[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 9042-9043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4512]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[CA 269-0382b; FRL-7451-7]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Mojave 
Desert 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 Mojave Desert Air 
Quality Management District (MDAQMD) portion of the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern Oxides of Nitrogen 
(NOX) emissions from Portland cement kilns. We are proposing 
to approve a local rule to regulate these emission sources under the 
Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by March 31, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Mail comments to Andy Steckel, Rulemaking Office Chief (AIR-
4), U.S. Environmental Protection

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Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
    You can inspect copies of the submitted SIP revisions and EPA's 
technical support document (TSD) at our Region IX office during normal 
business hours. You may also see copies of the submitted SIP revisions 
at the following locations:
    California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule 
Evaluation Section, 1001 ``I'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
    Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, 14306 Park Avenue, 
Victorville, California 92392.
    A copy of the rule may also be available via the Internet at http://www.arb.ca.gov/drdb/drdbltxt.htm. Please be advised that this is not 
an EPA website and may not contain the same version of the rule that 
was submitted to EPA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charnjit Bhullar, EPA Region IX, (415) 
972-3960.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the MDAQMD rule 
1161. In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we 
are approving this local rule in a direct final action without prior 
proposal because we believe these SIP revisions are not controversial. 
If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely 
withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments in 
subsequent action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we 
receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this 
rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the 
rule, we may adopt as final those provisions of the rule that are not 
the subject of an adverse comment.
    We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone 
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not 
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further 
information, please see the direct final action.

    Dated: January 31, 2003.
Alexis Strauss,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 03-4512 Filed 2-26-03; 8:45 am]
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