[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19660-19661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08476]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0545; FRL-9926-14-Region-9]
Decision To Issue Clean Air Act Permit for the Four Corners Power
Plant
AGENCY: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of final agency action.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) issued a final permit decision for a Clean Air Act Prevention of
Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit and Minor New Source Review
(NSR) Permit in Indian Country to Arizona Public Service Company (APS)
for the construction of add-on pollution controls for the Four Corners
Power Plant (FCPP). Specifically, the permit authorizes APS to
construct and operate selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems,
including ancillary equipment, on two existing coal-fired electric
steam generating units at FCPP.
DATES: EPA Region 9 issued a final PSD permit decision for the FCPP on
December 19, 2014. The permit became effective 30 days after the
service of notice of the final permit decision. Pursuant to section
307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7607(b)(1), judicial review
of this final permit decision, to the extent it is available, may be
sought by filing a petition for review in the United States Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit within 60 days of April 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Documents relevant to the above-referenced permit are
available for public inspection during normal business hours at the
following address: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901. To arrange for viewing
of these documents, call Lisa Beckham at (415) 972-3811. Due to
building security procedures, at least 48 hours advance notice is
required.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Beckham, EPA Region 9, (415) 972-
3811, [email protected]. Key portions of the administrative record
for this decision (including the final permit, all public comments,
EPA's responses to the public comments, and additional supporting
information) are available through a link at Region 9's Web site,
http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/permit/r9-permits-issued.html#psd, or at
www.regulations.gov (Docket ID # EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0545).
NOTICE OF FINAL ACTION AND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 19,
2014, EPA Region 9
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issued its final permit decision to APS authorizing the construction
and operation of add-on pollution controls at the FCPP--PSD Permit No.
NN 14-01 and Tribal Minor NSR Permit T-002-NN. EPA issued a Prevention
of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit and Minor New Source Review
(NSR) Permit in Indian Country that grants conditional approval to APS,
in accordance with the PSD regulations (40 CFR 52.21) and the Minor NSR
regulations for Indian Country (40 CFR 49.151-161). The permit
authorizes APS to construct and operate SCR systems, including
ancillary equipment, on two existing coal-fired electric steam
generating units at FCPP.
During the public comment period and public hearings, EPA received
written and oral comments regarding its proposed permit action to
approve the FCPP SCR project. EPA carefully reviewed the public hearing
testimony and each of the written comments submitted and, after
consideration of the expressed views of all commenters, the pertinent
Federal statutes and regulations, and additional material relevant to
the application and contained in our Administrative Record, EPA made a
decision, in accordance with 40 CFR 52.21, to issue a final PSD permit
and, in accordance with 40 CFR 49.151-161, to issue a final Tribal
Minor NSR permit to APS.
Within 30 days after the service of notice announcing the final
permit decision, any person who filed comments on the proposed permit
for the FCPP SCR project or participated in any of the public hearings
for the FCPP SCR project had the opportunity pursuant to 40 CFR part
124 to petition EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) to review any
condition of the final permit. Any person who did not file comments or
participate in the public hearings could petition for administrative
review only to the extent that changes were made from the proposed to
the final permit decision. No petitions for review were filed with the
EAB. As such, the final permit became effective 30 days after the
service of notice of the final permit decision.
Dated: March 31, 2015.
Deborah Jordan,
Director, Air Division, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2015-08476 Filed 4-10-15; 8:45 am]
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