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1The welfare effects considered in this 

reconsideration include visibility impairment, 

climate effects, and materials effects (i.e., damage 

and soiling). Ecological effects of PM, such as those 

related to deposition of nitrogen- and sulfurcontaining compounds in vulnerable ecosystems, 

are being considered in the separate, on-going 

review of the secondary NAAQS for oxides of 

nitrogen and oxides of sulfur. 

2The press release for this announcement is 

available at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epareexamine-health-standards-harmful-soot-previousadministration-left-unchanged 

3The 2019 ISA and the ISA Supplement are 

available at: https://www.epa.gov/naaqs/ 

particulate-matter-pm-standards-integratedscience-assessments-current-review 

4For more information, see: https://

casac.epa.gov/ords/sab/ 

f?p=105:18:667108909508:::RP,18:P18_ID:2606 

5For more information, see: https://

casac.epa.gov/ords/sab/f?p=105:18:

13023836743815:::RP,18:P18_ID:2607#meeting. 

in the docket EERE–2017–BT–STD– 

0022–0010. 

Through this notification, DOE will 

reopen the comment period and accept 

submissions of comments, data, 

information until June 7, 2022. 

Accordingly, DOE will now accept 

written comments and information on 

the notification of a preliminary 

analysis regarding energy conservation 

standards for ACIMs submitted on and 

before June 7, 2022. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on May 23, 2022, by 

Kelly J. Speakes-Backman, Principal 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document 

with the original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on May 23, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR 52 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2015–0072; FRL–8635–04– 

OAR] 

Release of the Policy Assessment for 

the Reconsideration of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Particulate Matter 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability; policy 

assessment. 

SUMMARY: On or about May 23, 2022, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

will make available the document, 

Policy Assessment for the 

Reconsideration of the National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards for 

Particulate Matter (PA). This document 

was prepared as a part of the current 

reconsideration of the 2020 final 

decision on the National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards (NAAQS) for 

Particulate Matter (PM). The PA serves 

to ‘‘bridge the gap’’ between the 

currently available scientific and 

technical information and the 

judgments required of the Administrator 

in determining whether to retain or 

revise the existing PM NAAQS. 

DATES: This document will be available 

on or about May 23, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: This document will be 

available on the EPA’s website at 

https://www.epa.gov/naaqs/particulatematter-pm-air-quality-standards. The 

document will be accessible under 

‘‘Policy Assessments’’ from the current 

review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Lars Perlmutt, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards, (Mail Code 

C539–04), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Research Triangle 

Park, NC 27711; telephone number: 

919–541–3037, fax number: 919–541– 

5315; or email: perlmutt.lars@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Two 

sections of the Clean Air Act (CAA or 

the Act) govern the establishment and 

revision of the NAAQS. Section 108 

directs the Administrator to identify and 

list certain air pollutants and then issue 

‘‘air quality criteria’’ for those 

pollutants. The air quality criteria are to 

‘‘accurately reflect the latest scientific 

knowledge useful in indicating the kind 

and extent of all identifiable effects on 

public health or welfare which may be 

expected from the presence of such 

pollutant in the ambient air . . .’’ (CAA 

section 108(a)(2)). Under section 109 of 

the Act, the EPA is then to establish 

primary (health-based) and secondary 

(welfare-based) NAAQS for each 

pollutant for which the EPA has issued 

air quality criteria. Section 109(d)(1) of 

the Act requires periodic review and, if 

appropriate, revision of existing air 

quality criteria. Revised air quality 

criteria are to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health and 

welfare. Under the same provision, the 

EPA is also to periodically review and, 

if appropriate, revise the NAAQS, based 

on the revised air quality criteria. 

The Act additionally requires 

appointment of an independent 

scientific review committee that is to 

periodically review the existing air 

quality criteria and NAAQS and to 

recommend any new standards and 

revisions of existing criteria and 

standards as may be appropriate (CAA 

section 109(d)(2)(A)–(B)). Since the 

early 1980s, the requirement for an 

independent scientific review 

committee has been fulfilled by the 

Clean Air Scientific Advisory 

Committee (CASAC). In December 2020, 

the EPA announced its final decision to 

retain the primary and secondary PM2.5

and PM10 standards, without revision 

(85 FR 82684, December 18, 2020).1 On 

June 10, 2021, the Agency announced 

its decision to reconsider the 2020 p.m. 

NAAQS final action.2 In its 

announcement of the reconsideration of 

the PM NAAQS, the Agency explained 

that, in support of the reconsideration, 

it would develop a supplement to the 

2019 Integrated Science Assessment 

(ISA Supplement) 3 and an updated PA. 

