[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 11, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 70066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24379]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 52 and 70

[EPA-R07-OAR-2016-0571; FRL-9953-76-Region 7]


Approval of Missouri's Air Quality Implementation Plans, 
Operating Permits Program, and 112(l) Plan; Construction Permits 
Required

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 
revisions to the State Implementation Plan (SIP), the Operating Permit 
Program, and the 112(l) plan submitted on April 6, 2016, by the State 
of Missouri. In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this Federal 
Register, we are approving the State's SIP and Operating Permit Program 
revisions as a direct final rule without a prior proposed rule. If we 
receive no adverse comment, we will not take further action on this 
proposed rule. The submission from Missouri revises fees for permitting 
services provided by the air quality program, including construction 
permit applications and operating permit applications. Missouri also 
removed the basic operating permit requirement for incinerators with 
emissions less than the de minimis levels in Missouri's ``Operating 
Permits'' rule. While EPA has never approved the basic operating permit 
program into Missouri's SIP or Missouri's Operating Permits Program, 
one statement on incinerators in the approved SIP and Operating Permits 
Program is removed by the submission. This statement applied Missouri's 
``Operating Permits'' rule to all incinerators within the State. Any 
permittees with incinerators already required to have either 
Intermediate State Operating Permits or part 70 Operating Permits will 
still have the same permitting requirements. This revision does not 
exempt any incinerators from appropriate permitting. Likewise, any 
future permittees with incinerators under the former version of the SIP 
and Operating Permits Program would have required either an 
Intermediate State Operating Permits or a part 70 Operating Permits 
will still have the same permitting requirement under the revised SIP 
and Operating Permits Program. Finally the submission from Missouri 
makes non-substantive style changes.

DATES: Written comments must be received by November 10, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R07-
OAR-2016-0571, to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot 
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 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. 
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. The EPA 
will generally not consider comments or comment contents located 
outside of the primary submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or other 
file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA 
public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, 
and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jed D. Wolkins, Environmental 
Protection Agency, Air Planning and Development Branch, 11201 Renner 
Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219 at 913-551-7588, or by email at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document proposes to take action on the 
SIP and Operating Permit Program revisions submitted by the state of 
Missouri for 10 CSR 10-6.060, ``Construction Permits Required'', and 10 
CSR-6.065, ``Operating Permits''. We have published a direct final rule 
approving the State's SIP and Operating Permit Program revisions in the 
``Rules and Regulations'' section of this Federal Register, because we 
view this as a noncontroversial action and anticipate no relevant 
adverse comment. We have explained our reasons for this action in the 
preamble to the direct final rule. If we receive no adverse comment, we 
will not take further action on this proposed rule. If we receive 
adverse comment, we will withdraw the direct final rule and it will not 
take effect. We would address all public comments in any subsequent 
final rule based on this proposed rule. We do not intend to institute a 
second comment period on this action. Any parties interested in 
commenting must do so at this time. For further information, please see 
the information provided in the ADDRESSES section of this document.

List of Subjects

40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 
Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen 
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.

40 CFR Part 70

    Administrative practice and procedure, Air pollution control, 
Intergovernmental relations, Operating permits, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: September 27, 2016.
Mike Brincks,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 7.
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