63156 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 178 / Wednesday, September 14, 2016 / Proposed Rules 

October 14, 2016. The Department 

believes that this additional 30 days will 

provide the public with a sufficient 

opportunity to provide comments on 

this NPRM. Given the importance of 

ensuring that its regulations conform to 

section 274B of the INA, the Department 

seeks to continue moving this 

rulemaking forward. Comments on the 

NPRM should be provided by October 

14, 2016, via the methods described 

above. 

Dated: September 7, 2016. 

Vanita Gupta, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General. 

[FR Doc. 2016–21937 Filed 9–13–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–13–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R01–OAR–2016–0441; A–1–FRL– 

9952–10–Region I] 

Air Plan Approval; VT; Prevention of 

Significant Deterioration, PM2.5

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the State of 

Vermont. The revision sets the amount 

of PM2.5 increment sources are 

permitted to consume when obtaining a 

prevention of significant deterioration 

(PSD) preconstruction permit and 

requires PM2.5 emission offsets under 

certain circumstances. This action is 

being taken in accordance with the 

Clean Air Act. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before October 14, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

OAR–2016–0441 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

mcdonnell.ida@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of 

submission, 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 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ida 

E. McDonnell, Manager, Air Permits, 

Toxics, and Indoor Programs Unit, 

Office of Ecosystem Protection, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 

New England Regional Office, 5 Post 

Office Square, Suite 100, (OEP05–2), 

Boston, MA 02109–3912, phone number 

(617) 918–1653, fax number (617) 918– 

0653, email McDonnell.Ida@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

Final Rules Section of this Federal 

Register, EPA is approving the State’s 

SIP submittal as a direct final rule 

without prior proposal because the 

Agency views this as a noncontroversial 

submittal and anticipates no adverse 

comments. A detailed rationale for the 

approval is set forth in the direct final 

rule. If no adverse comments are 

received in response to this action rule, 

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 this proposed rule. EPA will 

not institute a second comment period. 

Any parties interested in commenting 

on this action should do so at this time. 

Please note that if EPA receives adverse 

comment on an amendment, paragraph, 

or section of this rule and if that 

provision may be severed from the 

remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt 

as final those provisions of the rule that 

are not the subject of an adverse 

comment. 

For additional information, see the 

direct final rule which is located in the 

Rules Section of this Federal Register. 

Dated: August 8, 2016. 

H. Curtis Spalding, 

Regional Administrator, EPA New England. 

[FR Doc. 2016–21880 Filed 9–13–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 97 

[FRL–9952–26–OAR] 

Allocations of Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule Allowances From New 

Unit Set-Asides for 2016 Control 

Periods 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of data availability 

(NODA). 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the 

availability of preliminary lists of units 

eligible for allocations of emission 

allowances under the Cross-State Air 

Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Under the 

CSAPR federal implementation plans 

(FIPs), portions of each covered state’s 

annual emissions budgets for each of the 

four CSAPR emissions trading programs 

are reserved for allocation to electricity 

generating units that commenced 

commercial operation on or after 

January 1, 2010 (new units) and certain 

other units not otherwise obtaining 

allowance allocations under the FIPs. 

The quantities of allowances allocated 

to eligible units from each new unit setaside (NUSA) under the FIPs are 

calculated in an annual one- or tworound allocation process. EPA 

previously completed the first round of 

NUSA allowance allocations for the 

2016 control periods for all four CSAPR 

trading programs and is now making 

available preliminary lists of units 

eligible for allocations in the second 

round of the NUSA allocation process 

for the CSAPR NOX Ozone Season 

Trading Program. EPA has posted a 

spreadsheet containing the preliminary 

lists on EPA’s Web site. EPA will 

consider timely objections to the lists of 

eligible units contained in the 

spreadsheet and will promulgate a 

notice responding to any such 

objections no later than November 15, 

2016, the deadline for recording the 

second-round allocations of CSAPR 

NOX Ozone Season allowances in 

sources’ Allowance Management 

System accounts. This notice may 

concern CSAPR-affected units in the 

following states: Alabama, Arkansas, 

Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, 

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, 

Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New 

Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 

Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South 

Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, 

West Virginia, and Wisconsin. 


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