[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 143 (Tuesday, July 26, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 44534-44535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18833]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R04-OAR-2009-0786-201143; FRL-9443-8]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
Tennessee; Regional Haze State Implementation Plan; Limited Reopening 
of the Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; limited reopening of the comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a limited reopening of the public comment 
period for the proposed rule entitled ``Approval and Promulgation of 
Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Tennessee; Regional Haze 
State Implementation Plan.'' The proposed rule was initially published 
in the Federal Register on June 9, 2011. Written comments on the 
proposed rule were to be submitted to EPA on or before July 11, 2011 
(30-day comment period). On June 29, 2011, and July 1, 2011, two 
Commenters requested that EPA extend the comment period for the June 9, 
2011, Tennessee Regional Haze proposed rulemaking for 30 to 60 days in 
order to review the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), which 
replaced the Clean Air Interstate Rule on July 6, 2011. The Commenters 
requested the extension in order to determine any potential impacts of 
the CSAPR on the June 9, 2011, proposed rule. EPA is now reopening the 
public comment period for 15 days from the date of publication of 
today's action for the limited purpose of public review and comment on 
the potential impacts of the final CSAPR on EPA's proposed rulemaking 
to approve Tennessee's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP).

DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on June 9, 
2011 (76 FR 33662), is reopened. Comments must be received on or before 
August 10, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R04-
OAR-2009-0786, by one of the following methods:
    1. http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
    2. E-mail: [email protected].
    3. Fax: 404-562-9019.
    4. Mail: ``EPA-R04-OAR-2009-0786,'' Regulatory Development Section, 
Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., 
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960.
    5. Hand Delivery or Courier: Steven Scofield, Acting Chief, 
Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides 
and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. Such 
deliveries are only accepted during the Regional Office's normal hours 
of operation. The Regional Office's official hours of business are 
Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding Federal holidays.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. ``EPA-R04-OAR-
2009-0786.'' 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:[sol][sol]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 through 
http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov or e-mail, information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected. The 
http:[sol][sol]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:[sol][sol]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 information about EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at 
http:[sol][sol]www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
    Docket: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
Identification No. EPA-R04-OAR-2009-0786. All documents in the docket 
are listed on the http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov index. Although 
listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., 
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on 
the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
through http:[sol][sol]www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the 
Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides 
and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. EPA 
requests that, if at all possible, you contact the person listed in the 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to schedule your inspection. 
The Regional Office's official hours of business are Monday through 
Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara Waterson or Michele Notarianni, 
Regulatory Development Section, Air Planning Branch, Air, Pesticides 
and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. Sara 
Waterson can be reached at telephone number (404) 562-9061 and by 
electronic mail at [email protected]. Michele Notarianni can be 
reached at telephone number (404) 562-9031 and by electronic mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 31, 2011, the EPA Region 4 Acting 
Regional Administrator signed a proposed rulemaking to approve, on a 
limited basis, the State of Tennessee's Regional Haze State 
Implementation Plan. This action was published in the Federal Register 
on June 9, 2011, (76 FR 33662) and provided a 30-day comment period. 
All written comments were due to EPA Region 4, as instructed in the 
proposed rule, on or before July 11, 2011. During the comment period, 
EPA received comments from two separate Commenters requesting that EPA 
extend the comment period suggesting a range of 30-60 days. The purpose 
of the Commenters' requests was to allow time to review the final CSAPR 
\1\ and assess the correlation between the CSAPR and the Regional Haze 
requirements and, specifically, any potential impacts on the Tennessee 
Regional Haze SIP

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rulemaking. EPA has considered these requests and has decided to reopen 
the comment period for an additional 15 days from the date of 
publication of today's rulemaking.
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    \1\ The final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule was signed by the 
EPA Administrator on July 6, 2011, and made available on the 
Internet at:  http:[sol][sol]www.epa.gov/crossstaterule/pdfs/TR_
070611_WEB.pdf. The signed version is not the official version of 
this rule. For the purposes of compliance, the July 6, 2011, signed 
version will be replaced with a forthcoming Federal Register 
publication.
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    This reopening is for the limited purpose of public review and 
comment on the potential impacts of the final CSAPR on EPA's proposed 
rulemaking to approve Tennessee's Regional Haze SIP. EPA does not 
anticipate any impacts from the CSAPR on the proposed rulemaking on the 
Tennessee Regional Haze SIP. As noted in the CSAPR, EPA has not 
conducted any technical analysis to determine whether compliance with 
the CSAPR would satisfy Regional Haze Best Available Retrofit 
Technology (BART)-related requirements for electric generating units 
(EGUs). For that reason, EPA has neither made any determinations nor 
established any presumptions that compliance with the CSAPR satisfies 
BART-related requirements for EGUs. EPA intends to undertake a separate 
analysis to determine if compliance with the CSAPR would provide 
sufficient reductions to satisfy BART requirements for EGUs in 
accordance with Regional Haze Rule requirements for alternative BART 
compliance options as soon as practicable following official 
promulgation of the CSAPR.

    Dated: July 15, 2011.
Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2011-18833 Filed 7-25-11; 8:45 am]
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