77972 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 249 / Wednesday, December 29, 2004 / Proposed Rules 

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.

Dated: December 14, 2004. 

Donald S. Welsh, 

Regional Administrator, Region III.

[FR Doc. 04–28356 Filed 12–28–04; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[R03–OAR–2004–VA–0004; FRL–7853–2] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; 

Excess Volatile Organic Compound 

and Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Fee 

Rule

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve the 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the 

Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia) for 

the purpose of establishing a fee on 

major VOC (volatile organic compound) 

and NOX (nitrogen oxides) sources in 

the Virginia portion of the Metropolitan 

Washington D.C. Severe Ozone 

Nonattainment Area. 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, 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will be withdrawn and all public 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.

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing by January 28, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Regional Material in 

EDocket (RME) ID Number R03–OAR–

2004–VA–0004 by one of the following 

methods: 

A. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:/

/www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

B. Agency Web site: http://

www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/ RME, 

EPA’s electronic public docket and 

comment system, is EPA’s preferred 

method for receiving comments. Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

C. E-mail: morris.makeba@epa.gov.

D. Mail: R03–OAR–2004–VA–0004, 

Makeba Morris, Chief, Air Quality 

Planning Branch, Mailcode 3AP21, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 

E. Hand Delivery: At the previouslylisted EPA Region III address. Such 

deliveries are only accepted during the 

Docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

RME ID No. R03–OAR–2004–VA–0004. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change, and may be 

made available online at http://

www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/,

including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through RME, 

regulations.gov or e-mail. The EPA RME 

and the Federal regulations.gov websites 

are an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an e-mail 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through RME or regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. 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 special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the 

electronic docket are listed in the RME 

index at http://www.docket.epa.gov/

rmepub/. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, i.e., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, is not placed on 

the Internet and will be publicly 

available only in hard copy form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically in RME or 

in hard copy during normal business 

hours at the Air Protection Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 

Copies of the State submittal are 

available at the Virginia Department of 

Environmental Quality, 629 East Main 

Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Catherine L. Magliocchetti, (215) 814–

2174, or by e-mail at 

magliocchetti.catherine@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

further information, please see the 

information provided in the direct final 

action, entitled, ‘‘Approval and 

Promulgation of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; Virginia; Excess 

Volatile Organic Compound and 

Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Fee Rule,’’

that is located in the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register publication.

Dated: December 14, 2004. 

Donald S. Welsh, 

Regional Administrator, Region III.

[FR Doc. 04–28358 Filed 12–28–04; 8:45 am] 

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40 CFR Part 136 

[Docket Number OW–2004–0041; FRL–

7855–9] 

Stakeholder Process for Detection and 

Quantitation Procedures; Notice of 

Public Meeting and Request for 

Nominations to a Federal Advisory 

Committee on Detection and 

Quantitation Procedures and Uses in 

Clean Water Act (CWA) Programs

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: There will be a half-day 

public meeting on January 26, 2005, to 

present the findings and 

recommendations in the Situation 

Assessment Report on Detection and 

Quantitation Approaches and Uses in 

Clean Water Act (CWA) Programs 

(Situation Assessment Report). In 

addition, USEPA invites nominations of 

qualified candidates to be considered 

for appointment to the Federal Advisory 

Committee on Detection and 

Quantitation Approaches and Uses in