[Federal Register: January 24, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 15)]
[Proposed Rules]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Parts 52 and 81
[EPA-R09-OAR-2006-0580; FRL-8270-4]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Arizona; Miami
Sulfur Dioxide State Implementation Plan and Request for Redesignation
to Attainment; Correction of Boundary of Miami Sulfur Dioxide
Nonattainment Area
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve the maintenance plan for the Miami
Area in Gila County, Arizona, as a revision to the Arizona state
implementation plan; to grant the request submitted by the State to
redesignate this area from nonattainment to attainment of the national
ambient air quality standards for sulfur dioxide (SO2); and
to correct the boundary for the Miami SO2 nonattainment
area. EPA is proposing this action in accordance with the Clean Air
Act.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by February 23, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2006-0580, by one of the following methods:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions.
2. E-mail: vagenas.ginger@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Ginger Vagenas (Air-2), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA
94105-3901.
Instructions: All comments 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 Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Information that you
consider CBI or otherwise protected should be clearly identified as
such and should not be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
http://www.regulations.gov is an ``anonymous access'' system, and EPA will not
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment. If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
public comment. 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.
Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA Region
IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all documents
in the docket are listed in the index, some information may be publicly
available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material),
and some may not be publicly available in either location (e.g., CBI).
To inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an appointment
during normal business hours with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ginger Vagenas, EPA Region IX, (415)
972-3964, vagenas.ginger@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Rules and Regulations section of this
Federal Register, we are taking direct final action to approve the
maintenance plan for the Miami SO2 nonattainment area and to
approve the State of Arizona's request to redesignate the Miami area
from nonattainment to attainment. We are also taking direct final
action to correct the boundary of the Miami SO2
nonattainment area. We are taking these actions 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.
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 rule in this Federal Register.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: December 22, 2006.
Sally Seymour,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E7-995 Filed 1-23-07; 8:45 am]
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