EPA Regional Administrator, Jared Blumenfeld, signed the following proposed 

rule on March 5, 2014, and EPA is submitting it for publication in the 

Federal Register (FR). While we have taken steps to ensure the accuracy of 

this Internet version of the proposed rule, it is not the official version. 

Please refer to the official version in a forthcoming FR publication 

appearing on the Government Printing Office’s FDsys website, 

http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action and on Regulation.gov in Docket 

Number EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0657, http://www.regulations.gov.

6560-50-P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0657; FRL-]

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of 

Arizona; Payson PM10 Air Quality Planning Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to 

the Payson portion of the Arizona State Implementation Plan 

submitted by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality on 

January 23, 2012. This revision consists of the second ten-year 

maintenance plan for the Payson air quality planning area for 

the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for 

particulate matter less than 10 microns in diameter (PM10). EPA 

is proposing to approve this plan based on the conclusion that 

the plan adequately provides for continued maintenance of the 

PM10 NAAQS in the Payson area through 2022. EPA is proposing this 
This document is a prepublication version signed by EPA Regional 

Administrator Jared Blumenfeld on March 5, 2014. We have taken steps to 

ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is not the official version.

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action pursuant to those provisions of the CAA that obligate the 

Agency to take action on submittals of revisions to SIPs. The 

effect of this action would be to make the State’s continuing 

commitments with respect to maintenance of the PM10 NAAQS in the 

Payson area federally enforceable for another ten years.

DATE: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by [Insert date 

30 days from date of publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPAR09-OAR-2013-0657, by one of the following methods:

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow

the on-line instructions.

2. E-mail: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.

3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105-3901. 

Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket 

without change and may be made available online at 

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 
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Administrator Jared Blumenfeld on March 5, 2014. We have taken steps to 

ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is not the official version.

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otherwise protected should be clearly identified as such and 

should not be submitted through www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 

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. Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any 

defects or viruses.

Docket: Generally, documents in the docket for this action are 

available electronically at www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California

94105-3901. While all documents in the docket are listed at 

www.regulations.gov, some information may be publicly available 

only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material, 

large maps), 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 
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contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Levin, EPA Region IX, 

(415) 942-3848, levin.nancy@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the Final 

Update of the Limited Maintenance Plan for the Payson PM10

Maintenance Area (December 2011) (“Second Ten-Year Limited 

Maintenance Plan”) submitted as a revision to the Arizona State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) on January 23, 2012 by the Arizona 

Department of Environmental Quality. In the Rules and 

Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are approving 

the Second Ten-Year Limited Maintenance Plan for the Payson area 

in a direct final action without prior proposal because we 

believe this SIP revision is not controversial. If we receive 

adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal 

of the direct final rule and address the comments in subsequent 

action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we 

receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section 

of this rule and if that provision may be severed from the 

remainder of the rule, we may adopt as final those provisions of 

the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. 

We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone 
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Administrator Jared Blumenfeld on March 5, 2014. We have taken steps to 

ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is not the official version.

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interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not 

receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For 

further information, please see the direct final action.

March 5, 2014 //signed//

________________ ______________________

Dated: Jared Blumenfeld,

Regional Administrator,

Region IX.