6560-50-P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0469; FRL-9912-66-Region 9]

Revisions to the Arizona State Implementation Plan; State 

Stationary Source Rules

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing 

to approve revisions to the Arizona State Implementation Plan 

(SIP). These revisions include two State statutes and certain 

State rules that govern stationary sources under the jurisdiction

of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and that 

establish definitions and other general provisions; ambient air 

quality standards and area designations; and emissions 

limitations and other requirements for certain type of stationary

sources. Generally, approval of these revisions updates and 

replaces previously approved provisions in the Arizona SIP, but 

EPA is also approving a few rules that are new to the Arizona SIP

and a few rescissions that remove certain other rules from the 

Arizona SIP without replacement. The EPA is approving these 

revisions because they meet all applicable requirements of the 

Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by [Insert date 
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30 days from date of publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-

OAR-2014-0469, 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 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. 
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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 contact 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Vineyard, EPA Region 

IX, (415) 947-4125, vineyard.christine@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the statutes

and rules in the following table: 

Submitted Arizona Statutes and Rules Approved in this Action

Arizona 

Revised 

Statutes (ARS)

Section Number Title

State 

Effective 

Date Submitted

49-402 State and county 

control

Amended 

through Laws 

2002, Ch. 

110, § 1

10/29/12

49-426 

(excluding 

paragraphs D, 

Permits; duties of 

director; exceptions; 

applications; 

Amended 

through Laws 

1997, Ch. 

07/28/11
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E.1, F, I, J, 

and M)1

objections; fees 178, § 5

Arizona 

Administrative 

Code (AAC)

Rule Number Title

Effective 

Date Submitted

R18-2-101 

[excluding 

definitions 

(2), (20), 

(32), (87), 

(109), and 

(122)]2

Definitions Various 10/29/12

R18-2-102 Incorporated 

Materials 08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-201 Particulate Matter: 

PM10 and PM2.5

08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-202 Sulfur Oxides (Sulfur 

Dioxide) 08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-203

Ozone: One-hour 

Standard and Eighthour Averaged 

Standard

08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-204 Carbon monoxide 09/26/90 07/28/11

R18-2-205 Nitrogen Oxides 

(Nitrogen Dioxide) 08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-206 Lead 08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-210

Attainment, 

Nonattainment, and 

Unclassifiable Area 

Designations

08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-215

Ambient air quality 

monitoring methods 

and procedures

09/26/90 10/29/12

R18-2-216

Interpretation of 

Ambient Air Quality 

Standards and 

03/07/09 10/29/12

 

1 The EPA will be taking action on ARS section 49-426(F) in a separate 

rulemaking action that will relate to Arizona’s amended New Source Review 

program. ADEQ does not intend the other paragraphs that are listed (i.e., D, 

E.1, I, J, and M) to be part of the Arizona SIP.

2 The EPA will be taking action on the following six definitions in R18-2-101 

in a separate rulemaking action that will relate to Arizona’s amended New 

Source Review program: “actual emissions,” “begin actual construction,” 

“construction,” “net emissions increase,” “potential to emit,” and “regulated 

NSR pollutant.”
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Evaluation of Air 

Quality Data

R9-3-218 

(rescission) Violations 08/07/12 (repeal) 07/28/11

R18-2-601 General 11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-604 Open Areas, Dry 

Washes, or Riverbeds 11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-605 Roadways and Streets 11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-606 Material Handling 11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-607 Storage piles 11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-608 Mineral Tailings 03/07/09 07/28/11

R18-2-614

Evaluation of 

nonpoint source 

emissions

08/07/12 07/15/98

R18-2-701 Definitions 08/07/12 10/29/12

R18-2-703

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Fossil-fuel 

Fired Steam 

Generators and 

General Fuel-burning 

Equipment

03/07/09 07/28/11

R18-2-704

Standards of 

Performance for 

Incinerators

08/04/07 07/28/11

R18-2-706

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Nitric Acid 

Plants

11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-707

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Sulfuric 

Acid Plants

11/15/93 07/15/98

R9-3-509 

(rescission)

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Petroleum 

Refineries

Not yet 

repealed but 

no applicable 

sources.

07/15/98

R18-2-714

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Sewage 

Treatment Plants

11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-715(F), 

(G) and (H)

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Primary 

03/07/09 07/28/11
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Copper Smelters: 

Site-Specific 

Requirements

R9-3-518 

(rescission)

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Kraft Pulp 

Mills

08/04/07 

(repeal) 07/28/11

R18-2-719

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Stationary 

Rotating Machinery

03/07/09 07/28/11

R18-2-720

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Lime 

Manufacturing Plants

03/07/09 07/28/11

R18-2-723

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Concrete 

Batch Plants

11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-724

Standards of 

Performance for 

Fossil-fuel Fired 

Industrial and 

Commercial Equipment

03/07/09 07/28/11

R18-2-726

Standards of 

Performance for 

Sandblasting 

Operations

11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-728

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing Ammonium 

Sulfide Manufacturing 

Plants

11/15/93 07/15/98

R18-2-729

Standards of 

Performance for 

Cotton Gins

08/04/07 07/28/11

R18-2-730

Standards of 

Performance for 

Unclassified Sources

03/07/09 07/28/11

R18-2-732

Standards of 

Performance for 

Existing 

Hospital/Medical/Infe

ctious Waste 

Incinerators

08/04/07 07/28/11

Appendix 2 Test Methods and 

Protocols 10/03/05 07/28/11
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Appendix 10 

(rescission)

Evaluation of Air 

Quality Data

03/07/09 

(repeal) 07/28/11

Appendix 11 

(rescission)

Allowable Particulate 

Emissions 

Computations

03/07/09 

(repeal) 07/28/11

Not 

applicable.

Arizona Testing 

Manual for Air 

Pollutant Emissions, 

Revision F, March 

1992, Section 1

March 1992 07/28/11

In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we

are approving these statutes and 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: May 30, 2014. Jared Blumenfeld,

Regional Administrator,

Region IX.