ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

### 40 CFRPart 52 

### [EPA-R04-0AR-2010-0604-201046; FRL- ] Approval and Promulgation ofAir Quality Implementation Plans; Atlanta, Georgia; Notice ofCompleteness Determination for the Purpose ofStopping Sanctions Clock
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice ofLetterto GovernorRegarding Completeness and Stopping ofSanctions Clock. SUMMARY: EPA is now giving notice ofan action that EPA has already taken to find a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision complete and stop the sanctions clocks associated with the Atlanta, Georgia, 

### 1997 fine particulate matter (PM2.5)national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) nonattainment area (hereafterreferred to as the "Atlanta Area"). Pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA) and its implementing regulations, EPA has made an affirmative determination ofcompleteness for the attainment demonstration, reasonably available control
measures and reasonably available control technology, annual emissions reductions to ensure reasonable further progress, and contingency measures (hereafterreferred to as "nonattainment
area submittals") submittedby the State ofGeorgia for the Atlanta Area. On September 

### 3,2010,
a letter announcing this determination was sentto the Governor ofGeorgia, effectively stopping the sanctions clocks started on November 

### 27,2009, by "afmding offailure to submit" the 

### 1997 PM2.5 nonattainment submittals for the Atlanta Area. Today's notice is simply an announcement ofa determination that EPA has already made.ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action underDocket IdentificationNo. EPA-R04-0AR-201O-0604. All documents inthe docket are listed on the www.regulations.gov Web site. Although listed inthe index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., Confidential Business Information orotherinformation whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is notplaced on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available eitherelectronically through www.regulations.gov or inhard copy atthe Regulatory Development Section, AirPlanning Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics ManagementDivision, U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, Region 4,61 Forsyth Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. EPA requests that ifat all possible, you contactthe person listed inthe FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to schedule your inspection. The Regional Office's official hours ofbusiness are Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joel Huey or Sara Waterson, Regulatory Development Section, AirPlanning Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, Region4,61 Forsyth Street, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. The telephone number is (404) 562-9104. Mr. Huey can also be reached via electronic mail athuey.joel@epa.gov. Ms. Waterson may be reached by phone at (404) 562- 9061 orvia electronic mail at waterson.sara@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:



### 2Effective April 5, 2005, the Atlanta Area was designated nonattainment for the 1997 PM2 .5 NAAQS. The Atlanta Area is comprised ofBarrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties and portions ofHeard and Putnam Counties. Forthe 1997 PM2 .5 NAAQS, the State ofGeorgia was required to submit nonattainment area submittals by April 5, 2008. On November 27,2009, EPA published afmding offailure to submitfinal rulemaking for the required SIPs (74 FR 62251). On July 6,2010, Georgia submitted all components for the nonattainment area submittals for the Atlanta Area. EPA has done a completeness review, in accordance with Section 2.0 "Criteria" ofAppendix V of40 CFR 51-Criteria for Determining the Completeness ofPlan Submissions, to ensure thatthe State has submitted all ofthe required information for the SIP submission. As explained in the letter sent by EPA to the Governor ofGeorgia, on September 3,2010, EPA has determined that the State has corrected the deficiency identified in EPA's promulgated finding offailure to submitthe required nonattainment area SIP submittals for the Atlanta Area. Specifically, EPA has determined that Georgiahas submitted complete SIP submittals for the Atlanta Area to meet the CAA requirement for anonattainment area underthe 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS. EPA will make a determination on the approvability ofthe nonattainment area submittals for the Atlanta Area in a separate action. Today's announcement only relates to a completeness determination for the nonattainment area submittals for the Atlanta Area, and is separate from EPA's determination ofapprovability ofthese submittals. Today's action is simply anotice ofa determination that EPA already made through correspondence with the Governor ofGeorgia.

3Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

Dated: 

# qkJ'D SJptJmber 28, 2010 Regional Administrator, Region 4.



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