[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 96 (Thursday, May 18, 1995)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26710-26711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12175]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 51
[FRL-5208-2]
Inspection and Maintenance Flexibility Amendments
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: This action extends the comment period to the proposed rule
published on April 28, 1995 (60 FR 20934). EPA is extending the comment
period to June 1, 1995.
DATES: Written comments on the proposed rule must be received no later
than June 1, 1995. A public hearing is scheduled for May 17, 1995 and
will be held at Weber's Inn at 3050 Jackson Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48103, from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit written comments (in duplicate
if possible) to Public Docket No. A-95-08. It is requested that a
duplicate copy be submitted to Eugene J. Tierney at the Office of
Mobile Sources, National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory, 2565
Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105. The docket is located at the
Air Docket, Room M-1500 (6102), Waterside Mall SW., Washington, DC
20460. The docket may be inspected between 8:30 a.m. and 12 noon and
between 1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. on weekdays. A reasonable fee may be
charged for copying docket material.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eugene J. Tierney, Telephone (313)
668-4456.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
EPA announced its intent to amend the I/M Program Requirements in
December 1994 and held stakeholders' meetings on January 24, 1995 and
January 31, 1995. The proposal creates a second, less stringent
enhanced I/M performance standard that could be [[Page 26711]] used in
areas that can demonstrate an ability to meet the 1990 Clean Air Act
deadlines for Reasonable Further Progress and attainment while
implementing an I/M program that falls below the originally promulgated
enhanced I/M performance standard. The proposed action would also
revise the high enhanced I/M performance standard to include a visual
inspection of the positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) valve on all
light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks from model years 1968 to
1971, inclusive, and of the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve on
all light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks from model years 1972
through 1983, inclusive. The proposal also solicits public comment on
whether or not EPA should include revised regulatory language in its
final rulemaking which change the population cutoff for basic I/M from
50,000 persons to 200,000 persons. Lastly, the proposal would make
clarifying amendments to the I/M requirements for areas undergoing
redesignation.
Dated: May 10, 1995.
Mary Nichols,
Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.
[FR Doc. 95-12175 Filed 5-17-95; 8:45 am]
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