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Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision; San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District; South Coast Air Quality Management District

Federal Register · Rule · Feb 1, 1996

The intended effect of approving these rules is to regulate VOC emissions in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). … Air Act.

Air Plan Approval; North Carolina: Permits Requiring Public Participation

Federal Register · Rule · Mar 1, 2021

EPA is approving this revision pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act). DATES: This rule is effective March 31, 2021. … Signing Statement This document of the Environmental Protection Agency was signed on December 14, 2020, by Mary Walker, Regional Administrator, pursuant to the Statutory Deadline of the Clean Air Act

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California San Francisco Bay Area and Chico Nonattainment Areas; Fine Particulate Matter Emissions Inventories

Federal Register · Rule · Mar 14, 2014

We are approving these emissions inventories under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). … Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve State choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act.

Air Plan Limited Approval and Limited Disapproval; California; South Coast Air Quality Management District; Refinery Flares

Federal Register · Rule · Sep 22, 2022

Under the authority of the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), this action simultaneously approves a local rule that regulates these emission sources and directs California to correct rule deficiencies. … Public Comments and EPA Responses The EPA's proposed action provided a 30-day public comment period. During this period, we received no comments. III. EPA Action No comments were submitted.

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; Reorganization of and Revisions to Administrative and General Conformity Provisions; Documents Incorporated by Reference; Recodification of Existing SIP Provisions

Federal Register · Rule · Jan 7, 2003

Clean Air Act, Locality, Virginia Air Pollution Control Law, and Virginia Motor Vehicle Emissions Control Law. … requirements of the Clean Air Act and 40 CFR part 51.

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans and Designations of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee: Chattanooga; Determination of Attaining Data for the 1997 Annual Fine Particulate Standard

Federal Register · Rule · May 31, 2011

The comment period closed on April 21, 2011. No comments were received in response to the NPR. II. What is the effect of this action? … Finalizing this action does not constitute a redesignation of the Chattanooga Area to attainment for the 1997 annual PM 2.5 NAAQS under section 107(d)(3) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Rulemaking To Reaffirm the Promulgation of Revisions of the Acid Rain Program Rules

Federal Register · Rule · Mar 26, 2009

Alpern, Clean Air Markets Division, U.S. … Elizabeth Craig, Acting Assistant Administrator.

Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Arizona; Nonattainment Plan for the Hayden SO2 Nonattainment Area

Federal Register · Rule · Nov 10, 2020

This SIP revision (hereinafter called the “Hayden SO 2 Plan” or “Plan”) includes Arizona's attainment demonstration and other elements required under the Clean Air Act (CAA or “Act”). … Soon after Congress enacted the 1990 Amendments to the CAA, the EPA issued comprehensive guidance on SIP revisions in the “General Preamble for the Implementation of Title I of the Clean Air Act Amendments

Air Plan Approval; California; San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District; Ventura County Air Pollution Control District; South Coast Air Quality Management District; Oil and Gas Production; Volatile Organic Compounds

Federal Register · Rule · May 29, 2026

We are approving local rules that regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or “Act”). DATES: This rule is effective June 29, 2026. … Public Comments and EPA Responses The EPA's proposed action provided a 30-day public comment period. During the comment period we received two comment letters.

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revisions for Six California Air Pollution Control Districts

Federal Register · Rule · Aug 19, 1999

The intended effect of this action is to regulate emissions of PM in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA). … All public comments received will then be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed rule. The EPA will not institute a second comment period on this rule.

Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Adjustment to the Hydrofluorocarbon Production Baseline

Federal Register · Rule · Jul 12, 2023

provides that the Clean Air Act's § 307 “shall apply to” actions under the AIM Act “as though [Section 7675] were expressly included in title VI” of the Clean Air Act. 42 U.S.C. 7675(k)(1)(C). … Clean Air Act Section 307(d) applies to “promulgation or revision of regulations under subchapter VI of [the CAA].” 307(d)(1)(I).

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; New York Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality and Nonattainment New Source Review; Infrastructure State Implementation Plan Requirements

Federal Register · Rule · Dec 27, 2016

What are EPA's responses to comments to EPA's proposal? In response to EPA's September 15, 2016 (81 FR 63448) proposed approval, the EPA received no comments during the public comment period. IV. … Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act.

Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval of Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Arizona; Infrastructure Requirements To Address Interstate Transport for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS

Federal Register · Rule · May 19, 2016

Air Act (CAA or Act) section 110(a)(2)(D)(i) with respect to the 2008 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). … Public Comments EPA received no comments on the proposed action during the public comment period. III.

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans and Designations of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Alabama: Birmingham; Determination of Attaining Data for the 1997 Annual Fine Particulate Standard

Federal Register · Rule · Jun 29, 2011

The comment period closed on May 12, 2011. No comments were received in response to the NPR. II. What is the effect of this action? … Finalizing this action does not constitute a redesignation of the Birmingham Area to attainment for the 1997 annual PM 2.5 NAAQS under section 107(d)(3) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

Air Plan Approval; Minnesota; Revision to Visibility Federal Implementation Plan

Federal Register · Rule · Mar 7, 2016

Section 169A of the Clean Air Act provides for a visibility protection program and sets forth as a national goal “the prevention of any future, and the remedying of any existing, impairment of visibility … Judicial Review Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by May 6, 2016

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; North Dakota; Regional Haze State Implementation Plan; Federal Implementation Plan for Interstate Transport of Pollution Affecting Visibility and Regional Haze

Federal Register · Rule · Apr 6, 2012

Clean Air Act, unless the context indicates otherwise … Terms not defined below shall have the meaning given them in the Clean Air Act or EPA's regulations implementing the Clean Air Act.

CERCLA/EPCRA Administrative Reporting Exemption for Air Releases of Hazardous Substances From Animal Waste at Farms

Federal Register · Rule · Dec 18, 2008

Furthermore, the Agency does not need to receive such notifications in order to enforce applicable Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Resource Conservation and Recover Act (RCRA), and/or other … For example, commenters expressed general opposition to removing air quality and clean air standards; removing clean air protections; reducing pollution or emission standards; exemptions to clean air standards

Findings of Failure To Attain the 1997 PM2.5 Standards; California; San Joaquin Valley

Federal Register · Rule · Nov 23, 2016

Public Comments and Responses Our October 6, 2016 proposed rule provided for a 30-day comment period. During this period, we received no comments. III. … Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by January 23, 2017.

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Florida: Citrus Juice Processing

Federal Register · Rule · Feb 4, 2005

Today's Action Today's action is a conditional approval under section 110(k)(4) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). … No comments were received by EPA during the 30 day public comment period.

Air Plan Approval; California; Ventura County Air Pollution Control District

Federal Register · Rule · Aug 15, 2024

We are approving a local rule to regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or “the Act”). DATES: This rule is effective September 16, 2024. … Public Comments and EPA Responses The EPA's proposed action provided a 30-day public comment period. During this period, we received one comment.