[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 3, 2019)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 31813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14247]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 49
[EPA-R08-OAR-2019-0002; 9995-99-Region 8]
Federal Implementation Plan To Establish a Bank for Ozone
Precursor Emission Reduction Credits From Existing Sources on Indian
Country Lands Within the Uinta Basin Ozone Nonattainment Area
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment
period.
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SUMMARY: On May 24, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
published in the Federal Register an advance notice of proposed
rulemaking (ANPRM) to solicit broad feedback on different approaches to
establish an emission reduction credit (ERC) bank for ozone precursors,
specifically volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides
(NOX), as part of a Clean Air Act (CAA) Federal
Implementation Plan (FIP) applicable to stationary sources on Indian
country lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (U&O
Reservation). The EPA is extending the comment period for the ANPRM
until August 7, 2019.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 7, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-
OAR-2019-0002, to the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from
www.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.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Air and Radiation
Division, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop
Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129. The EPA requests that if at all
possible, you contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section to view the hard copy of the docket. You
may view the hard copy of the docket Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m., excluding federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Dresser, Air and Radiation
Division, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 8ARD-QP, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver,
Colorado 80202-1129, (303) 312-6385, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
The purpose of the ANPRM (84 FR 24064) was to solicit broad
feedback on different approaches to establish an ERC bank for ozone
precursors. Such ERCs may be generated and used for several air quality
planning purposes. Specifically, the credits could be used in assisting
in achievement of the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS), general conformity demonstrations, and nonattainment new
source review (NNSR) permitting related to development of new VOC and
NOX emissions sources in the Uinta Basin Ozone Nonattainment
Area in Utah. The EPA designated portions of the ``Uinta Basin'' region
nonattainment for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS, effective August 3, 2018.
We received requests from the Western Energy Alliance (WEA) and the
Utah Petroleum Association (UPA) on June 24, 2019, and from the Ute
Tribal Business Committee on June 25, 2019, to extend the comment
period. In response, we are extending the comment period to August 7,
2019.\1\
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\1\ Copies of the letters requesting the extension appear in the
docket for this action.
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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 49
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Intergovernmental
relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate matter, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 28, 2019.
Greg Sopkin,
Regional Administrator, EPA Region 8.
[FR Doc. 2019-14247 Filed 7-2-19; 8:45 am]
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