Approval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans For Designated Facilities and Pollutants:

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 62

EPA-R03-OAR-2010-0859; FRL -9240-2

Approval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans for

Designated Facilities and Pollutants, Commonwealth of Virginia; Control of Emissions From Existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste

Incinerator (HMIWI) Units, Negative Declaration and Withdrawal of EPA

Plan Approval

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

SUMMARY: EPA is taking direct final action to approve the Commonwealth of Virginia's negative declaration and request for EPA withdrawal of its section 111(d)/129 plan (the plan) approval for HMIWI units.

DATES: This rule is effective February 15, 2011 without further notice, unless EPA receives adverse written comment by January 18, 2011. If EPA receives such comments, it will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in the Federal Register and inform the public that the rule will not take effect.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-

R03-OAR-2010-0859 by one of the following methods:

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1. http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.

2. E-mail: E-mail: wilkie.walter@epa.gov.

3. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2010-0859, Walter K. Wilkie, Associate

   Director, Air Protection Division, Office of Air Monitoring and

   Analysis, Mailcode 3AP40, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region

   III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.

4. 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- 2010-0859. 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.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be

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   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 Virginia Department of

   Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

   FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James B. Topsale, P.E., at (215) 814- 2190, or by e-mail at topsale.jim@epa.gov.

   SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

   1. Background

      The Commonwealth of Virginia HMIWI plan and related State rule were approved by EPA in the September 10, 2004 edition of the Federal

      Register and codified in 40 CFR Part 62, subpart VV. (69 FR 54756). An

      EPA correction notice, relating to the original notice SUMMARY, was published in the November 16, 2005 edition of the Federal Register.

      Since that time, all three designated incinerator facilities in the plan inventory have been dismantled, according to the Commonwealth of

      Virginia, Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ). On October 6, 2009, EPA promulgated revised HMIWI emission guidelines under 40 CFR

      Part 60, subpart Ce, that triggered the need for revised State plans.

      As a result, on September 13, 2010, the VADEQ requested EPA's approval of its negative declaration and plan withdrawal request. The submitted negative declaration contains the name of each designated facility that permanently shutdown, and the year it was dismantled.

   2. Final Action

      EPA is approving the Commonwealth of Virginia's negative declaration and request for EPA withdrawal of its plan approval for

      HMIWI units. VADEQ has determined that there are now no designated facilities, subject to subpart Ce requirements, in its air pollution control jurisdiction. EPA accepts that determination. Accordingly, EPA is amending part 62 to reflect approval of the VADEQ September 13, 2010 negative declaration and request for EPA withdrawal of the HMIWI plan approval. However, if an affected Virginia HMIWI unit is discovered in the future, all the requirements of the Federal Plan (including revisions or amendments), part 62, subpart HHH, will be applicable to the affected unit.

   3. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

1. General Requirements

   Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this action is not a ``significant regulatory action'' and therefore is not subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget. For this reason, this action is also not subject to Executive Order 13211,

   ``Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy

   Supply, Distribution, or Use'' (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001). This action merely approves State law as meeting Federal requirements and imposes no additional requirements beyond those imposed by State law.

   Accordingly, the Administrator certifies that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Because this rule approves pre-existing requirements under State law and does not impose any additional enforceable duty beyond that required by

   State law, it does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded

   Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4). This rule also does not have Tribal implications because it will not have a substantial direct effect on one or more Indian Tribes, on the relationship between the

   Federal Government and Indian Tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian Tribes, as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000).

   This action also does not have Federalism implications because it does not have substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government, as specified in Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999).

   This action merely approves a State rule implementing a Federal requirement, and does not alter the relationship or the distribution of power and responsibilities established in the Clean Air Act. This rule also is not subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997), because it approves a State rule implementing a Federal standard.

   In reviewing section 111(d)/129 plan submissions, EPA's role is to approve State choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the

   Clean Air Act. In this context, in the absence of a prior existing requirement for the State to use voluntary consensus standards (VCS),

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   EPA has no authority to disapprove a 111(d)/129 plan submission for failure to use VCS. It would thus be inconsistent with applicable law for EPA, when it reviews a 111(d)/129 plan submission, to use VCS in place of a 111(d)/129 plan submission that otherwise satisfies the provisions of the Clean Air Act. Thus, the requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995

   (15 U.S.C. 272 note) do not apply. This rule does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork

   Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

2. Submission to Congress and the Comptroller General

   The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the

   Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the

   United States. EPA will submit a report containing this rule and other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of

   Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. This rule is not a

   ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).

3. Petitions for Judicial Review

   Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by February 15, 2011. Filing a petition for reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect the finality of this rule for the purposes of judicial review nor does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or action. This action approving the Commonwealth of Virginia section 111(d)/129 negative declaration and request for EPA withdrawal of the HMIWI plan approval may not be challenged later in proceedings to enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).)

   List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 62

   Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,

   Air pollution control, Aluminum, Fertilizers, Fluoride,

   Intergovernmental relations, Paper and paper products industry,

   Phosphate, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur oxides,

   Sulfur acid plants, Waste treatment and disposal.

   Dated: December 2, 2010.

   W.C. Early,

   Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 0 40 CFR Part 62, Subpart VV, is amended as follows:

   PART 62--[AMENDED] 0 1. The authority citation for part 62 continues to read as follows:

   Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

   Subpart VV--Virginia 0 2. Section 62.11625 is amended by revising the section heading, designating the existing paragraph as (a) and adding paragraph (b) to read as follows:

   Sec. 62.11625 Identification of plan--negative declaration.

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   (b) On September 13, 2010, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Environmental Protection, submitted a negative declaration, and request for withdrawal of EPA's plan approval under paragraph (a). 0 3. Section 62.11626 is removed. 0 4. Section 62.11627 is revised to read as follows:

   Sec. 62.11627 Effective date.

   The effective date of the negative declaration and EPA withdrawal of the plan approval is February 15, 2011.

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