Document ID: EPA-R09-OAR-2015-0399-0001
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Nevada, Lake Tahoe; Second 10-Year Carbon Monoxide Limited Maintenance Plan
Posted Date: 2017-03-10T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 46 (Friday, March 10, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13269-13270]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04770]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2015-0399; FRL-9958-09-Region 9]

Air Plan Approval; Nevada, Lake Tahoe; Second 10-Year Carbon 
Monoxide Limited Maintenance Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing 
approval of a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the 
State of Nevada (``State''). On December 15, 2003, the EPA redesignated 
the Lake Tahoe, Nevada area (area), consisting of the Nevada portion of 
the Lake Tahoe basin in Nevada's Washoe, Carson City and Douglas 
counties, from

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nonattainment to attainment for the carbon monoxide (CO) national 
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and approved the State's plan 
addressing the area's maintenance of the CO NAAQS for ten years. On 
April 3, 2012, the State submitted to the EPA a second CO maintenance 
plan for the area that addressed maintenance of the CO NAAQS through 
2024. On August 26, 2016, the State submitted a supplement to their 
2012 submittal. The EPA is also proposing to approve an alternative CO 
monitoring strategy for the area, that the State included in their 
August 2016 submittal. We are making this proposal under the Clean Air 
Act.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by April 10, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2015-0399 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to John 
Kelly, Air Planning Office, at kelly.johnj@epa.gov. For comments 
submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for 
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be removed or 
edited 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. The 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://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Kelly, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-
4151, kelly.johnj@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and 
``our'' refer to the EPA. This proposal addresses the following local 
plan, ``2012 Revision to the Nevada State Implementation Plan for 
Carbon Monoxide: Updated Limited Maintenance Plan, for the Nevada Side 
of the Lake Tahoe Basin, Including Douglas, Carson City and Washoe 
Counties.''
    In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we 
are approving this local plan in a direct final action without prior 
proposal because we believe this SIP revision is 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.
    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: December 22, 2016.
Deborah Jordan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2017-04770 Filed 3-9-17; 8:45 am]
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