81 FR 7259 - Approval of Air Plan Revisions; Arizona; Rescissions and Corrections

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 28 (February 11, 2016)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP) under the Clean Air Act. These revisions include rescissions of certain statutory provisions, administrative and prohibitory rules, and test methods. The EPA is also proposing to correct certain errors in previous actions on prior revisions to the Arizona SIP and to make certain other corrections. The intended effect is to rescind unnecessary provisions from the applicable SIP and to correct certain errors in previous SIP actions.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 7259]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02724]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0028; FRL-9942-02-Region 9]


Approval of Air Plan Revisions; Arizona; Rescissions and 
Corrections

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve revisions to the Arizona State Implementation Plan (SIP) under 
the Clean Air Act. These revisions include rescissions of certain 
statutory provisions, administrative and prohibitory rules, and test 
methods. The EPA is also proposing to correct certain errors in 
previous actions on prior revisions to the Arizona SIP and to make 
certain other corrections. The intended effect is to rescind 
unnecessary provisions from the applicable SIP and to correct certain 
errors in previous SIP actions.

DATES: Comments must be received by March 14, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2016-0028 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to Andrew 
Steckel, Rules Office Chief, at [email protected]. For comments 
submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for 
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or 
removed from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, the EPA 
may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 
accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the 
official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish 
to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment 
contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e., on the Web, 
cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission 
methods, please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the full EPA public comment policy, 
information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance 
on making effective comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Steckel, EPA Region IX, (415) 
947-4115, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of 
this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the rescissions from the 
Arizona SIP, and correcting the errors from previous Arizona SIP 
rulemakings, in a direct final action without prior proposal because we 
believe the SIP revision and error corrections are not controversial. 
The rescissions involve statutory and regulatory provisions related to 
declarations of policy and legal authority, jurisdiction over Indian 
lands, prohibitory rules, and test methods and performance test 
specifications. The error corrections relate to an inadvertent listing 
of a rule on which the EPA did not take action in the Arizona SIP, a 
typographical error, and erroneous approvals of non-SIP submittals as 
part of the SIP.
    A detailed rationale for the approval of the rescissions and the 
correction of the errors is set forth in the direct final rule. If we 
receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal 
of the direct final rule and address the comments in a subsequent final 
rule based on this proposed rule. Please note that if the 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, the 
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, see please see the direct final action.

    Dated: January 25, 2016.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2016-02724 Filed 2-10-16; 8:45 am]
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