Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern Sierra and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management Districts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0243; FRL-9659-9]

Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern Sierra and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management Districts

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Proposed rule.

SUMMARY:

EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District (NSAQMD) and Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) portions of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern negative declarations for volatile organic compound (VOC) source categories for the NSAQMD and SMAQMD. We are proposing to approve these negative declarations under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

DATES:

Any comments on this proposal must arrive by May 18, 2012.

ADDRESSES:

Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0243, by one of the following methods:

1.

Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov

. Follow the on-line instructions.

2.

Email: steckel.andrew@epa.gov

.

3.

Mail or deliver:

Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.

Instructions:

All comments will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at

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

www.regulations.gov

or email.

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 email directly to EPA, your email 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. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.

Docket:

The index to the docket for this action is available electronically at

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 in the

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cynthia Allen, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-4120,

allen.cynthia@epa.gov

.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This proposal addresses the following negative declarations listed in Table I:

Table 1—Submitted Negative Declarations

Local agency

Title

Adopted

Submitted

NSAQMD

Fiberglass Boat Manufacturing Materials

04/25/11

05/17/11

NSAQMD

Miscellaneous Industrial Adhesives

04/25/11

05/17/11

NSAQMD

Automobile and Light-Duty Truck Assembly Coatings

04/25/11

05/17/11

NSAQMD

Industrial Cleaning Solvents

05/19/08

08/14/08

NSAQMD

Offset Lithographic Printing and Letterpress Printing

05/19/08

08/14/08

NSAQMD

Flexible Package Printing

05/19/08

08/14/08

NSAQMD

Flat Wood Paneling Coatings

05/19/08

08/14/08

NSAQMD

Paper, Film, and Foil Coatings

05/19/08

08/14/08

NSAQMD

Large Appliance Coatings

05/19/08

08/14/08

NSAQMD

Metal Furniture Coatings

05/19/08

08/14/08

SMAQMD

Coating Operations at Aerospace Manufacturing and Rework Operations

10/27/11

01/12/12

In the Rules and Regulations section of this

Federal Register,

we are approving these negative declarations in a direct final action without prior proposal because we believe these negative declarations 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: March 29, 2012.

Keith Takata,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.

[FR Doc. 2012-9077 Filed 4-17-12; 8:45 am]

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