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1 78 FR 3086, January 15, 2013. 

2See 40 CFR 50.18 and 40 CFR part 50, appendix 

N. 

3 80 FR 2206 (January 15, 2015). 

4 81 FR 58010, effective October 24, 2016. 

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Air Plan Approval; Pennsylvania; 

Allegheny County Area Fine 

Particulate Matter Clean Data 

Determination 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to determine 

that the Allegheny County, 

Pennsylvania nonattainment area has 

clean data for the 2012 annual fine 

particulate matter (PM2.5) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard 

(NAAQS). This proposed clean data 

determination (CDD) under EPA’s Clean 

Data Policy is based upon qualityassured, quality-controlled, and 

certified ambient air quality monitoring 

data showing that the area has attained 

the 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS based on 2018– 

2020 data available in EPA’s Air Quality 

System (AQS) database. Based on the 

proposed clean data determination, EPA 

is also proposing to determine that the 

requirements for Pennsylvania to make 

submissions to meet certain Clean Air 

Act (CAA or the Act) requirements 

related to attainment of the NAAQS for 

this area are not applicable for as long 

as the area continues to attain the 2012 

annual PM2.5 NAAQS. This action is 

being taken under the CAA. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before October 4, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

OAR–2021–0307 at https://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

gordon.mike@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

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cannot be edited or removed from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of 

submission, EPA may publish any 

comment received to its public docket. 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Rehn, Planning & Implementation 

Branch (3AD30), Air & Radiation 

Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. The 

telephone number is (215) 814–2176. 

Mr. Rehn can also be reached via 

electronic mail at rehn.brian@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, wherever 

‘‘we’’, ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’ are used, it is 

intended to refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Background 

II. Clean Data Determination for the 

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 2012 

PM2.5 NAAQS Nonattainment Area 

III. Proposed Action 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Background 

On December 14, 2012, EPA 

promulgated a revised primary annual 

PM2.5 NAAQS to provide increased 

protection of public health from fine 

particle pollution (2012 PM2.5

NAAQS).1 In that action, EPA 

strengthened the primary annual PM2.5

standard, lowering the level from 15.0 

micrograms per cubic meter (mg/m3) to 

12.0 mg/m3, and retained the 24-hour 

PM2.5 NAAQS at a level of 35 mg/m3. 

The 2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS is 

attained when the 3-year average of the 

annual arithmetic means does not 

exceed 12.0 mg/m3.2 Effective April 15, 

2015, EPA established air quality 

designations, as required by section 

107(d)(1) of the CAA, for the 2012 

annual PM2.5 NAAQS.3 In that action, 

EPA designated the Allegheny County 

Area in Pennsylvania as Moderate 

nonattainment for the 2012 annual 

PM2.5 NAAQS. 

On August 24, 2016, EPA issued the 

Fine Particulate Matter National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards: State 

Implementation Plan Requirements 

(PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule).4 The 

PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule is codified 

at 40 CFR part 51, subpart Z and 


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5 83 FR 14759 (April 6, 2018). 

6Per the requirements for determining whether 

an area has attained the annual PM2.5 NAAQS at 40 

CFR 50.18(c) and 40 CFR Appendix N to part 50. 

7See 81 FR 58010, 58161 (August 24, 2016). 

8See 81 FR 58009 at 58028 and 58127–8 (August 

24, 2016) and 80 FR 15340 at 15441–2 (March 23, 

2015). 

9See 81 FR 58010 at 58107 and 58127 (August 

24, 2016). 

provides rules for the implementation of 

current and future PM2.5 NAAQS. 

