§ 52.2498 - Visibility protection.

§ 52.2498 Visibility protection.

(a) The requirements of section 169A of the Clean Air Act are not fully met because the plan does not include approvable procedures for visibility new source review for:

(1) Sources subject to the jurisdiction of Olympic Region Clean Air Agency;

(2) Indian reservations in Washington except for non-trust land within the exterior boundaries of the Puyallup Indian Reservation (also known as the 1873 Survey Area) as provided in the Puyallup Tribe of Indians Settlement Act of 1989, 25 U.S.C. 1773, and any other area where the EPA or an Indian tribe has demonstrated that a tribe has jurisdiction.

(b) Regulations for visibility new source review. The provisions of § 52.28 are hereby incorporated and made a part of the applicable plan for Washington for the facilities, emission sources, and geographic areas listed in paragraph (a) of this section.

(c) The requirements of sections 169A and 169B of the Clean Air Act are not met because the plan does not include approvable provisions for protection of visibility in mandatory Class I Federal areas, specifically the Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) requirement for regional haze visibility impairment (§ 51.308(e)). The EPA BART requirements are found in §§ 52.2500, 52.2501, and 52.2502.

[51 FR 23228, June 26, 1986, as amended at 79 FR 33453, June 11, 2014; 80 FR 23730, Apr. 29, 2015; 82 FR 17143, Apr. 10, 2017; 82 FR 24537, May 30, 2017; 85 FR 22362, Apr. 22, 2020; 85 FR 36161, June 15, 2020; 86 FR 24726, May 10, 2021; 87 FR 41074, July 11, 2022]