Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/02/21/E7-2808/approval-and-promulgation-of-implementation-plans-and-operating-permits-program-state-of-missouri
Timestamp: 2017-10-20 20:13:10
Document Index: 16150674

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 70', 'art 70', 'art 51', 'art 70', 'art 70', '§\u200952', 'art 70']

A Rule by the Environmental Protection Agency on 02/21/2007
This direct final rule will be effective April 23, 2007, without further notice, unless EPA receives adverse comment by March 23, 2007. If adverse comment is received, EPA will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in the Federal Register informing the public that the rule will not take effect.
72 FR 7829
7829-7832 (4 pages)
FRL-8278-8
E7-2808
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E7-2808 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E7-2808
EPA is approving revisions to the Missouri State Implementation Plan (SIP) and Operating Permits Program. The revisions clarify the rule and streamline processes without negatively impacting air quality. The approved revisions will ensure consistency between the state and the Federally-approved rules.
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R07-OAR-2006-0803, by one of the following methods:
5. Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver your comments to Amy Algoe-Eakin, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Planning and Development Branch, 901 North 5th Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66101.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R07-OAR-2006-0803. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an “anonymous access” system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are Start Printed Page 7830available either electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Environmental Protection Agency, Air Planning and Development Branch, 901 North 5th Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. The Regional Office's official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. excluding Federal holidays. The interested persons wanting to examine these documents should make an appointment with the office at least 24 hours in advance.
On January 3, 2006, Missouri requested that EPA approve a revision to the SIP and Operating Permits Program to include revisions to the Operating Permits rule, 10 CSR 10-6.065. The rule revisions streamline the basic and intermediate operating permits, which will minimize workload for both industry and state air program staff while maintaining the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Start Printed Page 7831(NAAQS). The rule revisions include the following:
General reformatting of the rule,
Added the definition of “Air Pollutant” and added a statement that definitions specified in this rule may be found in the Definitions and Common Reference Table Rule, 10 CSR 10-6.020,
Added new Section (3), which describes the process for issuance of single, multiple or general permits,
Revised Section (4), which relates to the Basic State Operating Permits, and we are not acting on this section pursuant to the December 20, 2006, letter from MDNR.
Revised Section (5), which relates to the Intermediate State Operating Permits; these revisions include deleting references to Section (4), revising procedures for permit notifications, including rule language for standard permit content, clarifying the relationship between single, multiple and general permits, and outlines permit procedures for notifying the Administrator of state intermediate operating permits. These changes to the intermediate program do not affect the stringency of the SIP-approved program but merely make it more consistent with the state's Title V program.
Amended subsection (6)(B), Part 70 Operating Permit Applications, to provide for a specific date by which an installation must file a complete application and provide for a specific date when an installation becomes subject to Part 70 operating permits. It should be noted that this is the only change in the rule revisions which specifically relates to Missouri's Title V operating permit program. It does not change the applicability of the approved program but merely makes it more explicit.
Further information on specific changes made to this rule is available in the Technical Support Documentation developed for this action.
The submittal satisfied the completeness criteria of 40 CFR part 51, appendix V. In addition, the state submittal has met the public notice requirements for SIP submission in accordance with 40 CFR 51.102 and met the substantive SIP requirements of the CAA. Finally, the submittal met the substantive requirements of Title V of the 1990 CAA Amendments and 40 CFR part 70.
We are approving the revisions to the Missouri Operating Permits rule, 10 CSR 10-6.065, into the SIP and Operating Permit Program. Per Missouri's request, we are not approving revisions to Section (4) into the SIP or Part 70 as this section relates to the state's Basic Operating Permit Program.
We are processing this action as a direct final action because the revisions make routine changes to the existing rules, which are noncontroversial and make regulatory revisions required by state statute. Therefore, we do not anticipate any adverse comments. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on part of this rule and if that part can be severed from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those parts of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.
In reviewing SIP and Title V submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. In this context, in the absence of a prior existing requirement for the State to use voluntary consensus standards (VCS), EPA has no authority to disapprove a state submission for failure to use VCS. It would thus be inconsistent with applicable law for EPA, when it reviews a state submission, to use VCS in place of a state submission that otherwise satisfies the provisions of the CAA. Thus, the requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) do not apply. This rule does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit by April 23, 2007. Filing a petition for reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect the finality of this rule for the purposes of judicial review nor does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or action. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to Start Printed Page 7832enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).)
2. In § 52.1320(c) the table is amended under Chapter 6 by revising the entry for “10-6.065” to read as follows:
10-6.065 Operating Permits 09/30/05 02/21/07 [insert FR page number where the document begins] Section (4) Basic State Operating Permits, has not been approved as part of the SIP.
2. Appendix A to part 70 is amended by adding paragraph (t) under Missouri to read as follows:
(t) The Missouri Department of Natural Resources submitted revisions to Missouri rule 10 CSR 10-6.065, “Operating Permits” on January 3, 2006. We are approving this rule except for Section (4) which relates to the State Basic Operating Permits. This approval is effective April 23, 2007.
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