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1 89 FR 67012. 

determination that the sulfur dioxide 

nonattainment area in Freestone and 

Anderson Counties and the sulfur 

dioxide nonattainment area in Titus 

County have each attained the 2010 1- 

hour primary sulfur dioxide National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard by the 

applicable attainment date of January 

12, 2022, in accordance with CAA 

section 179(c). This determination is 

based on primary source shutdowns, 

available ambient air quality monitoring 

data from the 2019–2021 monitoring 

period, relevant modeling analysis, and 

additional emissions inventory 

information. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2024–0199; FRL–12188– 

02–R9] 

Air Quality Plans; Arizona; Maricopa 

County Air Quality Department; 

Source-Specific SIP Revision 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is taking final action on 

a source-specific revision to the 

Maricopa County Air Quality 

Department’s (MCAQD or 

‘‘Department’’) portion of the Arizona 

State Implementation Plan (SIP). This 

revision consists of certain permit 

conditions related to emissions offsets 

generated from the replacement of 

existing diesel-fueled solid waste 

collection trucks promulgated by the 

MCAQD and submitted by the State of 

Arizona for inclusion in the Maricopa 

County portion of the Arizona SIP under 

the Clean Air Act (CAA or ‘‘Act’’). The 

permit conditions were submitted for 

SIP approval to ensure that they are 

federally enforceable, which is the basis 

for qualifying certain emissions 

reductions as creditable offsets under 

the CAA. 

DATES: This rule is effective on January 

15, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket No. 

EPA–R09–OAR–2024–0199. All 

documents in the docket are listed on 

the https://www.regulations.gov website. 

Although listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

e.g., Confidential Business Information 

(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 through https://

www.regulations.gov, or please contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. If you 

need assistance in a language other than 

English or if you are a person with 

disabilities who needs a reasonable 

accommodation at no cost to you, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christa Leska, EPA Region IX, 75 

Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA 

94105; by phone: (415) 972–3930; or by 

email to leska.christa@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Proposed Action 

II. Public Comments 

III. EPA Action 

IV. Incorporation by Reference 

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Proposed Action 

On August 19, 2024, the EPA 

proposed approval of the source-specific 

SIP revision to the Arizona SIP.1 The 

SIP revision consists of adding portions 

of the following three operating permits: 

P0011602, P0011603, P0011601. The 

submitted permit conditions ensure that 

emission reduction credits granted to 

Waste Management for replacing 

existing diesel-fired solid waste 

collection trucks with compressed 

natural gas (CNG)-fired solid waste 

collection trucks meet the offset 

integrity criteria contained in 40 CFR 

part 51.165(a)(3)(ii)(C)(1)(i), which 

requires such emission reductions to be 

surplus, permanent, quantifiable, and 

federally enforceable. Although the 

permit conditions are federally 

enforceable pursuant to 40 CFR 52.23, 

approving these permit conditions into 

the SIP ensures their permanence and 

preserves their federal enforceability. 

II. Public Comments 

The EPA’s proposed action provided 

a 30-day public comment period. During 

this period, no comments were 

submitted on our proposal. 

III. EPA Action 

No comments were submitted on our 

proposal. Therefore, as authorized in 

sections 110(k)(3) and 301(a) of the Act, 

the EPA is finalizing approval of this 

revision to the Arizona SIP. This action 

incorporates the submitted permit 

conditions into the Maricopa County 

portion of the Arizona SIP, which 

provides the necessary federal 

enforceability for these permit 

conditions. 

IV. Incorporation by Reference 

In this rule, the EPA is finalizing 

regulatory text that includes 

incorporation by reference. In 

accordance with requirements of 1 CFR 

51.5, the EPA is finalizing the 

incorporation by reference of the three 

source-specific SIP revisions identified 

by permit numbers P0011601, P0011602 

and P0011603 issued to Waste 

Management, submitted on April 3, 

2024. These source-specific SIP 

revisions incorporate specific provisions 

from permits issued by the MCAQD to 

ensure certain emission reductions are 

surplus, permanent, quantifiable, and 

federally enforceable. The EPA has 

made, and will continue to make, these 

materials available through https://

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at the EPA Region IX Office (please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this preamble for more information). 

V. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

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, the 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 Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993) and 14094 (88 FR 

21879, April 11, 2023); 

• 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 

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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 subject to Executive Order 

13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997) 

because it approves a state program; 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 

28355, May 22, 2001); and 

• 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. 

In addition, the SIP is not approved 

to apply on any Indian reservation land 

or in any other area where the 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). 

Executive Order 12898 (Federal 

Actions To Address Environmental 

Justice in Minority Populations and 

Low-Income Populations, 59 FR 7629, 

February 16, 1994) directs Federal 

agencies to identify and address 

‘‘disproportionately high and adverse 

human health or environmental effects’’ 

of their actions on communities with 

environmental justice (EJ) concerns to 

the greatest extent practicable and 

permitted by law. Executive Order 

14096 (Revitalizing Our Nation’s 

Commitment to Environmental Justice 

for All, 88 FR 25251, April 26, 2023) 

builds on and supplements E.O. 12898 

and defines EJ as, among other things, 

‘‘the just treatment and meaningful 

involvement of all people, regardless of 

income, race, color, national origin, 

Tribal affiliation, or disability, in agency 

decision-making and other Federal 

activities that affect human health and 

the environment.’’ 

The State did not evaluate EJ 

considerations as part of its SIP 

submittal; the CAA and applicable 

implementing regulations neither 

prohibit nor require such an evaluation. 

The EPA did not perform an EJ analysis 

and did not consider EJ in this action. 

Consideration of EJ is not required as 

part of this action, and there is no 

information in the record inconsistent 

with the stated goal of Executive Orders 

12898 and 14096 of achieving EJ for 

communities with EJ concerns. 

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. Section 804, 

however, exempts from section 801 the 

following types of rules: rules of 

particular applicability; rules relating to 

agency management or personnel; and 

rules of agency organization, procedure, 

or practice that do not substantially 

affect the rights or obligations of nonagency parties. 5 U.S.C. 804(3). Because 

this is a rule of particular applicability, 

the EPA is not required to submit a rule 

report regarding this action under 

section 801. 

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 February 14, 

2025. 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. This action 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 oxides, Ozone, 

Particulate matter, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements, Volatile 

organic compounds. 

Dated: December 4, 2024. 

Martha Guzman Aceves, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the Environmental Protection 

Agency amends part 52, chapter I, title 

40 of the Code of Federal Regulations as 

follows: 

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 D—Arizona 

■ 2. Amend § 52.120, paragraph (d), in 

the table titled, ‘‘EPA-Approved SourceSpecific Requirements,’’ under the 

heading ‘‘Maricopa County Air Quality 

Department,’’ after the entry for ‘‘W.R. 

Meadows of Arizona, Inc., Goodyear, 

Arizona,’’ by adding three entries to 

read as follows: 

§ 52.120 Identification of plan. 

* * * * * 

EPA-APPROVED SOURCE-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

Name of source Order/permit No. Effective 

date EPA approval date Explanation 

*******

Maricopa County Air Quality Department 

*******

Deer Valley Transfer Station, Facility ID F000443.P0011601, conditions 37– 

46.

3/06/2024 12/16/2024, [INSERT 

FIRST PAGE OF FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION].

Permit issued by the Maricopa County 

Air Quality Department. Submitted on 

August 3, 2022. 

Revised copy submitted on April 3, 

2024, as an attachment to a letter 

dated March 29, 2024. 


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EPA-APPROVED SOURCE-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS—Continued 

Name of source Order/permit No. Effective 

date EPA approval date Explanation 

San Tan Transfer Station, 

Facility ID F001645.

P0011602, conditions 37– 

46.

3/06/2024 12/16/2024, [INSERT 

FIRST PAGE OF FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION].

Permit issued by the Maricopa County 

Air Quality Department. Submitted on 

August 3, 2022. 

Revised copy submitted on April 3, 

2024, as an attachment to a letter 

dated March 29, 2024. 

White Tanks Transfer Station, Facility ID F001646.P0011603, conditions 33– 

42.

3/06/2024 12/16/2024, [INSERT 

FIRST PAGE OF FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION].

