[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 26 (Thursday, February 8, 2007)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 5946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-2127]
[[Page 5946]]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R03-OAR-2006-0915; FRL-8276-4]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
West Virginia; Amendments to the Minor New Source Review Program
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve the State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision submitted by the State of West Virginia for the purpose of
this rule is to set forth the procedures for stationary source
reporting and the criteria for obtaining a permit to construct and
operate a new stationary source which is not a major stationary source.
The rule establishes the requirements for obtaining an administrative
update to an existing permit, temporary permit or a general permit, and
for filling notifications and maintaining records of changes not
otherwise subject to the permit requirements of this rule. The rule
establishes public participation requirements as well as procedures for
the transfer, suspension and revocation of permits. EPA is approving
these revisions to West Virginia's SIP in accordance with the
requirements of the Clean Air Act. 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adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all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 March 12, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-
R03-OAR-2006-0915 by one of the following methods:
A. www.regulations.gov.
B. E-Mail: [email protected].
C. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2006-0915, David Campbell, Chief, Permits and
Technical Assessment Branch, Mailcode 3AP11, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19103.
D. 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 Docket ID No. EPA-R03-OAR-
2006-0915. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change, and may be made available online
at www.regulations.gov, 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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
The www.regulations.gov Web site is 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 www.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
www.regulations.gov index. 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 www.regulations.gov 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 West Virginia Department of Environmental
Protection, Division of Air Quality, 601 57th Street SE., Charleston,
WV 25304.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rosemarie Nino, (215) 814-3377, or by
e-mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please see the
information provided in the direct final action, with the same title,
that is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this
Federal Register publication. 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: January 31, 2007.
James W. Newsom,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
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