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amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

EPA may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

adverse comment. 

Dated: September 23, 2016. 

Shawn M. Garvin, 

Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. 2016–24373 Filed 10–7–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2016–0367; FRL–9952–16– 

Region 9] 

Approval of California Air Plan 

Revisions, Butte County Air Quality 

Management District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

revision to the Butte County Air Quality 

Management District (BCAQMD) 

portion of the California State 

Implementation Plan (SIP). This 

revision concerns particulate matter 

(PM) emissions from open burning. We 

are proposing to approve a local rule to 

regulate these emission sources under 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act). 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by November 10, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R09– 

OAR–2016–0367 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

Andrew Steckel, Rulemaking Office 

Chief at Steckel.Andrew@epa.gov. For 

comments submitted at Regulations.gov, 

follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be removed or edited 

from Regulations.gov. For either manner 

of submission, the EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

For the full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin Gong, EPA Region IX, (415) 972 

3073, Gong.Kevin@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. This 

proposal addresses BCAQMD Rule 300, 

‘‘Open Burning, Requirements, 

Prohibitions and Exemptions.’’ In the 

Rules and Regulations section of this 

issue of the Federal Register, we are 

approving this local rule in a direct final 

action without prior proposal because 

we believe this SIP revision is 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. 

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: July 21, 2016. 

Alexis Strauss, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2016–24497 Filed 10–7–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2016–0556; FRL–9953–62– 

Region 7] 

Approval of Nebraska’s Air Quality 

Implementation Plans 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the State of 

Nebraska. This action will amend the 

SIP to include revisions to Title 129 of 

the Nebraska Air Quality Regulations, 

Chapter 4, ‘‘Ambient Air Quality 

Standards’’; Chapter 19, ‘‘Prevention of 

Significant Deterioration of Air 

Quality’’; and Chapter 22, ‘‘Incinerators; 

Emission Standards’’. This amendment 

makes the state regulation consistent 

with the National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards (NAAQS) for particulate 

matter 10 micrometers or less (PM10), 

fine particulate matter 25 micrometers 

or less (PM2.5), Sulfur dioxide, Nitrogen 

dioxide, Carbon monoxide, Ozone, and 

Lead as of the date of the state 

submittal. This action also makes 

formatting and grammatical corrections 

to title 129, chapters 19 and 22. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

November 10, 2016 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2016–0556, to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg 

Crable, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Air Planning and Development 

Branch, 11201 Renner Boulevard, 

Lenexa, Kansas 66219 at 913–551–7391, 

or by email at crable.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document proposes to take action on the 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revisions submitted by the State of 

Nebraska. We have published a direct 

final rule approving the State’s SIP 

revision (s) in the ‘‘Rules and 

Regulations’’ section of this Federal 

Register, because we view this as a 

noncontroversial action and anticipate 

no relevant 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 


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