[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 11, 2009)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 40123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19189]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2008-0693, EPA-R09-OAR-2009-0492, EPA-R09-OAR-2009-0344; 
FRL-8943-6]


Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, California 
Air Resources Board and San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control 
District; Extensions of Comment Periods

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; extensions of comment periods.

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SUMMARY: The EPA is announcing extensions of the comment periods until 
August 31, 2009 for three actions proposed on July 10 and July 14, 
2009. These proposed actions concern approval of California's 
Reformulated Gasoline and Diesel Fuels programs (74 FR 33196 (July 10, 
2009), correction 74 FR 35838 (July 21, 2009)); limited approval and 
limited disapproval of San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control 
District's (SJVAPCD) Rule 4570 ``Confined Animal Facilities'' (74 FR 
33948 (July 14, 2009); and partial approval and partial disapproval of 
the 1-Hour Ozone Extreme Area Plan for the San Joaquin Valley (74 FR 
33933 (July 14, 2009).

DATES: Comments must be received on these proposals by August 31, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, separately for each proposed action and 
identified by the correct docket number, by one of the following 
methods:
    1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 
the on-line instructions.through
    2. E-mail: See below under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section.
    3. Mail or deliver: Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901. 
Please mark your comments to the attention of the appropriate contact 
listed below under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
    Instructions: All comments 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 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 http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http://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.
    Docket: The index to the dockets for these actions are available 
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA 
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all 
documents in these dockets 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 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:
    For the California fuels programs: Jeffrey Buss, AIR-2, EPA Region 
IX, (415) 415-947-4152, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#54362127277a3e31323226312d143124357a333b22"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="acced9dfdf82c6c9cacadec9d5ecc9dccd82cbc3da">[email protected]</span></a>.
    For SJVAPCD's Rule 4570: Andrew Steckel, AIR-4, EPA Region IX, 415-
947-4115, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ef9c9b8a8c848a83c18e818b9d8a98af8a9f8ec1888099"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="80f3f4e5e3ebe5ecaee1eee4f2e5f7c0e5f0e1aee7eff6">[email protected]</span></a>.
    For the SJV 1-hour ozone plan: Frances Wicher, AIR-2, EPA Region 
IX, (415) 972-3957, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#33445a505b56411d5541525d505640735643521d545c45"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3c4b555f54594e125a4e5d525f594f7c594c5d125b534a">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 10 and 14, EPA proposed the 
following revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP).

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                                                      Proposed action,
            Agency               Rule, regulation  Federal Register cite
                                     or plan         and docket number
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Air Resources Board...........  Reformulated       Approval; 74 FR 33196
                                 Gasoline and       (July 10, 2009),
                                 Diesel Fuels.      correction 74 FR
                                                    35838 (July 21,
                                                    2009); EPA-R09-OAR-
                                                    2009-0344.
SJVAPCD.......................  4570--Confined     Limited Approval/
                                 Animal             Disapproval; 74 FR
                                 Facilities.        33948 (July 14,
                                                    2009); EPA-R09-OAR-
                                                    2009-0492.
SJVAPCD.......................  1-Hour Ozone       Partial Approval/
                                 Extreme Area       Disapproval; 74 FR
                                 Plan.              33933 (July 14,
                                                    2009); EPA-R09-OAR-
                                                    2008-0693.
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    The proposed actions each provided a 30-day public comment period. 
In response to a request submitted by e-mail on July 10, 2009, from 
Brent Newell, Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment on behalf 
of the Association of Irritated Residents and the Natural Resources 
Defense Council, EPA is extending the comment periods on all three 
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proposals until August 31, 2009.

    Dated: July 29, 2009.
Laura Yoshii,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E9-19189 Filed 8-10-09; 8:45 am]
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