Document ID: EPA-R04-OAR-2007-0085-0016
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: North Carolina; Open Burning and Miscellaneous Revisions
Posted Date: 2017-09-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 6, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 42055]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18767]

[[Page 42055]]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R04-OAR-2007-0085; FRL-9967-12-Region 4]

Air Plan Approval; NC; Open Burning and Miscellaneous Revisions

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the 
comment period for a proposed rulemaking notice published in the 
Federal Register on July 18, 2017, which accompanied a direct final 
rulemaking published on the same date. In the July 18, 2017, action, 
EPA proposed to approve several revisions to the North Carolina State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the State of North Carolina 
through the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality 
(formerly the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural 
Resources), Division of Air Quality, on October 14, 2004, March 24, 
2006, and January 31, 2008. The revisions include changes to several 
regulations and the addition of a new section to the Exclusionary Rules 
of the North Carolina SIP. It was brought to EPA's attention that it 
inadvertently did not include the October 14, 2004, and January 31, 
2008, state submittals and related materials in the electronic docket 
at the time of the publication of the proposed rulemaking notice, and 
the agency was asked to extend the comment period. The materials have 
been added to the docket, and EPA is reopening the comment period for 
an additional 15 days.

DATES: Comments on the proposed rule published July 18, 2017 (82 FR 
32782) must be received on or before September 21, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R04-
OAR-2007-0085 at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot 
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 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. 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, the full EPA public comment 
policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general 
guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Lakeman or Nacosta C. Ward, 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. Mr. Lakeman can be reached via telephone at (404) 562-9043 
or via electronic mail at lakeman.sean@epa.gov. Ms. Ward can be reached 
via telephone at (404) 562-9140, or via electronic mail at 
ward.nacosta@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA published a proposed rulemaking on July 
18, 2017 (82 FR 32782), which accompanied a direct final rulemaking 
published on the same date (82 FR 32767). The proposed revisions 
include changes to several regulations and the addition of a new 
section to the Exclusionary Rules of the North Carolina SIP. It was 
brought to EPA's attention that it inadvertently did not include the 
October 14, 2004 and January 31, 2008, state submittals and related 
materials in the electronic docket at the time of the publication of 
the proposed rulemaking action, and the agency was asked to extend the 
comment period. The materials have been added to the docket, and EPA is 
reopening the comment period for an additional 15 days.

    Dated: August 21, 2017.
V. Anne Heard,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.
[FR Doc. 2017-18767 Filed 9-5-17; 8:45 am]
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