2011-16482. Revisions to the California State Implementation Plan, Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Proposed rule.

SUMMARY:

EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District (AVAQMD) portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern negative declarations for volatile organic compound (VOC) source categories for the AVAQMD. We are proposing to approve these negative declarations under the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act).

DATES:

Any comments on this proposal must arrive by August 1, 2011.

ADDRESSES:

Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-2011-0383, by one of the following methods:

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions.

2. E-mail: [e-mail].

3. Mail or deliver: Andrew Steckel (Air-4), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901.

Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Information that you consider CBI or otherwise protected should be clearly identified as such and should not be submitted through http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. http://www.regulations.gov is an “anonymous access” system, and EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part of the public comment. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.

Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available electronically at http://www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all documents in the docket are listed in the index, some information may be publicly available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material), and some may not be publicly available in either location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an appointment during normal business hours with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cynthia Allen, EPA Region IX, [phone], [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This proposal addresses the following negative declarations listed in Table I:

Table 1—Submitted Negative Declarations

Local agency	Title	Adopted	Submitted
AVAQMD	Large Appliances, Surface Coating	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Wood Furniture Surface Coating	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Gasoline Bulk Plants	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Equipment Leaks from Natural Gas/Gasoline Processing Plants	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Leaks from Petroleum Refinery Equipment	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Air Oxidation Processes (SOCMI)	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Reactor and Distillation Processes (SOCMI)	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Tank Truck Gasoline Loading Terminals > 76,000 L	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Manufacture of Synthesized Pharmaceutical Products	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Manufacture of Pneumatic Rubber Tires	09/19/0	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Manufacture of High Density Polyethylene, Polypropylene and Polystyrene	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Equipment used in Synthetic Organic Chemical Polymers and Resin Manufacturing	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Refinery Vacuum-Producing Systems, Wastewater Separators and Process Unit Turnarounds	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Magnetic Wire Coating Operations	09/19/06	01/31/07
AVAQMD	Ship Repair Operations	10/19/10	01/07/11
AVAQMD	Storage of Petroleum Liquids in Fixed Roof Tanks	10/19/10	01/07/11
AVAQMD	Petroleum Liquid Storage in External Floating Roof Tanks	10/19/10	01/07/11

In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are approving these negative declarations in a direct final action without prior proposal because we believe these negative declarations are not controversial. If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments in subsequent action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the rule, we may adopt as final those provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.

We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further information, please see the direct final action.

Dated: June 14, 2011.

Jared Blumenfeld,

Regional Administrator, Region IX.