[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 200 (Monday, October 18, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 56173-56174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27189]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 63
[AD-FRL-6460-5]
RIN 2060-AC31
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:
Halogenated Solvent Cleaning
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Withdrawal of direct final rule.
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SUMMARY: Due to receipt of adverse comments, EPA is withdrawing an
August 19, 1999 direct final rule (64 FR 45187) which would have
amended the ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants:
Halogenated Solvent Cleaning.'' The direct final rule would have
provided additional compliance options for continuous web cleaning
machines, as well as clarifications that apply to steam-heated vapor
cleaning machines and to cleaning machines used to clean transformers.
DATES: As of October 18, 1999, EPA withdraws the direct final rule
published at 64 FR 45187 on August 19, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Docket A-92-39 containing information pertaining to this
rulemaking is available for public inspection and copying between 8 a.m
and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. The docket is
located in the EPA's Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center,
Room M-1500, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, or by calling
(202) 260-7548. A reasonable fee may be charged for copying docket
materials.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Paul Almodovar, Coatings and
Consumer Products Group, Emission Standards Division (MD-13), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711, telephone number (919) 541-0283. Electronic mail address is
almodovar.paul@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 19, 1999 EPA published a direct
final rule (64 FR 45187) to amend the ``National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants: Halogenated Solvent Cleaning.'' This
amendment would provide additional compliance options for continuous
web cleaning machines, as well as clarifications that apply to steam-
heated vapor cleaning machines and to cleaning machines used to clean
transformers.
The EPA stated in the direct final rule that if relevant adverse
comments were
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received by September 20, 1999, the EPA would publish a notice
withdrawing the direct final rule before its effective date of October
18, 1999. The EPA received adverse comments on the direct final rule
from two commenters on September 20, 1999 and is, therefore,
withdrawing the direct final rule. The EPA will address these comments
in a final rule addressing additional compliance options for continuous
web cleaning machines before December 2, 1999, the date on which the
compliance extension for these types of machines expires.
Dated: October 13, 1999.
Robert D. Brenner,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 99-27189 Filed 10-15-99; 8:45 am]
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