97-30247. Acid Rain Program: Notice of Direct Final Phase II Acid Rain Permits  

  • [Federal Register Volume 62, Number 222 (Tuesday, November 18, 1997)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 61503]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 97-30247]
    
    
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    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    
    [FRL-5923-1]
    
    
    Acid Rain Program: Notice of Direct Final Phase II Acid Rain 
    Permits
    
    AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
    
    ACTION: Notice of final acid rain permits.
    
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    SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is issuing, as a 
    direct final action, Phase II acid rain permits to 3 affected sources 
    in accordance with the Acid Rain Program regulations (40 CFR part 72). 
    Because the Agency does not anticipate receiving adverse comments, the 
    permits are being issued as a direct final action.
    
    DATES: Each of the permits issued in this direct final action will be 
    final on December 29, 1997 or 40 days after publication of a similar 
    notice in a local newspaper, whichever is later, unless significant, 
    adverse comments are received by December 18, 1997 or 30 days after 
    publication of a similar document in a local newspaper, whichever is 
    later. If significant, adverse comments are timely received on any 
    permit in this direct final action, that permit will be withdrawn 
    through a notice in the Federal Register.
    
    ADDRESSES: Administrative Records. The administrative record for each 
    draft permit, except information protected as confidential, may be 
    viewed during normal operating hours at the following locations:
    
    For Deseret Bonanza in Utah: U.S. EPA Region 8, Air Program, 999 18th 
    St., Suite 500, Denver, CO 80202-2466;
    For Navajo in Arizona and Four Corners in New Mexico: U.S. EPA Region 
    9, 75 Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA 94105.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Deseret Bonanza in Utah: Mike 
    Owens, U.S. EPA Region 8, (303) 312-6440; for Navajo in Arizona and 
    Four Corners in New Mexico: Robert Baker, U.S. EPA Region 9, (415) 744-
    1258.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public comments received on any permit in 
    this direct final action on which significant, adverse comments are 
    timely received will be addressed in a subsequent issuance or denial of 
    an acid rain permit based on the relevant draft permit in the notice of 
    draft acid rain permits that is published elsewhere in today's Federal 
    Register and that is identical to this direct final action.
        U.S. EPA is issuing, under 40 CFR 72.74, Phase II acid rain permits 
    that specify the following annual sulfur dioxide emission allowances 
    and compliance plans for the following affected sources:
    
    Region 8
    
        Bonanza in Utah: 10,709 allowances for unit 1-1. The designated 
    representative is F. Elgin Ward.
    
    Region 9
    
        Navajo in Arizona: 26,009 allowances for unit 1, 24,062 allowances 
    for unit 2, and 24,840 allowances for unit 3. The designated 
    representative is Nils I. Larson.
        Four Corners in New Mexico: 3,565 allowances for unit 1, 3,561 
    allowances for unit 2, 4,443 allowances for unit 3, 12,406 allowances 
    for unit 4, and 13,170 allowances for unit 5. The designated 
    representative is John R. Denman.
        The number of allowances allocated to these units by U.S. EPA may 
    change in a 1998 revision to 40 CFR part 73 Tables 2, 3, and 4. Such a 
    change will not necessitate a revision to the unit SO2 
    allowance allocations identified in the permits for these affected 
    sources (See 40 CFR 72.84).
    
        Dated: November 12, 1997.
    Janice K. Wagner,
    Acting Director, Acid Rain Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, 
    Office of Air and Radiation.
    [FR Doc. 97-30247 Filed 11-17-97; 8:45 am]
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