Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0098-0007
Agency: epa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Findings of Failure to Submit State Implementation Plans Required for Attainment of the 1-Hour Primary Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air Quality Standard; Correction
Posted Date: 2016-04-14T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 22025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08509]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0098; FRL-9944-88-OAR]

Findings of Failure To Submit State Implementation Plans Required 
for Attainment of the 2010 1-Hour Primary Sulfur Dioxide National 
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS); Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is correcting a 
final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on March 18, 2016 (81 
FR 14736). The document included a listing of areas for which states 
had not submitted State Implementation Plans (SIPs) addressing 
nonattainment area SIP requirements for the 2010 1-hour primary sulfur 
dioxide (SO2) NAAQS. This action corrects that listing to 
clarify that the Indiana, Pennsylvania nonattainment area for the 2010 
SO2 NAAQS consists of the entirety of Indiana County and 
part of Armstrong County.

DATES: The effective date of this document is April 18, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions regarding this 
correction, contact Dr. Larry Wallace, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Mail Code C539-
01, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, phone number (919) 541-0906 or by 
email at wallace.larry@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The EPA issued the final rule, in FR Doc 2016-06063 on March 18, 
2016 (81 FR 14736). That final rule establishes certain Clean Air Act 
deadlines for the EPA to impose sanctions if a state does not submit a 
SIP addressing nonattainment area SIP requirements to bring the 
affected areas into attainment of the 2010 1-hour primary 
SO2 NAAQS and for the EPA to promulgate a Federal 
Implementation Plan to address any outstanding SIP requirements.

Need for Correction

    As published, the final preamble contains an error in a table 
identifying areas subject to the findings of failure to submit related 
to the Indiana, Pennsylvania nonattainment area. The Indiana, 
Pennsylvania nonattainment area consists of the entirety of Indiana 
County and part of Armstrong County. See 78 FR 47191, August 5, 2013 
codified at 40 CFR part 81, subpart C. The preamble table mistakenly 
lists Indiana County as a ``partial'' county that is part of the 
Indiana, Pennsylvania nonattainment area subject to a finding of 
failure to submit, when the full county should have been listed as 
subject to the finding. Additional notice and comment for this minor 
technical correction is unnecessary under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B), and 
the EPA finds that good cause exists for this minor technical 
correction to become effective at the same time as the final rule. 
Accordingly, this correction is incorporated into the final rule and 
also becomes effective on April 18, 2016.

Correction of Publication

    In FR Doc 2016-06063 appearing on page 14736 in the Federal 
Register of Friday, March 18, 2016, the following correction is made:
    On page 14737, table entitled ``STATES AND SO2 
NONATTAINMENT AREAS AFFECTED BY THESE FINDINGS OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT,'' 
remove from the end of the fourth entry, under the column titled 
``Nonattainment area'' the text ``(p)''.

    Dated: April 4, 2016.
Janet G. McCabe,
Acting Assistant Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016-08509 Filed 4-13-16; 8:45 am]
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