[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 45 (Friday, March 7, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 11022-11023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5325]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[CA 245-0375b; FRL-7446-2]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope 
Valley Air Pollution Control District, Imperial County Air Pollution 
Control District, and Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control 
District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley 
Air Pollution Control District (AVAPCD), Imperial County Air Pollution 
Control District (ICAPCD), and Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution 
Control District (MBUAPCD) portions of the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern definitions, 
circumvention, emergency episodes, and volatile organic compound (VOC) 
emissions from organic solvents. We are proposing to approve local 
rules 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 April 7, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Mail comments to Andy Steckel, Rulemaking Office Chief (AIR-
4), U.S. Environmental Protection 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 documents (TSDs) 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.
Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District, 43301 Division St., 
Ste. 206, Lancaster, CA 93535-4649.
Imperial County Air Pollution Control District, 150 South 9th Street, 
El Centro, CA 92243-2801.
Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, 24580 Silver Cloud 
Ct., Monterey, CA 93940-6536.

    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 Web site and may not contain the same version of the rule that 
was submitted to EPA.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia G. Allen, EPA Region IX, (415) 
947-4120.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local 
rules: AVAPCD 701, ICAPCD 101, and MBUAPCD 415 and 433. In the Rules 
and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are approving 
these local rules 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: December 12, 2002.
Keith Takata,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 03-5325 Filed 3-6-03; 8:45 am]
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