[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 50 (Friday, March 14, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 14460]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05525]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0599; FRL-9906-91-Region-9]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California;
San Francisco Bay Area and Chico Nonattainment Areas; Fine Particulate
Matter Emission Inventories
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP)
concerning emission inventories for the 2006 24-hour fine particle
National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for the San Francisco Bay
Area and Chico PM2.5 nonattainment areas. We are approving
these emissions inventories under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by April 14, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2013-0599, 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 94105-3901.
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: Nancy Levin, EPA Region IX, (415) 972-
3848, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the submitted
PM2.5 emission inventories for the San Francisco Bay Area
and Chico nonattainment areas. In the Rules and Regulations section of
this Federal Register, we are approving submitted emission inventories
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 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: January 30, 2014.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2014-05525 Filed 3-13-14; 8:45 am]
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