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including any personal information 

provided. For additional instructions for 

participation in Public Hearings on this 

rulemaking, see the ‘‘Public Hearings’’ 

heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read comments received, go to http://

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www.msha.gov/currentcomments.asp. 

To read background documents, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Review the 

docket in person at MSHA, Office of 

Standards, Regulations, and Variances, 

1100 Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350, 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sheila McConnell, Acting Director, 

Office of Standards, Regulations, and 

Variances, MSHA, at 

mcconnell.sheila.a@dol.gov (email); 

202–693–9440 (voice); or 202–693–9441 

(facsimile). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On July 31, 2014, MSHA published a 

proposed rule (79 FR 44494) to amend 

its civil penalty regulation to simplify 

the criteria, which will promote 

consistency, objectivity, and efficiency 

in the proposed assessment of civil 

penalties and facilitate the resolution of 

enforcement issues. The proposal would 

place a greater emphasis on the more 

serious safety and health conditions and 

provide improved safety and health for 

miners. MSHA is also proposing 

alternatives that would address the 

scope and applicability of its civil 

penalty regulation. 

In response to requests from the 

public, MSHA held public hearings on 

December 4, 2014, in Arlington, 

Virginia, and on December 9, 2014, in 

Denver, Colorado. The post-hearing 

comment period was scheduled to close 

on January 9, 2015. 

II. Public Hearings 

In response to requests from the 

public, MSHA will hold two additional 

public hearings on the proposed rule to 

provide the public an opportunity to 

present their views on this rulemaking. 

MSHA is holding the hearings on the 

following dates at the locations 

indicated: 

Date Location Contact No. 

Thursday, February 5, 2015 .................... Sheraton Birmingham Hotel, 2101 Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North, Birmingham, AL 35203.205–324–5000 

Thursday, February 12, 2015 .................. Embassy Suites Chicago—Downtown, 600 N. State Street, Chicago, IL 60654 ..... 312–943–3800 

The hearings will begin with an 

opening statement from MSHA, 

followed by oral presentations from 

members of the public. The public 

hearings will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end 

no later than 5:00 p.m., or earlier if the 

last person presenting testimony has 

spoken. 

Persons and organizations wishing to 

speak are encouraged to notify MSHA in 

advance for scheduling purposes. 

Persons do not have to make a written 

request to speak; however, MSHA will 

give priority to persons who have 

notified us, in advance, of their intent 

to speak and will provide others an 

opportunity to present oral testimony if 

time allows. MSHA requests that parties 

making presentations at the hearings 

submit them no later than five days 

prior to the hearing. Testimony, 

presentations, and accompanying 

documentation will be included in the 

rulemaking record. 

The hearings will be conducted in an 

informal manner. Formal rules of 

evidence and cross examination will not 

apply. The hearing panel may ask 

questions of speakers and speakers may 

ask questions of the hearing panel. 

Verbatim transcripts of the proceedings 

will be prepared and made a part of the 

rulemaking record. Copies of the 

transcripts will be available to the 

public on http://www.regulations.gov 

and on MSHA’s Web site at http://

www.msha.gov/tscripts.htm. 

Commenters are requested to be 

specific in their comments and submit 

detailed rationale and supporting 

documentation for any comment or 

suggested alternative as MSHA cannot 

sufficiently evaluate general comments. 

All comments must be received or 

postmarked by March 12, 2015. 

Dated: December 23, 2014. 

Joseph A. Main, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety 

and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30578 Filed 12–30–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 50, 51, 52, 53, and 58 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2008–0699; FRL–9921–26– 

OAR] 

RIN 2060–AP38 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Ozone 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Announcement of public 

hearings. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing three 

public hearings for the proposed rule 

titled, ‘‘National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards for Ozone,’’ that was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 17, 2014. The hearings will be 

held in Washington, DC, Arlington, 

Texas, and Sacramento, California. 

Based on its review of the air quality 

criteria for ozone (O3) and related 

photochemical oxidants and national 

ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) 

for O3, the EPA proposes to make 

revisions to the primary and secondary 

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protection of public health and welfare, 

respectively. The EPA is proposing to 

revise the primary standard to a level 

within the range of 0.065 to 0.070 parts 

per million (ppm), and to revise the 

secondary standard to within the range 

of 0.065 to 0.070 ppm, which air quality 

analyses indicate would provide air 

quality, in terms of 3-year average W126 

index values, at or below a range of 13– 

17 ppm-hours. The EPA proposes to 

make corresponding revisions in data 

handling conventions for O3 and 

conforming changes to the Air Quality 

Index; to revise regulations for the 

Prevention of Significant Deterioration 

program to add a transition provision 

for certain applications; and to propose 

schedules and convey information 

related to implementing any revised 

standards. The EPA is proposing 

changes to the O3 monitoring seasons, 

the Federal Reference Method (FRM) for 

monitoring O3 in the ambient air, 

Federal Equivalent Method procedures 

for testing, and the Photochemical 

Assessment Monitoring Stations 

network. 

