seek judicial review in the United 
States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit within 60 days of 
this decision under section 307 of the Act.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the final order, the petition, and all pertinent 
information relating thereto are on file at the following location: 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, Office of Air Quality, 1200 
Sixth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101. The final order is also 
available electronically at the following address: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/t5sn.html

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William M. Hedgebeth, Office of Air 
Quality, EPA Region 10, telephone (206) 553-1059, e-mail 
[email protected]. Interested parties may also contact the 
Washington Department of Ecology, Industrial Section, 300 Desmond 
Drive, Lacey, Washington 98503, mailing address P.O. Box 47600, 
Olympia, Washington 98504-7600.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clean Air Act affords EPA the 
opportunity for a 45-day period to review, and object to as 
appropriate, operating permits proposed by State permitting 
authorities. Section 505(b)(2) of the Act authorizes any person to 
petition the EPA Administrator within 60 days after

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the expiration of this review period to object to State operating 
permits if EPA has not done so. Petitions must be based only on 
objections to the permit that were raised with reasonable specificity 
during the public comment period provided by the State, unless the 
petitioner demonstrates that it was impracticable to raise these issues 
during the comment period or the grounds for the issues arose after 
this period.
    Mr. Carl D. Larkins submitted a petition to the Administrator on 
November 24, 1999, seeking EPA's objection to the operating permit 
issued to Fort James Camas Mill, Camas, Washington. The petitioner 
maintains that the Fort James Camas Mill operating permit is 
inconsistent with the Act because the permit fails to: (1) provide 
sufficient basis for providing compliance assurance for certain permit 
conditions; and (2) provide sufficient basis for using surrogate 
parameters as compliance indicators in certain permit conditions. The 
order granting in part and denying in part this petition explains the 
reasons behind EPA's conclusion that: (1) Petitioner adequately 
demonstrated in certain instances that the Fort James Camas Mill permit 
did not satisfy all the requirements of 40 CFR Part 70; and (2) 
petitioner in other instances failed to demonstrate that the Fort James 
Camas Mill permit does not assure compliance with the Clean Air Act on 
the grounds raised.
    Pursuant to sections 505(b)and 505(e) of the Clean Air Act (42 
U.S.C. 7661d(b) and (e)) and 40 CFR 70.7(g) and 70.8(d), Ecology has 90 
days from the receipt of the Administrator's order to resolve the 
objections identified in sections C(1), C(2), C(5), C(8), C(12), C(15), 
D(2), and D(5) of the order, and submit a proposed determination of 
termination, modification, or revocation and reissuance of the Fort 
James Title V permit in accordance with EPA's objection.\1\
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    \1\ The description on page 5 of the Administrator's order of 
the procedures for resolving the objection is in error. As provided 
in 40 CFR 70.7(g)(4), Ecology has 90 days from the receipt of the 
order to resolve the objection issues, not two 90 day periods.

    Dated: January 19, 2001.
Charles E. Findley,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region X.
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