[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 136 (Wednesday, July 15, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 42803-42807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-14632]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R02-OAR-2019-0720; FRL-10010-30-Region 2]
Approval of Source-Specific Air Quality Implementation Plans; New
Jersey
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a revision to the State of New Jersey's State Implementation
Plan (SIP) for the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
related to a source-specific SIP for CMC Steel New Jersey, located at 1
N. Crossman, Sayreville, New Jersey (Facility). The control options in
this source-specific SIP address volatile organic compounds (VOC) and
nitrogen oxide (NOX) Reasonably Available Control Technology
(RACT) for the Facility's electric arc furnace (Sayreville EAF). The
intended effect of this source-specific SIP revision is to allow the
Facility to continue to operate under the current, New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
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approved VOC and NOX emission limits for the Sayreville EAF.
The Facility met the statutory criteria and deadline to qualify for
continuing to operate under its existing VOC and NOX
emission limits. This action will not increase the hourly emissions of
the Sayreville EAF affected source and will not interfere with any
applicable requirements of any National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
Therefore, this action meets all applicable requirements of the Clean
Air Act.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 14, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket Number EPA-R02-
OAR-2019-0720, at http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or withdrawn. The EPA may publish any comment received to its
public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you
consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia
submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written
comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and
should include discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA will
generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of
the primary submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or other file sharing
system). For additional submission methods, such as the full EPA public
comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and
general guidance on making effective comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Longo, Air Programs Branch,
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, 25th
Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866, (212) 637-3565, or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Background
II. The EPA's Evaluation of New Jersey's Submittal
III. Proposed Action
IV. Incorporation by Reference
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. Background
The EPA proposes to approve a revision to the State of New Jersey's
SIP for attainment and maintenance of the ozone NAAQS. Specifically,
this action applies to the regulations under New Jersey Administrative
Code (NJAC), Title 7, Chapter 27, Subchapter 16, ``Control and
Prohibition of Air Pollution from Volatile Organic Compounds'' (NJAC
7:27-16) and New Jersey Administrative Code, Title 7, Chapter 27,
Subchapter 19, ``Control and Prohibition of Air Pollution from Oxides
of Nitrogen'' (NJAC 7:27-19). The NJDEP reviewed and approved the
facility-specific emission limits for VOC and NOX control
plans as well as the associated RACT for the Sayreville EAF operated by
the Facility. The two associated facility-specific emission limits for
VOC and NOX are the lowest emission limits with the
application of control technology that are reasonably available given
the technological and economic feasibility considerations associated
with the Sayreville EAF.
CMC Steel New Jersey submitted this source-specific SIP revision
requesting authorization to continue to operate under its current
approved emission limits--specifically, the VOC emission rate of 57
pounds per hour (lb/hr) and the NOX emission rate of 31 lb/
hr--for the Sayreville EAF. A full summary of EPA's findings for this
source-specific SIP revision is included in the technical support
document (TSD) that is contained in EPA's docket assigned to this
Federal Register document.
Ozone Requirements
On March 6, 2015, the EPA established a final rule for implementing
the 2008 ozone NAAQS that repealed the 1997 ozone NAAQS and added anti-
backsliding requirements to help smooth the transition between the 1997
and the 2008 ozone NAAQS for nonattainment areas. See 80 FR 12264
(March 6, 2015). In 1997, the EPA revised the health-based NAAQS for 8-
hour ozone, setting it at 0.084 parts per million (ppm) averaged over
an 8-hour time frame. See 62 FR 38856 (July 18, 1997). In March 2008,
the EPA revised the 8-hour ozone NAAQS to 0.075 ppm (2008 ozone NAAQS),
and in October 2015, to 0.070 ppm (2015 ozone NAAQS) while retaining
the 2008 ozone indicators. See 73 FR 16436 (March 27, 2008); 80 FR
65292 (October 26, 2015). Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), after the EPA
establishes a new or revised NAAQS, the EPA and the states must take
steps to ensure that the new or revised NAAQS are met. One of the first
steps, known as the ``initial area designations,'' involves identifying
areas of the country that are not meeting the new or revised NAAQS, as
well as the nearby areas that contain emission sources that contribute
emissions to the areas' not meeting the NAAQS. On June 4, 2018, the EPA
finalized its attainment/nonattainment designations for most areas
across the country with respect to the 2015 8-hour ozone NAAQS. See 83
FR 25776 (June 4, 2018). The 2015 ozone NAAQS became effective on
August 3, 2018.
