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New Orleans, U.S. Coast Guard; 

telephone 504–365–2231, email 

Thao.V.Nguyen@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast 

Guard will enforce the safety zone 

located in 33 CFR 165.801, Table 5, line 

15, for the Madisonville Old Fashioned 

4th of July event. The regulations will 

be enforced from 8 p.m. through 9 p.m. 

on July 3, 2021. This action is being 

taken to provide for the safety of life on 

these navigable waterways during this 

event. Our regulations for marine events 

within the Eighth Coast Guard District, 

33 CFR 168.801, as updated by the 

Federal Register document published at 

83 FR 55488, specifies the location of 

the regulated area on the Tchefuncte 

River, at approximate position 

30°24′19.717′′ N, 090°09′17.175 W, in 

front of the Madisonville Town Hall. 

During the enforcement period, as 

reflected in § 165.801(a) through (d), if 

you are the operator of a vessel in the 

regulated area, you must comply with 

directions from Captain of the Port 

Sector New Orleans or a designated 

representative. 

In addition to this notice of 

enforcement in the Federal Register, the 

Coast Guard plans to provide 

notification of this enforcement period 

via a Marine Safety Information Bulletin 

and/or Broadcast Notice to Mariners. 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

W.E. Watson, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port Sector New Orleans. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

33 CFR Part 165 

[Docket No. USCG–2021–0494] 

Security Zones, Seattle’s Seafair Fleet 

Week Moving Vessels, Puget Sound, 

WA 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, Department of 

Homeland Security (DHS). 

ACTION: Notification of non-enforcement 

of regulation. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will not 

enforce the security zones for Seattle’s 

Seafair Fleet Week moving vessels, 

Puget Sound, WA in July or August 

2021. The Captain of the Port Sector 

Puget Sound has determined that 

enforcement of this regulation is not 

necessary because the event is 

cancelled. 

DATES: The Coast Guard does not plan 

to enforce regulations in 33 CFR 

165.1333 in July or August 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about this 

notification of non-enforcement, call or 

email Lieutenant Peter McAndrew, 

Sector Puget Sound Waterways 

Management Division, U.S. Coast 

Guard; telephone 206–217–6051, email 

SectorPugetSoundWWM@uscg.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast 

Guard normally enforces the Security 

Zones in 33 CFR 165.1333 for the 

Seattle Seafair Fleet Week moving 

vessels and parade of ships. This event 

is typically held annually during the 

parade of ships between July 25 and 

August 14. This year, the event 

organizers cancelled Seafair and Fleet 

Week. Therefore, the Coast Guard does 

not plan to enforce the security zones in 

33 CFR 165.1333 in July or August 2021. 

In addition to this notification of nonenforcement in the Federal Register, if 

the situation changes and the Captain of 

the Port Sector Puget Sound (COTP) 

determines that the regulated area needs 

to be enforced, the COTP will issue a 

Broadcast Notice to Mariners and 

provide actual notice of enforcement to 

any persons in the regulated area. 

Dated: June 21, 2021. 

P.M. Hilbert, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port Sector Puget Sound. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R06–OAR–2021–0177; FRL–10024– 

83–Region 6] 

Air Plan Approval; Texas; Clean Air 

Act Requirements for Emissions 

Inventories for Nonattainment Areas 

for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is approving the portions 

of the State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

submitted by the State of Texas to meet 

the Emissions Inventory (EI) 

requirements of the Federal Clean Air 

Act (CAA or the Act), for the Dallas-Fort 

Worth (DFW), Houston-GalvestonBrazoria (HGB), and Bexar County 

ozone nonattainment areas for the 2015 

8-hour ozone national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS). EPA is 

approving this action pursuant to 

section 110 and part D of the CAA and 

EPA’s regulations. 

DATES: This final rule is effective on July 

29, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action Docket No. EPA– 

R06–OAR–2021–0177. All documents in 

the docket are listed on the https://

www.regulations.gov. Although listed in 

the index, some information is not 

publicly available, e.g., Confidential 

Business Information 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 through https://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nevine Salem, EPA Region 6 Office, 

Infrastructure and Ozone Section, 214– 

665–7222, salem.nevine@epa.gov. Out 

of an abundance of caution for members 

of the public and our staff, the EPA 

Region 6 office will be closed to the 

public to reduce the risk of transmitting 

COVID–19. Please call or email the 

contact listed above if you need 

alternative access to material indexed 

but not provided in the docket. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document wherever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

the EPA. 