On April 6, 2018, EPA issued a 

finding of failure to submit under 

section 110(k) of the CAA finding that 

several states, including Pennsylvania, 

failed to submit specific moderate area 

SIP elements for the 2012 annual PM2.5

NAAQS required under subpart 4 of 

part D of Title I of the CAA.5 In 

particular, Pennsylvania was late in 

submitting the following specific 

moderate area SIP elements for the 

Allegheny County Area: An attainment 

demonstration; control strategies, 

including reasonably available control 

measures (RACM) and reasonably 

available control technologies (RACT); a 

reasonable further progress (RFP) plan; 

quantitative milestones; and 

contingency measures. That finding 

triggered the sanctions clock under 

section 179 of the CAA, as well as an 

obligation under section 110(c) of the 

CAA for EPA to promulgate a Federal 

Implementation Plan (FIP) no later than 

two years from the effective date of the 

finding, if Pennsylvania did not submit, 

and EPA had not approved, the required 

SIP element submission(s). 

Pennsylvania submitted the required 

Allegheny County Area PM2.5 Plan on 

September 30, 2019. On November 1, 

2019, EPA determined the submitted 

PM2.5 Plan for the Allegheny County 

Area to be technically and 

administratively complete, per the 

requirements in accordance with CAA 

section 110(k) and 40 CFR part 51, 

appendix V. This completeness 

determination corrected the deficiency 

identified in EPA’s April 6, 2018 (83 FR 

14759) document finding that 

Pennsylvania failed to submit certain 

nonattainment area planning 

requirements for the Allegheny County 

Area for the 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS, turning 

off the sanctions clock (but not the FIP 

clock) triggered by the April 6, 2018 

finding. On May 14, 2021 (86 FR 26388), 

EPA approved most required elements 

of the Allegheny County Area PM2.5

Plan, except for the contingency 

measures element of the plan, which 

EPA conditionally approved. That 

action terminated EPA’s FIP obligation 

for all CAA required nonattainment 

plan elements except for the 

contingency measures element. As to 

the contingency measures element of 

the Allegheny County Area PM2.5 Plan, 

EPA’s May 14, 2021 conditional 

approval action suspended EPA’s FIP 

obligation for the duration of the 

conditional approval. Upon EPA’s 

approval of a SIP submission fulfilling 

the State commitment that had provided 

the basis for the conditional approval, 

EPA’s FIP obligation with respect to the 

contingency measures element of the 

Allegheny County Area Plan will be 

terminated. 

In accordance with the requirements 

of 40 CFR 51.1015, EPA may issue a 

clean data determination for a specific 

area if we determine the area has 

attained the relevant NAAQS based on 

three years of quality-assured, certified 

air quality monitoring data.6 Over the 

past two decades, EPA has consistently 

applied its Clean Data Policy 

interpretation to attainment related 

provisions of subparts 1, 2, and 4 of the 

CAA. EPA codified portions of the 

longstanding Clean Data Policy 

approach in the PM2.5 SIP Requirements 

Rule (40 CFR 51.1015(a)) for the 

implementation of current and future 

PM2.5 NAAQS.7 For a complete 

discussion of the history of EPA’s Clean 

Data Policy and our longstanding 

interpretation of that policy under the 

CAA, please refer to the August 24, 2016 

PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule (81 FR 

58010). 

As provided in 40 CFR 51.1015, so 

long as an area continues to meet the 

NAAQS, finalization of a CDD suspends 

the requirements for a nonattainment 

area to submit an attainment 

demonstration, associated RACM and 

RACT, an RFP plan, quantitative 

milestones, contingency measures, and 

any other SIP planning requirements 

related to the attainment of the 2012 

annual PM2.5 NAAQS. The requirement 

to submit a projected attainment 

inventory as part of an attainment 

demonstration or RFP plan is also 

suspended by this determination. As 

discussed in the 2016 PM2.5 SIP 

Requirements Rule, the nonattainment 

base year emissions inventory required 

by section 172(c)(3) of the CAA is not 

suspended by this determination 

because the base inventory is a 

requirement independent of planning 

for an area’s attainment.8 Additionally, 

as discussed in the PM2.5 SIP 

Requirements Rule (and required by 

sections 110(a)(2)(C); 172(c)(5); 173; 

