[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 36 (Friday, February 24, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 11516]
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[FR Doc No: 2017-03478]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R06-OAR-2016-0611; FRL-9959-42-Region 6]


Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; State of Texas; 
Regional Haze and Interstate Visibility Transport Federal 
Implementation Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: In the January 4, 2017 Federal Register, the Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) requested comments by March 6, 2017 on a 
proposed rule pertaining to Clean Air Act requirements for regional 
haze and interstate visibility transport. This proposal would 
promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to address the Clean Air 
Act requirement for eligible electric generating units (EGUs) in Texas 
to install and operate the Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART). 
This proposal would also disapprove a portion of the Texas State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) that evaluated BART for Particulate Matter 
(PM) at EGUs. In addition, this proposal reconsiders earlier 
disapprovals of portions of several SIP revisions submitted to satisfy 
the requirement to address interstate visibility transport for six 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), newly proposing that 
they be disapproved and that the proposed EGU BART FIP would satisfy 
any FIP obligation for interstate visibility transport that would 
follow from those disapprovals. EPA is extending the public comment 
period for this proposal until May 5, 2017.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before May 5, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket No. EPA-R06-OAR-
2016-0611, at http://www.regulations.gov or via email to [email protected]. 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, please contact Joe Kordzi, 214-665-7186, 
[email protected]. For 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.
    Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available 
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at the 
EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 700, Dallas, Texas. While all 
documents in the docket are listed in the index, some information may 
be publicly available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted 
material), and some may not be publicly available at either location 
(e.g., CBI).
    The Texas regional haze SIP is available online at: https://www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/sip/bart/haze_sip.html. It is also 
available for public inspection during official business hours, by 
appointment, at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office 
of Air Quality, 12124 Park 35 Circle, Austin, Texas 78753.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe Kordzi, Air Planning Section (6PD-
L), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 
700, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733, telephone 214-665-7186; fax number 214-
665-7263; email address [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
    On January 4, 2017, we published in the Federal Register a proposed 
rule pertaining to regional haze and interstate visibility transport 
(82 FR 912). Specifically, we proposed to (1) partially disapprove a 
portion of the Texas SIP pertaining to the PM BART requirement for 
EGUs, (2) address the BART requirement for Texas EGUs through a FIP 
including source-specific BART limits on 29 EGUs for PM and sulfur 
dioxide (SO2) and a finding that NOx BART for EGUs in Texas 
is met by participation in the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), 
(3) reconsider and re-propose disapproval of portions of several SIP 
revisions submitted to satisfy the requirement to address interstate 
visibility transport for six NAAQS, and (4) determine that the proposed 
BART FIP emission limits would meet the interstate visibility transport 
requirements for these NAAQS, satisfying any FIP obligations that would 
follow from disapprovals of the SIP revisions on requirements to 
address interstate visibility transport. We received several requests 
for an extension of the comment period and, in response, have decided 
to allow an additional 60 days. We are extending the comment period to 
May 5, 2017.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by 
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, 
Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur 
dioxides, Visibility, Interstate transport of pollution, Regional haze, 
Best available control technology.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

    Dated: February 9, 2017.
Wren Stenger,
Multimedia Division Director, Region 6.
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