I. Background 

On March 26, 2021 (86 FR 16171), the 

EPA published a Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (NPRM) for the State of 

Texas, for approval of the State’s 2017 

base year emissions inventories for the 

DFW, HGB, and the Bexar County 

marginal ozone nonattainment areas for 

the 2015 ozone NAAQS. The 

background for this action and rational 

for EPA’s proposed action are explained 

in the NPRM and will not be restated 

here. 

II. Response to Comments 

We received one anonymous 

comment that did not raise any 

substantive issues with the proposed 

rule. The comment did not explain (or 

provide any legal basis for) how the 

proposed action should differ in any 

way. We determined that the comment 

is not germane to the final rulemaking 

and therefore requires no further 

response. We also noted a typographical 

error in the NPRM—the numbers in 

Tables 1, 2 and 3 that summarize the 

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1A copy of the SIP revision is available online at 

www.regulations.gov, Docket number EPA–R06– 

OAR–2021–0177. 

in DFW, HGB and Bexar County 

marginal nonattainment areas, were 

transposed for the On-road Mobile and 

Non-road Mobile sources. This 

correction does not change or affect the 

total NOX or VOC emissions in the 2017 

emission inventory for these marginal 

nonattainment areas for typical ozone 

season day emissions. In the interest of 

good government, we are including the 

corrected Tables 1, 2 and 3 below. We 

also note that the original and correct 

tables were included in the State’s SIP 

revision submittal and are included in 

the docket for this rule making.1

TABLE 1—DFW 2017 EMISSIONS

INVENTORY

[Tons per day] 

Source type NOX VOC 

Point .................. 29.90 21.04 

Nonpoint (Area) 41.82 293.62 

Non-road Mobile 74.79 31.74 

On-road Mobile 125.13 60.56 

Total ........... 271.64 406.96 

TABLE 2—HGB 2017 EMISSIONS

INVENTORY

[Tons per day] 

Source type NOX VOC 

Point .................. 97.31 73.34 

Nonpoint (Area) 32.12 287.74 

Non-road Mobile 86.34 32.29 

On-road Mobile 101.49 58.65 

Total ........... 317.26 452.02 

TABLE 3—BEXAR COUNTY 2017 

EMISSIONS INVENTORY

[Tons per day] 

Source type NOX VOC 

Point .................. 29.88 3.56 

Nonpoint (Area) 6.62 74.61 

Non-road Mobile 11.42 7.09 

On-road Mobile 35.70 20.84 

Total ........... 83.62 106.10 

III. Final Action 

EPA is approving the portion of the 

Texas SIP revisions submitted on June 

24, 2020 to address the emissions 

inventory requirements for the DFW, 

HGB, and Bexar County nonattainment 

areas for the 2015 ozone NAAQS. 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Under the CAA, 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 CAA. Accordingly, this action 

merely proposes to approve 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 13563 (76 FR 3821, 

January 21, 2011); 

• 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 (Pub. L. 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); 

• 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 CAA; 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, the SIP is not approved 

to apply on any Indian reservation land 

or in any other area where EPA or an 

Indian tribe has demonstrated that a 

tribe has jurisdiction. In those areas of 

Indian country, the proposed 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). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, 

Reporting and record keeping 

requirements, Volatile organic 

compounds. 

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

Dated: June 22, 2021. 

David Gray, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the EPA amends 40 CFR part 

52 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 SS—Texas 

■ 2. In § 52.2270, the second table in 

paragraph (e), titled ‘‘EPA Approved 

Nonregulatory Provisions and QuasiRegulatory Measures in the Texas SIP,’’ 

is amended by adding an entry for 

‘‘2017 Emissions Inventory for the 2015 

Ozone NAAQS’’ at the end of the table 

to read as follows: 

§ 52.2270 Identification of plan. 

