[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 42 (Friday, March 1, 1996)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 8008-8009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4572]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[CA 71-8-6938b; FRL-5424-1]
Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans;
California State Implementation Plan Revision, Kern County Air
Pollution Control District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality
Management District
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP) which concern the control of oxides of
nitrogen (NOx) emissions from the operations of stationary gas
turbines and the removal of a rule from the SIP that controls NOx
emissions from steam generators used in the oil production operations.
The intended effect of proposing approval of these rules is to
regulate emissions of NOx in accordance with the requirements of
the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). In the Final
Rules Section of this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the
state's SIP revision as a direct final rule without prior proposal
because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial revision amendment
and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for this
approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no adverse comments
are received in response to this proposed
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rule, no further activity is contemplated in relation to this rule. If
EPA receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn
and all public comments received will be addressed in a subsequent
final rule based on this proposed rule. The EPA will not institute a
second comment period on this document. Any parties interested in
commenting on this action should do so at this time.
DATES: Comments on this proposed rule must be received in writing by
April 1, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on this action should be addressed to:
Daniel A. Meer, Rulemaking Section (A-5-3), Air and Toxics Division,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.
Copies of the rules and EPA's evaluation report of each rule are
available for public inspection at EPA's Region 9 office during normal
business hours. Copies of the submitted rules are also available for
inspection at the following locations:
California Air Resources Board, Stationary Source Division, Rule
Evaluation Section, 2020 ``L'' Street, Sacramento, CA 95814.
Kern County Air Pollution Control District, 2700 M Street, Suite 290,
Bakersfield, CA 93301.
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, 8411 Jackson
Road, Sacramento, CA 95826.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel A. Meer, Rulemaking Section (A-
5-3), Air and Toxics Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901, Telephone:
(415) 744-1185.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document concerns Kern County Air
Pollution Control District's (KCAPCD) Rule 425, Cogeneration Gas
Turbine Engines (Oxides of Nitrogen), and Sacramento Metropolitan Air
Quality Management District's (SMAQMD) Rule 413, Stationary Gas
Turbines. The rule being removed from the SIP is KCAPCD Rule 425,
Oxides of Nitrogen Emissions from Steam Generators Used in Thermally
Enhanced Oil Recovery--Western Kern County Fields. The KCPACD rules
were submitted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to EPA on
November 18, 1993 and the SMAQMD rule was submitted on June 16, 1995.
For further information, please see the information provided in the
Direct Final action which is located in the Rules Section of this
Federal Register.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.
Dated: January 30, 1996.
Felicia Marcus,
Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-4572 Filed 2-29-96; 8:45 am]
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