[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 28, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 9987-9988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-1851]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 52 and 81

[EPA-R09-OAR-2005-AZ-0008; FRL-8022-6]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans and Designation 
of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Arizona

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve the maintenance plan for the 
Douglas area in Cochise County, Arizona and grant the request submitted 
by the State to redesignate this area from nonattainment to attainment 
for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for sulfur dioxide 
(SO2).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must be received by March 30, 
2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2005-150, by one of the following methods:
    1. Agency Web site: http://www.regulations.gov. 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://www.regulations.gov 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 
identity 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://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA 
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA. 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), Air Division, U.S. EPA, Region 9, (520) 622-1622. E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Rules and Regulations section of this 
Federal Register, we are taking direct final action to approve the 
maintenance plan for the Douglas SO2 nonattainment area. We 
are also approving the State of Arizona's request to redesignate the 
Douglas area from nonattainment to attainment for the primary 
SO2 NAAQS. We are taking these actions without prior 
proposal because we believe that the revision and request 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. 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 27, 2005.
Jane Diamond,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 06-1851 Filed 2-27-06; 8:45 am]
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