Document ID: EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0499-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: California; Calaveras County, Chico, San Francisco Bay Area and San Luis Obispo County; Base Year Emission Inventories for the 2008 Ozone Standards
Posted Date: 2016-10-19T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 202 (Wednesday, October 19, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 72011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25161]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0499; FRL-9954-19-Region 9]

Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plan; California; 
Calaveras County, Chico (Butte County), San Francisco Bay Area and San 
Luis Obispo County (Eastern San Luis Obispo) Base Year Emission 
Inventories for the 2008 Ozone Standards

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) 
concerning the base year emission inventories (EIs) for four areas 
designated as nonattainment areas for the 2008 ozone National Ambient 
Air Quality Standards (2008 ozone NAAQS). The subject areas include 
Calaveras County, Chico (Butte County), San Francisco Bay Area and San 
Luis Obispo (Eastern San Luis Obispo). We are proposing to approve 
these revisions under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act).

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by November 18, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2016-0499 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to Nancy 
Levin, Air Planning Office at levin.nancy@epa.gov. For comments 
submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for 
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be removed or 
edited from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, 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, 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 http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Levin, EPA Region IX, (415) 972-
3848, levin.nancy@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and 
``our'' refer to the EPA. This proposal addresses base year EIs for the 
Calaveras County, Chico (Butte County), San Francisco Bay Area and San 
Luis Obispo (Eastern San Luis Obispo) 2008 ozone NAAQS nonattainment 
areas. We are approving these base year EIs in a direct final action 
without prior proposal because we believe these SIP revisions are not 
controversial. If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish 
a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments 
in subsequent action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if 
we receive adverse comment on a particular base year EI, we may adopt 
as final those that are not the subject of an adverse comment.
    We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone 
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not 
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further 
information, please see the direct final action.

    Dated: September 28, 2016.
Deborah Jordan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2016-25161 Filed 10-18-16; 8:45 am]
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