[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 232 (Monday, December 5, 2022)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 74355-74356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26360]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2022-0651; FRL-10268-01-R9]
Air Plan Approval; California; Eastern Kern Air Pollution Control
District; Stationary Source Permits
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a revision to the Eastern Kern Air Pollution Control District
(EKAPCD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). In
this action, we are proposing to approve a local rule submitted by the
EKAPCD, governing the issuance of permits for stationary sources,
focusing on the preconstruction review and permitting of major sources
and major modifications under part D of title I of the Clean Air Act
(CAA or ``the Act''). In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this
issue of the Federal Register, we are approving the submitted rule into
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the California SIP 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.
DATES: Written comments must be received by January 4, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2022-0651 at https://www.regulations.gov. For comments submitted at
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 the
disclosure of which 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. If you need assistance in a
language other than English or if you are a person with disabilities
who needs a reasonable accommodation at no cost to you, please contact
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Po-Chieh Ting, EPA Region IX, 75
Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA 94105. By phone: (415) 972-3191 or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and
``our'' refer to the EPA.
This document proposes to approve EKAPCD Rule 210.1A into the
EKAPCD portion of the California SIP. This rule was submitted to the
EPA by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on October 5, 2022 by
a letter of the same date. We find that CARB's October 5, 2022 SIP
submittal for EKAPCD Rule 210.1A meets the completeness criteria in 40
CFR part 51 Appendix V, which must be met before formal EPA review.
We have published a direct final rule to approve the submitted rule
into the EKAPCD portion of the California SIP in the ``Rules and
Regulations'' section of this issue of the Federal Register because we
view this as a noncontroversial action and anticipate no 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.
Dated: November 28, 2022.
Martha Guzman Aceves,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2022-26360 Filed 12-2-22; 8:45 am]
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