Air Plan Approval; AL; NOX SIP Call and Removal of CAIR; Correction
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule in the Federal Register on July 7, 2021, entitled "Air Plan Approval; AL; NO<INF>X</INF> SIP Call and Removal of...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule in the
Federal Register
on July 7, 2021, entitled “Air Plan Approval; AL; NOX
SIP Call and Removal of CAIR.” The July 7, 2021 rule, which became effective on August 6, 2021, contained an error in the amendatory instructions for the regulatory text. This correction does not change any final action taken by EPA in the July 7, 2021, final rule but makes a correction to final regulations.
DATES:
This action is effective October 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES:
EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket Identification No. EPA-R04-OAR-2020-0129, FRL-10025-80-Region 4. All documents in the docket are listed on the
www.regulations.gov
website. Although listed in the index, some information may not be publicly available,
i.e.,
Confidential Business Information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically through
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or in hard copy at the Air Regulatory Management Section, Air Planning and Implementation Branch, Air and Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. EPA requests that if at all possible, you contact the person listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section to schedule your inspection. The Regional Office's official hours of business are Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andres Febres, Air Regulatory Management Section, Air Planning and Implementation Branch, Air and Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. The telephone number is (404) 562-8966. Mr. Febres can also be reached via electronic mail at
febres-martinez.andres@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On July 7, 2021 (86 FR 35610), EPA published a final rule in the
Federal Register
entitled “Air Plan Approval; AL; NOX
SIP Call and Removal of CAIR” which became effective on August 6, 2021. The final rule approved the addition of regulations to Alabama's State Implementation Plan (SIP) to maintain compliance with their nitrogen oxides (NOX
) SIP Call obligations for large non-electricity generating units (non-EGUs), the repeal of the State's regulations previously sunsetted regarding the NOx Budget Trading Program, and the repeal of the State's Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) regulations.[1]
Additionally, the
( printed page 54374)
final rule conditionally approved state regulations into the SIP that establish monitoring and reporting requirements for units subject to the NOX
SIP Call, including alternative monitoring options for certain sources.
However, the rule contained two errors in the instructions regarding amendments to the table titled “EPA-Approved Alabama Regulations” found at 40 CFR 52.50(c).
See
86 FR at 35614. Because of the errors in the amendatory instructions, the Office of the Federal Register was not able to incorporate some of the changes and placed an editorial note at the bottom of 40 CFR 52.50. Although the rational for incorporating these changes remains the same as presented in the July 7, 2021, rule, EPA is now correcting the CFR to appropriately display the approved rules in the South Carolina SIP.
www.regulations.gov
40 CFR 52.50(c)
42 U.S.C. 7401