[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 2006)]
[Unknown Section]
[Pages 17750-17752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-3355]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 81

[PA209-4302; FRL-8055-8]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
Pennsylvania; Redesignation of the Hazelwood SO2 Nonattainment and the 
Monongahela River Valley Unclassifiable Areas to Attainment and 
Approval of the Maintenance Plan; Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On July 21, 2004 (69 FR 43522) EPA published a Federal 
Register notice redesignating the Hazelwood SO2 
Nonattainment Area and the Monongahela River Valley Unclassifiable Area 
to attainment of the sulfur dioxide (SO2) national ambient 
air quality standards (NAAQS). In the July 21, 2004 final rulemaking 
document, two areas were inadvertently omitted from the revised 
designated area listing. This document corrects that error.

DATES: Effective Date: April 7, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Wentworth, (215) 814-2034, or by 
e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,'' or 
``our'' are used we mean EPA. On July 21, 2004 (69 FR 43522), we 
published a final rulemaking announcing our approval of the 
redesignation of the Hazelwood SO2 Nonattainment Area and 
the Monongahela River Valley Unclassifiable Area, located in the 
Allegheny Air Basin in Allegheny County to attainment of the NAAQS for 
SO2 and approved a combined maintenance plan for both areas 
as a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision. This action pertained to 
the redesignation of the Hazelwood and Monongahela River Valley areas 
(V.(B)(1) and V.(B)(2), respectively, of part 81, section 81.339, to 
attainment. This action was not intended to affect the area within a 
two-mile radius of the Bellevue monitor (V.(B)(3), or the remaining 
portions of the Allegheny County Air Basin (V.(B)(4). In the July 21, 
2004 rulemaking document, these areas were inadvertently removed in the 
Pennsylvania SO2 Table in part 81, section 81.339. 
Therefore, this correction action restores the entries which were 
inadvertently removed.
    Section 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 
553(b)(B), provides that, when an agency for good cause finds that 
notice and public procedure are impracticable, unnecessary or contrary 
to the public interest, the agency may issue a rule without providing 
notice and an opportunity for public comment. We have determined that 
there is good cause for making today's rule final without prior 
proposal and opportunity for comment because we are merely correcting 
an incorrect citation in a previous action. Thus, notice and public 
procedure are unnecessary. We find that this constitutes good cause 
under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B).

Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this 
action is not a ``significant regulatory action'' and is therefore not 
subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget. For this 
reason, this action is also not subject to Executive Order 13211, 
``Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy 
Supply, Distribution, or Use'' (66 FR 28355 (May 22, 2001)). Because 
the agency has made a ``good cause'' finding that this action

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is not subject to notice-and-comment requirements under the 
Administrative Procedures Act or any other statute as indicated in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section above, it is not subject to the 
regulatory flexibility provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 
U.S.C. 601 et seq.), or to sections 202 and 205 of the Unfunded 
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) (Pub. L. 104-4). In addition, this 
action does not significantly or uniquely affect small governments or 
impose a significant intergovernmental mandate, as described in 
sections 203 and 204 of UMRA. This rule also does not have a 
substantial direct effect on one or more Indian tribes, on the 
relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes, or on 
the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal 
Government and Indian tribes, as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 
FR 67249, November 9, 2000), nor will it have substantial direct 
effects on the States, on the relationship between the national 
government and the States, or on the distribution of power and 
responsibilities among the various levels of governments, as specified 
by Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999). This rule also 
is not subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997), 
because it is not economically significant.
    This technical correction action does not involve technical 
standards; thus the requirements of section 12(d) of the National 
Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) do 
not apply. The rule also does not involve special consideration of 
environmental justice related issues as required by Executive Order 
12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). In issuing this rule, EPA has 
taken the necessary steps to eliminate drafting errors and ambiguity, 
minimize potential litigation, and provide a clear legal standard for 
affected conduct, as required by section 3 of Executive Order 12988 (61 
FR 4729, February 7, 1996). EPA has complied with Executive Order 12630 
(53 FR 8859, March 15, 1998) by examining the takings implications of 
the rule in accordance with the ``Attorney General's Supplemental 
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Risk and Avoidance of Unanticipated 
Takings'' issued under the executive order. This rule does not impose 
an information collection burden under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
    The Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), as added by 
the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, 
generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency 
promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy 
of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller 
General of the United States. Section 808 allows the issuing agency to 
make a rule effective sooner than otherwise provided by the CRA if the 
agency makes a good cause finding that notice and public procedure is 
impracticable, unnecessary or contrary to the public interest. This 
determination must be supported by a brief statement. 5 U.S.C. 808(2). 
As stated previously, EPA had made such a good cause finding, including 
the reasons therefore, and established an effective date of April 7, 
2006. EPA will submit a report containing this rule and other required 
information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and 
the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of 
the rule in the Federal Register.
    This correction to 40 CFR 81.339 for Pennsylvania is not a ``major 
rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).

    Dated: March 30, 2006.
Donald S. Welsh,
Regional Administrator, Region III.

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40 CFR part 81 is amended as follows:

PART 81--[AMENDED]

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1. The authority citation for part 81 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

Subpart C--Section 107 Attainment Status Designations

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2. In Sec.  81.339, the table for ``Pennsylvania--SO2,'' is 
amended by revising the entry for the Allegheny County Air Basin to 
read as follows:


Sec.  81.339  Pennsylvania.

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                                               Pennsylvania.--SO2
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                                                 Does not meet   Does not meet                     Better than
                Designated area                     primary        secondary       Cannot be         national
                                                   standards       standards       classified       standards
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V. Southwest Pennsylvania Intrastate AQCR:
 
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(B) Allegheny County Air Basin:
    (1) The areas within a two-mile radius of   ..............  ..............  ...............               X
     the Hazelwood monitor....................
    (2) That portion of Allegheny County        ..............  ..............  ...............               X
     within an eight-mile radius of the
     Duquesne Golf Association Club House in
     West Mifflin excluding the nonattainment
     area (1)........................
    (3) The area within a two-mile radius of    ..............  ..............               X   ...............
     the Bellevue monitor.....................
    (4) The remaining portions of the           ..............  ..............  ...............               X
     Allegheny County Air Basin...............
 
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