Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date but for International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico; Extension of Comment Period

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R06-OAR-2022-0927; FRL-10657-03-R6]

Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date but for International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico; Extension of Comment Period

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

SUMMARY:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed rule “Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date But For International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico” that was published on March 7, 2023. The proposal provided for a public comment period ending April 6, 2023. The EPA received a request from the public to extend this comment period. The EPA is extending the comment period to May 8, 2023.

DATES:

The comment period for the proposed rule published March 7, 2023 (88 FR 14095), is extended. Written comments must be received on or before May 8, 2023.

ADDRESSES:

Submit your comments, identified by Docket No. EPA-R06-OAR-2022-0927, at

https://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from

Regulations.gov

. 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

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

Docket:

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

www.regulations.gov.

While all documents in the docket are listed in the index, some information may not be publicly available due to docket file size restrictions or content (

e.g.,

CBI).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sherry Fuerst, EPA Region 6 Office, (AR-SI), 214-665-6454,

fuerst.sherry@epa.gov.

We encourage the public to submit comments via

https://www.regulations.gov.

Please call or email the contact listed above if you need alternative access to material indexed but not provided in the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Throughout this document wherever “we,” “us,” or “our” is used, we mean the EPA.

On March 7, 2023, we published in the

Federal Register

“Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date But For International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico”, where we proposed to determine that the El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico nonattainment area would have attained the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) by the August 3, 2021 “Marginal” Area attainment date, but for emissions emanating from outside the United States (88 FR 14095). We received a request for an extension of the comment period and, in response, have decided to allow an additional 30 days for the public to comment. The comment period will now close on May 8, 2023. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit comments on the proposed action listed above.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Pollution, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

Authority:

42 U.S.C. 7401

et seq.

Dated: March 29, 2023.

David Garcia,

Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6.

[FR Doc. 2023-06892 Filed 4-3-23; 8:45 am]

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