[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 193 (Friday, October 6, 2017)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 46674-46679]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-21523]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R04-OAR-2017-0415; FRL-9968-93--Region 4]


Air Plan Approval; Alabama; Cross-State Air Pollution Rule

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving 
portions of the October 26, 2015, and May 19, 2017, State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions from Alabama replacing the Cross-
State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) federal implementation plan (FIP). 
Under CSAPR, large electricity generating units (EGUs) in Alabama are 
subject to FIP provisions requiring the units to participate in a 
federal allowance trading program for ozone season emissions of 
nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>). This action approves into Alabama's 
SIP the State's regulations requiring Alabama's affected units to 
participate in a new state allowance trading program for ozone season 
NO<INF>X</INF> emissions integrated with the CSAPR federal trading 
programs, replacing the corresponding CSAPR FIP requirements for 
Alabama. This state trading program is substantively identical to the 
federal trading program except with regard to the provisions allocating 
emission allowances among Alabama units. Under the CSAPR regulations, 
final approval of these portions of the SIP revisions automatically 
eliminates Alabama units' FIP requirements to participate in CSAPR's 
federal allowance trading program for ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> 
emissions. Approval also fully satisfies Alabama's good neighbor 
obligation under the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) to prohibit emissions 
which will significantly contribute to nonattainment or interfere with 
maintenance of the 1997 8-hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
Standards (NAAQS) in any other state; and partially satisfies Alabama's 
good neighbor obligation under the CAA to prohibit emissions which will 
significantly contribute to nonattainment or interfere with maintenance 
of the 2008 8-hour Ozone NAAQS in any other state.

DATES: This rule will be effective November 6, 2017.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
Identification No EPA-R04-OAR-2017-0415. All documents in the docket 
are listed on the www.regulations.gov Web site. 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. Publicly available docket materials are 
available either electronically through www.regulations.gov or in hard 
copy at the Air Regulatory Management Section, Air Planning and 
Implementation Branch, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW., 
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. EPA requests that if at all possible, you 
contact the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section to schedule your inspection. The Regional Office's official 
hours of business are Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 
excluding federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ashten Bailey, Air Regulatory 
Management Section, Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division, 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 61 Forsyth Street SW., 
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-8960. Ms. Bailey can be reached by telephone at 
(404) 562-9164 or via electronic mail at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#701211191c15095e11031804151e301500115e171f06"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2e4c4f47424b57004f5d465a4b406e4b5e4f00494158">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background on CSAPR and CSAPR-Related SIP Revisions

