Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0036-0061
Agency: epa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Completion of the Requirement to Promulgate Emission Standards
Posted Date: 2011-03-21T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 54 (Monday, March 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 15308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4489]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0036; FRL-9272-6]

Completion of the Requirement To Promulgate Emission Standards

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that EPA has completed the emission 
standards required by sections 112(c)(3) and (k)(3)(B) and 112(c)(6) of 
the Clean Air Act (CAA).

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established dockets for these two actions. The 
docket for EPA's action under section 112(c)(3) and (k)(3)(B) is Docket 
ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0036. The docket for EPA's action under section 
112(c)(6) is Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0505. All documents in the 
docket are listed in the Federal Docket Management System index at 
http://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., 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 EPA 
Docket Center, Public Reading Room, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open 
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal 
holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 
566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is (202) 566-
1742.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Nathan Topham, Sector Policies and 
Programs Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (D243-
02), Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina 27711; telephone number (919) 541-0483; fax number (919) 541-
3207; e-mail address: topham.nathan@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 112(c)(3) and (k)(3)(B) of the Clean 
Air Act (CAA) requires that, by November 15, 2000, EPA promulgate 
emission standards to assure that area sources accounting for 90 
percent of the aggregate area source emissions of each of the 30 urban 
hazardous air pollutants (HAP) are subject to regulation.\1\ Similarly, 
section 112(c)(6) of the CAA requires that, by November 15, 2000, EPA 
promulgate emission standards to assure that sources accounting for not 
less than 90 percent of the aggregate emissions of each of the seven 
HAP enumerated in section 112(c)(6)are subject to standards. As a 
result of lawsuits filed by Sierra Club alleging that EPA has failed to 
complete these actions by the statutory deadline, EPA is under a court 
order to complete these obligations. Under the order, which was most 
recently amended on January 20, 2011, EPA must complete these 
obligations by February 21, 2011.
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    \1\ For a list of the 30 urban HAP, please see National Air 
Toxics Program: The Integrate Urban Strategy, 64 FR 38706 (July 19, 
1999).
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    The following two technical memoranda document the actions the 
Agency has taken to meet these requirements, Topham to Docket, Emission 
Standards for Meeting the 90 Percent Requirement Under Section 
112(c)(3) and Section 112(k)(3)(B) of the Clean Air Act (found in 
Docket ID EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0036); and Topham to Docket, Emission 
Standards for Meeting the 90 Percent Requirement Under Section 
112(c)(6) of the Clean Air Act (found in Docket ID EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-
0505). These documents are available in the dockets for these actions. 
Based on my review of these two documents, I conclude that EPA has 
completed sufficient standards to meet the 90 percent requirement under 
both sections 112(c)(3) and(k)(3)(B), and section 112(c)(6).

    Dated: February 21, 2011.
Lisa P. Jackson,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2011-4489 Filed 3-18-11; 8:45 am]
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