45326 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 147 / Tuesday, July 31, 2012 / Proposed Rules 

November 9, 2000), because the SIP is 

not approved to apply in Indian country 

located in the state, and EPA notes that 

it will not impose substantial direct 

costs on tribal governments or preempt 

tribal law. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Intergovernmental 

relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate 

Matter, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Volatile organic 

compounds. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: July 20, 2012. 

A. Stanley Meiburg, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

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Approval, Disapproval and 

Promulgation of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; Arizona; 

Regional Haze State and Federal 

Implementation Plans 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of 

additional public hearings and 

extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is holding two additional 

public hearings in Arizona on August 14 

and 15, 2012, for the proposed rule, 

‘‘Approval, Disapproval and 

Promulgation of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; Arizona; 

Regional Haze State and Federal 

Implementation Plans’’, published in 

the Federal Register on July 20, 2012 

(77 FR 42833). The two hearings will 

provide opportunities for public 

comment in addition to the public 

hearing already scheduled for July 31, 

2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. EPA also is 

extending the public comment period to 

September 18, 2012, to provide 60 days 

of comment after the publication of the 

proposed rule. 

DATES: The public hearings will be held 

on August 14 and 15, 2012. See the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

further details about the public 

hearings. Extension of comment period: 

September 18, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for hearing 

locations. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about the public 

hearings, please contact Thomas Webb, 

U.S. EPA, Region 9, phone (415) 947– 

4139, email webb.thomas@epa.gov. If 

you are a person with a disability under 

the ADA and require a reasonable 

accommodation for this event, please 

contact Philip Kum at 

kum.philip@epa.gov or at (415) 947– 

3566 by July 31, 2012. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

169A of the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

establishes as a national goal the 

‘‘prevention of any future, and the 

remedying of any existing, impairment 

of visibility in mandatory Class I 

Federal areas which impairment results 

from manmade air pollution.’’ Arizona 

has twelve mandatory Class I areas; 

several Class I areas in other states are 

also affected by emissions from Arizona 

facilities. 

Regional haze is visibility impairment 

caused by the cumulative air pollutant 

emissions from numerous sources over 

a wide geographic area. EPA’s proposed 

Regional Haze Federal Implementation 

Plan (FIP) for Arizona addresses the 

requirements of the CAA and EPA’s 

regional haze regulations pertaining to 

Best Available Retrofit Technology 

(BART) for three electric generating 

stations in Arizona: Apache Generating 

Station, Cholla Power Plant and 

Coronado Generating Station. EPA will 

propose to address other facilities and 

other elements of the Arizona SIP in a 

later action. The proposed rule, 

‘‘Approval, Disapproval and 

Promulgation of Air Quality 

Implementation Plans; Arizona; 

Regional Haze State and Federal 

Implementation Plans’’, was published 

in the Federal Register on July 20, 2012 

(77 FR 42833). 

The proposed rule and information on 

which the proposed rule relies are 

available in the docket for this action. 

Generally, documents in the docket for 

this action will be available 

electronically at www.regulations.gov 

and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 

California. 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., Confidential Business 

Information). 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. 

Public hearings: EPA will hold public 

hearings at the following dates, times 

and locations to accept oral and written 

comments into the record. These 

hearings will provide further 

opportunities for public comment 

beyond the initial hearing scheduled for 

July 31, 2012, in Phoenix, Arizona. See 

the proposed rule for more information 

on the July 31 hearing. 

Date: August 14, 2012. 

Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m. 

Location: Northland Pioneer College, 

Painted Desert Campus, Tiponi 

Community Center, Conference Room, 

2251 East Navajo Boulevard, Holbrook, 

AZ 86025. 

Date: August 15, 2012. 

Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m. 

Location: Cochise College, Benson 

Center, Rooms 113 and 115, 1025 South 

State Route 90, Benson, AZ 85602–6501. 

The public hearings will provide the 

public with an opportunity to present 

data, views, or arguments concerning 

the proposed action for Arizona. EPA 

may ask clarifying questions during the 

oral presentations, but will not respond 

to the presentations at that time. 

Simultaneous translation in Spanish 

will be available during the public 

hearings. 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. Please consult the proposed 

rule for guidance on how to submit 

written comments to EPA. 

At the public hearings, the hearing 

officer may limit the time available for 

each commenter to address the proposal 

to five minutes or less if the hearing 

officer determines it is appropriate. Any 

person may provide written or oral 

comments and data pertaining to our 

proposal at the public hearings. We will 

include verbatim transcripts, in English, 

of the hearing and written statements in 

the rulemaking docket. 

Extension of comment period: EPA 

also is extending the public comment 

period for the proposed rule to provide 

more time for comments and to align 

with the dates of the public hearings. 

The comment period will now end on 

September 18, 2012. 

Dated: July 24, 2012. 

Kerry J. Drake, 

Acting Air Division Director, Region IX. 

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