189(a), and 189(e) of the CAA), 

nonattainment New Source Review 

(NNSR) requirements are not suspended 

by a CDD because this requirement is 

independent of the area’s attainment 

planning.9

By extension, the requirement to 

submit a motor vehicle emissions 

budget (MVEB) for the attainment year 

for the purposes of transportation 

conformity is also suspended. A MVEB 

is that portion of the total criteria 

pollutant emissions associated with 

allowable highway and transit vehicle 

use, as defined in the submitted or 

approved control strategy 

implementation plan revision or 

maintenance plan, for a certain date. 

The MVEB serves as a cap on highway 

mobile source section emissions for the 

purpose of meeting RFP milestones or 

demonstrating attainment or 

maintenance of the NAAQS. For 

purposes of the transportation 

conformity regulations, the control 

strategy implementation plan revision is 

the implementation plan which 

contains specific strategies for 

controlling the emissions of, and 

reducing ambient levels of, pollutants in 

order to satisfy CAA requirements for 

demonstrations of RFP and attainment. 

Given that MVEBs are required to 

support RFP and attainment 

demonstration requirements in the 

attainment plan, suspension of the RFP 

and attainment demonstration 

requirements through a CDD also 

suspends the requirement to submit 

MVEBs for attainment and RFP 

milestone years. Suspension of planning 

requirements under the clean data 

policy (pursuant to 40 CFR 51.1015) 

does not preclude the state from 

submitting suspended elements of its 

moderate area attainment plan for EPA 

approval for the purposes of 

strengthening the state’s SIP, nor does 

issuance of a CDD compel the state to 

withdraw previously submitted or SIPapproved elements of its moderate area 

attainment plan. 

A CDD is not equivalent to a 

redesignation under CAA section 

107(d)(3), and the state must still meet 

the statutory requirements for 

redesignation in order to be 

redesignated to attainment. In 

accordance with 40 CFR 51.1015(a)(1) 

and (2), a CDD suspends the 

aforementioned SIP obligations until the 

area is redesignated to attainment (after 

which time such requirements are 

permanently discharged); or until EPA 

determines that the area has re-violated 

the PM2.5 NAAQS. In the event the area 

re-violates the NAAQS, the state shall 

once again be required to submit all 

required attainment plan elements for 

the Moderate nonattainment area, by a 

deadline established by EPA through 

publication in the Federal Register of 

the determination that the area is once 


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10See 40 CFR part 50, appendix N. 11See EPA’s Air Quality Design Values web page, 

at https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/air-qualitydesign-values. 

again violating the 2012 annual PM2.5

NAAQS. 

II. Clean Data Determination for the 

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 2012 

PM2.5 NAAQS Nonattainment Area 

Under EPA regulations at 40 CFR 

50.18 and part 50, appendix N, the 2012 

annual PM2.5 NAAQS is met when the 

3-year average of PM2.5 annual mean 

mass concentrations for each eligible 

monitoring site is less than or equal to 

12.0 mg/m3. Three years of valid, annual 

means are required to produce a valid 

annual PM2.5 NAAQS design value. A 

year of data meets data completeness 

requirements when quarterly data 

capture rates for all four quarters are at 

least 75 percent from eligible 

monitoring sites.10 By a letter to EPA 

dated March 08, 2021, Allegheny 

County Health Department (ACHD) 

certified its 2020 ambient air quality 

monitoring data. EPA issued final 2018– 

2020 design values on May 24, 2021.11

There are nine PM2.5 eligible Federal 

Reference Method (FRM) or Federal 

Equivalent Method (FEM) monitoring 

sites in the Allegheny County 

nonattainment area. Table 1 in this 

document shows the Allegheny County 

Area design values for the 2012 annual 

PM2.5 NAAQS for the years 2018–2020 

at all area monitoring sites. 

