Document ID: EPA-R03-OAR-2016-0002-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approval and Promulgation: Pennsylvania; 2011 Base Year Inventories for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, etc.
Posted Date: 2016-04-26T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 26, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 24536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09590]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R03-OAR-2016-0002; FRL-9945-46-Region 3]

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
Pennsylvania; 2011 Base Year Inventories for the 2008 8-Hour Ozone 
National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the Allentown-Bethlehem-
Easton, Lancaster, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, and Reading Areas, and the 
Pennsylvania Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve 
the 2011 base year inventories for the 2008 8-hour ozone national 
ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for the Allentown-Bethlehem-
Easton, Lancaster, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, and Reading nonattainment 
areas, and the Pennsylvania portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-
Atlantic City nonattainment area, submitted by the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania as a revision to the Pennsylvania State Implementation 
Plan (SIP). In the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the 
Federal Register, EPA is approving Pennsylvania's SIP submittal as a 
direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this 
as a noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. 
The rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final rule. 
More detailed descriptions of the state submittal and EPA's evaluation 
are included in Technical Support Documents (TSD) prepared in support 
of this rulemaking action. Copies of the TSDs are available, upon 
request, from the EPA Regional Office listed in the ADDRESSES section 
of this document or are also available electronically within the Docket 
for this rulemaking action. If no adverse comments are received in 
response to this action, no further activity is contemplated. If EPA 
receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and 
all public comments received will be addressed in a subsequent final 
rule based on this proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second 
comment period. Any parties interested in commenting on this action 
should do so at this time.

DATES: Comments must be received in writing by May 26, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R03-
OAR-2016-0002 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to 
fernandez.cristina@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, 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: Maria A. Pino, (215) 814-2181, or by 
email at pino.maria@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information regarding 
Pennsylvania's 2011 base year inventories for the 2008 8-hour ozone 
NAAQS for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Lancaster, Pittsburgh-Beaver 
Valley, and Reading areas, and the Pennsylvania portion of the 
Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City area, please see the information 
provided in the direct final action, with the same title, that is 
located in the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the 
Federal Register.

    Dated: April 8, 2016.
Shawn M. Garvin,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2016-09590 Filed 4-25-16; 8:45 am]
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