[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 32980-32981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16080]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[AR-2-1-7393; FRL-6111-3]


Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans; 
Arkansas; Recodification of Air Quality Control Regulations and 
Correction of Sulfur Dioxide Enforceability Deficiencies

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Removal of direct final rule amendments.

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SUMMARY: On April 10, 1998 (63 FR 17680), EPA published a direct final 
approval and a proposed approval (63 FR 17793), of a revision to the 
Arkansas State Implementation Plan (SIP) which added Arkansas 
Department of Pollution Control and Ecology Regulation #19, 
``Compilation of Regulations of the Arkansas State Implementation Plan 
for Air Pollution Control,'' as adopted by the Arkansas Commission on 
Pollution Control and Ecology on July 24, 1992, and submitted to EPA on 
September 14, 1992. The direct final action was published without prior 
proposal because the Agency anticipated no adverse comments. The EPA 
received adverse comments on the two April 10, 1998, actions. The 
commenters asked EPA not to consider the regulation as a revision to 
the Arkansas SIP. In addition, EPA also received a letter from the 
Governor of Arkansas dated May 8, 1998, requesting that the Federal 
Register approval of the 1992 Regulation #19 be withdrawn and that the 
1992 submittal be returned to the State. Therefore, Region 6 is 
withdrawing its direct final approval action by removing the amendments 
made by the direct final rule and restoring the regulatory text

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that existed prior to the direct final rule, and returning the 1992 
Regulation #19 submittal to the State, thereby mooting the proposed 
approval action. No further action will be taken by EPA on this 
September 14, 1992, SIP revision submittal. The Arkansas regulations 
approved by EPA in 1975 and last approved by EPA at 40 CFR 
52.170(c)(27) in 1991 will continue to be the Arkansas SIP-approved 
regulations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Deese, Air Planning Section (6PD-
L), Environmental Protection Agency, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 
75202, Telephone (214) 665-7253.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: See the information provided in the direct 
final rule located in the final rules section and the short 
informational document located in the proposed rules section of the 
April 10, 1998, Federal Register.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 
Hydrocarbons, Intergovernmental relations, Lead, Nitrogen dioxide, 
Ozone, Particulate matter, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.

    Dated: June 8, 1998.
Gregg A. Cooke,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.

    For the reasons set out in the preamble 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.


Sec. 52.170  [Amended]

    2. Section 52.170 is amended by removing paragraph (c)(29).
    3. Section 52.181 is amended by revising paragraph (a) to read as 
follows:


Sec. 52.181  Significant deterioration of air quality.

    (a) The plan submitted by the Governor of Arkansas on April 23, 
1981 [as adopted by the Arkansas Commission on Pollution Control and 
Ecology (ACPCE) on April 10, 1981], June 3, 1988 (as revised and 
adopted by the ACPCE on March 25, 1988), and June 19, 1990 (as revised 
and adopted by the ACPCE on May 25, 1990), Prevention of Significant 
Deterioration (PSD) Supplement Arkansas Plan of Implementation For Air 
Pollution Control, is approved as meeting the requirements of Part C, 
Clean Air Act for preventing significant deterioration of air quality.
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