Document ID: EPA-R03-OAR-2020-0157-0081
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Pennsylvania; Allegheny County Area Attainment Plan for the 2012 Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality Standard;  Reopening of Comment Period
Posted Date: 2020-07-31T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 148 (Friday, July 31, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 46046-46047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15870]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R03-OAR-2020-0157; FRL-10012-73-Region 3]

Air Plan Approval; Pennsylvania; Allegheny County Area Attainment 
Plan for the 2012 Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality 
Standard; Reopening of Comment Period

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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 document published in the Federal Register on June 
12, 2020. EPA is reopening the comment period based on the Clean Air 
Council's request for a 30-day extension. Clean Air Council's request 
seeks an extension of the comment period until August 13, 2020.

DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published June 12, 2020 
(85 FR 35852), is reopened. The EPA must receive comments on or before 
August 13, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R03-
OAR-2020-0157 at https://www.regulations.gov, or via email to 
spielberger.susan@epa.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, 
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, 
comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either 
manner of submission, 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 for comments on this 
proposed approval of the Allegheny County Area PM2.5 plan, 
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

[[Page 46047]]

http://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Rehn, Planning & Implementation 
Branch (3AD30), Air & Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. 
The telephone number is (215) 814-2176. Mr. Rehn can also be reached 
via electronic mail at rehn.brian@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA proposed to approve portions of a state 
implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted on September 30, 2019 by 
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) on 
behalf of the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD). The SIP 
submittal (also referred to as ``the Allegheny County PM2.5 
Plan'') addresses Clean Air Act (CAA or ``the Act'') requirements for 
the 2012 annual fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national 
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS or ``standards'') in the Allegheny 
County Moderate PM2.5 nonattainment area (``Allegheny County 
area''). EPA's June 12, 2020 document proposed to fully approve all 
elements of the plan except for those addressing contingency measure 
requirements and motor vehicle emissions budgets, which EPA proposed to 
conditionally approve.
    EPA is reopening the comment period based on a request by Clean Air 
Council for a 30-day extension of the comment period. Clean Air 
Council's request, which is in the docket \1\ for this matter, seeks an 
extension of the comment period until August 13, 2020. Their 
justification for such an extension included the complexity of the plan 
and EPA's proposed action, substantial changes to the plan made by ACHD 
following public comment at the local level, and the fact that EPA's 
proposed rule's July 13, 2020 close of comment period occurs at a 
similar time as those of several other state and Federal actions 
related to air quality in the area, for which comments are due on or 
around the same time. After reviewing these arguments, EPA has decided 
to reopen the comment period to August 13, 2020. All comments received 
on or before August 13, 2020 will be entered into the public record and 
considered by EPA before taking final action on the proposed rule. 
Comments submitted between the close of the original comment period and 
the re-opening of this comment period will be accepted and considered.
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    \1\ https://regulations.gov, Docket ID No. EPA-R03-OAR-2020-
0157.

    Dated: July 17, 2020.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2020-15870 Filed 7-30-20; 8:45 am]
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