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(e) * * * 


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EPA APPROVED NONREGULATORY PROVISIONS AND QUASI-REGULATORY MEASURES IN THE TEXAS SIP 

Name of SIP provision Applicable geographic or nonattainment area 

State 

submittal/ 

effective 

date 

EPA approval date Comments 

*******

2017 Emissions Inventory for 

the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston GalvestonBrazoria, and Bexar County Ozone Nonattainment Areas.June 24, 

2020 

June 29, 2021 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 81 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–0464; FRL–10024–27– 

OAR] 

Air Quality Designations for the 2010 

1-Hour SO2 NAAQS: Responses to 

Petitions for Reconsideration and 

Administrative Stay of the 

Designations for Portions of Freestone 

and Anderson Counties, Rusk and 

Panola Counties, and Titus County in 

Texas 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notification of actions denying 

petitions for reconsideration and 

administrative stay. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is providing notice that it 

has responded to petitions for 

reconsideration and/or administrative 

stay of a final action under the Clean Air 

Act (CAA) published in the Federal 

Register on December 13, 2016, titled, 

‘‘Air Quality Designations for the 2010 

Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard— 

Supplement to Round 2 for Four Areas 

in Texas: Freestone and Anderson 

Counties, Milam County, Rusk and 

Panola Counties, and Titus County.’’ 

The EPA has denied these petitions in 

letters to the petitioners for the reasons 

that the EPA explains in those 

documents. 

DATES: The Administrator signed the 

associated notification letters on June 

10, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Corey Mocka, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, Air Quality 

Policy Division, 109 T.W. Alexander 

Drive, Mail Code C539–04, Research 

Triangle Park, NC 27711; phone 

number: (919) 541–5142; email address: 

mocka.corey@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The EPA is providing notice that it 

has responded to petitions for 

reconsideration and/or administrative 

stay of a final action under the CAA 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 13, 2016, titled, ‘‘Air Quality 

Designations for the 2010 Sulfur 

Dioxide (SO2) Primary National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard— 

Supplement to Round 2 for Four Areas 

in Texas: Freestone and Anderson 

Counties, Milam County, Rusk and 

Panola Counties, and Titus County’’ (81 

FR 89870). On February 13, 2017, Vistra 

Energy submitted a petition requesting 

that the EPA reconsider and stay the 

effective date of the EPA’s 

nonattainment designations for portions 

of Freestone and Anderson Counties, 

Rusk and Panola Counties, and Titus 

County. Vistra Energy later 

supplemented this petition on 

December 19, 2017. On March 15, 2017, 

the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality (TCEQ) 

submitted a request for administrative 

stay of the effective date for the EPA’s 

final designations for these areas in 

Texas. The TCEQ also submitted a 

petition for reconsideration of the 

nonattainment designations on 

December 11, 2017. The EPA has denied 

these petitions in letters to the 

petitioners for the reasons that the EPA 

explains in those documents. 

II. Where can I get copies of this 

document and other related 

information? 

This Federal Register document, the 

petitions for reconsideration and 

administrative stay, and the response 

letters to the petitioners are available in 

the docket that the EPA established for 

the rulemaking, under Docket ID NO. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–0464. 

All documents in the docket are listed 

in the index at http://

www.regulations.gov. Although listed in 

the index, some information may not be 

publicly available, i.e., Confidential 

Business Information 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. 

Out of an abundance of caution for 

members of the public and our staff, the 

EPA is temporarily suspending the 

Docket Center and Reading Room for 

public visitors to reduce the risk of 

transmitting COVID–19. Our Docket 

Center staff will continue to provide 

remote customer service via email, 

phone, and webform. For further 

information and updates on EPA Docket 

Center services, please visit us online at 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets. The EPA 

continues to carefully and continuously 

monitor information from the Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention, 

local area health departments, and our 

federal partners so we can respond 

rapidly as conditions change regarding 

COVID–19. 

In addition, the EPA has established 

a website for SO2 designations 

rulemakings at: https://www.epa.gov/ 

sulfur-dioxide-designations. This 

Federal Register notice, the petitions for 

reconsideration and administrative stay, 

and the response letters denying the 

petitions are also available on this 

website along with other information. 

III. Judicial Review 

Section 307(b)(1) of the CAA governs 

judicial review of final actions by the 

EPA. This section provides, in part, that 

petitions for review must be filed in the 

Court of Appeals for the District of 

Columbia Circuit: (i) When the agency 

action consists of ‘‘nationally applicable 

regulations promulgated, or final actions 

taken, by the Administrator,’’ or (ii) 

when such action is locally or regionally 

applicable, if ‘‘such action is based on 

a determination of nationwide scope or 

effect and if in taking such action the 

Administrator finds and publishes that 

such action is based on such a 

determination.’’ For locally or regionally 

applicable final actions, the CAA 

reserves to the EPA complete discretion 

whether to invoke the exception in (ii). 


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