ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R03-OAR-2009-0706; FRL- ]

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;

West Virginia; Removal of NOx SIP Call Rules

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

SUMMARY: EPA is taking direct final action to approve a revision to the West Virginia State 

Implementation Plan (SIP). The revision removes West Virginia’s nitrogen oxides (NOx) SIP 

Call rules. EPA is approving this revision to remove West Virginia’s NOx SIP Call rules in 

accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

 

DATES: This rule is effective on [Insert date 60 days after publication in the Federal Register] 

without further notice, unless EPA receives adverse written comment by [Insert date 30 days 

after publication in the Federal Register]. If EPA receives such comments, it will publish a 

timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in the Federal Register and inform the public that the 

rule will not take effect.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-R03-OAR2009-0706 by one of the following methods:

A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.

B. E-mail: fernandez.cristina@epa.gov

C. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2009-0706, Cristina Fernandez, Associate Director, Office of Air 

Program Planning, Mailcode 3AP30, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 
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Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.

D. Hand Delivery: At the previously-listed EPA Region III address. Such deliveries are only

accepted during the Docket’s normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be 

made for deliveries of boxed information.

Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R03-OAR-2009-0706. EPA's 

policy is that all comments received 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 information claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or 

e-mail. The www.regulations.gov website is an Aanonymous access@ system, which means EPA 

will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part of 

the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit 

an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. 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.
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Docket: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. 

Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI 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 in www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy during normal business hours at the Air Protection Division, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Copies of 

the State submittal are available at the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, 

Division of Air Quality, 601 57th Street SE, Charleston, West Virginia 25304.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marilyn Powers, (215) 814-2308, or by email at powers.marilyn@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

Throughout this document, whenever “we,” “us,” or “our” is used, we mean EPA. 

On July 20, 2009, the State of West Virginia submitted a formal revision to its SIP. The SIP 

revision removes West Virginia’s NOx SIP Call rules. West Virginia’s NOx SIP Call rules, 

approved into the West Virginia SIP on May 10, 2002 (67 FR 31733) and September 28, 2006 

(71 FR 56881), established West Virginia’s NOx Budget Trading Program and set forth 

requirements for its non-trading sources, respectively. The former enabled West Virginia to 
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participate in the EPA-administered regional NOx budget trading program under the NOx SIP 

Call. However, EPA discontinued the NOx SIP Call trading program after the 2008 ozone 

season, and starting in 2009, began administration of the trading programs under the Clean Air 

Interstate Rule (CAIR). CAIR established three separate emissions trading programs. One of 

these, the CAIR ozone season NOx trading program, applies to the electric generating units 

(EGUs) that are subject to the NOx SIP Call but does not apply to the non-EGUs that were also 

trading sources under the NOx SIP Call. To help States address these sources, CAIR provided 

States with the flexibility to include the non-EGUs as part of their CAIR ozone season NOx 

trading program. West Virginia chose to bring these non-EGUs into its CAIR ozone season NOx 

trading program by including them in regulation 45CSR40 - Control of Ozone Season Nitrogen 

Oxide Emissions to Mitigate Interstate Transport of Ozone and Nitrogen Oxides CAIR. In

addition, West Virginia chose to recodify the provisions for its non-trading non-EGUs (internal 

combustion engines and cement kilns) that were included in 45CSR1 into 45CSR40. On August 

4, 2009 (74 FR 38536), EPA approved West Virginia’s CAIR trading programs into the West 

Virginia SIP. West Virginia’s NOx SIP Call requirements have therefore been subsumed by the 

State’s CAIR ozone season NOx trading program.

II. Summary of SIP Revision

West Virginia met its NOx SIP Call requirements through two regulations: 45CSR1 – Control 

and Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides from Non-Electric Generating Units As a Means to Mitigate 

Transport of Ozone Precursors; and 45CSR26 – NOx Budget Trading Program as a Means of 

Control and Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides from Electric Generating Units. This SIP revision 
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removes these two regulations. West Virginia is meeting its NOx SIP Call emission reduction 

requirements by its approved CAIR ozone season NOx trading program, codified in 45CSR40.

III. Final Action

EPA is approving the SIP revision submitted by West Virginia to remove its NOx SIP Call rules

45CSR1 and 45CSR26. West Virginia continues to meet its NOx SIP Call requirements through 

its SIP-approved CAIR ozone season NOx trading program. 

EPA is publishing this rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a 

noncontroversial amendment and anticipates no adverse comment. However, in the Proposed 

Rules@ section of today=s Federal Register, EPA is publishing a separate document that will serve 

as the proposal to approve the SIP revision if adverse comments are filed. This rule will be 

effective on [Insert date 60 days from date of publication in the Federal Register] without further 

notice unless EPA receives adverse comment by [Insert date 30 days from date of publication in 

the Federal Register]. If EPA receives adverse comment, EPA will publish a timely withdrawal 

in the Federal Register informing the public that the rule will not take effect. EPA will address 

all public comments in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed rule. EPA will not institute 

a second comment period on this action. Any parties interested in commenting must do so at this 

time. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an 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. 
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IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

A. General Requirements

Under the Clean Air Act, 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, EPA’s role is to approve state choices, 

provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act. 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 Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993); 

 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 (Public Law 

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); 
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 is not a significant regulatory action subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, 

May 22, 2001); 

 is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because application of those 

requirements would be inconsistent with the Clean Air Act; 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).

In addition, this rule does not have tribal implications as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 

FR 67249, November 9, 2000), because the SIP is not approved to apply in Indian country

located in the state, and EPA notes that it will not impose substantial direct costs on tribal 

governments or preempt tribal law.

B. Submission to Congress and the Comptroller General

The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small Business Regulatory

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the 

agency promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to 

each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. EPA will 

submit a report containing this action and other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. 

House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior to publication 

of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot take effect until 60 days after it is 
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published in the Federal Register. This action is not a “major rule” as defined by 5 U.S.C. 

804(2). 

C. Petitions for Judicial Review

Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act, petitions for judicial review of this action must be 

filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by [Insert date 60 days from

date of publication of this document in the Federal Register]. Filing a petition for 

reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect the finality of this action for 

the purposes of judicial review nor does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial 

review may be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or action. Parties with 

objections to this direct final rule are encouraged to file a comment in response to the parallel 

notice of proposed rulemaking for this action published in the proposed rules section of today's 

Federal Register, rather than file an immediate petition for judicial review of this direct final rule, 

so that EPA can withdraw this direct final rule and address the comment in the proposed 

rulemaking.
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This action to approve the West Virginia SIP revision that removes the State’s NOx SIP Call 

rules may not be challenged later in proceedings to enforce its requirements. (See section 

307(b)(2).)

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by reference, Nitrogen dioxide, 

Ozone, Particulate matter.

 W. C. Early, Acting

 Regional Administrator

_January 22, 2010____ __________________________

Dated: Shawn M. Garvin,

 Regional Administrator,

 Region III.
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40 CFR Part 52 is amended as follows: 

PART 52 - [AMENDED] 

1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows: 

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

Subpart XX B West Virginia

2. In § 52.2520, the table in paragraph (c) is amended by removing the entries for 45CSR Series 

1 and 45CSR Series 26 in their entirety.