    EPA issued CSAPR \1\ in July 2011 and the CSAPR Update \2\ in 2016 
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the requirements of CAA section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) concerning 
interstate transport of air pollution for specific NAAQS. As amended 
(including by the 2016 CSAPR Update), CSAPR requires 27 eastern states 
to limit their statewide emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO<INF>2</INF>) 
and/or NO<INF>X</INF> in order to mitigate transported air pollution 
unlawfully impacting other states' ability to attain or maintain four 
NAAQS: The 1997 annual PM<INF>2.5</INF> NAAQS, the 2006 24-hour 
PM<INF>2.5</INF> NAAQS, the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS, and the 2008 8-
hour Ozone NAAQS. The CSAPR emissions limitations are defined in terms 
of maximum statewide ``budgets'' for emissions of annual 
SO<INF>2</INF>, annual NO<INF>X</INF>, and/or ozone season 
NO<INF>X</INF> by each covered state's large EGUs. The CSAPR state 
budgets are implemented in two phases of generally increasing 
stringency: The Phase 1 budgets apply to emissions in 2015 and 2016; 
and the Phase 2 and CSAPR Update budgets apply to emissions in 2017 and 
later years. As a mechanism for achieving compliance with the emissions 
limitations, CSAPR establishes five federal emissions trading programs: 
A program for annual NO<INF>X</INF> emissions; two geographically 
separate programs for annual SO<INF>2</INF> emissions; and two 
geographically separate programs for ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> 
emissions. CSAPR also establishes FIP requirements applicable to the 
large EGUs in each covered state.\3\ Currently, the CSAPR FIP 
provisions require each state's units to participate in up to three of 
the five CSAPR trading programs.
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    \1\ Federal Implementation Plans; Interstate Transport of Fine 
Particulate Matter and Ozone and Correction of SIP Approvals, 76 FR 
48208 (August 8, 2011) (codified as amended at 40 CFR 52.38 and 
52.39 and subparts AAAAA through EEEEE of 40 CFR part 97).
    \2\ See 81 FR 74504 (October 26, 2016). The CSAPR Update was 
promulgated to address interstate pollution with respect to the 2008 
8-hour Ozone NAAQS and to address a judicial remand of certain 
original CSAPR ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> budgets promulgated with 
respect to the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS. Id. at 74505. The CSAPR 
Update established new emission reduction requirements addressing 
the more recent ozone NAAQS and coordinated them with the remaining 
emission reduction requirements addressing the older NAAQS, so that 
starting in 2017, CSAPR includes two geographically separate trading 
programs for ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> emissions covering EGUs in 
a total of 23 states. See 40 CFR 52.38(b)(1)-(2).
    \3\ States are required to submit good neighbor SIPs three years 
after a NAAQS is promulgated. CAA section 110(a)(1) and (2). Where 
EPA finds that a state fails to submit a required SIP or disapproves 
a SIP, EPA is obligated to promulgate a FIP addressing the 
deficiency. CAA section 110(c). EPA found that Alabama failed to 
make timely submissions required to address the good neighbor 
provision with respect to the 1997 annual PM<INF>2.5</INF> and 8-
hour ozone NAAQS (70 FR 21147, Apr. 25, 2005), and the 2008 8-hour 
ozone NAAQS (80 FR 39961, June 13, 2015). In addition, EPA 
disapproved Alabama's SIP revision submitted to address the good 
neighbor provision with respect to the 2006 24-hour PM<INF>2.5</INF> 
NAAQS. See 76 FR 43128 (July 20, 2011). Accordingly, as a part of 
CSAPR and the CSAPR Update, EPA promulgated FIPs applicable to 
sources in Alabama addressing the good neighbor provision with 
respect to these standards.
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    CSAPR includes provisions under which states may submit and EPA 
will approve SIP revisions to modify or replace the CSAPR FIP 
requirements while allowing states to continue to meet their transport-
related obligations using either CSAPR's federal emissions trading 
programs or state emissions trading programs integrated with the 
federal programs, provided that the SIP revisions meet all relevant 
criteria.\4\ Through such a SIP revision, a state may replace EPA's 
default provisions for allocating emission allowances among the state's 
units, employing any state-selected methodology to allocate or auction 
the allowances, subject to timing conditions and limits on overall 
allowance quantities. In the case of CSAPR's federal trading programs 
for ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> emissions (or an integrated state 
trading program), a state may also expand trading program applicability 
to include certain smaller EGUs.\5\ If a state wants to replace the 
CSAPR FIP requirements with SIP requirements under which the state's 
units participate in a state trading program that is integrated with 
and identical to the federal trading program even as to the allocation 
and applicability provisions, the state may submit a SIP revision for 
that purpose as well. However, no emissions budget increases or other 
substantive changes to the trading program provisions are allowed. A 
state whose units are subject to multiple CSAPR federal trading 
programs may submit SIP revisions to modify or replace either some or 
all of those FIP requirements.
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    \4\ See 40 CFR 52.38, 52.39. States also retain the ability to 
submit SIP revisions to meet their transport-related obligations 
using mechanisms other than the CSAPR federal trading programs or 
integrated state trading programs.
    \5\ States covered by both the CSAPR Update and the 
NO<INF>X</INF> SIP Call have the additional option to expand 
applicability under the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 
Trading Program to include non-EGUs that would have participated in 
the NO<INF>X</INF> Budget Trading Program.
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    States can submit two basic forms of CSAPR-related SIP revisions 
effective for emissions control periods in 2017 or later years.\6\ 
Specific conditions for approval of each form of SIP revision are set 
forth in the CSAPR regulations, as described in section III below. 
Under the first alternative--an ``abbreviated'' SIP revision--a state 
may submit a SIP revision that upon approval replaces the default 
allowance allocation and/or applicability provisions of a CSAPR federal 
trading program for the state.\7\ Approval of an abbreviated SIP 
revision leaves the corresponding CSAPR FIP and all other provisions of 
the relevant federal trading program in place for the state's units.
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    \6\ CSAPR also provides for a third, more streamlined form of 
SIP revision that is effective only for control periods in 2016 (or 
2018 for CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 units) and is not 
relevant here. See Sec.  52.38(a)(3), (b)(3), (b)(7); Sec.  
52.39(d), (g).
    \7\ 40 CFR 52.38(a)(4), (b)(4), (b)(8); 52.39(e), (h).
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    Under the second alternative--a ``full'' SIP revision--a state may 
submit a SIP revision that upon approval replaces a CSAPR federal 
trading program for the state with a state trading program integrated 
with the federal trading program, so long as the state trading program 
is substantively identical to the federal trading program or does not 
substantively differ from the federal trading program except as 
discussed above with regard to the allowance allocation and/or 
applicability provisions.\8\ For purposes of a full SIP revision, a 
state may either adopt state rules with complete trading program 
language, incorporate the federal trading program language into its 
state rules by reference (with appropriate conforming changes), or 
employ a combination of these approaches.
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    \8\ 40 CFR 52.38(a)(5), (b)(5), (b)(9); 52.39(f), (i).
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    The CSAPR regulations identify several important consequences and 
limitations associated with approval of a full SIP revision. First, 
upon EPA's approval of a full SIP revision as correcting the deficiency 
in the state's SIP that was the basis for a particular set of CSAPR FIP 
requirements, the obligation to participate in the corresponding CSAPR 
federal trading program is automatically eliminated for units subject 
to the state's jurisdiction without the need for a separate EPA 
withdrawal action, so long as EPA's approval of the SIP revision as 
meeting the requirements of the CSAPR regulations is full and 
unconditional.\9\ Second, approval of a full SIP revision does not 
terminate the obligation to participate in the corresponding CSAPR 
federal trading program for any units located in any Indian country 
within the borders of the state, and if and when a unit is located in 
Indian country within a state's borders, EPA may modify the SIP 
approval to exclude from the SIP, and include in the surviving CSAPR 
FIP instead, certain trading program provisions that apply jointly to 
units in the state and to units in Indian country within the state's 
borders.\10\ Finally, if at the time a full SIP revision is approved 
EPA has already started recording allocations of allowances for a given 
control period to a state's units, the federal trading program 
provisions authorizing EPA to complete the process of allocating and 
recording allowances for that control period to those units

