[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 14, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 8211-8212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3373]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 81

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0476; FRL-9630-9]


EPA's Revised Responses to Designation Recommendations From 
Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin for the 2008 Ozone Standards: Notice 
of Availability and Public Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability and reopening of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: The EPA is reopening the public comment period on the EPA's 
responses to state and tribal designation recommendations for the 2008 
Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for the limited purpose of 
inviting comment on the EPA's revised responses to the ozone 
designation recommendations from the states of Illinois, Indiana and 
Wisconsin. The EPA sent the revised responses to these states on 
January 31, 2012. The revised responses are available in the docket and 
on the EPA's ozone designations Web site identified below.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 15, 2012. Please 
refer to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for additional information on the 
comment period.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-OAR-
HQ-2008-0476, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions 
for submitting comments.
     Email: [email protected]. Attention Docket ID No. 
EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0476.
     Fax: 202-566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2008-0476.
     Mail: Air Docket, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-
0476, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 6102T, 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
     Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 1301 Constitution Avenue 
NW., Room 3334, Washington, DC. Such deliveries are only accepted 
during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements 
should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2008-0476. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be 
confidential business information or other information whose disclosure 
is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider 
to be confidential business information or otherwise protected through 
www.regulations.gov or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an 
``anonymous access'' system, which means the EPA will not know your 
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of 
your comment. If you send an email comment directly to the EPA without 
going through www.regulations.gov, your email 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, the 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 the EPA is unable to read your 
comment and cannot contact you for clarification due to technical 
difficulties, the 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 the EPA's public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center 
homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. For additional 
instructions on submitting comments, go to the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, i.e., confidential business 
information 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 in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the EPA Docket 
Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue 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 
Air Docket is (202) 566-1742.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general questions concerning this 
action, please contact Carla Oldham, U.S. EPA, Office of Air Quality 
Planning and Standards, Air Quality Planning Division, C539-04, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, telephone (919) 541-3347, email at 
[email protected]. For questions about areas in the EPA Region 5, 
please contact Edward Doty, U.S. EPA, telephone (312) 886-6057, email 
at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    On December 9, 2011, the EPA responded by letter to all states and 
tribes regarding their designation recommendations for the 2008 ozone 
standards and posted the responses on the EPA's Internet Web site at 
http://www.epa.gov/ozonedesignations. The EPA provided a public comment 
period on those responses which ended on February 3, 2012. On January 
31, 2012, the EPA sent revised responses to Illinois, Indiana, and 
Wisconsin after considering quality-assured air quality monitoring data 
for 2011 submitted by Illinois on December 7, 2011. Because that air 
quality information was submitted shortly before the EPA issued its 
December 9, 2011, responses, the EPA did not have time to consider the 
information in those initial responses. The EPA has posted the revised 
responses to Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin on the EPA's ozone 
designations Web site and is reopening the public comment period for 
the limited purpose of inviting public comments on the revised 
responses to Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin during the comment period 
specified in the DATES section. The EPA intends to make final 
designation determinations for the 2008 ozone standards in spring 2012.

II. General Information

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

    1. Submitting Confidential Business Information. Do not submit this 
information to the EPA through

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www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the 
information that you claim to be confidential business information. For 
confidential business information in a disk or CD-ROM that you mail to 
the EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM as confidential 
business information and then identify electronically within the disk 
or CD ROM the specific information that is claimed as confidential 
business information. In addition to one complete version of the 
comment that includes information claimed as confidential business 
information, a copy of the comment that does not contain the 
information claimed as confidential business information 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. Send or deliver information identified as confidential 
business information only to the following address: Roberto Morales, 
U.S. EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Mail Code C404-
02, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, telephone (919) 541-0880, email 
at [email protected], Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-
0476.
    2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. When submitting comments, 
remember to:
     Identify the rulemaking by docket number and other 
identifying information (subject heading, Federal Register date and 
page number).
     Follow directions.
     Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives 
and substitute language for your requested changes.

B. Where can I get a copy of this document and other related 
information?

    The EPA has established a docket for the ozone designations 
rulemaking for the 2008 ozone standards at EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0476. In 
addition, the EPA has established a Web site for the ozone designations 
rulemaking at www.epa.gov/ozonedesignations. The Web site includes the 
state and tribal designation recommendations, information supporting 
the EPA's preliminary designation decisions, as well as the rulemaking 
actions and other related information that the public may find useful.

    Dated: February 8, 2012.
Mary E. Henigin,
Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
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