[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 2876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00368]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2020-0730; EPA-R05-OAR-2020-0731; FRL-9746-01-R5]


Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Base Year Emissions Inventory and 
Emissions Statement Rule for the 2015 Ozone Standard

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve, under the Clean Air Act (CAA), a request submitted by the 
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) on 
December 18, 2020, to revise the Michigan State Implementation Plan 
(SIP). EGLE's submittal addresses the emissions inventory and emissions 
statement requirements for the Allegan County, Berrien County, Detroit 
(Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw, and Wayne 
Counties) and Muskegon County nonattainment areas under the 2015 ozone 
National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS or standard). The CAA 
requires states to develop and submit, as SIP revisions, emission 
inventories for all ozone nonattainment areas. In this action, EPA is 
proposing to approve EGLE's emissions inventories for the Allegan 
County, Berrien County, and Muskegon County nonattainment areas under 
the 2015 ozone NAAQS and the removal of the repealed Act 348, Section 
14a. EPA approved the portions of EGLE's December 18, 2020, submittal 
pertaining to the certification of EGLE's stationary annual emissions 
statement regulation and emissions inventories for the Detroit 
nonattainment area under the 2015 ozone NAAQS in a separate action on 
July 6, 2022.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 17, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2020-0730 (regarding emissions statement) or EPA-R05-OAR-2020-0731 
(regarding emissions inventory) at https://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 https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Crispell, Environmental 
Scientist, Control Strategies Section, Air Programs Branch (AR18J), 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353-8512, [email protected]. The 
EPA Region 5 office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, excluding Federal holidays and facility closures due to COVID-
19.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Rules section of this Federal 
Register, EPA is approving the State's SIP submittal as a direct final 
rule without prior proposal because the Agency 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 relevant adverse comments are received in response to this 
rule, no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives such 
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 Federal Register.

    Dated: January 5, 2023.
Debra Shore,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2023-00368 Filed 1-17-23; 8:45 am]
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