[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 29878-29880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-4822]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 63

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0441; FRL-8174-4]
RIN 2060-AI66


National Emission Standards for the Printing and Publishing 
Industry

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: On May 30, 1996, EPA issued national emission standards for 
hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the printing and publishing 
industry under section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). We are proposing 
to amend the final rule to resolve issues and questions raised after 
promulgation of the final rule and to correct errors in the regulatory 
text. This action also proposes to amend the Paper and Other

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Web Coating NESHAP and the Printing, Coating, and Dyeing of Fabric and 
Other Textiles NESHAP to clarify the interaction between these rules 
and the Printing and Publishing Industry NESHAP. These proposed 
amendments appear in the Rules and Regulations Section of this Federal 
Register as a direct final rule.

DATES: Comments. Written comments must be received on or before June 
23, 2006 unless a public hearing is requested by June 5, 2006. If a 
public hearing is requested, written comments must be received on or 
before July 10, 2006.
    Public Hearing. If anyone contacts EPA requesting to speak at a 
public hearing, a public hearing will be held on June 8, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2004-0441, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected].
     Fax: (202) 566-1741 and (919) 541-0246.
     Mail: U.S. Postal Service, send comments to: Air and 
Radiation Docket (6102T), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20460. Please include a total of two copies.
     Hand Delivery: In person or by courier, deliver comments 
to: Air and Radiation Docket (6102T), EPA West Building, Room B-102, 
1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. Such deliveries are only 
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special 
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information. Please 
include a total of two copies.
    We request that you also send a separate copy of each comment to 
the contact person listed below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2004-0441. EPA's policy is that all comments received 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 information claimed to be 
confidential business information (CBI) or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Send or deliver information identified 
as CBI only to the following address: Mr. Roberto Morales, OAQPS 
Document Control Officer, EPA (C404-02), Attention Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2004-0441, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711. Clearly mark the 
part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI.
    The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket 
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic 
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact 
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you 
submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid the use of special 
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or 
viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket, visit 
the Air and Radiation Docket homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Air and Radiation 
Docket, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0441, EPA West Building, Room B-
102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading 
Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading 
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the EPA Docket 
Center is (202) 566-1742.
    Public Hearing. If a public hearing is held, it will be held at 10 
a.m. at the EPA's Environmental Research Center Auditorium, Research 
Triangle Park, NC, or at an alternate site nearby.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. David Salman, EPA, Office of Air 
Quality Planning and Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Division, 
Coatings and Chemicals Group (D205-01), Research Triangle Park, NC 
27711; telephone number (919) 541-0859; fax number (919) 541-0246; e-
mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Regulated Entities. Categories and entities potentially regulated 
by this action include:

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                                               NAICS *
                  Category                       Code           Examples of potentially regulated entities
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Industry....................................     322212  Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing.
                                                 322221  Coated and Laminated Packaging Paper and Plastics Film
                                                          Manufacturing.
                                                 322222  Coated and Laminated Paper Manufacturing.
                                                 322223  Plastics, Foil, and Coated Paper Bag Manufacturing.
                                                 322224  Uncoated Paper and Multiwall Bag Manufacturing.
                                                 322225  Laminated Aluminum Foil Manufacturing for Flexible
                                                          Packaging.
                                                 323111  Commercial Gravure Printing.
                                                 323112  Commercial Flexographic Printing.
                                                 323119  Other Commercial Printing.
                                                 326192  Resilient Floor Covering Manufacturing.
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* North American Industry Classification System.

    This table is not intended to be exhaustive, but rather provides a 
guide for readers regarding entities likely to be regulated by this 
action. To determine whether your facility is regulated by this action, 
you should examine the applicability criteria of the rule. If you have 
any questions regarding the applicability of this action to a

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particular entity, consult the person listed in the preceding FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
    Submitting CBI. Do not submit information which you claim to be CBI 
to EPA through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly mark the 
part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI 
information in a disk or CD-ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside 
of the disk or CD-ROM as CBI and then identify electronically within 
the disk or CD-ROM the specific information that is claimed as CBI. 
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with 
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. In addition to one complete 
version of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy 
of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI 
must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket.
    Public Hearing. Persons interested in presenting oral testimony or 
inquiring as to whether a hearing is to be held should contact Mr. 
David Salman, EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Sector 
Policies and Programs Division, Coatings and Chemicals Group (D205-01), 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, telephone number (919) 541-0859, e-
mail address: [email protected], at least 2 days in advance of the 
potential date of the public hearing. Persons interested in attending 
the public hearing must also call Mr. Salman to verify the time, date, 
and location of the hearing. The public hearing will provide interested 
parties the opportunity to present data, views, or arguments concerning 
these proposed emission standards.
    Worldwide Web (WWW). In addition to being available in the docket, 
an electronic copy of today's proposal will also be available through 
the WWW. Following the Administrator's signature, a copy of this action 
will be posted on EPA's Technology Transfer Network (TTN) policy and 
guidance page for newly proposed or promulgated rules at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/. The TTN at EPA's Web site provides information 
and technology exchange in various areas of air pollution control.
    Direct Final Rule. A direct final rule identical to this proposal 
is published in the Rules and Regulations section of today's Federal 
Register. For further supplementary information, the detailed rationale 
for the proposal and the regulatory revisions, see the direct final 
rule.
    We are taking direct final action because we view the amendments as 
noncontroversial and anticipate no adverse comments. We have explained 
our reasons for the amendments in the preamble to the direct final 
rule. If we receive no adverse comments, we will take no further action 
on the proposed rule. If we receive adverse comments, we will withdraw 
only the amendments, sections or paragraphs of the direct final rule on 
which we received adverse comments. We will publish a timely withdrawal 
in the Federal Register indicating which will become effective and 
which are being withdrawn. If part or all of the direct final rule in 
the Rules and Regulations section of today's Federal Register is 
withdrawn, all comments pertaining to those provisions will be 
addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed rule. We 
will not institute a second comment period on today's proposed rule. 
Any parties interested in commenting must do so at this time.

Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    For a complete discussion of all of the administrative requirements 
applicable to this action, see the direct final rule in the Rules and 
Regulations section of today's Federal Register.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) generally requires an agency 
to prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis of any rule subject to 
notice and comment rulemaking requirements under the Administrative 
Procedure Act or any other statute unless the agency certifies that the 
rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial 
number of small entities. Small entities include small businesses, 
small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions.
    For purposes of assessing the impact of today's proposed rule 
amendments on small entities, a small entity is defined as: (1) A small 
business ranging from 500 to 1,000 employees as defined by the Small 
Business Administration's size standards; (2) a small governmental 
jurisdiction that is a government or a city, county, town, school 
district or special district with a population of less than 50,000; and 
(3) a small organization that is any not-for-profit enterprise which is 
independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field.
    After considering the economic impacts of today's proposed rule 
amendments on small entities, I certify that this action will not have 
a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small 
entities.
    We conducted an assessment of the impact of the May 30, 1996 final 
rule on small businesses within the industries affected by that rule. 
This analysis allowed us to conclude that there would not be a 
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities 
from the implementation of that rule. There is nothing contained in the 
proposed rule amendments that will impose an economic impact on small 
businesses in any way not considered in the analysis of the May 30, 
1996 final rule; this means that the proposed rule amendments have no 
incremental economic impact on small businesses beyond what was already 
examined in the final rule. We continue to be interested in the 
potential impacts of the proposed rule amendments on small entities and 
welcome comments on issues related to such impacts.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Hazardous 
substances, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: May 18, 2006.
Stephen L. Johnson,
Administrator.
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