[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 13 (Friday, January 18, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 3446-3447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-746]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2007-1709; FRL-8509-3]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
Nevada; Washoe County 8-Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve a revision to the Washoe County 
portion of the Nevada State Implementation Plan. Submitted by the State 
of Nevada on May 30, 2007, this plan revision consists of a maintenance 
plan prepared for the purpose of providing for continued attainment of 
the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard in Washoe County 
through the year 2014 and thereby satisfying the related requirements 
under section 110(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act and EPA's phase 1 rule 
implementing the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard. 
EPA is proposing this action pursuant to those provisions of the Clean 
Air Act that obligate the Agency to take action on submittals of state 
implementation plans and plan.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by February 19, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by EPA-R09-OAR-2007-1079, 
by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: Eleanor Kaplan at [email protected]. Please 
also send a copy by e-mail to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section below.
     Fax: Eleanor Kaplan, Planning Office (AIR-2), at fax 
number (415) 947-4147.
     Mail or deliver: Eleanor Kaplan, Planning Office (AIR-2), 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, 
San Francisco, California 94105-3901. Hand or courier deliveries are 
accepted only between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays except 
for legal holidays. Special arrangements should be made for deliveries 
of boxed information.
    Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket 
without change and may be made available online at 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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 
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 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.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
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 www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Planning Office (AIR-2), 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, 
San Francisco, California, 94105-3901. 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: Eleanor Kaplan, Planning Office (AIR-
2), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne 
Street, San Francisco, California 94105-3901, telephone (415) 947-4147; 
fax (415) 947-3579; e-mail address [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 30, 2007, the Nevada Division of 
Environmental Protection (NDEP) submitted the Maintenance Plan for the 
Washoe County 8-Hour Ozone Attainment Area (April 2007) (``Washoe 
County Ozone Maintenance Plan'') to EPA for approval as a revision to 
the

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Washoe County portion of the Nevada State Implementation Plan (SIP). 
The Washoe County Ozone Maintenance Plan was developed by the Washoe 
County District Health Department, Air Quality Management Division 
(Washoe County AQMD) and adopted by the Washoe County District Board of 
Health (District Board of Health) on April 26, 2007. Washoe County AQMD 
prepared the plan to provide for continued attainment of the 8-hour 
ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) through 2014 and to 
thereby satisfy the requirements of section 110(a)(1) of the Clean Air 
Act (CAA or ``Act'') and EPA's phase 1 rule implementing the 8-hour 
ozone NAAQS. EPA is proposing to approve the Washoe County Ozone 
Maintenance Plan as a revision to the Washoe County portion of the 
Nevada SIP because we find that the submitted ozone maintenance plan 
meets all of the applicable requirements of CAA section 110(a)(1) and 
our phase 1 rule implementing the 8-hour ozone NAAQS.
    In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we 
are approving the Washoe County Ozone Maintenance Plan 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: November 29, 2007.
Wayne Nastri,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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