Document ID: EPA-R08-OAR-2019-0002-0005
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Federal Implementation Plan to Establish a Bank for Ozone Precursor Emission Reduction Credits From Existing Sources on Indian Country Lands Within the Uinta Basin Ozone Nonattainment Area
Posted Date: 2019-07-03T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 3, 2019)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 31813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14247]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 49

[EPA-R08-OAR-2019-0002; 9995-99-Region 8]

Federal Implementation Plan To Establish a Bank for Ozone 
Precursor Emission Reduction Credits From Existing Sources on Indian 
Country Lands Within the Uinta Basin Ozone Nonattainment Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment 
period.

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SUMMARY: On May 24, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
published in the Federal Register an advance notice of proposed 
rulemaking (ANPRM) to solicit broad feedback on different approaches to 
establish an emission reduction credit (ERC) bank for ozone precursors, 
specifically volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides 
(NOX), as part of a Clean Air Act (CAA) Federal 
Implementation Plan (FIP) applicable to stationary sources on Indian 
country lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (U&O 
Reservation). The EPA is extending the comment period for the ANPRM 
until August 7, 2019.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before August 7, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-
OAR-2019-0002, to the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from 
www.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 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, 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.
    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 Air and Radiation 
Division, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop 
Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129. The EPA requests that if at all 
possible, you contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section to view the hard copy of the docket. You 
may view the hard copy of the docket Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. 
to 4:00 p.m., excluding federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Dresser, Air and Radiation 
Division, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 8ARD-QP, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 
Colorado 80202-1129, (303) 312-6385, dresser.chris@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean the EPA.
    The purpose of the ANPRM (84 FR 24064) was to solicit broad 
feedback on different approaches to establish an ERC bank for ozone 
precursors. Such ERCs may be generated and used for several air quality 
planning purposes. Specifically, the credits could be used in assisting 
in achievement of the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard 
(NAAQS), general conformity demonstrations, and nonattainment new 
source review (NNSR) permitting related to development of new VOC and 
NOX emissions sources in the Uinta Basin Ozone Nonattainment 
Area in Utah. The EPA designated portions of the ``Uinta Basin'' region 
nonattainment for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS, effective August 3, 2018.
    We received requests from the Western Energy Alliance (WEA) and the 
Utah Petroleum Association (UPA) on June 24, 2019, and from the Ute 
Tribal Business Committee on June 25, 2019, to extend the comment 
period. In response, we are extending the comment period to August 7, 
2019.\1\
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    \1\ Copies of the letters requesting the extension appear in the 
docket for this action.
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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 49

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Intergovernmental 
relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Particulate matter, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.

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

    Dated: June 28, 2019.
Greg Sopkin,
Regional Administrator, EPA Region 8.
[FR Doc. 2019-14247 Filed 7-2-19; 8:45 am]
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