Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2007-1173-0040
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2008-03-27T04:00Z

ATTACHMENT - SIP SUBMITTAL COMPLETENESS CRITERIA CHECKLIST

	

   SIP Submitted by:   

     Date Submitted:                Subject:     Confirmation of
110(a)(2)(A)-(M) 8-Hour ozone NAAQS Requirments in the Current Alabama
SIP

  

110(a)(2)(A)-(M) Requirements Checklist – Alabama

Section 110(a) element	Summary of element	How Addressed in Submittal

§110(a)(2)(A)	include enforceable emission limitations and other
control measures, means, or techniques (including economic incentives
such as fees, marketable permits, and auctions of emissions rights), as
well as schedules and timetables for compliance as may be necessary or
appropriate to meet the applicable requirements of this Act.	State
confirmed adequate in their letter.

335-3-1-.03 “Ambient Air Quality Standards” - emission limits for
ozone, schedule for compliance

335-3-1-.05 “Sampling and Testing Methods” – means and techniques

335-3-1-.06 “Compliance Schedule” – schedule for compliance

§110(a)(2)(B)	provide for establishment and operation of appropriate
devices, methods, systems, and procedures necessary to monitor, compile,
and analyze data on ambient air quality, and upon request, make such
data available to the Administrator;  	State confirmed adequate in their
letter.

335-3-1-.04 “Monitoring, Records, and Reporting”

335-3-1-.05 “Sampling and Test Methods”

§110(a)(2)(C)	include a program to provide for the enforcement of the
measures described in subparagraph (A) and regulation of the
modification and construction of any stationary source within the areas
covered by the plan as necessary to assure that national ambient air
quality standards are achieved, including a permit program as required
in parts C and D;	State confirmed adequate in their letter.

335-3-14-.04 “Prevention of Signification Deterioration in
Permitting”

335-2-14-.05 “Air Permits Authorizing Construction in or Near
Non-attainment Areas”

§110(a)(2)(D)	contain adequate provisions—

   (i) prohibiting, consistent with the provisions of this title, any
source or other type of emissions activity within the state from
emitting any air pollutant in amounts which will--

     (I) contribute significantly to nonattainment in, or interfere with
maintenance by, any other state with respect to any such national
primary or secondary ambient air quality standard, or

     (II) interfere with measures required to be included in the
applicable implementation plan for any other State under part C to
prevent significant deterioration of air quality or to protect
visibility, 

  (ii) insuring compliance with the applicable requirements of sections
126 and 115 (relating to interstate and international pollution
abatement);	State confirmed adequate in their letter.

Alabama’s CAIR rule was published on October 1, 2007. 

Prong 4 – draft Regional Haze SIP was submitted to EPA November 2007.

§110(a)(2)(E)(i)	provide 

   (i) necessary assurances that the state (or, except where the
Administrator deems inappropriate, the general purpose local government
or governments, or a regional agency designated by the state or general
purpose local governments for such purpose) will have adequate
personnel, funding, and authority under state (and, as appropriate,
local) law to carry out such implementation plan (and is not prohibited
by any provision of federal or state law from carrying out such
implementation plan or portion thereof);	Yes.

§110(a)(2)(E)(ii)	(ii) requirements that the state comply with the
requirements respecting state boards under section 128, and	Yes.

§110(a)(2)(E)(iii)	(iii) necessary assurances that, where the state has
relied on a local or regional government, agency, or instrumentality for
the implementation of any plan provision, the state has responsibility
for ensuring adequate implementation of such plan provision;	SIP is
adequate because it does not rely upon local or regional governments.

§110(a)(2)(F)	require, as may be prescribed by the Administrator—

   (i) the installation, maintenance, and replacement of equipment, and
the implementation of other necessary steps by owners or operators of
stationary sources to monitor emissions from such sources, 

   (ii) periodic reports on the nature and amounts of emissions and
emissions-related data from such sources, and

   (iii) correlation of such reports by the state agency with any
emission limitations or standards established pursuant to this Act,
which reports shall be available at reasonable times for public
inspection;  	State confirmed adequate in their letter.

Chapter 335-3-12

§110(a)(2)(G)	provide for authority comparable to that in section 303
and adequate contingency plans to implement such authority;	State
confirmed adequate in their letter.

335-3-2-.02(f)

§110(a)(2)(H)	provide for revision of such plan—

    (i) from time to time as may be necessary to take account of
revisions of such national primary or secondary ambient air quality
standard or the availability of improved or more expeditious methods of
attaining such standard, and 

   (iii) except as provided in paragraph (3)(C), whenever the
Administrator finds on the basis of information available to the
Administrator that the plan is substantially inadequate to attain the
national ambient air quality standard which it implements, or to
otherwise comply with any additional requirements established under this
Act;  	Yes.  Submitted with each SIP revision.                         .

§110(a)(2)(I)	in the case of a plan or plan revision for an area
designated as a nonattainment area, meet the applicable requirements of
part D (relating to nonattainment areas);	Yes.  

§110(a)(2)(J)

(§ 121 consultation)

	meet the applicable requirements of section 121 (relating to
consultation), …	Yes.  Included in official SIP submittals.

§110(a)(2)(J)

(Section 127 public notification)	meet the applicable requirements of
section 7427 of this title,	Yes.  Included in official SIP submittals.

335-3-14-.01(7) “Public Participation”

335-3-14-.05 “Air Permits Authorizing Construction in or near
Nonattainment Areas”

§110(a)(2)(J)

(PSD)	meet the applicable requirements of … part C (relating to
prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and visibility
protection);	Yes.

335-3-14

§110(a)(2)(K)

	provide for:

   (i) the performance of such air quality modeling as the Administrator
may prescribe for the purpose of predicting the effect on ambient air
quality of any emissions of any air pollutant for which the
Administrator has established a national ambient air quality standard,
and 

   (ii) the submission, upon request, of data related to such air
quality modeling to the Administrator;	State confirmed adequate in their
letter.

335-3-1-.04 “Monitoring, Records, and Reporting”

335-3-4-.04 “Prevention of Significant Deterioration” (11) “Air
Quality Models”

§110(a)(2)(L)	

require the owner or operator of each major stationary source to pay to
the permitting authority, as a condition of any permit required under
this Act, a fee sufficient to cover—

   (i) the reasonable costs of reviewing and acting upon any application
for such a permit, and 

    (ii) if the owner or operator receives a permit for such source, the
reasonable costs of implementing and enforcing the terms and conditions
of any such permit (not including any court costs or other costs
associated with any enforcement action), until such fee requirement is
superseded with respect to such sources by the Administrator's approval
of a fee program under title V; 	State confirmed adequate in their
letter.  Part of State regulations.  Not approved in Federal SIP.

§110(a)(2)(M)

	provide for consultation and participation by local political
subdivisions affected by the plan.	State confirmed adequate in their
letter.  

335-3-17-.01

§§110(a)(2)(C) & 110(a)(2)(J)	Part C Permit program:  

§110(a)(2)(J) meet the applicable requirements of … part C (relating
to prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and visibility
protection);

§110(a)(2)(C) …  regulation of the modification and construction of
any stationary source within the areas covered by the plan as necessary
to assure that national ambient air quality standards are achieved,
including a permit program as required in parts C and D;

40 CFR 51.166:  Amend PSD regulations as required by the November 29,
2005 final rule (70 FR 71612 at 71699-71700).  See also 70 FR
71671-71684.