A draft of the ISA Supplement was 

released in September 2021 (86 FR 

54186, September 30, 2021) and a draft 

of the PA was released in October 2021 

(86 FR 56263, October 8, 2021). The 

draft ISA Supplement and the draft PA 

were reviewed by the seven-member 

chartered CASAC, with support from 

the PM CASAC Panel.4 5 The final PA 

reflects consideration of the advice and 

comments from the CASAC, as well as 

public comments, on the draft PA. The 

PA serves to ‘‘bridge the gap’’ between 

the scientific and technical information 

in the 2019 ISA and ISA Supplement 

and any air quality, exposure and risk 

analyses available in the 

reconsideration, and the judgments 

required of the Administrator in 

determining whether to retain or revise 

the existing PM NAAQS. The PA builds 

upon the information presented in the 

2019 ISA, the ISA Supplement, and the 

2020 PA. The PA document will be 

available on or about May 23, 2022, on 

the EPA’s website at https://

www.epa.gov/naaqs/particulate-matterpm-air-quality-standards. 

The document briefly described above 

does not represent and should not be 

construed to represent any final EPA 

policy, viewpoint, or determination. 


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Dated: May 16, 2022. 

Panagiotis Tsirigotis, 

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards. 

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[EPA–R07–OAR–2022–0422; FRL–9838–01– 

R7] 

Air Plan Approval; Missouri; 

Construction Permit Exemptions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Missouri State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) received on 

June 10, 2021. The submission revises 

Missouri’s regulation on construction 

permit exemptions. These revisions 

include updates to incorporations by 

reference, remove unnecessary words, 

and make minor clarifications and 

grammatical changes. These revisions 

do not impact the stringency of the SIP 

or have an adverse effect on air quality. 

The EPA’s proposed approval of this 

rule revision is being done in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

Clean Air Act (CAA). 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 27, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2022–0422 to https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

rulemaking. Comments received will be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments and additional information 

on the rulemaking process, see the 

‘‘Written Comments’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bethany Olson, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 7 Office, Air 

Quality Planning Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; 

telephone number: (913) 551–7905; 

email address: olson.bethany@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Written Comments 

II. What is being addressed in this document? 

III. Have the requirements for approval of a 

SIP revision been met? 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

V. Incorporation by Reference 

VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Written Comments 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–R07–OAR–2022– 

0422, at https://www.regulations.gov. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

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

commenting-epa-dockets. 

II. What is being addressed in this 

document? 

The EPA is proposing to approve 

revisions to the Missouri SIP received 

on June 10, 2021. The revisions are to 

Title 10, Division 10 of the Code of State 

Regulations (CSR), 10 CSR 10–6.061 

‘‘Construction Permit Exemptions’’. The 

purpose of the state regulation is to list 

specific construction or modification 

projects that are exempt from the 

requirement to obtain permits to 

construct under 10 CSR 10–6.060. 

Missouri made several revisions to the 

rule. These proposed revisions to the 

rule update incorporations by 

references, remove unnecessary words, 

and make minor clarifications and 

grammatical changes. EPA proposes to 

find that these revisions meet the 

requirements of the Clean Air Act, do 

not impact the stringency of the SIP, 

and do not adversely impact air quality. 

The full text of the rule revisions as well 

as EPA’s analysis of the revisions are 

contained in the technical support 

document (TSD) included in the docket 

for this action. 

III. Have the requirements for approval 

of a SIP revision been met? 

The State submission has met the 

public notice requirements for SIP 

submissions in accordance with 40 CFR 

51.102. The submission also satisfied 

the completeness criteria of 40 CFR part 

51, appendix V. The State provided 

public notice on this SIP revision from 

January 2, 2020, to April 2, 2020, and 

held a public hearing on March 26, 

2020. Missouri received six comments 

from three sources during the comment 

period on 10 CSR 10–6.061. The EPA 

provided four comments. Missouri 

responded to all comments and revised 

the rule based on public comment prior 

to submitting to EPA, as noted in the 

State submission included in the docket 

for this action. 

In addition, as explained above and in 

more detail in the technical support 

document (TSD) which is part of this 

docket, the revision meets the 

substantive SIP requirements of the 

CAA, including section 110 and 

implementing regulations. 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

The EPA is proposing to amend the 

Missouri SIP by approving the State’s 

request to revise 10 CSR 10–6.061 

‘‘Construction Permit Exemptions.’’ We 

are processing this as a proposed action 

because we are soliciting comments on 

this proposed action. Final rulemaking 

will occur after consideration of any 

comments. 

V. Incorporation by Reference 

In this document, the EPA is 

proposing to include regulatory text in 

an EPA final rule that includes 

incorporation by reference. In 

accordance with requirements of 1 CFR 

51.5, the EPA is proposing to 

incorporate by reference the Missouri 

rule 10 CSR 10–6.061 as described in 

Section II of this preamble and set forth 

below in the proposed amendments to 

40 CFR part 52. The EPA has made, and 

will continue to make, these materials 

generally available through 

www.regulations.gov and at the EPA 

Region 7 Office (please contact the 

person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

preamble for more information). 

VI. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Under the Clean Air Act (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 


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