[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 121 (Friday, June 24, 2005)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 36546-36547]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12582]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[R03-OAR-2005-PA-0014; FRL-7927-6]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Control of VOC Emissions From Aerospace,
Mobile Equipment, and Wood Furniture Surface Coating Applications for
Allegheny County
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve a revision to the Allegheny County
portion of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan
(SIP). This revision, submitted by the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection (PADEP) on behalf of the Allegheny County
Health Department (ACHD), establishes standards and requirements to
control volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions from aerospace,
mobile equipment, and wood furniture surface coating applications, and
modifies existing regulations for general and specific coating
processes. This revision updates the ACHD's regulations to make them
consistent with the Commonwealth's SIP-approved regulations regarding
the affected surface coating processes. 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
more detailed description of the state submittal and EPA's evaluation
are included in a Technical Support Document (TSD) prepared in support
of this rulemaking action. A copy of the TSD is available, upon
request, from the EPA Regional Office listed in the ADDRESSES section
of this document. If no adverse comments are received in response to
this action, 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adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all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.
DATES: Comments must be received in writing by July 25, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Regional Material in
EDocket (RME) ID Number R03-OAR-20005-PA-0014 by one of the following
methods:
A. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
B. Agency Web site: http://www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/ RME, EPA's
electronic public docket and comment system, is EPA's preferred method
for receiving comments. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
C. E-mail: [email protected].
D. Mail: R03-OAR-2005-PA-0014, David Campbell, Chief, Air Quality
Planning Branch, Mailcode 3AP21, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
E. Hand Delivery: At the previously-listed EPA Region III address.
Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to RME ID No. R03-OAR-2005-PA-
0014. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in
the public docket without change, and may be made available online at
http://www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through RME, regulations.gov
or e-mail. The EPA RME and the Federal regulations.gov websites are an
``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through RME or regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the
RME index at http://www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/. Although listed in the
index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet
and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly
available docket materials are available either electronically in RME
or in hard copy during normal business hours at the Air Protection
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Copies of the State submittal
are available at the Allegheny County Health Department, Bureau of
Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality, 301 39th Street,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15201.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Wentworth, (215) 814-2034, or by
e-mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please see the
information provided in the direct final action, pertaining to the
Control of VOC Emissions from Aerospace, Mobile Equipment, and Wood
Furniture Surface Coating Applications for Allegheny County, that is
located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this Federal
Register publication.
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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.
Dated: June 15, 2005.
Donald S. Welsh,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 05-12582 Filed 6-23-05; 8:45 am]
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