[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 111 (Thursday, June 11, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 27738-27739]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13482]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R09-OAR-2009-0142, FRL-8901-9]
Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope
Valley Air Quality Management District and South Coast Air Quality
Management District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley
Air Quality Management District (AVAQMD) and South Coast Air Quality
Management District portions of the California State Implementation
Plan (SIP). Under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990
(CAA or the Act), we are proposing to approve local rules that address
particulate matter (PM-10) emissions from open outdoor fires and from
wood burning devices.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by July 13, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-
[[Page 27739]]
OAR-2009-0142, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions.
E-mail: [email protected].
Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San
Francisco, CA 94105.
Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket
without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Information that you consider CBI or otherwise protected should be
clearly identified as such and should not be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http://www.regulations.gov is an
``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not know your identity or
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the public comment. 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.
Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all
documents in the docket are listed in the index, some information may
be publicly available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted
material), and some may not be publicly available in either location
(e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an
appointment during normal business hours with the contact listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Al Petersen, Permits Office (AIR-4),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, (415) 947-4118,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the approval of
AVAQMD Rule 444 and SCAQMD Rule 445. In the Rules and Regulations
section of this Federal Register, we are approving these local rules in
a direct final action without prior proposal because we believe this
SIP revision is not controversial. If we receive adverse comments,
however, we will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule
and address the comments in subsequent action based on this proposed
rule.
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.
We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further
information, please see the direct final action.
Dated: April 14, 2009.
Laura Yoshii,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E9-13482 Filed 6-10-09; 8:45 am]
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