Document ID: EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0302-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Revisions to California State Implementation Plan: Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District and Mendocino County Air Quality Management District
Posted Date: 2011-05-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 88 (Friday, May 6, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26224-26225]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11035]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0302; FRL-9292-5]

Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Northern 
Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District (NSCAPCD) and Mendocino 
County Air Quality Management District (MCAQMD)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Northern Sonoma 
County Air Pollution Control District (NSCAPCD) and Mendocino County 
Air Quality Management District (MCAQMD) portions of the California 
State Implementation Plan (SIP). Both districts are required under Part 
C of title I of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to adopt and implement SIP-
approved Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit programs. 
These proposed revisions update the definitions used in the districts' 
PSD permit programs.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by June 6, 2011.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2011-0302, by one of the following methods:
    1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
    2. E-mail: R9airpermits@epa.gov
    3. Mail or deliver: Gerardo Rios (Air-3), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105-3901.
    Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket 
without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or 
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 
Information that you consider CBI or otherwise protected should be 
clearly identified as such and should not be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http://www.regulations.gov is an 
``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not know your identity or 
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. 
If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the public comment. If 
EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot 
contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your 
comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, 
any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
    Docket: EPA has established a docket for this action under EPA-R09-
OAR-2011-0302. Generally, documents in the docket for this action are 
available electronically at http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy 
at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While 
all documents in the docket are listed at http://www.regulations.gov, 
some information may be publicly available only at the hard copy 
location (e.g., copyrighted material, large maps, multi-volume reports) 
and some may not be available in either location (e.g., confidential 
business information (CBI)). To inspect the hard copy materials, please 
schedule an appointment during normal business hours with the contact 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura Yannayon, EPA Region IX, (415) 
972-3534, yannayon.laura@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the following local 
rules: Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District (NSCAPCD) 
Rule 130--Definitions and Mendocino County Air Quality Management 
District (MCAQMD) Rule 130--Definitions. In

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the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are 
approving these local rules in a direct final action without prior 
proposal because we believe these SIP revisions are not controversial. 
If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely 
withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments in 
subsequent action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we 
receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this 
rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the 
rule, we may adopt as final those provisions of the rule that are not 
the subject of an adverse comment.
    We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone 
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not 
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further 
information, please see the direct final action.

    Dated: March 31, 2011.
Jared Blumenfeld,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2011-11035 Filed 5-5-11; 8:45 am]
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