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will continue to apply, unless EPA's approval of the SIP revision 
provides otherwise.\11\
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    \9\ 40 CFR 52.38(a)(6), (b)(10)(i); 52.39(j).
    \10\ 40 CFR 52.38(a)(5)(iv)-(v), (a)(6), (b)(5)(v)-(vi), 
(b)(9)(vi)-(vii), (b)(10)(i); 52.39(f)(4)-(5), (i)(4)-(5), (j).
    \11\ 40 CFR 52.38(a)(7), (b)(11); 52.39(k).
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    In the CSAPR rulemaking, among other findings, EPA determined that 
air pollution transported from Alabama would unlawfully affect other 
states' ability to attain or maintain the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS.\12\ 
In the CSAPR Update rulemaking, EPA determined that air pollution 
transported from Alabama would unlawfully affect other states' ability 
to attain or maintain the 2008 8-hour Ozone NAAQS and established an 
ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> budget for Alabama's EGUs representing a 
partial remedy for the State's interstate transport obligations with 
respect to that NAAQS; \13\ determined that Alabama's previous ozone 
season NO<INF>X</INF> budget established in the CSAPR rulemaking as a 
partial remedy for the State's interstate transport obligations with 
respect to the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS now represented a full remedy 
with respect to that NAAQS; \14\ and coordinated compliance 
requirements by allowing compliance with the new CSAPR Update budget to 
serve the purpose of addressing the State's obligations with respect to 
both NAAQS.\15\ Alabama units meeting the CSAPR applicability criteria 
are consequently subject to CSAPR FIP requirements for participation in 
the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program in order 
to address the State's interstate transport obligations with respect to 
both the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS (full remedy) and the 2008 8-hour 
Ozone NAAQS (partial remedy).\16\
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    \12\ See 76 FR 48208, 48210, 48213 (August 8, 2011). EPA also 
determined in the CSAPR rulemaking that air pollution transported 
from Alabama would unlawfully affect other states' ability to attain 
or maintain the 1997 annual PM<INF>2.5</INF> NAAQS and the 2006 24-
hour PM<INF>2.5</INF> NAAQS. Alabama previously submitted, and EPA 
previously approved, a SIP revision that replaces the CSAPR FIPs for 
the annual trading programs in Alabama. See 81 FR 59869 (August 31, 
2016).
    \13\ CSAPR Update, 81 FR at 74507-08.
    \14\ Id. at 74525.
    \15\ Id. at 74563 n.169.
    \16\ 40 CFR 52.38(b)(2)(iii); 52.54(b).
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    On October 26, 2015, Alabama submitted to EPA a SIP revision 
including provisions that, if approved, would incorporate into 
Alabama's SIP state trading program regulations that would replace the 
CSAPR federal trading program regulations with regard to Alabama units' 
ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> emissions.\17\ On May 19, 2017, Alabama 
submitted to EPA a SIP revision that supersedes portions of the October 
26, 2015, submittal to reflect changes from the CSAPR Update.\18\ On 
August 4, 2017, Alabama sent a letter clarifying the State's 
interpretation concerning the allowances for the Indian country new 
unit set aside for Alabama.
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    \17\ As discussed above, the October 26, 2015 submittal also 
contained provisions related to the annual NO<INF>X</INF> and 
SO<INF>2</INF> trading programs, which EPA approved in a separate 
rulemaking. See 81 FR 59869 (August 31, 2016).
    \18\ For the purposes of this rulemaking, the October 26, 2015, 
and May 19, 2017, submittals together may also be referred to as the 
``Alabama ozone season submittals.''
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    In a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on August 17, 
2017 (82 FR 39070), EPA proposed to approve the portions of Alabama's 
October 26, 2015, and May 19, 2017, SIP submittals designed to replace 
the federal CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program. 
The NPRM provides additional detail regarding the background and 
rationale for EPA's action. Comments on the NPRM were due on or before 
September 18, 2017. EPA received no adverse comments on the proposed 
action.

