Document ID: EPA-R06-OAR-2022-0927-0012
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: NM088.12: Extension of Comment Period; Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM, 2 pages
Posted Date: 2023-04-04T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 19901-19902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06892]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R06-OAR-2022-0927; FRL-10657-03-R6]

Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date but for 
International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico; Extension of Comment 
Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the 
comment period for the proposed rule ``Determination of Attainment by 
the Attainment Date But For International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone 
National Ambient Air Quality Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New 
Mexico'' that was published on March 7, 2023. The proposal provided for 
a public comment period ending April 6, 2023. The EPA received a 
request from the public to extend this comment period. The EPA is 
extending the comment period to May 8, 2023.

DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published March 7, 2023 
(88 FR 14095), is extended. Written comments must be received on or 
before May 8, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket No. EPA-R06-OAR-
2022-0927, at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot 
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 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

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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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
    Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available 
electronically at www.regulations.gov. While all documents in the 
docket are listed in the index, some information may not be publicly 
available due to docket file size restrictions or content (e.g., CBI).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sherry Fuerst, EPA Region 6 Office, 
(AR-SI), 214-665-6454, [email protected]. We encourage the public 
to submit comments via https://www.regulations.gov. Please call or 
email the contact listed above if you need alternative access to 
material indexed but not provided in the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
    On March 7, 2023, we published in the Federal Register 
``Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date But For 
International Emissions for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
Standard; El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico'', where we proposed to 
determine that the El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas-New Mexico nonattainment 
area would have attained the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality 
standard (NAAQS) by the August 3, 2021 ``Marginal'' Area attainment 
date, but for emissions emanating from outside the United States (88 FR 
14095). We received a request for an extension of the comment period 
and, in response, have decided to allow an additional 30 days for the 
public to comment. The comment period will now close on May 8, 2023. 
This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare 
and submit comments on the proposed action listed above.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by 
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Pollution, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

    Dated: March 29, 2023.
David Garcia,
Director, Air and Radiation Division, Region 6.
[FR Doc. 2023-06892 Filed 4-3-23; 8:45 am]
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