Document ID: EPA-R05-OAR-2005-OH-0002-0019
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Reopening of the public comment period for the Supplemental Proposal on the Ohio COMS/Opacity Revision
Posted Date: 2014-08-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 153 (Friday, August 8, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 46383-46384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18833]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR PART 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2005-OH-0002; FRL-9914-93-Region-5]

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
Ohio; Particulate Matter

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the 
comment period for a proposed Clean Air Act rule published June 26, 
2014. EPA solicited comment on whether events subsequent to a prior 
comment period should alter EPA's proposed disapproval of a June 4, 
2003, Ohio submission with respect to SIP opacity limitations. In 
response to requests from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 
(Ohio EPA) and from the Ohio Utility Group, EPA is reopening the 
comment period for 30 days.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 8, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2005-OH-0002, by one of the following methods:
    1. www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
    2. Email: aburano.douglas@epa.gov.
    3. Fax: (312) 692-2551.
    4. Mail or Delivery: Douglas Aburano, Chief, Attainment Planning 
and Maintenance Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 
Illinois 60604. Deliveries are only accepted during the Regional Office 
normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be made for 
deliveries of boxed information. The Regional Office official hours of 
business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding 
Federal holidays.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-
2005-OH-0002. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be 
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov 
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an email comment directly to EPA without going through 
www.regulations.gov your email address will be automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket 
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic 
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact 
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you 
submit. 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: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from 8:30 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays. 
We recommend that you telephone John Summerhays, Environmental 
Scientist, at (312) 886-6067, before visiting the Region 5 office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Summerhays, Environmental 
Scientist, Attainment Planning and Maintenance Section, Air Programs 
Branch (AR-18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6067, 
summerhays.john@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
    On June 27, 2005, EPA proposed to disapprove provisions relating to 
opacity limitations contained in an Ohio submittal dated June 4, 2003. 
EPA is evaluating the public comments received in response to the 
proposed disapproval. Given the passage of time,

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on June 26, 2014 (79 FR 36277), EPA solicited supplemental comment 
specifically with respect to whether events subsequent to the prior 
comment period should alter EPA's proposed disapproval of Ohio's 
submission dated June 4, 2003, with respect to SIP opacity limitations. 
EPA did not solicit comments on Ohio's submission or EPA's proposed 
action of June 27, 2005, on that submission, except to the extent that 
events subsequent to the original comment period are relevant to EPA's 
evaluation of the submission and EPA's proposed action. This was not a 
reopening of the original comment period, but the opening of a 
supplemental comment period. In the supplemental proposal, we requested 
comment by July 28, 2014. We received a request from the Ohio EPA, on 
July 7, 2014, to extend the comment period an additional 90 days. We 
also received a similar request from the Ohio Utility Group on July 17, 
2014. EPA has considered these requests and has decided to reopen the 
comment period for an additional 30 days. EPA considers a comment 
period extended by more than 30 days (including time between July 28, 
2014 and today) to be more than sufficient to research and analyze any 
events subsequent to the original comment period which might be 
relevant to this supplemental comment period. Neither Ohio EPA nor the 
Ohio Utility Group identified any particularly time-consuming issues 
relevant to the supplemental comment period, nor is EPA aware of any. 
The comment period now closes on September 8, 2014.

    Dated: July 29, 2014.
Susan Hedman,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2014-18833 Filed 8-7-14; 8:45 am]
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