[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 27, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 25200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-12137]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2009-0133; FRL-8909-7]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
California; Finding of Attainment of the 1-Hour Ozone Standard for the 
Ventura County Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: On April 15, 2009 the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 
requested that EPA find that the Ventura County ozone nonattainment 
area has attained the revoked 1-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
Standard (NAAQS). After a review of this submission and of the relevant 
monitoring data, EPA is proposing to make such a finding.
    This finding would relieve the area of the requirement to implement 
contingency measures for failure to attain the standard by its 
attainment date, as well as Clean Air Act penalty fee requirements for 
severe and extreme ozone nonattainment areas that have not attained the 
1-hour standard by the applicable attainment date.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by June 26, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2009-0133, by one of the following methods:
    1. http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
    2. E-mail: [email protected].
    3. Fax: (415) 947-3579.
    4. Mail or Delivery: Greg Nudd (AIR-2), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105-3901.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R09-OAR-
2009-0133. 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 a 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 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: The index to the docket for this action is available 
electronically at www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA Region 
IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. 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 at either location (e.g., 
confidential business information). 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: Greg Nudd, Environmental Engineer, EPA 
Region IX, (415) 947-4107, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA.
    This proposal addresses the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 
request that EPA find that the Ventura County ozone nonattainment area 
has attained the revoked 1-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
Standard (NAAQS). In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal 
Register, we are making this finding as a direct final rule without 
prior proposal because we believe this action is not controversial. If 
we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely 
withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments in a 
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: May 14, 2009.
Jane Diamond,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E9-12137 Filed 5-26-09; 8:45 am]
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