17058 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 58 / Friday, March 25, 2022 / Proposed Rules 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2022–0236; FRL–9605–01– 

R7] 

Air Plan Approval; Missouri; Control of 

Volatile Organic Compound Emissions 

From Reactor Processes and 

Distillation Operations Processes in 

the Synthetic Organic Chemical 

Manufacturing Industry 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing approval of 

revisions to the Missouri State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) received on 

February 11, 2020. In the submission, 

Missouri requests to revise a regulation 

that controls emissions from reactor 

processes and distillation operations in 

the St. Louis 1997 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment area. The revisions to 

this rule include amending the rule 

applicability section for sources subject 

to the rule, removing unnecessary 

words, updating incorporations by 

reference, amending definitions specific 

to the rule, updating test and reference 

methods, and other minor edits. These 

revisions do not impact the stringency 

of the SIP or air quality. Approval of 

these revisions will ensure consistency 

between State and federally approved 

rules. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 25, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2022–0236 to https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

rulemaking. Comments received will be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments and additional information 

on the rulemaking process, see the 

‘‘Written Comments’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jason Heitman, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 7 Office, Air 

Quality Planning Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; 

telephone number: (913) 551–7664; 

email address: heitman.jason@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Written comments 

II. What is being addressed in this document? 

III. Have the requirements for approval of a 

SIP revision been met? 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

V. Incorporation by Reference 

VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Written Comments 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–R07–OAR–2022– 

0236, at https://www.regulations.gov. 

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 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

II. What is being addressed in this 

document? 

The EPA is proposing to approve 

revisions to 10 Code of State Regulation 

(CSR) 10–5.550, Control of Volatile 

Organic Compound Emissions From 

Reactor Processes and Distillation 

Operations Processes in the Synthetic 

Organic Chemical Manufacturing 

Industry in the Missouri SIP. The 

revisions amend the rule applicability 

section for sources subject to this rule, 

remove unnecessary words, update 

incorporations by reference, amend 

definitions specific to the rule, update 

test and reference methods, and make 

other minor edits. The EPA’s analysis of 

the revisions can be found in the 

technical support document (TSD) 

included in this docket. 

Missouri received six comments from 

EPA and three comments from the 

Missouri Department of Natural 

Resources’ Air Pollution Control 

Program staff during the comment 

period. Missouri responded to all 

comments as noted in the State 

submission included in the docket for 

this action. As described in the TSD for 

this action, Missouri amended the rule 

in response to some of EPA’s comments. 

In response to an EPA comment 

concerning the applicability date in the 

draft rule, Missouri changed the 

applicability date to affect process units 

existing as of February 29, 2000. 

Missouri explained that the 

applicability date change was added to 

clarify that the rule was originally 

promulgated to meet ozone reasonably 

available control technology 

requirements, which were intended to 

apply to existing sources at the time of 

the rule’s promulgation. EPA finds that 

Missouri has adequately addressed the 

comments. 

Therefore, EPA is proposing to 

approve the revisions to this rule 

because it will not have a negative 

impact on air quality or affect the 

stringency of the SIP. 

III. Have the requirements for approval 

of a SIP revision been met? 

The State submission has met the 

public notice requirements for SIP 

submissions in accordance with 40 CFR 

51.102. The submission also satisfied 

the completeness criteria of 40 CFR part 

51, appendix V. The State provided 

public notice on this SIP revision from 

May 1, 2019, to August 1, 2019 and 

received nine comments. The State 

revised the rule based on the comments 

received. In addition, as explained 

above and in more detail in the TSD 

which is part of this docket, the revision 

meets the substantive SIP requirements 

of the Clean Air Act (CAA), including 

section 110 and implementing 

regulations. 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

The EPA is proposing to approve 

Missouri’s request to revise 10 CSR 10– 

5.550. Because this rule was previously 

approved into Missouri’s SIP, we are 

soliciting comments solely on the 

proposed revisions to the rule and not 

on the existing text that is approved into 

Missouri’s SIP. We are processing this 

as a proposed action because we are 

soliciting comments on this proposed 

action. Final rulemaking will occur after 

consideration of any comments. 

V. Incorporation by Reference 

In this document, the EPA is 

proposing to include regulatory text in 

an EPA final rule that includes 

incorporation by reference. In 

accordance with requirements of 1 CFR 

51.5, the EPA is proposing to 

incorporate by reference the Missouri 

Regulations described in Section II of 


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this preamble as set forth in the 

proposed amendments to 40 CFR part 

52 below. The EPA has made, and will 

continue to make, these materials 

generally available through 

www.regulations.gov and at the EPA 

Region 7 Office (please contact the 

person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

preamble for more information). 

VI. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Under the CAA, the Administrator is 

required to approve a SIP submission 

that complies with the provisions of the 

Act and applicable Federal regulations. 

42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). 

Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, the 

EPA’s role is to approve state choices, 

provided that they meet the criteria of 

the CAA. Accordingly, this action 

merely approves state law as meeting 

Federal requirements and does not 

impose additional requirements beyond 

those imposed by state law. For that 

reason, this action: 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to review by the Office of 

Management and Budget under 

Executive Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, 

January 21, 2011); 

• Does not impose an information 

collection burden under the provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.); 

• Is certified as not having a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.); 

• Does not contain any unfunded 

mandate or significantly or uniquely 

affect small governments, as described 

in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4); 

• Does not have federalism 

implications as specified in Executive 

Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 

1999); 

• Is not an economically significant 

regulatory action based on health or 

safety risks subject to Executive Order 

13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997); 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 

28355, May 22, 2001); 

• Is not subject to requirements of the 

National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act (NTTA) because this 

rulemaking does not involve technical 

standards; and 

• Does not provide EPA with the 

discretionary authority to address, as 

appropriate, disproportionate human 

health or environmental effects, using 

practicable and legally permissible 

methods, under Executive Order 12898 

(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). 

The SIP is not approved to apply on 

any Indian reservation land or in any 

other area where EPA or an Indian tribe 

has demonstrated that a tribe has 

jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian 

country, the rule does not have tribal 

implications and will not impose 

substantial direct costs on tribal 

governments or preempt tribal law as 

specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 

FR 67249, November 9, 2000). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Intergovernmental relations, 

Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Volatile organic 

compounds. 

Dated: March 16, 2022. 

Meghan A. McCollister, 

Regional Administrator, Region 7. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the EPA proposes to amend 

40 CFR part 52 as set forth below: 

PART 52—APPROVAL AND 

PROMULGATION OF 

IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 52 

continues to read as follows: 

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

Subpart AA—Missouri 

■ 2. In § 52.1320, the table in paragraph 

(c) is amended by revising the entry 

‘‘10–5.550’’ to read as follows: 

§ 52.1320 Identification of plan. 

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(c) * * * 

EPA-APPROVED MISSOURI REGULATIONS

Missouri citation Title 

State 

effective 

date 

EPA approval date Explanation 

Missouri Department of Natural Resources 

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Chapter 5—Air Quality Standards and Air Pollution Control Regulations for the St. Louis Metropolitan Area 

*******

10–5.550 .......... Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions 

From Reactor Processes and Distillation Operations Processes in the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry.

1/30/2020 [Date of publication of the final rule 

in the Federal Register], 

[Federal Register citation of the 

final rule].

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