[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 235 (Tuesday, December 8, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 76258-76259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30808]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2015-0619; FRL-9936-66-Region 9]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope 
Valley Air Quality Management District, Feather River Air Quality 
Management District and Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control 
District

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 Antelope Valley Air Quality Management 
District (AVAQMD), Feather River Air Quality Management District 
(FRAQMD), and Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District 
(SBCAPCD) portions of

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the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern 
volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from architectural coatings. 
We are proposing to approve local rules to regulate these emission 
sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). Simultaneously, the 
EPA is proposing to delete two related local rules from the SIP from 
Sutter County Air Pollution Control District (SCAPCD) and Yuba County 
Air Pollution Control District (YCAPCD).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by January 7, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number [EPA-R09-OAR-
2015-0619, 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: Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or 
withdrawn. The EPA may publish any comment received to its public 
docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be 
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. If you need to include CBI as part 
of your comment, please visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html 
for instructions. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 
accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the 
official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish 
to make. For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment 
policy, and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit 
http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.
    Docket: Generally, documents in the docket for this action are 
available electronically at www.regulations.gov or 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: Arnold Lazarus, EPA Region IX, (415) 
972-3024, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and 
``our'' refer to the EPA. This proposal addresses the following local 
rules: AVAQMD Rule 1113 ``Architectural Coatings,'' FRAQMD Rule 3.15 
``Architectural Coatings,'' SBCAPCD Rule 323.1 ``Architectural 
Coatings,'' SCAPCD Rule 3.15 ``Architectural Coatings,'' and YCAPCD 
Rule 3.15 ``Architectural Coatings.'' In the Rules and Regulations 
section of this Federal Register, we are approving and deleting 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 comment 
on a provision of a particular rule, we may adopt as final those 
provisions of the rules 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: October 23, 2015.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2015-30808 Filed 12-7-15; 8:45 am]
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