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TABLE 1—AVERAGE EXPECTED EXCEEDANCE RATE FOR THE ONE-HOUR OZONE STANDARD IN THE BOSTON-LAWRENCEWORCESTER, MA-NH AREA FOR 2005–2007 

EPA AQS ID Site Year 

Exceedances (days over 0.124 ppm) 

Actual Adjusted for 

missing data 

3-Year average 

expected exceedance rate 

Massachusetts: 

250250041 ..................... Boston-Long Island ............... 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250250042 ..................... Boston-Roxbury .................... 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250170009 ..................... Chelmsford ........................... 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250051002 ..................... Fairhaven .............................. 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

2 

0 

0.0 

2.0 

0.0 

0.7 

250095005 ..................... Haverhill ................................ 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250092006 ..................... Lynn ...................................... 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250213003 ..................... Milton .................................... 2005 

2006 

2007 

1 

0 

0 

1.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.3 

250094004 ..................... Newbury ................................ 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250070001 ..................... Oak Bluffs ............................. 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

2 

0 

0.0 

2.1 

0.0 

0.7 

250171102 ..................... Stow ...................................... 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250010002 ..................... Truro ..................................... 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

250270015 ..................... Worcester ............................. 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

New Hampshire 

330111011 ..................... Nashua ................................. 2005 

2006 

2007 

0 

0 

0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

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BILLING CODE 1505–01–D 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2011–0987; FRL–9617–5] 

Revisions to the California State 

Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley 

Air Quality Management District and 

Imperial Valley Air Pollution Control 

District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Antelope Valley Air 

Quality Management District 

(AVAQMD) and Imperial County Air 

Pollution Control District (ICAPCD) 

portions of the California State 

Implementation Plan (SIP). These 

revisions concern oxides of nitrogen 

(NOX) emissions from stationary gas 

turbines. We are proposing to approve 

local rules to regulate these emission 

sources under the Clean Air Act as 

amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by February 17, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

OAR–2011–0987, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions. 

2. Email: 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 otherwise protected 

should be clearly identified as such and 

should not be submitted through 

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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 email 

directly to EPA, your email 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. 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 contact listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Idalia Perez, EPA Region IX, (415) 972– 

3248, perez.idalia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposal addresses the following local 

rules: AVAQMD Rule 1134, Stationary 

Gas Turbines and ICAPCD Rule 400.1, 

Stationary Gas Turbine(s)—Reasonably 

Available Control Technology (RACT). 

In the Rules and Regulations section of 

this Federal Register, we are approving 

these local rules in a direct final action 

without prior proposal because we 

believe these SIP revisions are 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 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. 

Dated: December 27, 2011. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2012–817 Filed 1–17–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 1043 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2011–0928; FRL–9619–1] 

RIN 2060–XXXX 

Great Lakes Steamship Repower 

Incentive Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to simplify 

an existing provision in our marine 

diesel engine program that is intended 

to encourage owners of Great Lakes 

steamships to repower those steamships 

with cleaner marine diesel engines. The 

simplified program would automatically 

permit the use of residual fuel, through 

December 31, 2025, in a steamship if it 

has been repowered with a certified Tier 

2 or later marine diesel engine, provided 

the steamship was operated exclusively 

on the Great Lakes and was in service 

on October 30, 2009. Steamships are 

powered by old, inefficient steam 

boilers. Voluntary replacement of these 

boilers with modern fuel-efficient 

marine diesel engines would result in 

reductions of particulate matter and 

sulfur oxides, even while the 

replacement diesel engines are operated 

on higher sulfur residual fuel, and 

would provide human health and 

welfare benefits for the people who live 

in the Great Lakes region. Conversion to 

new diesel engines would also result in 

considerable carbon dioxide reductions 

and fuel savings. In the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register, we are making this 

modification to the Great Lakes 

steamship incentive program as a direct 

final rule without a prior proposed rule. 

If we receive no adverse comment, we 

will not take further action on this 

proposed rule. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by February 17, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2011–0928, by mail to: 

Environmental Protection Agency, Air 

Docket, Mail-code 6102T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. Comments may also be 

submitted electronically or through 

hand delivery/courier by following the 

detailed instructions in the ADDRESSES

section of the direct final rule located in 

the rules section of this Federal 

Register. 

Public Hearing: If anyone contacts us 

requesting to speak at a public hearing 

on or before February 2, 2012, we will 

hold a public hearing. Additional 

information about the hearing would be 

published in a subsequent Federal 

Register notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean 

Marie Revelt, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Office of Transportation and 

Air Quality, Assessment and Standards 

Division, 2000 Traverwood Drive, Ann 

Arbor, Michigan 48105; telephone 

number: (734) 214–4822; fax number: 

(734) 214–4816; email address: 

revelt.jean-marie@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Why is EPA issuing this proposed 

rule? 

This document proposes to take 

action on our national marine diesel 

emission control program. We have 

published a direct final rule to simplify 

our Great Lakes steamship repower 

incentive program in the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register because we view this as a 

noncontroversial action and anticipate 

no adverse comment. We have 

explained our reasons for this action in 

the preamble to the direct final rule. 

If we receive no adverse comment, we 

will not take further action on this 

proposed rule. If we receive adverse 

comment, we will withdraw the direct 

final rule and it will not take effect. We 

would address all public comments in 

any subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. 

We do not intend to institute a second 

comment period on this action. Any 

parties interested in commenting must 

do so at this time. For further 

information, please see the ADDRESSES

section of this document. 

II. Does this action apply to me? 

This action will affect companies that 

own steamships operating exclusively 

on the Great Lakes that were in service 

on October 30, 2009. The following 

table gives some examples of entities 

that may be affected by this rule; 

however, since these are only examples, 

you should carefully examine the 

regulations. You may direct questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

as noted in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 


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