[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 28, 2021)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 73718-73719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27934]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R06-OAR-2017-0558; FRL-9308-03-R6]


Finding of Failure To Attain the Primary 2010 One-Hour Sulfur 
Dioxide Standard for the St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana Nonattainment 
Area; Extension of Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the 
comment period for the proposed rule ``Finding of Failure to Attain the 
Primary 2010 One-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Standard for the St. Bernard 
Parish, Louisiana Nonattainment Area'' that was published on December 
7, 2021. The proposal provided for a public comment period ending 
January 6, 2022. The EPA received a request from the public to extend 
this comment period. The EPA is extending the comment period to January 
13, 2022.

DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published December 7, 
2021 (86 FR 69210), is extended. Written comments must be received on 
or before January 13, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket No. EPA-R06-OAR-
2017-0558, at https://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, 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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
    Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available 
electronically at www.regulations.gov. While all documents in the 
docket are listed in the index, some information may not be publicly 
available due to docket file size restrictions or content (e.g., CBI).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karolina Ruan Lei, EPA Region 6 
Office, SO2 and Regional Haze Section (R6-ARSH), 214-665-
7346, [email protected]. Out of an abundance of caution for 
members of the public and our staff, the EPA Region 6 office will be 
closed to the public to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. We 
encourage the public to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov, as there will be a delay in processing mail and no 
courier or hand deliveries will be accepted. Please call or email the 
contact listed above if you need alternative access to material indexed 
but not provided in the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
    On December 7, 2021, we published in the Federal Register ``Finding 
of Failure to Attain the Primary 2010 One-Hour Sulfur Dioxide Standard 
for the St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana Nonattainment Area'', where we 
proposed to determine that the St. Bernard Parish sulfur dioxide 
(SO2) nonattainment area (``St. Bernard area'' or ``area'') 
failed to attain the primary 2010 one-hour SO2 national 
ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) under the Clean Air Act (CAA or 
the Act) by the applicable attainment date of October 4, 2018 (86 FR 
69210). We received a request for an extension of the comment period 
and, in response, have decided to allow an additional 7 days for the 
public to comment. We are extending the comment period to January 13, 
2022. This action will allow interested

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persons additional time to prepare and submit comments.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by 
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Pollution, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur dioxide.

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

    Dated: December 20, 2021.
David Garcia,
Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2021-27934 Filed 12-27-21; 8:45 am]
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