Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision; Kern County Air Pollution Control District; and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[CA71-168b; FRL-6452-4]

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California

State Implementation Plan Revision; Kern County Air Pollution Control

District; and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District

ACTION: Proposed rule.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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SUMMARY: EPA is approving revisions to the California State

Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern the recission and removal of a

obsolete rule and the addition of rules to control oxides of nitrogen

(NOX) emissions from natural gas-fired residential water

heaters.

The intended effect of this action is the recission and removel of

an obsolete rule and to regulate emissions of nitrogen oxides in

accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act, as amended in

1990 (CAA or the Act). In the Final Rules Section of this Federal

Register, the EPA is approving the state's SIP submittal as a direct

final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views these as

noncontroversial revisions and anticipates no adverse comments. A

detailed rationale for this approval is set forth in the direct final

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rule. If no adverse comments are received, no further activity is

contemplated. If EPA receives adverse comments, the direct final rule

will be withdrawn and all public comments received will be addressed in

a subsequent final rule based on these proposed rules. The EPA will not

institute a second comment period. Any parties interested in commenting

should do so at this time.

DATES: Written comments must be received by November 29, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to: Andy Steckel, Rulemaking

Office (AIR-4), Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.

Copies of the rule revisions and EPA's evaluation report of each

rule are available for public inspection at EPA's Region 9 office

during normal business hours. Copies of the submitted rule revisions

are also available for inspection at the following locations:

Rulemaking Office, AIR-4, Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.

Environmental Protection Agency, Air Docket (6102) 401 ``M'' Street,

SW, Washington, DC 20460.

California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule

Evaluation Section, 2020 ``L'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95812.

Kern County Air Pollution Control District 2700 ``M'' Street, Suite

302, Bakersfield, CA 93301-2370.

Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District 1947 Galileo Court, Suite

103 Davis, CA 95616-4882.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sam Agpawa, Air planning Office [Air-

2], Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901, Telephone: (415) 744-

1228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document concerns (1); Kern County Air

Pollution Control District, Rule 424, Natural Gas-Fired Residential

Water Heaters and (2)Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, Rule

2.37, Natural Gas-Fired Residential Water Heaters. The rules were

submitted to EPA on November 18, 1993; and February 24 1995

respectively by the California Air Resources Board. For further

information, please see the information provided in the direct final

action that is located in the rules section of this Federal Register.

Dated: September 14, 1999.

Keith Takata,

Acting, Regional Administrator, Region IX.

[FR Doc. 99-27200 Filed 10-27-99; 8:45 am]

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