Document ID: EPA-R01-OAR-2016-0758-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Proposed Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: New Hampshire; Nonattainment New Source Review and Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit Program Revisions; etc.
Posted Date: 2017-05-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 100 (Thursday, May 25, 2017)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 24085-24086]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-09538]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R01-OAR-2017-0102 and EPA-R01-OAR-2016-0758; FRL-9962-02-Region 1]

Air Plan Approval; NH; Nonattainment New Source Review and 
Prevention of Significant Deterioration Permit Program Revisions; 
Public Hearing Revisions for State Permitting Programs; Withdrawal of 
Permit Fee Program; Infrastructure Provisions for National Ambient Air 
Quality Standards

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve several different State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions 
submitted to EPA by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental 
Services (NHDES). New Hampshire submitted to EPA on October 26, 2016, 
revisions satisfying the NHDES's earlier commitment to adopt and submit 
provisions that meet certain requirements of the federal Prevention of 
Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattainment New Source Review 
(NNSR) air permit program regulations. This proposed action will 
convert to full approval EPA's September 25, 2015 conditional approval 
of New Hampshire's PSD and NNSR permit programs. This action also will 
approve NHDES's SIP revisions relating to several New Hampshire 
infrastructure SIPs, which were conditionally approved by EPA on 
December 16, 2015, and July 8, 2016.
    Additionally, EPA is also proposing to approve: a January 31, 2017 
SIP revision amending the public notice and hearing procedures for New 
Hampshire's NNSR, PSD, and minor NSR permit programs; a January 18, 
2017 SIP revision withdrawing the State SIP's permit fee system; and a 
November 17, 2015 SIP revision that addresses the good neighbor 
provisions of New Hampshire's infrastructure SIP for the 2010 nitrogen 
oxide (NO2) national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). 
This action is being taken in accordance with the Clean Air Act (CAA).

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before June 26, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R01-
OAR-2017-0102 and EPA-R01-OAR-2016-0758 at https://www.regulations.gov, 
or via email to mcdonnell.ida@epa.gov. For comments submitted at 
Regulations.gov, follow the

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online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments 
cannot be edited or removed 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 https://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ida E. McDonnell, Manager, Air 
Permits, Toxics, and Indoor Programs Unit, Office of Ecosystem 
Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA New England 
Regional Office, 5 Post Office Square, Suite 100, (OEP05-2), Boston, MA 
02109-3912, phone number (617) 918-1653, fax number (617) 918-0653, 
email McDonnell.Ida@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Rules Section of this Federal 
Register, EPA is approving the State'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. A 
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final 
rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to this action 
rule, 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. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment, 
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed 
from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions 
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.
    For additional information, see the direct final rule which is 
located in the Rules Section of this Federal Register.

    Dated: April 19, 2017.
Deborah A. Szaro,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA New England.
[FR Doc. 2017-09538 Filed 5-24-17; 8:45 am]
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