EPA Regional Administrator, Jared Blumenfeld, signed the following proposed

rule on January 30, 2014, and EPA is submitting it for publication in the 

Federal Register (FR). While we have taken steps to ensure the accuracy of 

this Internet version of the proposed rule, it is not the official version. 

Please refer to the official version in a forthcoming FR publication 

appearing on the Government Printing Office’s FDsys website, 

http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action and on Regulation.gov in Docket 

Number EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0599, http://www.regulations.gov.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0599; FRL-]

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California;

San Francisco Bay Area and Chico Nonattainment Areas; Fine 

Particulate Matter Emission Inventories

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the California 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning emission inventories

for the 2006 24-hour fine particle National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard (NAAQS) for the San Francisco Bay Area and Chico PM2.5 

nonattainment areas. We are approving these emissions

inventories under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).

DATE: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by [Insert date 

30 days from date of publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPAR09-OAR-2013-0599, by one of the following methods:
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1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the on-line instructions.

2. E-mail: 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 e-mail. 

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 e-mail 

directly to EPA, your e-mail 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 
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Administrator Jared Blumenfeld on January 30, 2014. We have taken steps to 

ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is not the official version.

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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: Nancy Levin, EPA Region IX, 

(415) 972-3848, levin.nancy@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the submitted 

PM2.5 emission inventories for the San Francisco Bay Area and 

Chico nonattainment areas. In the Rules and Regulations section 

of this Federal Register, we are approving submitted emission 

inventories 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 
This document is a prepublication version signed by EPA Regional 

Administrator Jared Blumenfeld on January 30, 2014. We have taken steps to 

ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is not the official version.

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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.

________________ ______________________

Date Jared Blumenfeld,

Regional Administrator,

Region IX.