TABLE 1—2018–2020 ANNUAL PM2.5 VALUES FOR THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AREA

Monitor name Monitor ID 

Weighted mean 

(μg/m3) 

Complete quarters Certified annual 

design value 

2018–2020 

(μg/m3 2018 2019 2020 ) 2018 2019 2020 

Avalon .................................................................. 420030002 9.61 9.89 8.57 4 4 4 9.4 

Lawrenceville ....................................................... 420030008 8.97 8.97 7.66 4 4 4 8.5 

South Fayette ....................................................... 420030067 8.12 7.65 6.56 4 4 4 7.4 

North Park ............................................................ 420030093 * 7.2 6.81 * 5.74 3 4 3 * 6.6 

Harrison ................................................................ 420031008 9.25 8.64 7.32 4 4 4 8.4 

North Braddock .................................................... 420031301 10.17 9.85 9.03 4 4 4 9.7 

Clairton ................................................................. 420033007 8.80 7.87 7.34 4 4 4 8.0 

Liberty .................................................................. 420030064 11.52 12.16 9.76 4 4 4 11.1 

Parkway East ....................................................... 420031376 10.25 10.79 8.97 4 4 4 10.0 

* North Park has incomplete data sets for 2018 and 2020. 

TABLE 2—DATA CAPTURE RATES (%) AND CREDITABLE SAMPLES BY QUARTER (Q) FOR THE NORTH PARK MONITOR

[420030093] 

2018 2019 2020 

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 

Creditable Samples .................................. 15 15 16 5 14 15 15 14 15 14 15 2 

Capture Rate ............................................ 100 100 100 33 93 100 94 93 100 93 94 13 

As shown in Table 1 in this 

document, for monitors in the 

Allegheny County area, all but the North 

Park monitoring location have complete 

2018–2020 reporting data capture rates 

of at least 75%. At the North Park 

monitoring site, the fourth quarter in 

2018 and the fourth quarter in 2020 for 

the North Park monitor [Monitor ID 

420030093] had a data capture rate of 

33% and 13%, respectively. The North 

Park monitor data was incomplete in 

fourth quarter 2018 because of a roof 

replacement taking place at the monitor 

location and North Park was approved 

for shut down in the third quarter of 

2020 in ACHD’s ‘‘Annual Monitoring 

Plan for Calendar Year 2021.’’ 

Consistent with the requirements 

contained in 40 CFR part 58, EPA has 

reviewed the PM2.5 ambient air quality 

monitoring data for the monitoring 

period from 2018 through 2020 for the 

Allegheny County nonattainment area, 

as recorded in the AQS database, and 

has determined the data meet the 

quality assurance requirements set forth 

in 40 CFR part 58. In this respect, the 

data has been deemed usable by EPA for 

regulatory compliance purposes. As 

shown in Table 1 in this document, 

each quarter from 2018 through 2020 is 

complete, with all four quarters 

reporting data capture rates of at least 75 

percent (with the exception of the North 

Park monitor, as noted above). The 

highest certified annual design value for 

2018–2020 is 11.1 mg/m3, with all nine 

ambient monitors below the 2012 

annual PM2.5 NAAQS of 12.0 mg/m3. 

Therefore, the Allegheny County 

nonattainment area has attained the 

2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS in 

accordance with the requirements in 40 

CFR 50.18 and appendix N. 

III. Proposed Action 

Pursuant to the PM2.5 Clean Data 

Policy codified at 40 CFR 51.1015, EPA 

proposes to determine that based on 

three years of certified, valid monitoring 

data between 2018 and 2020, the 

Allegheny County nonattainment area 

has attained the 2012 annual PM2.5

NAAQS. Pursuant to 40 CFR 51.1015(a), 

and based upon our proposed clean data 

determination that the Allegheny 

County Area has attained the NAAQS, 

EPA proposes to determine that the 

CAA requirements to submit 

attainment-related SIP revisions arising 

from classification of the Area as 

Moderate nonattainment under subpart 

4 of part D, of title I of the Act for the 

2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS are not 

applicable for so long as the area 

continues to attain the 2012 annual 

PM2.5 NAAQS. In particular, if EPA 

finalizes this determination, it will 

suspend the requirements for the area to 

submit an attainment demonstration, 

RACM and RACT, RFP plan, 

quantitative milestones, contingency 

measures, and any other SIP 

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13 83 FR 14759 (April 6, 2018) (noting that ‘‘EPA 

