37976 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 128 / Thursday, July 3, 2014 / Proposed Rules 

While notice of the final determination 

will not be published in the Federal 

Register, copies of the determination 

can be obtained by sending a written 

request to Sara Bartholomew at the 

above address. 

Dated: June 19, 2014. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15534 Filed 7–2–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2014–0269; FRL–9911–00– 

Region 9] 

Revisions to the California State 

Implementation Plan, Placer County 

Air Pollution Control District 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

revision to the Placer County portion of 

the California State Implementation 

Plan (SIP). This revision concerns the 

necessary procedures to create emission 

reduction credits from the reduction of 

volatile organic compound (VOC), 

oxides of nitrogen (NOX), oxides of 

sulfur (SOX), particulate matter (PM), 

and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions 

due to the permanent curtailment of 

burning rice straw. 

We are proposing to approve a local 

rule that provides administrative 

procedures for creating emissions 

reduction credits, consistent with Clean 

Air Act (CAA or the Act) requirements. 

DATES: Any comments on this proposal 

must arrive by August 4, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

OAR–2014–0269, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions. 

2. Email: 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 email. 

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 email 

directly to EPA, your email 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. 

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: 

Nancy Levin, EPA Region IX, (415) 942– 

3848, levin.nancy@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

proposal addresses the following local 

rule: Placer County Air Pollution 

Control District Rule 516, Rice Straw 

Emission Reduction Credits. In the 

Rules and Regulations section of this 

Federal Register, we are approving this 

local rule 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: April 25, 2014. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. 2014–15564 Filed 7–2–14; 8:45 am] 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2014–0365; FRL–9913–04– 

Region 7] 

Approval and Promulgation of 

Implementation Plans; Iowa; Regional 

Haze State Implementation Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing approval of 

a revision to the Iowa State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by 

the State of Iowa on July 16, 2013. 

Iowa’s July 16, 2013, SIP submission 

(‘‘progress report SIP’’) addresses 

requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA 

or Act) and EPA’s rules that require 

states to submit periodic reports 

describing progress towards reasonable 

progress goals (RPGs) established for 

regional haze and a determination of the 

adequacy of the state’s existing SIP 

addressing regional haze (‘‘regional haze 

SIP’’). EPA is proposing approval of 

Iowa’s progress report SIP submission 

on the basis that it addresses the 

progress report and adequacy 

determination requirements for the first 

implementation period for regional 

haze. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 4, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2014–0365 by one of the following 

methods: 

1. www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

2. Email: harper.jodi@epa.gov. 

3. Mail or Hand Delivery or Courier: 

Ms. Jodi Harper, Air Planning and 

Development Branch, Air and Waste 

Management Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 7, 11201 Renner Boulevard, 

Lenexa, Kansas 66219. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R07–OAR–2014– 

0365. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 


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