[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 11, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 31931-31932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14398]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2017-0278; FRL-9964-64-Region 5]


Air Plan Approval; Illinois; Emissions Statement Rule 
Certification for the 2008 Ozone Standard

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) submission from the Illinois 
Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) dated May 9, 2017. The 
submission provides IEPA's certification that its existing emission 
statement program, titled ``Annual Emissions Report'', remains in 
effect and satisfies the Clean Air Act (CAA) emissions statement 
requirement for the Illinois portions of the Chicago-Naperville, 
Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin and St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, 
Missouri-Illinois nonattainment areas under the 2008 ozone National 
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). Under the CAA, states' SIPs must 
require stationary sources in ozone nonattainment areas classified as 
marginal or above to annually report emissions of Volatile Organic 
Compounds (VOC) and Oxides of Nitrogen (NOX).

DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 10, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2017-0278 at http://www.regulations.gov or via email to 
[email protected]. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, 
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, 
comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either 
manner of submission, 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. 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 the person 
identified in the For Further Information Contact section. 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen D'Agostino, Air Programs 
Branch (AR-18J), Environmental

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Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, 
(312) 886-1767, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Rules section of this issue of 
the Federal Register, EPA is approving IDEM's SIP revisions as a direct 
final rule without prior proposal because EPA views this as a 
noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A 
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final 
rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to this rule, no 
further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives adverse comments, the 
direct final rule will be withdrawn and all public comments received 
will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed 
rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period. Any parties 
interested in commenting on this action should do so at this time. 
Please note that, if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment, 
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed 
from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions 
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. For 
additional information see the direct final rule, which is located in 
the Rules section of this issue of the Federal Register.

    Dated: June 20, 2017.
Robert A. Kaplan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2017-14398 Filed 7-10-17; 8:45 am]
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