Along with proposing exceptional 

event schedules related to implementing 

any revised O3 standards, the EPA is 

proposing to apply this same schedule 

approach to other future revised 

NAAQS and to remove obsolete 

regulatory language for expired 

exceptional event deadlines. The EPA is 

proposing to make minor changes to the 

procedures and time periods for 

evaluating potential FRMs and 

equivalent methods (including making 

the requirements for nitrogen dioxide 

consistent with the requirements for O3) 

and to remove an obsolete requirement 

for the annual submission of 

documentation by manufacturers of 

certain particulate matter monitors. 

DATES: The public hearings will be held 

on January 29, 2015, in Washington, DC 

and Arlington, Texas, and on February 

2, 2015, in Sacramento, California. 

Please refer to SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for additional information 

on the public hearings. 

ADDRESSES: The hearings will be held at 

the following locations: 

1. Washington: EPA, WJC East 

Building, Room 1153, 1201 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC. 

Identification is required. If your 

driver’s license is issued by Alaska, 

American Samoa, Arizona, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, 

Minnesota, Montana, New York, 

Oklahoma, or the state of Washington, 

you must present an additional form of 

identification to enter (see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

additional information on this location). 

2. Sacramento: California Air 

Resources Board, Byron-Sher 

Auditorium, 1001 ‘‘I’’ Street, 

Sacramento, CA 95814. Commenters 

will be required to sign in and show 

valid picture identification to security 

staff upon entering. 

3. Arlington: Arlington City Hall, 

Arlington Municipal Building, 101 W. 

Abram Street, Arlington, Texas 76010. 

Written comments on the proposed 

rule may also be submitted to the EPA 

electronically, by mail, by facsimile, or 

through hand delivery/courier. Please 

refer to the proposed rule for the 

addresses and detailed instructions. 

A complete set of documents related 

to the proposed rule is available for 

public inspection at the EPA Docket 

Center, located at Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2008–0699, EPA, WJC West 

Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC. The 

Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. A 

reasonable fee may be charged for 

copying. Documents are also available 

through the electronic docket system at 

www.regulations.gov. 

The EPA Web site for the rulemaking, 

which includes the proposal and 

information about the public hearings, 

can be found at http://www.epa.gov/glo/ 

actions.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you would like to speak at the public 

hearings or have questions concerning 

the public hearings, please contact Ms. 

Eloise Shepherd, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Health and 

Environmental Impacts Division, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 

telephone: (919) 541–5507; fax number: 

(919) 541–0804; email address: 

shepherd.eloise@epa.gov. 

Questions concerning the proposed 

rule should be addressed to Ms. Susan 

Stone, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards, Health and 

Environmental Impacts Division, Mail 

Code: C504–06, Research Triangle Park, 

NC 27711; telephone: (919) 541–1146; 

email address: stone.susan@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed rule for which the EPA is 

holding the public hearings was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 17, 2014 (79 FR 75234), and 

is available at www.epa.gov/glo/

actions.html. The public hearings will 

provide interested parties the 

opportunity to present data, views, or 

arguments concerning the proposed 

rule. The EPA may ask clarifying 

questions during the oral presentations, 

but will not respond to the 

presentations at that time. Written 

statements and supporting information 

submitted during the comment period 

will be considered with the same weight 

as any oral comments and supporting 

information presented at the public 

hearings. Written comments must be 

postmarked by the last day of the 

comment period, March 17, 2015, as 

specified in the proposed rule. 

The three public hearings will be held 

in Washington, DC; Arlington, Texas; 

and Sacramento, California. The public 

hearings will begin each day at 9:00 a.m. 

(local time) and continue until 7:30 p.m. 

(local time). The EPA will make every 

effort to accommodate all speakers that 

arrive and register before 7:30 p.m. The 

EPA is scheduling lunch breaks from 

12:30 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. Please note 

that the Washington, D.C. hearing is 

being held at a U.S. government facility. 

Individuals planning to attend the 

Washington, D.C. hearing should be 

prepared to show valid picture 

identification to the security staff in 

order to gain access to the building. The 

REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 

2005, established new requirements for 

entering federal facilities. These 

requirements took effect July 21, 2014. 

If your driver’s license is issued by 

Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, 

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, 

Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, 

New York, Oklahoma, or the state of 

Washington, you must present an 

additional form of identification to enter 

the federal building in Washington, DC 

where the public hearing will be held. 

Acceptable alternative forms of 

identification include federal employee 

badges, passports, enhanced driver’s 

licenses, and military identification 

cards. In addition, you will need to 

obtain a property pass for any personal 

belongings you bring with you. Upon 

leaving the building, you will be 

required to return this property pass to 

the security desk. No large signs will be 

allowed in the building, cameras may 

only be used outside of the building and 

demonstrations will not be allowed on 

federal property for security reasons. 

Individuals planning to attend the 

public hearing in Sacramento, California 

will also be required to sign in and 

show valid picture identification to 

security staff in order to gain access to 

the building. 

