Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan; Imperial County; Ozone Precursor Emissions Inventories

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0542; FRL-9917-76-Region 9]

Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan; Imperial County; Ozone Precursor Emissions Inventories

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION:

Proposed rule.

SUMMARY:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the Imperial County portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). This revision concerns Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements for volatile organic compounds and oxides of nitrogen emissions inventories in areas designated nonattainment for the 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). We are proposing to approve the 2002 volatile organic compound and oxides of nitrogen emissions inventories as submitted by Imperial County and California.

DATES:

Any comments on this proposal must arrive by November 24, 2014.

ADDRESSES:

Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-2012-0542, by one of the following methods:

1.

Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov.

Follow the on-line instructions.

2.

Email: wamsley.jerry@epa.gov.

3.

Mail or deliver:

Jerry Wamsley (Air-2), 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:

Generally, documents in the docket for this action are available electronically at

www.regulations.gov

and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105-3901. While all documents in the docket are listed at

www.regulations.gov,

some information may be publicly available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material, large maps), 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:

Jerry Wamsley, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-4111,

wamsley.jerry@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This proposal concerns the volatile organic compound (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen (NO

X

) 2002 emissions inventories submitted by California on December 21, 2010 in the document “Final 2009 1997 8-hour Ozone Modified Air Quality Management Plan” for Imperial County. California submitted these emissions inventories to meet CAA requirements under the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS. In the Rules and Regulations section of this

Federal Register

, we are approving these VOC and NO

X

emissions inventories provided by California 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 a portion of the state's submittal and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the submittal, we may adopt as final those provisions of the submittal 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: September 24, 2014.

Jared Blumenfeld,

Regional Administrator, Region IX.

[FR Doc. 2014-24752 Filed 10-22-14; 8:45 am]

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