[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 19, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 15281-15282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05667]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0657; FRL-9907-99-Region 9]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of 
Arizona; Payson PM10 Air Quality Planning Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the 
Payson portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan submitted by 
the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality on January 23, 2012. 
This revision consists of the second ten-year maintenance plan for the 
Payson air quality planning area for the national ambient air quality 
standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter less than 10 microns in 
diameter (PM10). EPA is proposing to approve this plan based 
on the conclusion that the plan adequately provides for continued 
maintenance of the PM10 NAAQS in the Payson area through 
2022. EPA is proposing this action pursuant to those provisions of the 
CAA that obligate the Agency to take action on submittals of revisions 
to SIPs. The effect of this action would be to make the State's 
continuing commitments with respect to maintenance of the 
PM10 NAAQS in the Payson area federally enforceable for 
another ten years.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by April 18, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2013-0657, 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 
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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) 942-
3848, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the Final Update of 
the Limited Maintenance Plan for the Payson PM 10 
Maintenance Area (December 2011) (``Second Ten-Year Limited Maintenance 
Plan'') submitted as a revision to the Arizona State Implementation 
Plan (SIP) on January 23, 2012 by the Arizona Department of 
Environmental Quality. In the Rules and Regulations section of this 
Federal Register, we are approving the Second Ten-Year Limited 
Maintenance Plan for the Payson area in a direct final action without 
prior proposal because we believe this SIP revision is 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 5, 2014.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2014-05667 Filed 3-18-14; 8:45 am]
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