[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 171 (Tuesday, September 6, 2005)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 52960-52961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17540]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 52 and 81

[R09-OAR-2005-AZ-0003; FRL-7960-9]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans and Designation 
of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Arizona; Correction of 
Redesignation of Phoenix To Attainment for the Carbon Monoxide Standard

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to amend the regulations that identify 
revisions to the Arizona state implementation plan and the regulations 
that identify area designations within Arizona. In so doing, EPA is 
acting pursuant to the Agency's authority under the Clean Air Act to 
correct errors made in approving plan revisions and area 
redesignations. The purpose of this proposed rule is to correct an 
error in the adoption and submittal date shown for a revision to the 
implementation plan that EPA recently approved and to correct a 
transcription error in, and to make a more general correction to, the

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boundary description of the metropolitan Phoenix carbon monoxide area 
that EPA recently redesignated to attainment.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by October 6, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number R09-OAR-2005-
AZ-0003 by one of the following methods:
    1. Agency Web site: http://docket.epa.gov/rmepub/. EPA prefers 
receiving comments through this electronic public docket and comment 
system. Follow the on-line instructions to submit comments.
    2. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 
the on-line instructions.
    3. E-mail: [email protected].
    4. Mail or deliver: Wienke Tax, Office of Air Planning (AIR-2), 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, 
San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
    Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket 
without change and may be made available online at http://docket.epa.gov/rmepub/, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or 
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Information that you consider CBI or otherwise protected should be 
clearly identified as such and should not be submitted through the 
agency Web site, eRulemaking portal, or e-mail. The agency Web site and 
eRulemaking portal are ``anonymous access'' systems, and EPA will not 
know your identify or contact information unless you provide it in the 
body of your comment. If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail 
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the 
public comment. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical 
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be 
able to consider your comment.
    Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available 
electronically at http://docket.epa.gov/rmepub and in hard copy at EPA 
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all 
documents in the docket are listed in the index, some information may 
be publicly available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted 
material), and some may not be publicly available in either location 
(e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an 
appointment during normal business hours with the contact listed in the 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wienke Tax, Air Planning Office (AIR-
2), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, (520) 622-1622 or 
e-mail to [email protected], or check http://www.epa.gov/region09/air.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the correction of a 
final rule EPA promulgated on March 9, 2005 (at 70 FR 11553) approving 
two submittals of revisions to the Arizona state implementation plan, 
redesignating the metropolitan Phoenix carbon monoxide area to 
attainment, and redesignating the boundary of the metropolitan Phoenix 
carbon monoxide area to exclude the Gila River Indian Reservation. In 
the Rules section of this Federal Register, we are taking direct final 
action to correct the State of Arizona's adoption and submittal date 
for one of the plan revisions that we approved in our March 9, 2005 
final rule, to correct a transcription error in the description of the 
boundary of the metropolitan Phoenix carbon monoxide area, and to 
correct the description of the boundary of the metropolitan Phoenix 
carbon monoxide area promulgated in our March 9, 2005 final rule 
without prior proposal because we believe this correction action is 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. 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 comments, no further activity 
is planned. For further information, please see the direct final 
action.

    Dated: July 15, 2005.
Laura Yoshii,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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