[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 23192-23193]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-9077]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0243; FRL-9659-9]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern 
Sierra and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management Districts

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Northern Sierra 
Air Quality Management District (NSAQMD) and Sacramento Metropolitan 
Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) portions of the California 
State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern negative 
declarations for volatile organic compound (VOC) source categories for 
the NSAQMD and SMAQMD. We are proposing to approve these negative 
declarations under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the 
Act).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by May 18, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2012-0243, by one of the following methods:
    1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
    2. Email: [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 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 www.regulations.gov or email. 
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 email directly to EPA, your email 
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 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: Cynthia Allen, EPA Region IX, (415) 
947-4120, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following 
negative declarations listed in Table I:

                                    Table 1--Submitted Negative Declarations
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                Local agency                                Title                     Adopted        Submitted
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NSAQMD.....................................  Fiberglass Boat Manufacturing              04/25/11        05/17/11
                                              Materials.
NSAQMD.....................................  Miscellaneous Industrial Adhesives.        04/25/11        05/17/11
NSAQMD.....................................  Automobile and Light-Duty Truck            04/25/11        05/17/11
                                              Assembly Coatings.
NSAQMD.....................................  Industrial Cleaning Solvents.......        05/19/08        08/14/08
NSAQMD.....................................  Offset Lithographic Printing and           05/19/08        08/14/08
                                              Letterpress Printing.
NSAQMD.....................................  Flexible Package Printing..........        05/19/08        08/14/08
NSAQMD.....................................  Flat Wood Paneling Coatings........        05/19/08        08/14/08
NSAQMD.....................................  Paper, Film, and Foil Coatings.....        05/19/08        08/14/08
NSAQMD.....................................  Large Appliance Coatings...........        05/19/08        08/14/08
NSAQMD.....................................  Metal Furniture Coatings...........        05/19/08        08/14/08
SMAQMD.....................................  Coating Operations at Aerospace            10/27/11        01/12/12
                                              Manufacturing and Rework
                                              Operations.
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    In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we 
are approving these negative declarations in a direct final action 
without prior proposal because we believe these negative declarations 
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 29, 2012.
Keith Takata,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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