[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 225 (Thursday, November 20, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 70289-70290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-27609]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 63

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0334; FRL-8742-8]
RIN 2060-AM19


National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for 
Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing an extension of the public comment period on 
the proposed rule, ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources.'' As initially 
published in the Federal Register on October 6, 2008, written comments 
on the proposed rule were to be submitted by November 20, 2008. On 
November 12, 2008, EPA received a court order extending the deadline 
for signature of the notice of final rulemaking to May 15, 2009, and we 
are extending the public comment period on the proposed rule to January 
5, 2009.

DATES: Comments. Comments on the proposed rule must be received on or 
before January 5, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2008-0334, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: (202) 566-9744.
     Mail: U.S. Postal Service, send comments to: EPA Docket 
Center (2822T), Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0334, Environmental 
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. 
Please include a total of two copies. We request that a separate copy 
also be sent to the contact person identified below (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT).
     Hand Delivery: In person or by courier, deliver comments 
to: EPA Docket Center (2822T), EPA West Building, Room 3444, 1301 
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20004. 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.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2008-0334. 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. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site 
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which

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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.
    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 
through http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the EPA Docket 
Center (2822T), EPA West Building, Room 3444, 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, contact Mr. 
Randy McDonald, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Sector 
Policies and Programs Division, Coatings and Chemicals Group (E143-01), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 
telephone number: (919) 541-5402; fax number: (919) 541-0246; e-mail 
address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information

Extension of Public Comment Period

    We proposed the national emission standards for hazardous air 
pollutants (NESHAP) as part of our effort to comply with a court-
ordered deadline that requires EPA to issue final standards for 10 area 
source categories listed pursuant to Clean Air Act sections 112(c)(3) 
and (k) by December 15, 2008 (Sierra Club v. Johnson, no. 01-1537, 
D.D.C., March 2006). To meet this deadline, we proposed NESHAP for nine 
area source categories in the chemical manufacturing sector. The 
proposal was published in the Federal Register on October 6, 2008 (73 
FR 58352).
    We received several requests to extend the public comment period by 
up to 55 days. Commenters requested more time to review the information 
in the docket and prepare in-depth comments. We agree that the comment 
period should be extended to allow more time for interested parties to 
prepare comprehensive comments. At the request of EPA, the Court has 
extended EPA's deadline for the nine area source categories at issue in 
the proposed rule from December 15, 2008, to May 15, 2009. Therefore, 
the public comment period will now end on January 5, 2009, rather than 
November 20, 2008. (The public comment period is currently scheduled to 
end on November 20, 2008, instead of November 5, 2008, because a public 
hearing was requested and held on October 21, 2008.)

What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?

1. Submitting CBI
    Do not submit information that you consider to be CBI 
electronically through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. Send or 
deliver information identified as CBI only to the following address: 
Roberto Morales, OAQPS Document Control Officer (C404-02), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and 
Standards, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Attention Docket ID EPA-
HQ-OAR-2008-0334. 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. 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. Information so marked 
will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 
40 CFR part 2.
    If you have any questions about CBI or the procedures for claiming 
CBI, please consult the person identified in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
2. Availability of Related Information
    The proposed rule for the National Emission Standards for Hazardous 
Air Pollutants for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources was published in 
the Federal Register on October 6, 2008 (73 FR 58352). EPA has 
established the official public docket for the proposed rulemaking 
under Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0334. Information on how to access 
the docket is presented above in the ADDRESSES section. In addition to 
being available in the docket, an electronic copy of the proposed rule 
is available on the World Wide Web through the Technology Transfer 
Network (TTN) at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg.

    Dated: November 14, 2008.
Robert J. Meyers,
Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.
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