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Development Section, Air Planning 

Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics 

Management Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

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FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section to 

schedule your inspection. The Regional 

Office’s official hours of business are 

Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, 

excluding federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michele Notarianni, Air Planning 

Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics 

Management Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., 

Atlanta, Georgia 30303–8960. Phone: 

(404) 562–9031. E-mail: 

notarianni.michele@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

additional information, see the direct 

final rule which is published in the 

Rules section of this Federal Register.

Dated: August 12, 2005. 

A. Stanley Meiburg, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.

[FR Doc. 05–16803 Filed 8–23–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR PART 52 

[R05–OAR–2005–OH–0002; FRL–7958–4] 

Approval and Disapproval of Ohio 

Implementation Plan for Particulate 

Matter

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the 

public comment period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is reopening the 

comment period for a proposed rule 

published June 27, 2005 (70 FR 36901). 

On June 27, 2005, EPA proposed to 

disapprove revisions to Ohio rules that 

provide for use of continuous opacity 

monitoring data but allow more 

exceedances of the general opacity limit 

in cases where the owner of an eligible 

large coal fired boiler opts to use these 

data for determining compliance. EPA 

also proposed to approve other elements 

of Ohio’s rule submittal that clarified 

Ohio’s rules. In response to requests 

from the Ohio Environmental Protection 

Agency and from the law firm of 

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, EPA is 

reopening the comment period through 

August 24, 2005. All comments received 

on or before August 24, 2005 will be 

entered into the public record and 

considered by EPA before taking final 

action on the proposed rule.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 24, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, 

identified by Regional Material in 

EDocket (RME) ID No. R05–OAR–2005–

OH–0002, to: John Mooney, Chief, 

Criteria Pollutant Section, (AR–18J), 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

Illinois 60604. Phone: (312) 886–4447. 

E-mail: mooney.john@epa.gov. 

Additional instructions to comment can 

be found in the notice of proposed 

rulemaking published June 27, 2005 (70 

FR 36901).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Summerhays, Criteria Pollutant Section 

(AR–18J), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, 

Telephone Number: (312) 353–4761, Email Address: 

summerhays.john@epa.gov.

Dated: August 2, 2005. 

Bharat Mathur, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.

[FR Doc. 05–16811 Filed 8–23–05; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52

[R01–OAR–2005–ME–0007; A–1–FRL–7959–

4] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; Maine; 

Nitrogen Oxides Exemption Request 

for Northern Maine

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The EPA is proposing to 

approve an exemption request from the 

requirements contained in Section 

182(f) of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) 

for Northern Maine (specifically, 

Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Piscataquis, 

Penobscot, Washington, Aroostook, and 

portions of Hancock and Waldo 

Counties). This area, along with the rest 

of the State of Maine, are part of the 

Ozone Transport Region (OTR) as 

provided for in section 184(a) of the Act. 

Section 182(f) in combination with 

section 184 (relating to ozone transport 

regions) of the Act requires States in the 

OTR, such as Maine, to adopt 

reasonably available control technology 

(RACT) rules for major stationary 

sources of nitrogen oxides (NOX) and to 

provide for nonattainment area new 

source review (NSR) for new sources 

and modifications that are major for 

NOX. This exemption request, submitted 

by the State of Maine on March 24, 2005 

with supplemental submittals dated 

April 19, 2005 and June 28, 2005, is 

based on a demonstration that NOX

emissions in the exemption area are not 

impacting Maine’s nonattainment areas 

or other nonattainment areas in the OTR 

during times when elevated ozone 

levels are monitored in those areas. As 

such, additional reductions in NOX

emissions from this area beyond what 

the State regulations already provide for 

are not necessary for future attainment 

in any of Maine’s ozone nonattainment 

areas or other ozone nonattainment 

areas in the OTR. Thus, as provided for 

in section 182(f)(2), additional NOX

reductions in these areas would 

constitute excess reductions that can be 

waived under the Act. This action is 

being taken under the CAA.