II. Incorporation by Reference

    In this rule, EPA is finalizing regulatory text that includes 
incorporation by reference. In accordance with requirements of 1 CFR 
51.5, EPA is finalizing the incorporation by reference of ADEM 
Administrative Code rules 335-3-8-.39 through 335-3-8-.70, state 
effective on June 9, 2017, comprising Alabama's TR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone 
Season Trading Program. EPA has made, and will continue to make, these 
materials generally available through www.regulations.gov and/or at the 
EPA Region 4 Office (please contact the person identified in the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this preamble for more 
information). Therefore, these materials have been approved by EPA for 
inclusion in the SIP, have been incorporated by reference by EPA into 
that plan, are fully federally enforceable under sections 110 and 113 
of the CAA as of the effective date of the final rulemaking of EPA's 
approval, and will be incorporated by reference by the Director of the 
Federal Register in the next update to the SIP compilation.\19\
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    \19\ 62 FR 27968 (May 22, 1997).
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III. Final Actions

    EPA is approving the portions of Alabama's October 26, 2015, and 
May 19, 2017, SIP submittals concerning the establishment for Alabama 
units of CSAPR state trading programs for ozone season NO<INF>X</INF> 
emissions. The revision adopts into the SIP the state trading program 
rules codified in ADEM Administrative Code rules 335-3-8-.39 through 
335-3-8-.70.\20\ These Alabama CSAPR state trading programs will be 
integrated with the federal CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 
Trading Program and are substantively identical to the federal trading 
programs except with regard to the allowance allocation provisions. 
Following approval of these portions of the SIP revision, Alabama units 
therefore will generally be required to meet requirements under 
Alabama's CSAPR state trading programs equivalent to the requirements 
the units otherwise would have been required to meet under the 
corresponding CSAPR federal trading programs, but allocations to 
Alabama units of CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 allowances 
for compliance periods in 2019 and later years will be determined 
according to the SIP's allocation provisions at Alabama rule 335-3-
8-.46 instead of EPA's default allocation provisions at 40 CFR 
97.811(a) and (b)(1) and 97.812(a). EPA is approving these portions of 
the SIP revision because they meet the requirements of the CAA and 
EPA's regulations for approval of a CSAPR full SIP revision replacing a 
federal trading program with a state trading program that is integrated 
with and substantively identical to the federal trading program except 
for permissible differences with respect to emission allowance 
allocation provisions.
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    \20\ Alabama's rules use the terms ``Transport Rule'' and ``TR'' 
instead of the updated terms ``Cross-State Air Pollution Rule'' and 
``CSAPR.'' For simplicity, EPA uses the updated terms here except 
where otherwise noted.
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    EPA promulgated the FIP provisions requiring Alabama units to 
participate in the federal CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 
Trading Program in order to address Alabama's obligations under CAA 
section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) with respect to the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS 
and the 2008 8-hour Ozone NAAQS in the absence of SIP provisions 
addressing those requirements. Under the CSAPR regulations, upon EPA's 
full and unconditional approval of a SIP revision as correcting the 
SIP's deficiency that is the basis for a particular CSAPR FIP, the 
obligation to participate in the corresponding CSAPR federal trading 
program is automatically eliminated for units subject to the state's 
jurisdiction (but not for any units located in any Indian country 
within the state's borders).\21\ Approval of the portions of Alabama's 
SIP submittal adopting CSAPR state trading program rules for ozone 
season NO<INF>X</INF> substantively identical to the corresponding 
CSAPR federal trading

