[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 5, 2010)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 24544-24545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10401]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2010-0218; FRL-9135-4]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Placer 
County Air Pollution Control District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air 
Quality Management District, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution 
Control District, and South Coast Air Quality Management District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Placer County Air 
Pollution Control District (PCAPCD), Sacramento Metropolitan Air 
Quality Management District (SMAQMD), San Joaquin Valley Unified Air 
Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD), and South Coast Air Quality 
Management District (SCAQMD) portions of the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern volatile organic

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compound (VOC) emissions from petroleum facilities, chemical plants, 
and facilities which use organic solvents. We are proposing to approve 
local rules to regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act 
as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by June 4, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number [EPA-R09-OAR-
2010-0218], by one of the following methods:
    1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 
the on-line instructions.
    2. E-mail: [email protected].
    3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105-3901.
    Instructions: All comments 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 Confidential Business Information (CBI) or 
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Information that you consider CBI or otherwise protected should be 
clearly identified as such and should not be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http://www.regulations.gov is an 
``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not know your identity or 
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. 
If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the public comment. 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 http://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 in either location 
(e.g., CBI). 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: Nicole Law, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-
4126, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local 
rules: PCAPCD Rule 216 Organic Solvent Cleaning and Degreasing 
Operations, SMAQMD Rule 466 Solvent Cleaning, SJVUAPCD Rule 4661 
Organic Solvents, SCAQMD Rule 1173 Control of Volatile Organic Compound 
Leaks and Releases from Components at Petroleum Facilities and Chemical 
Plants. In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, 
we are approving these local rules 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: March 18, 2010.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2010-10401 Filed 5-4-10; 8:45 am]
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