Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States: California,

[Federal Register: March 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 60)]

[Proposed Rules]

[Page 15148]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[CA 211-0127b; FRL-6313-5]

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision; El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern the control of oxides of nitrogen (NO‹INF›X‹/INF›) emissions from natural gas-fired residential water heaters within the El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District.

The intended effect of proposing approval of this rule is to regulate NO‹INF›X‹/INF› emissions in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). In the final rules Section of this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the state's SIP submittal as a direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial revision and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for this approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no adverse comments are received, 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 If EPA receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all public comments received will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed rule. The EPA will not institute a second comment period. Any parties interested in commenting should do so at this time.

DATES: Written comments must be received by April 29, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to: Andrew Steckel, Rulemaking Office, AIR-4, Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.

Copies of the rule and EPA's evaluation report of the rule are available for public inspection at EPA's Region 9 office during normal business hours. Copies of the submitted rule revisions are also available for inspection at the following locations:

California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule Evaluation Section, 2020 ``L'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95812 El Dorado County Environmental Management Department, Air Pollution Control District, 2850 Fairlane Court, Placerville, CA 95667

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed Addison, Rulemaking Office, AIR-4, Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901 Telephone: (415) 744- 1160.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document concerns El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District's Rule 239, Natural Gas-fired Residential Water Heaters, submitted by the California Air Resources Board to EPA on June 23, 1998. For further information, please see the information provided in the direct final action that is located in the rules section of this Federal Register.

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

Dated: March 11, 1999. Laura Yoshii, Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX.

[FR Doc. 99-7669Filed3-29-99; 8:45 am]

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