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program regulations (or differing only with respect to the allowance 
allocation methodology) satisfies Alabama's obligation pursuant to CAA 
section 110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) to prohibit emissions which will 
significantly contribute to nonattainment or interfere with maintenance 
of the 1997 8-hour Ozone NAAQS in any other state. This approval also 
partially satisfies Alabama's obligation pursuant to CAA section 
110(a)(2)(D)(i)(I) to prohibit emissions which will significantly 
contribute to nonattainment or interfere with maintenance of the 2008 
8-hour Ozone NAAQS in any other state. Thus, the approval corrects the 
same deficiencies in the SIP that otherwise would be corrected by those 
CSAPR FIPs. The approval of the portions of Alabama's SIP submittal 
establishing CSAPR state trading program rules for ozone season 
NO<INF>X</INF> emissions therefore also results in the automatic 
termination of the obligations of Alabama units to participate in the 
federal CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2 Trading Program.
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    \21\ 40 CFR 52.38(b)(10); see also 40 CFR 52.54(b)(1) & (2).
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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. See 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in 
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices, 
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. This action merely 
approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and does not impose 
additional requirements beyond those imposed by state law. For that 
reason, this action:
    <bullet> 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);
    <bullet> Does not impose an information collection burden under the 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
    <bullet> 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.);
    <bullet> 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);
    <bullet> Does not have Federalism implications as specified in 
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
    <bullet> Is not an economically significant regulatory action based 
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 
19885, April 23, 1997);
    <bullet> Is not a significant regulatory action subject to 
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
    <bullet> 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
    <bullet> 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).
    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 rule does 
not have tribal implications as specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 
FR 67249, November 9, 2000), nor will it impose substantial direct 
costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law.
    The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the 
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally 
provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating 
the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, 
to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the 
United States. EPA will submit a report containing this action and 
other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of 
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior 
to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot 
take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal 
Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 
804(2).
    Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review 
of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for 
the appropriate circuit by December 5, 2017. Filing a petition for 
reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect 
the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor 
does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may 
be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or 
action. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to 
enforce its requirements. See section 307(b)(2).

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure, 
Air pollution control, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental 
relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

    Dated: September 25, 2017.
Onis ``Trey'' Glenn, III,
Regional Administrator, Region 4.

    40 CFR part 52 is amended as follows:

PART 52--APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS

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1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:

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

Subpart A--General Provisions


Sec.  52.38  [Amended]

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2. In Sec.  52.38, paragraph (b)(13)(iv) is amended by removing the 
word ``[none]'' at the end of the paragraph and adding in its place the 
word ``Alabama''.

Subpart B-Alabama

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3. In Sec.  52.50, the table in paragraph (c) is amended by adding the 
entries ``Section 335-3-8-.39,'' ``Section 335-3-8-.40,'' ``Section 
335-3-8-.41,'' ``Section 335-3-8-.42'', ``Section 335-3-8-.43'', 
``Section 335-3-8-.44'', ``Section 335-3-8-.45'', ``Section 335-3-
8-.46'', ``Section 335-3-8-.47'', ``Section 335-3-8-.48'', ``Section 
335-3-8-.49'', ``Section 335-3-8-.50'', ``Section 335-3-8-.51'', 
``Section 335-3-8-.52'', ``Section 335-3-8-.53'', ``Section 335-3-
8-.54'', ``Section 335-3-8-.55'', ``Section 335-3-8-.56'', ``Section 
335-3-8-.57'', ``Section 335-3-8-.58'', ``Section 335-3-8-.59'', 
``Section 335-3-8-.60'', ``Section 335-3-8-.61'', ``Section 335-3-
8-.62'', ``Section 335-3-8-.63'', ``Section 335-3-8-.64'', ``Section 
335-3-8-.65'', ``Section 335-3-8-.66'', ``Section 335-3-8-.67'', 
``Section 335-3-8-.68'', ``Section 335-3-8-.69'', and ``Section 335-3-
8-.70'' in numerical order to read as follows:


Sec.  52.50  Identification of plan.

