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governmental unit or, if there are no 

such boundaries, the area in which a 

unit may exercise such sovereign 

powers that make that unit a 

governmental unit for purposes of 

§ 1.103–1 and this section. 

(2) Governmental unit has the 

meaning of ‘‘State or local governmental 

unit’’ as defined in § 1.103–1. Thus, a 

governmental unit is a State, territory, a 

possession of the United States, the 

District of Columbia, or any political 

subdivision thereof. 

(3) Host approval is defined in 

paragraph (b)(3) of this section. 

(4) Issuer approval is defined in 

paragraph (b)(2) of this section. 

(5) Mortgage revenue bonds mean 

qualified mortgage bonds as defined in 

section 143(a), qualified veterans’ 

mortgage bonds as defined in section 

143(b), or refunding bonds issued to 

finance mortgages of owner-occupied 

residences pursuant to applicable law in 

effect prior to enactment of section 

143(a) or section 143(b). 

(6) Proceeds means ‘‘proceeds’’ as 

defined in § 1.141–1(b), except that it 

does not include disposition proceeds. 

(7) Project generally means one or 

more capital projects or facilities, 

including land, buildings, equipment, 

and other property, to be financed with 

an issue, that are located on the same 

site, or adjacent or proximate sites used 

for similar purposes, and that are 

subject to the public approval 

requirement of section 147(f). For an 

issue of mortgage revenue bonds or an 

issue of qualified student loan bonds as 

defined in section 144(b), the term 

project means the mortgage loans or 

qualified student loans to be financed 

with the proceeds of the issue. For an 

issue of qualified 501(c)(3) bonds as 

defined in section 145, the term project 

means a project as defined in the first 

sentence of this definition, and also is 

deemed to include working capital 

expenditures to be financed with 

proceeds of the issue. 

(8) Public approval information is 

defined in paragraph (f)(6)(i) of this 

section. 

(9) Public hearing is defined in 

paragraph (d)(1) of this section. 

(10) Reasonable public notice is 

defined in paragraph (d)(4) of this 

section. 

(11) Voter referendum means a vote 

by the voters of the affected 

governmental unit conducted in the 

same manner and time as voter 

referenda on matters relating to 

governmental spending or bond 

issuances by the governmental unit 

under applicable State and local law. 

(h) Applicability date. This section 

applies to bonds issued pursuant to a 

public approval occurring on or after the 

date that is 90 days after publication of 

the Treasury decision adopting these 

rules as final regulations in the Federal 

Register. For bonds issued pursuant to 

a public approval occurring before that 

date, see § 5f.103–2 as contained in 26 

CFR part 5f, revised as of the date of the 

most recent annual revision. 

PART 5f—TEMPORARY INCOME TAX 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TAX 

EQUITY AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY 

ACT OF 1982 

■ Par. 3. The authority citation for part 

5f continues to read in part as follows: 

Authority: 26 U.S.C. 7805 * * * 

§ 5f.103–2 [Removed] 

■ Par. 4. Section 5f.103–2 is removed. 

Kirsten Wielobob, 

Deputy Commissioner for Services and 

Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20661 Filed 9–27–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R03–OAR–2017–0215; FRL–9968–32– 

Region 3] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; Virginia; 

Removal of Clean Air Interstate Rule 

(CAIR) Trading Programs 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) proposes to approve the 

state implementation plan (SIP) revision 

submitted by the Commonwealth of 

Virginia for the purpose of removing 

regulations from the Virginia SIP that 

established EPA-administered annual 

NOX, ozone season NOX, and sulfur 

dioxide (SO2) trading programs under 

the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). 

These EPA-administered trading 

programs under CAIR were 

discontinued on December 31, 2014 

upon the implementation of the CrossState Air Pollution Rule (CASPR), 

which was promulgated by EPA to 

replace CAIR. In the Final Rules section 

of this Federal Register, EPA is 

approving the State’s SIP submittal as a 

direct final rule without prior proposal 

because the Agency views this as a 

noncontroversial submittal and 

anticipates no adverse comments. A 

detailed rationale for the approval is set 

forth in the direct final rule. If no 

adverse comments are received in 

response to this action, no further 

activity is contemplated. If EPA receives 

adverse comments, the direct final rule 

will be withdrawn and all public 

comments received will be addressed in 

a subsequent final rule based on this 

proposed rule. EPA will not institute a 

second comment period. Any parties 

interested in commenting on this action 

should do so at this time. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing by October 30, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03– 

OAR–2017–0215 at https://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

stahl.cynthia@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of 

submission, 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. 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, please contact the person 

identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the 

full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara 

Calcinore, (215) 814 2043, or by email 

at calcinore.sara@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For 

further information, please see the 

information provided in the direct final 

action, with the same title, that is 

located in the ‘‘Rules and Regulations’’ 

section of this Federal Register 

publication. Please note that if EPA 

receives adverse comment on an 

amendment, paragraph, or section of 

this rule and if that provision may be 

severed from the remainder of the rule, 

EPA may adopt as final those provisions 

of the rule that are not the subject of an 

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Dated: September 8, 2017. 

