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_20150716 **6560 -**  **50 -**  **P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY**  **[ EPA** **- HQ**  **- OAR** **- 2015**  **- 0216**  **; FRL -** **xxxx -** **x] RIN 2060**  **- ZA33**  **Release of Draft Control**  **Techniques Guidelines for the Oil and Natural Gas Source Category**  **AGENCY:** Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . **ACTION:** Notice of availability for comment . **SUMMARY:** The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) is announcing the availability of a draft Control Techniques Guidelines (CTG ) document for select O il and Natural Gas source category emission sources . This document , when finalized, will provide state , local and tribal air agencies information to assist them in determining reasonably available control technology ( RACT ) for volatile organic compound ( VOC ) emissions from such sources. **DATES:** Comments must be received on or before **[ insert date**  **6 0**  **days after publication in the Federal Register**  **]** . **ADDRESSES:** The draft Control Techniques Guidelines for the Oil and Natural Gas Source Category is available primarily via the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/airquality/oilandgas/index.html . Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA- HQ - OAR20 15 - 0216 , by one of the following methods:

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 Mail: Attention Docket ID No. EPA- HQ - OAR- 20 15 - 0216 , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460.

 Hand/Courier Delivery: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, EPA WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004, Attention Docket ID No. EPA- HQ - OAR- 20 15 - 0216 . 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 Docket ID No. EPA- HQ OAR- 20 15 - 0216 . 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.re gulations.gov , 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 con sider to be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or email. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an "anonymous access" system, which means the EPA will not know your identity***E.O. 12866 Review

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– Do Not Cite, Quote or Release During Review*** Page 3 of 9 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 ava ilable 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 and with any CD you submit. If the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulti es 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, avoid any form of encryption and 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 . For additional instructions on submitting comments, go to section I. A of the **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION** section of this document. Docket . All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g. , CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, su ch as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically at***E.O. 12866 Review

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– Do Not Cite, Quote or Release During Review*** Page 4 of 9 http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center, EPA WJC West Building , Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., 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. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566 - 1744, a nd the telephone number for the Air Docket is (202) 566 - 1742. **FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:** Ms . Charlene Spells , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Division ( E143 - 05 ), Resear ch Triangle Park, NC 27711, telephone number (919) 541 - 5255 , email at spells.charlene @epa.gov . **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I.**  **General Information** A . What should I consider as I prepare my comments? 1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to the EPA through http://www.regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a CD that you mail to the EPA, mark the outside of the CD as CBI and th en identify electronically within the CD the specific information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as CB I must be submitted for inclusion in***E.O. 12866 Review

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– Do Not Cite, Quote or Release During Review*** Page 5 of 9 the public docket. Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. Send or deliver information identified as CBI only to the fo llowing address: Tiffany Purifo y , OAQPS Document Control Officer (C404 - 02), U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Attention Docket ID No. EPA- HQ - OAR- 20 15 - 0216 . **II. Information About the Document**  Section 172(c) ( 1) of the Clean Air Act ( CAA ) provides that State Implementation Plan s (SIPs) for nonattainment areas must include “reasonably available control measures”, including “reasonably available control technology” (RACT), for existing sources of emissions. Section 182(b)(2)(A) of the CAA stipulates that for moderate ozone nonattai nment areas, states must revise their SIPs to include RACT for each category of VOC sources covered by a CTG document issued between November 15, 1990, and the date of attainment. Ozone nonattainment areas classified as serious, severe, and extreme are als o subject to the requirements of CAA section 182(b)(2)(A) because CAA sections 182(c) (for serious), (d) (for severe) , and (e) (for extreme) require each higher classification to meet all the SIP submissions requirements of the next lowest classification. CAA section 184(a) establishes a single ozone transport region (OTR) comprised of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,***E.O. 12866 Review

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– Do Not Cite, Quote or Release During Review*** Page 6 of 9 Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and the Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) that includes the District of Columbia . CAA Section 184(b) provides that states in the ozone transport region must revise their SIPs to implement RACT with respect to all sources of VOCs in the state covered by a CTG issued before or after November 15, 1990. The EPA defines RACT as “the lowest emission limitation that a particular source is capable of meeting by the application of control technology that is reasonably available considering technological and economic feasibility” (44 FR 53761, Sep t ember 17, 1979). The EPA is developing this CTG to provide state , local and tribal air agencies information to assist them in determining RACT for VOCs from select O il and Natural Gas source category emission sources. In developing th e CTG, the EPA, among other things, evaluated the sources of VOC emissions from the O il and Natural Gas source category and the available control approaches for addressing these emissions, including the costs of such approaches. Based on available information and data, the EPA is providing draft recommendations for RACT for select O il and Natural Gas source category emission sources . Upon finalization of the CTG, States can use the recommendations in th e CTG to inform their determination s as to what constitutes RACT for VOCs for the se O il and Natural Gas source category sources in their particular areas. The***E.O. 12866 Review

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– Do Not Cite, Quote or Release During Review*** Page 7 of 9 information contained in th e CTG is provided only as guidance. This guidance does not change, or substitute for, requirements specifi ed in applicable sections of the CAA or the EPA’s regulations; nor is it a regulation itself. Th e CTG does not impose any legally binding requirements on any entity. It provides only recommendations for state , local and tribal air agencies to consider in determining RACT. State , local and tribal air agencies are free to implement other technically sound approaches that are consistent with the CAA and the EPA’s regulations. The recommendations contained in the CTG are based on data and information currently available to the EPA. These general recommendations may not apply in all situation s. Regardless of whether a state chooses to implement the recommendations contained in a CTG through state rules, or to issue state rules that adopt different approaches for RACT for VOCs from O il and Natural Gas source category sources, states must submit their RACT rules to the EPA for review and approval as part of the SIP process. The EPA will evaluate the rules and determine, through notice and comment rulemaking in the S IP review process, whether the submitted rules meet the RACT requirements of the CAA and the EPA’s regulations. To the extent a state adopts an y of the recommendations in this CTG, upon its finalization, into its state RACT rules, interested parties can ra ise questions and***E.O. 12866 Review

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– Do Not Cite, Quote or Release During Review*** Page 8 of 9 objections about the substance of this guidance and the appropriateness of the application of this guidance to a particular situation during the development of the state rules and the EPA’s SIP review process. Section 182(b)(2) of the CAA requires that a CTG issued between November 15, 1990, and the date of attainment include the date by which states subject to CAA section 182(b) must submit SIP revisions in response to the CTG. Pursuant to CAA section 182(b)(2) , states required to submit rules consistent with CAA section 182(b) must submit their SIP revisions to include RACT requirements for sources covered by a CTG within the period specified by the Administrator in issuing the relevant CTG. **III. Specific Comments Solicited**  In addition to providing an opportunity to review and comment on the draft CTG, the EPA is also soliciting specific comment on the following: 1. Information on cost s associated with retrofit ting an existing storage vessel to allow routing of emissions to a control device .***E.O. 12866 Review

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2. Information on the implementation of a monitoring plan that includes the use of optical gas imaging for fugitive emissions at existing well sites. 3. Interaction of the CTG with new builds in areas affected by the CTG. Refer to materials in the docket (EPA- HQ - OAR- 2015 - 0216).

Dated:

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_________________________ Gina McCarthy , Administrator.