55412 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 179 / Tuesday, September 16, 2014 / Proposed Rules 

(d) Dates. The regulation will be 

effective on November 4, 2014 and will 

be enforced during the exercise when 

equipment deployment operations are 

underway. 

Dated: September 5, 2014. 

G. D. Case, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port. 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Parts 51 and 52 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0605; FRL–9916–63– 

OAR] 

RIN 2060–AO24 

Prevention of Significant Deterioration 

(PSD) for Particulate Matter Less Than 

2.5 Micrometers (PM2.5)—Increments, 

Significant Impact Levels (SILs) and 

Significant Monitoring Concentration 

(SMC)—Notice of Action Denying 

Petition for Reconsideration and 

Amended Rulemaking 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Action denying petition for 

reconsideration and amended 

rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice that it 

has responded to a petition for 

reconsideration and amended 

rulemaking of certain provisions of the 

final rule, ‘‘Prevention of Significant 

Deterioration (PSD) for Particulate 

Matter Less Than 2.5 Micrometers 

(PM2.5)—Increments, Significant Impact 

Levels (SILs) and Significant Monitoring 

Concentration (SMC),’’ published on 

October 20, 2010. The final rule set forth 

provisions identifying the maximum 

allowable increases in ambient pollutant 

concentrations (‘‘increments’’) for PM2.5, 

modifying the definitions for the 

baseline dates and the baseline area, and 

adding two screening tools known as 

SILs and an SMC for PM2.5. On 

December 23, 2013, the EPA received a 

petition for reconsideration pursuant to 

the Clean Air Act (CAA) and for an 

amended rulemaking pursuant to the 

Administrative Procedures Act, from the 

state of North Carolina. The EPA 

considered the petition for 

reconsideration and amended 

rulemaking, along with information 

contained in the rulemaking docket, in 

reaching a decision on the petition. The 

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy 

denied the petition for reconsideration 

and amended rulemaking in a letter to 

the Attorney General of North Carolina 

dated August 28, 2014. The letter 

documents the EPA’s reasons for the 

denial and can be found in the 

rulemaking docket. 

DATES: The EPA’s response to this 

petition was signed on August. 28, 2014. 

Any petitions for review of the final 

letter denying the petition for 

reconsideration and amended 

rulemaking of certain provisions of the 

final rule published in the Federal 

Register on October 20, 2010 (75 FR 

64864) must be filed in the Court of 

Appeal for the District of Columbia 

Circuit on or before November 17, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Dan deRoeck, Air Quality Policy 

Division (C504–03), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC, 27711; telephone number: 

(919) 541–5593; or email address: 

deroeck.dan@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

This Federal Register document, the 

petition for reconsideration and 

amended rulemaking, and the letter 

denying the petition are available in the 

docket that the EPA has established for 

the ‘‘Prevention of Significant 

Deterioration (PSD) for Particulate 

Matter Less Than 2.5 Micrometers 

(PM2.5)—Increments, Significant Impact 

Levels (SILs) and Significant Monitoring 

Concentration (SMC)’’ rulemaking 

under Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR– 

2006–0605. The table below identifies 

the petitioner, the date of the petition, 

the document identification number for 

the petition, the date of the EPA’s 

response, and the document 

identification number for the EPA’s 

response. 

Petitioner Date of petition 

to EPA 

Petition: 

Document No. 

in docket 

Date of EPA 

response 

EPA response: 

Document No. 

in docket 

State of North Carolina ............................................................ 12/23/2013 ¥0065 8/28/2014 ¥0066, ¥0067, ¥0068 

Note that all document numbers listed 

in the table are in the form of ‘‘EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2006–0605–xxxx. 

All documents in the docket are listed 

on the http://www.regulations.gov Web 

site. Although listed in the index, some 

information may not be publicly 

available, i.e., confidential business 

information or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, is not placed on 

the Internet and will be publicly 

available only in hard copy form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available either electronically through 

http://www.regulations.gov or in hard 

copy at the EPA Docket Center, Docket 

ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0605, EPA 

William Jefferson Clinton 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, and the telephone 

number for the EPA Docket Center is 

(202) 566–1742. 

In addition to being available in the 

docket, an electronic copy of this notice 

of the EPA’s decision denying the 

petition for reconsideration and 

amended rulemaking and of the EPA’s 

response letter outlining reasons for the 

denial will also be available on the 

World Wide Web. Following signature 

of this document by the Acting 

Assistant Administrator, Office of Air 

and Radiation, a copy of this document 

will be posted on EPA’s New Source 

Review Web site, under Regulations & 

Standards, at http://www.epa.gov/nsr. 

II. Judicial Review 

Under CAA section 307(b), judicial 

review of this final action is available 

only by filing a petition for review in 

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District 

of Columbia Circuit on or before 

November 17, 2014. 

Dated: September 5, 2014. 

Janet G. McCabe, 

Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and 

Radiation. 

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