6560-50-P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0529; FRL-9915-52-Region 9]

Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, California

Air Resources Board – Consumer Products

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing 

to approve revisions to the California Air Resources Board 

Portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These 

revisions concern volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from 

consumer products. We are proposing to approve a local rule that 

regulates these emission sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA or 

the Act). 

DATE: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by [Insert date 

30 days from date of publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-

OAR-2014-0529, by one of the following methods:

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions.

2. E-mail: steckel.andrew@epa.gov.
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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 e-mail. 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 e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail 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 
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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: Stanley Tong, EPA Region IX, 

(415) 947-4122, tong.stanley@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following 

local rule: 

Table 1 - Submitted California Air Resources Board Rule

Regulation Amended Filed with 

California 

Secretary of 

State

Submitted to 

EPA

Subchapter 8.5 – Consumer 

Products; Article 2 –

Consumer Products

March 15,2013 April 25,2013 May 28, 2014

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 
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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: August 5, 2014. Jared Blumenfeld,

Regional Administrator,

Region IX.