California State Implementation Plan; Revision: Sierra Air Quality Management District, et al.

Federal Register: July 9, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 132)

Proposed Rules

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52

EPA-R09-OAR-2006-0186, FRL-8569-7

Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern

Sierra Air Quality Management District, Including the Nevada County Air

Pollution Control District Portion, Plumas County Air Pollution Control

District Portion, and Sierra County Air Pollution Control District

Portion

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Northern Sierra

Air Quality Management District (NSAQMD) portion of the California

State Implementation Plan (SIP), including the Nevada County Air

Pollution Control District (NCAPCD) portion, Plumas County Air

Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) portion, and Sierra County Air

Pollution Control District (PCAPCD) portion of the SIP. These revisions concern the permitting of air pollution sources. We are approving and removing local rules under authority of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by August 8, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR- 2006-0186, by one of the following methods:

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the on-line instructions.

E-mail: R9airpermits@epa.gov.

Mail or deliver: Gerardo Rios (Air-3), 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 below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Yannayon, Permits Office (AIR- 3), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, (415) 972-3534, yannayon.laura@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the approval of

NSAQMD Rules 501, 505, 510, 511, 512, 513, 515, and 517 into the SIP and the removal of eight NCAPCD, two PCAPCD, and four SCAPCD permitting rules from the SIP. In the Rules section of this Federal Register, we are approving revisions in these local rules in a direct final action without prior proposal because we believe these SIP revisions are 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 we receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the rule, we 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 16, 2008.

Laura Yoshii,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.

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