[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 49992-49993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19874]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0394; FRL-9845-4]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope 
Valley Air Quality Management District and Ventura County Air Pollution 
Control District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley 
Air Quality Management District (AVAQMD) and Ventura County Air 
Pollution Control District (VCAPCD) portions of the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern sulfur oxide 
emissions from lead smelters and volatile organic compounds (VOC) 
emissions from the data storage and vacuum producing device industries. 
We are proposing to rescind local rules that regulate emission sources 
under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

DATES: Any comments must arrive by September 16, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2013-0394 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: Generally, documents in the docket for this action are 
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 at www.regulations.gov, some 
information may be publicly available only at the hard copy location 
(e.g., copyrighted material, large maps), 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: Robert Marinaro, EPA Region IX, (415) 
972-3019, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local 
rules: AVAQMD Rule 1101, ``Secondary Lead Smelters/Sulfur Oxides;'' 
VCAPCD Rule 37, ``Project XL;'' and VCAPCD Rule 67, ``Vacuum Producing 
Devices.'' In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal 
Register, we are approving rescission of 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 comments 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.


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    Dated: July 26, 2013.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2013-19874 Filed 8-15-13; 8:45 am]
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