If you would like to present oral 

testimony at the hearings, please notify 

Ms. Eloise Shepherd, U.S. EPA, Office 

of Air Quality Planning and Standards, 

Mail Code: C504–02, 109 T.W. 

Alexander Drive, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone: (919) 541– 

5507; fax: (919) 541–0804; email 

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(preferred method for registering). Ms. 

Shepherd will arrange a general time 

slot for you to speak. The EPA will 

make every effort to follow the schedule 

as closely as possible on the day of the 

hearings. 

Oral testimony will be limited to 5 

minutes for each commenter to address 

the proposed revisions. The EPA will 

not provide audiovisual equipment for 

presentations unless we receive special 

requests in advance. Commenters 

should notify Ms. Shepherd if they will 

need specific equipment. Commenters 

should notify Ms. Shepherd if they need 

specific translation services for nonEnglish speaking commenters. The EPA 

encourages commenters to provide 

written versions of their oral testimonies 

either electronically on computer disk 

or CD–ROM or in paper copy. 

The hearing schedules, including lists 

of speakers, will be posted at 

www.epa.gov/glo/actions.html prior to 

the hearings. Verbatim transcripts of the 

hearings and written statements will be 

included in the rulemaking docket. 

How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

The EPA has established the official 

public docket for the proposed rule 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2008–0699. The EPA has also developed 

a Web site for the proposed rule at 

www.epa.gov/glo/actions.html. Please 

refer to the proposed rule (79 FR 75234, 

December 17, 2014) for detailed 

information on accessing information 

related to the proposed rule. 

Dated: December 23, 2014. 

Mary E Henigin, 

Acting Director, Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R06–OAR–2013–0542; FRL–9921–09– 

Region 6] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Implementation Plans; Texas; 

Revisions to the New Source Review 

State Implementation Plan; Flexible 

Permit Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Texas New Source 

Review (NSR) State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) submitted by the Texas 

Commission on Environmental Quality 

(TCEQ) on July 31, 2014. These 

revisions support this action to convert 

the approved conditional Flexible 

Permit Program (FPP) to a fully 

approved FPP. The EPA is proposing to 

find the TCEQ has satisfied all the 

elements of our July 14, 2014, final 

conditional approval, and as such, the 

FPP conditional approval is proposed 

for full approval with this action. Those 

commitments consisted of revising the 

rules to ensure they are properly 

structured. The EPA has determined 

that these SIP revisions comply with the 

Federal Clean Air Act (the Act or CAA) 

and are consistent with the EPA’s 

regulations and policies. This action is 

being taken under section 110(k) of the 

Act. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before January 30, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R06– 

OAR–2013–0542, by one of the 

following methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Ms. Stephanie Kordzi at 

kordzi.stephanie@epa.gov. 

• Mail or Delivery: Ms. Stephanie 

Kordzi, Air Permits Section (6PD–R), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 

Ross Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas 

75202–2733. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R06–OAR–2013– 

0542. The 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.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

the disclosure of which is restricted by 

statute. Do not submit information 

through http://www.regulations.gov or 

email, if you believe that it is CBI or 

otherwise protected from disclosure. 

The http://www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means that the EPA will not 

know your identity or contact 

information unless you provide it in the 

body of your comment. If you send an 

email comment directly to the EPA 

without going through http://

www.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, the EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment along with 

any disk or CD–ROM submitted. If the 

EPA cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, the EPA may not 

be able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters and any form of 

encryption and should be free of any 

defects or viruses. For additional 

information about the EPA’s public 

docket, visit the EPA Docket Center 

homepage at http://www.epa.gov/

epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: The index to the docket for 

this action is available electronically at 

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at the EPA Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, 

Suite 700, Dallas, Texas. While all 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the index, some information may be 

publicly available only at the hard copy 

location (e.g., copyrighted material), and 

some may not be publicly available at 

either location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the 

hard copy materials, please schedule an 

appointment with the person listed in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

paragraph below or Mr. Bill Deese at 

214–665–7253. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Stephanie Kordzi (6PD–R), Air Permits 

Section, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue 

(6PD–R), Suite 1200, Dallas, TX 75202– 

2733. Telephone (214) 665–7520, email 

at kordzi.stephanie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document whenever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Background 

II. What action is the EPA taking? 

III. What did Texas submit? 

IV. What is the EPA’s evaluation of this SIP 

revision? 

V. What is the EPA’s evaluation of the 

TCEQ’s response to the FPP conditional 

approval? 

A. What is a conditional approval? 

B. What are the terms of the FPP 

conditional approval? 

C. Were the terms of the FPP conditional 

approval met? 

VI. Proposed Action 

VII. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Background 

On July 14, 2014, the EPA took final 

rulemaking action conditionally 

approving revisions to the Texas NSR 

SIP to establish the Texas Minor NSR 

Flexible Permits Program, submitted by 

the (TCEQ). The EPA’s proposed 

conditional approval was published in 

79 FR 8368, February 12, 2014. The 


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