[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 2010)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 82363-82365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32928]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2010-0259; FRL-9245-8]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Ohio; Volatile 
Organic Compound Emission Control Measures for Lithographic and 
Letterpress Printing in Cleveland

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: On March 9, 2010, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 
(Ohio EPA) submitted revisions to its previously approved offset 
lithographic and letterpress printing volatile organic compound (VOC) 
rule for approval into the Ohio State Implementation Plan (SIP). This 
submittal revises certain compliance date and recordkeeping 
requirements of this rule, which was previously approved as satisfying 
the VOC reasonably available control technology (RACT) requirement for 
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit 
Counties. These rule revisions are approvable because they satisfy the 
requirements of RACT and the Clean Air Act (CAA).

DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 31, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2010-0259, by one of the following methods:

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     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: (312) 692-2551.
     Mail: John M. Mooney, Chief, Attainment Planning and 
Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604.
     Hand Delivery: John M. Mooney, Chief, Attainment Planning 
and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 18th floor, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604. Such deliveries are only accepted during the 
Regional Office's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements 
should be made for deliveries of boxed information. The Regional Office 
official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 
p.m., excluding Federal holidays.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-
2010-0259. 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 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 instructions on submitting 
comments, go to Section I of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 
this document.
    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 Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from 
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal 
holidays. We recommend that you telephone Steven Rosenthal at (312) 
886-6052 before visiting the Region 5 office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Rosenthal, Environmental 
Engineer, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs 
Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6052.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. This SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section is arranged as follows:

I. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
II. What action is EPA taking today?
III. What is the purpose of this action?
IV. What is EPA's analysis of Ohio's submitted VOC rule?
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

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

    When submitting comments, remember to:
    1. Identify the rulemaking by docket number and other identifying 
information (subject heading, Federal Register date, and page number).
    2. Follow directions--The EPA may ask you to respond to specific 
questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
    3. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and 
substitute language for your requested changes.
    4. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information 
and/or data that you used.
    5. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you 
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be 
reproduced.
    6. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns, and 
suggest alternatives.
    7. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of 
profanity or personal threats.
    8. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline 
identified.

II. What action is EPA taking today?

    EPA is proposing to approve Ohio's revised offset lithographic and 
letterpress printing rule (OAC 3745-21-22), submitted to EPA on March 
9, 2010, into the Ohio SIP. This VOC rule applies to offset 
lithographic and letterpress printing operations in Ashtabula, 
Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit Counties.

III. What is the purpose of this action?

    The primary purpose of this action is to allow an alternative for 
demonstrating compliance with add-on control requirements, and to 
specify recordkeeping requirements, when a recipe log is maintained for 
each batch of fountain solution or cleaning solution.

IV. What is EPA's analysis of Ohio's submitted VOC rule?

    General discussion of rule--This rule applies to offset 
lithographic and letterpress printing facilities in Ashtabula, 
Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit Counties, 
the former Cleveland-Akron 8-hour ozone nonattainment area whose actual 
VOC emissions, before the application of control systems, are equal to 
or greater than three tons of VOCs per rolling twelve-month period. 
Under this rule, a heatset web offset lithographic printing press, or a 
heatset web letterpress printing press, with potential VOC ink oil 
emissions from the press dryer that are greater than 25 tons per year 
before control must maintain dryer air pressure lower than the 
pressroom air pressure and have a control system that achieves 90 
percent control (or 95 percent control for a control system installed 
after the effective date of this rule) or maintain a maximum VOC outlet 
concentration of 20 ppmv. This rule restricts the VOC content of 
fountain solutions used by offset lithographic presses, based on the 
type of offset lithographic press in use at a facility. Cleaning 
solutions used on subject lithographic or letterpress printing presses 
must either be at or below 70 percent by weight VOC, or be at or below 
ten millimeters of mercury at 20 degrees Celsius. This rule also 
contains the appropriate test methods

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for determining the VOC concentration of the exhaust stream and the VOC 
content of the fountain solution and cleaning solution. This rule 
includes methods to determine the vapor pressure of the cleaning 
solution. The rule also includes monitoring and recordkeeping 
requirements to ensure that the control systems are operating properly, 
to establish whether the VOC content of the cleaning solution and 
fountain solution are in compliance with the applicable limits, and to 
establish whether an offset lithographic or letterpress printing 
facility is subject to one or more of the control requirements of the 
rule. This rule is consistent with the VOC control requirements in the 
September 2006 EPA guidance document ``Control Techniques Guidelines 
for Offset Lithographic Printing and Letterpress Printing.'' The 
Control Technique Guideline documents were required to be established 
by the CAA and establish RACT for their respective source categories. 
In addition, the recordkeeping and other provisions result in 
enforceable control requirements.

Discussion of Rule Revisions

    The rule at 3745-21-22(E)(2)(a) specifies compliance dates for 
offset lithographic or letterpress printing facilities that are 
achieving compliance by using an add-on control device. These 
facilities are allowed to demonstrate compliance with an emission test 
conducted prior to the effective date of the rule if an approved EPA 
test method was used, the operation of the press(es) was consistent 
with their current operating conditions and, if requested, the test was 
witnessed by the Ohio EPA. This is a reasonable alternative which 
allows a printing facility to take advantage of a well documented test 
to demonstrate compliance and is therefore approvable.
    The rule at 3745-21-22(G)(3) specifies recordkeeping requirements 
for owners or operators maintaining a recipe log for each batch of 
fountain solution prepared for use in their press. This recipe log must 
identify all recipes used to prepare the as-applied fountain solution 
and clearly identify the VOC content of each concentrated alcohol 
substitute added to make the fountain solution as well as the 
proportions in which the fountain solution is mixed and the calculated 
VOC content of the final, mixed recipe.
    The rule at 3745-21-22(G)(4) specifies recordkeeping requirements 
for owners or operators maintaining a recipe log for each batch of 
cleaning solution prepared. This recipe log must identify all recipes 
used to prepare the as-applied cleaning solution and clearly identify 
the VOC content of each cleaning solution or the VOC composite partial 
vapor pressure. The revisions to the recordkeeping requirements in 
3745-21-22(G)(3) and 3745-21-22(G)(4) are approvable because the 
resulting records are sufficient to determine whether complying 
fountain and cleaning solutions have been used.

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP 
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable 
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR Part 52.02(a). Thus, in 
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve State choices, 
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this 
action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and 
does not impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by State 
law. For that reason, this action:
     Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to 
review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Order 
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993);
     Does not impose an information collection burden under the 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
     Is certified as not having a significant economic impact 
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory 
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
     Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or 
uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded 
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
     Does not have Federalism implications as specified in 
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
     Is not an economically significant regulatory action based 
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 
19885, April 23, 1997);
     Is not a significant regulatory action subject to 
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
     Is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the 
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent 
with the CAA; and
     Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to 
address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental 
effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under 
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).

In addition, this rule does not have tribal implications as specified 
by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000), because the 
SIP is not approved to apply in Indian country located in the state, 
and EPA notes that it will not impose substantial direct costs on 
tribal governments or preempt tribal law.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Intergovernmental 
relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Volatile organic compounds.

    Dated: December 17, 2010.
Bharat Mathur,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
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