Cecil Rodrigues, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20723 Filed 9–27–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R01–OAR–2017–0083; FRL–9968–43– 

Region 1] 

Air Plan Approval; New Hampshire; 

Nonattainment Plan for the Central 

New Hampshire SO2 Nonattainment 

Area 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve 

the State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision that the State of New 

Hampshire submitted to EPA on January 

31, 2017 for attaining the 1-hour sulfur 

dioxide (SO2) primary national ambient 

air quality standard (NAAQS) for the 

Central New Hampshire Nonattainment 

Area. This plan (herein called a 

‘‘nonattainment plan’’) includes New 

Hampshire’s attainment demonstration 

and other elements required under the 

Clean Air Act (CAA). In addition to an 

attainment demonstration, the 

nonattainment plan addresses the 

requirement for meeting reasonable 

further progress (RFP) toward 

attainment of the NAAQS, reasonably 

available control measures and 

reasonably available control technology 

(RACM/RACT), base-year and 

projection-year emission inventories, 

and contingency measures. As a part of 

approving the attainment 

demonstration, EPA is also proposing to 

approve SO2 emission limits and 

associated compliance parameters for 

Merrimack Station into the New 

Hampshire SIP. EPA proposes to 

conclude that New Hampshire has 

appropriately demonstrated that the 

nonattainment plan provisions provide 

for attainment of the 2010 1-hour 

primary SO2 NAAQS in the Central New 

Hampshire Nonattainment Area by the 

applicable attainment date and that the 

nonattainment plan meets the other 

applicable requirements under the CAA. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before October 30, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R01– 

OAR–2017–0083 at http://

www.regulations.gov, or via email to 

biton.leiran@epa.gov. For comments 

submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. Once submitted, comments 

cannot be edited or removed from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of 

submission, 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. 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, please contact the person 

identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the 

full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leiran Biton, EPA New England, 5 Post 

Office Square Suite 100, Mail Code 

OEP05–2, Boston, MA 02109–3912; 

phone: 617–918–1267; fax: 617–918– 

0267; email: biton.leiran@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document whenever 

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

EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Why was New Hampshire required to 

submit an SO2 plan for the Central New 

Hampshire Nonattainment area? 

II. Requirements for SO2 Nonattainment Area 

Plans 

III. Attainment Demonstration and LongerTerm Averaging 

IV. Review of Modeled Attainment Plan 

A. Model Selection and Modeling 

Components 

B. Area of Analysis 

C. Receptor Grid 

D. Meteorological Data 

E. Source Characterization 

F. Emissions Data 

G. Emission Limits 

1. Enforceability 

2. Longer-Term Average Limits 

H. Background Concentrations 

I. Summary of Results 

V. Review of Other Plan Requirements 

A. Emissions Inventory 

B. RACM/RACT 

C. New Source Review (NSR) 

D. Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) 

E. Contingency Measures 

VI. Additional Elements of New Hampshire’s 

Submittal 

A. Conformity 

B. Changes in Allowable Emissions 

C. Air Quality Trends 

D. Compliance With Section 110(a)(2) of 

the CAA 

E. Equivalency Techniques 

VII. EPA’s Proposed Action 

VIII. Incorporation by Reference 

IX. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Why was New Hampshire required to 

submit an SO2 plan for the Central New 

Hampshire Nonattainment area? 

On June 22, 2010, EPA promulgated a 

new 1-hour primary SO2 NAAQS of 75 

parts per billion (ppb), which is met at 

an ambient air quality monitoring site 

when the 3-year average of the annual 

99th percentile of 1-hour daily 

maximum concentrations does not 

exceed 75 ppb, as determined in 

accordance with appendix T of 40 CFR 

part 50. See 75 FR 35520, codified at 40 

CFR 50.17(a)–(b). On August 5, 2013, 

EPA designated a first set of 29 areas of 

the country as nonattainment for the 

2010 SO2 NAAQS, including the Central 

New Hampshire Nonattainment Area 

within the State of New Hampshire. See 

78 FR 47191, codified at 40 CFR part 81, 

subpart C. These area designations were 

effective October 4, 2013. Section 191 of 

the CAA directs states to submit SIPs for 

areas designated as nonattainment for 

the SO2 NAAQS to EPA within 18 

months of the effective date of the 

designation, i.e., by no later than April 

4, 2015 in this case. These SIPs are 

required to demonstrate that their 

respective areas will attain the NAAQS 

as expeditiously as practicable, but no 

later than 5 years from the effective date 

of designation, which is October 4, 

2018. 

For a number of areas, including the 

Central New Hampshire Nonattainment 

Area, EPA published a notice on March 

18, 2016 that New Hampshire and other 

pertinent states had failed to submit the 

required SO2 nonattainment plan by the 

submittal deadline. See 81 FR 14736. 

This finding initiated a deadline under 

CAA section 179(a) for the potential 

imposition of new source and highway 

funding sanctions, and for EPA to 

promulgate a federal implementation 

plan (FIP) under section 110(c) of the 

CAA. In response to the requirement for 

SO2 nonattainment plan submittals, 

New Hampshire submitted a 

nonattainment plan for the Central New 

Hampshire Nonattainment Area on 

January 31, 2017. Pursuant to New 

Hampshire’s January 31, 2017 submittal 

and EPA’s subsequent letter dated 

March 20, 2017 to New Hampshire 

finding the submittal complete and 

noting the stopping of the sanctions 

deadline, these sanctions under section 

179(a) will not be imposed. However, to 


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