Permit issued by the Maricopa County 

Air Quality Department. Submitted on 

August 3, 2022. 

Revised copy submitted on April 3, 

2024, as an attachment to a letter 

dated March 29, 2024. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 62 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2023–0199; FRL–10830.1– 

01–R7] 

Approval of State Plans for Designated 

Facilities and Pollutants; MO; Approval 

and Promulgation of Implementation 

Plans; Control of Emissions From 

Existing Municipal Solid Waste 

Landfills 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is approving a Clean Air 

Act (CAA) plan and two state rules 

submitted by the Missouri Department 

of Natural Resources (MoDNR) on July 

25, 2022. This plan was submitted to 

fulfill the state’s obligations under the 

CAA to implement and enforce the 

requirements of the Emissions 

Guidelines and Compliance Times for 

municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. 

This plan includes an inventory of 

affected sources and explains how the 

state rules fulfill the regulatory 

requirements needed for EPA to approve 

the plan. 

DATES: This final rule is effective on 

January 15, 2025. The incorporation by 

reference of the publication listed in 

this rule is approved by the Director of 

the Federal Register as of January 15, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

No. EPA–R07–OAR–2023–0199. All 

documents in the docket are listed on 

the https://www.regulations.gov 

website. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, i.e., Confidential Business 

Information (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 through https://

www.regulations.gov or please contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section for 

additional information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Allyson Prue, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region 7 Office, Air Permitting 

and Planning Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; 

telephone number: (913) 551–7277; 

email address: prue.allyson@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Background 

II. What is being addressed in this document? 

III. The EPA’s Response to Comments 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

V. Incorporation by Reference 

VI. Statutory and Executive Order Review 

I. Background 

On August 21, 2023, the EPA 

proposed to approve Missouri’s 

submitted section 111(d) State Plan with 

two accompanying state rule revisions 

and a SIP revision in the Federal 

Register (88 FR 56787). The EPA 

proposed to approve both the section 

111(d) State Plan with two 

accompanying state rule revisions and 

SIP revision together. On February 16, 

2024, the EPA finalized approval of the 

SIP revision to 10 CSR 10–5.490 

‘‘Municipal Solid Waste Landfills’’ 

(which covers the St. Louis area) into 

Missouri’s SIP (89 FR 12244). In this 

action, the EPA is finalizing approval of 

the section 111(d) State Plan and two 

accompanying state rule revisions. 

The proposed rule included 

additional background information on 

Missouri’s Municipal Solid Waste 

Landfill Rule for the St. Louis Ozone 

Nonattainment Area. The Technical 

Support Document (TSD), located in the 

docket for this rulemaking, includes the 

summary and analysis of Missouri’s SIP 

Revision. The EPA solicited comments 

on the proposed approval of the 

submission and received one comment. 

II. What is being addressed in this 

document? 

EPA is approving Missouri’s section 

111(d) State Plan for Existing MSW 

Landfills (Missouri’s section 111(d) 

State Plan) and two state rules 

accompanying the plan pursuant to 40 

CFR part 60, subparts B and Cf. 

Missouri state rule 10 Code of State 

Regulations (CSR) 10–6.310 ‘‘Restriction 

of Emissions from Municipal Solid 

Waste Landfills’’ (which covers all areas 

of Missouri except St. Louis) and 10 

CSR 10–5.490 ‘‘Municipal Solid Waste 

Landfills’’ (which covers the St. Louis 

area) provide the enforceable portion of 

Missouri’s section 111(d) State Plan. 

The state rules incorporate by reference 

the federal plan located at 40 CFR part 

62, subpart OOO as the underlying rule 

which implements and enforces the 

applicable provisions under the 2016 

MSW landfill Emissions Guidelines at 

40 CFR part 60, subpart Cf. 

EPA’s detailed rationale and 

discussion concerning Missouri’s 

section 111(d) State Plan, including the 

revisions to 10 CSR 10–6.310 and 10 

CSR 10–5.490 can be found in the EPA 

TSD, located in the docket for this 

rulemaking. 

III. The EPA’s Response to Comments 

The public comment period on the 

EPA’s proposed rule opened August 21, 

2023 the date of its publication in the 

Federal Register and closed on 


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