is obligated to promulgate a federal implementation 

plan (FIP) to address any outstanding SIP 

requirements, if a state does not submit, and EPA 

does not approve, a state’s submission within 24 

months of the effective date of these findings’’). 

of the 2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS, so 

long as the area continues to meet the 

NAAQS, until the area is redesignated 

to attainment. If this proposed CDD 

action is finalized, the FIP clock 

triggered by the EPA’s April 6, 2018 

finding of failure to submit will be 

suspended for these plan elements for as 

long as the CDD remains in effect.12

EPA’s May 14, 2021 conditional 

approval of the contingency measures 

element of the Allegheny County Area 

PM2.5 Plan suspended EPA’s FIP 

obligation with respect to this element 

of the plan for the duration of the 

conditional approval. If EPA approves a 

SIP submission fulfilling the State 

commitment that had provided the basis 

for the conditional approval, the FIP 

obligation triggered by EPA’s April 6, 

2018 finding of failure to submit will be 

terminated. Alternatively, if the State 

fails to fulfill its commitment and EPA 

converts the conditional approval to a 

disapproval, the conditional approval 

would no longer provide a basis for 

suspending EPA’s FIP obligation, 

because the State would have failed to 

correct the deficiency identified in 

EPA’s April 6, 2018 finding of failure to 

submit.13 If, however, EPA finalizes our 

proposed CDD for the area, the CDD 

would provide an independent basis for 

continued suspension of the FIP 

obligation, for so long as the area 

continues to attain the 2012 PM2.5

NAAQS. If the area then violates the 

NAAQS and EPA rescinds the CDD, the 

CDD would also no longer provide a 

basis for suspending EPA’s FIP 

obligation, and EPA would have an 

immediate obligation to promulgate a 

FIP addressing the contingency measure 

requirement for the 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS 

in the Allegheny County area. 

This proposed clean data 

determination does not constitute a 

redesignation to attainment of the 

NAAQS. The Allegheny County Area 

will remain designated nonattainment 

for the 2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS until 

such time that EPA determines the 

Allegheny County nonattainment area 

meets the CAA requirements for 

redesignation to attainment, including 

an approved maintenance plan, 

pursuant to CAA sections 107 and 

175A. EPA is soliciting public 

comments on this proposed action, 

which we will consider prior to taking 

final action. 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

This rulemaking action makes a clean 

data determination for attainment of the 

2012 PM2.5 NAAQS based on air quality 

and does not impose additional 

requirements. For that reason, this clean 

data determination: 

• 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, this proposed clean data 

determination for the Allegheny County 

Area for the 2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS 

does not have tribal implications as 

specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 

FR 67249, November 9, 2000), because 

the SIP is not approved to apply in 

Indian country located in the State, and 

EPA notes that it will not impose 

substantial direct costs on tribal 

governments or preempt tribal law. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Particulate matter, and 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Dated: August 26, 2021. 

Diana Esher, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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Approval and Promulgation of 

Implementation Plans; North Dakota; 

Revisions To Permitting Regulations 

Unrelated to Regional Haze; Correction 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) published a proposed 

rule in the Federal Register on August 

2, 2021. The revisions contain 

amendments to the State of North 

Dakota’s Air Pollution Control 

Regulations and to the State’s Legal 

Authority. The August 2, 2021 

published rule had the incorrect docket 

number. This published rule corrects 

the docket number for the August 2, 

2021 rulemaking. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before October 4, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R08– 

OAR–2021–0005, to the Federal 

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