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                                                            EPA Approved Alabama Regulations
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          State citation                 Title/subject        effective date            EPA approval date                        Explanation
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                                                Chapter No. 335-3-8 Control of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions
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Section 335-3-8-.39..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Purpose and Definitions.
Section 335-3-8-.40..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group      11/24/2015  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Applicability.
Section 335-3-8-.41..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Retired Unit Exemption.
Section 335-3-8-.42..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Standard Requirements.
Section 335-3-8-.43..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Computation of Time.
Section 335-3-8-.44..............  Administrative Appeal          11/24/2015  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Procedures.                                citation].
Section 335-3-8-.45..............  NOX Ozone Season Group 2         6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Trading Budgets and                        citation].
                                    Variability Limits.
Section 335-3-8-.46..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Allowance Allocations.                   citation].
Section 335-3-8-.47..............  Reserved.................      11/24/2015  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                                                               citation].
Section 335-3-8-.48..............  Authorization of                 6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Designated                                 citation].
                                    Representative and
                                    Alternate Designated
                                    Representative.
Section 335-3-8-.49..............  Responsibilities of              6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Designated                                 citation].
                                    Representative and
                                    Alternate Designated
                                    Representative.
Section 335-3-8-.50..............  Changing Designated              6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Representative and                         citation].
                                    Alternate Designated
                                    Representative; Changes
                                    in Owners and Operators;
                                    Changes in Units at the
                                    Source.
Section 335-3-8-.51..............  Certificate of                   6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Representation.                            citation].
Section 335-3-8-.52..............  Objections Concerning            6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Designated                                 citation].
                                    Representative and
                                    Alternate Designated
                                    Representative.
Section 335-3-8-.53..............  Delegation by Designated         6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Representative and                         citation].
                                    Alternate Designated
                                    Representative.
Section 335-3-8-.54..............  Reserved.................      11/24/2015  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                                                               citation].
Section 335-3-8-.55..............  Establishment of                 6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Compliance Accounts,                       citation].
                                    Assurance Accounts, and
                                    General Accounts.
Section 335-3-8-.56..............  Recordation of TR NOX            6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Ozone Season Group 2                       citation].
                                    Allowance Allocations
                                    and Auction Results.
Section 335-3-8-.57..............  Submission of TR NOX             6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Ozone Season Group 2                       citation].
                                    Allowance Transfers.
Section 335-3-8-.58..............  Recordation of TR NOX            6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Ozone Season Group 2                       citation].
                                    Allowance Transfers.
Section 335-3-8-.59..............  Compliance with TR NOX           6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Ozone Season Group 2                       citation].
                                    Emissions Limitation.
Section 335-3-8-.60..............  Compliance with TR NOX           6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Ozone Season Group 2                       citation].
                                    Assurance Provisions.
Section 335-3-8-.61..............  Banking..................        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                                                               citation].
Section 335-3-8-.62..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Account Error.

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Section 335-3-8-.63..............  TR NOX Ozone Season Group        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    2 Trading Program--                        citation].
                                    Administrator's Action
                                    on Submissions.
Section 335-3-8-.64..............  Reserved.................      11/24/2015  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                                                               citation].
Section 335-3-8-.65..............  General Monitoring,              6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Recordkeeping, and                         citation].
                                    Reporting Requirements.
Section 335-3-8-.66..............  Initial Monitoring System        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Certification and                          citation].
                                    Recertification
                                    Procedures.
Section 335-3-8-.67..............  Monitoring System Out-of-        6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Control Periods.                           citation].
Section 335-3-8-.68..............  Notifications Concerning         6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Monitoring.                                citation].
Section 335-3-8-.69..............  Recordkeeping and                6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Reporting.                                 citation].
Section 335-3-8-.70..............  Petitions for                    6/9/2017  10/6/2017, [insert Federal Register   ....................................
                                    Alternatives to                            citation].
                                    Monitoring,
                                    Recordkeeping, or
                                    Reporting Requirements.
 
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