The State of New Jersey encompasses two 2008 ozone NAAQS
nonattainment areas: the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City (PA-NJ-
MD-DE), which is classified as marginal; and the New York-Northern New
Jersey-Long Island (NY-NJ-CT) also referred to as the New York
Metropolitan Area (NYMA), which has been reclassified as serious.\1\
The New Jersey portion of the NYMA is made up of 12 counties: Bergen,
Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic,
Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren counties. CMC Steel New Jersey is
located in Middlesex County.
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\1\ Determinations of Attainment by Attainment Date, Extensions
of the Attainment Date, and Reclassifications of Several Areas
Classified as Moderate for the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standards, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/23/2019-17796/determinations-of-attainment-by-the-attainment-date-extensions-of-the-attainment-date-and.
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On May 4, 2016, the EPA determined that the NYMA failed to attain
the 2008 ozone NAAQS by the applicable marginal attainment date of July
20, 2015, and therefore the NYMA was reclassified from ``marginal'' to
``moderate'' nonattainment. See 81 FR 26697 (May 4, 2016).\2\ As an
area that is reclassified to a higher nonattainment classification, the
NYMA was required to demonstrate attainment of the 2008 ozone NAAQS by
the applicable attainment date of July 20, 2018; however, the NYMA
again failed to meet the attainment date. Consequently, on August 23,
2019, the EPA reclassified the NYMA to ``serious'' nonattainment. CAA
sections 172(c)(1), 182(b)(2) and 182(f) require nonattainment areas
that are designated as ``moderate'' or above to adopt RACT.
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\2\ Determinations of Attainment by Attainment Date, Extensions
of the Attainment Date, and Reclassifications of Several Areas for
the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/04/2016-09729/determinations-of-attainment-by-the-attainment-date-extensions-of-the-attainment-date-and.
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RACT Requirements
RACT is defined as the lowest emission limit that a source is
capable of meeting by the application of control technology that is
reasonably available considering technological and economic
feasibility.\3\ The RACT analysis requires
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a two-step process. In the first step, the facility must identify
control options that it does not currently implement but that are
technologically feasible given its operations. In the second step, the
facility must determine which of the identified control options is cost
effective given its operational needs. The control options that are
demonstrated as both technologically feasible and cost-effective are
considered RACT.
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\3\ The EPA has not generally prescribed RACT requirements. As
defined in ``State Implementation Plans; General Preamble for
Proposed Rulemaking on Approval of Plan Revisions for Nonattainment
Areas--Supplement (on Control Techniques Guidelines),'' RACT for a
source is determined on a case-by-case basis, considering the
technological and economic circumstances of the individual source.
See 44 FR 53761 September 17, 1979.
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The entire State of New Jersey is subject to RACT because: (1) The
State is under the nonattainment area designations for the 8-hour ozone
NAAQS (40 CFR 81.331), and (2) the State of New Jersey is located
within the Ozone Transport Region (OTR), a region in which the CAA
requires that state SIPs implement RACT requirements. See CAA Sec.
184(b)(1)(B). Under the EPA guidelines (the ``Phase 2 Rule''), in RACT
determinations, states should consider technologies that achieve 30-50
percent reduction within a cost range of $160-1300 per ton of
NOX removed. See 70 FR 71612 (November 29, 2005). On August
1, 2007, the NJDEP finalized RACT revisions to its SIP to address the
8-hour ozone NAAQS, and the EPA approved these revisions on May 15,
2009. See ``RACT for the 8-hour Ozone NAAQS and other Associated SIP
Revisions for the Fine Particulate Matter, Regional Haze, and Transport
of Air Pollution,'' available at http://www.nj.gov/dep/baqp/sip/8-hrRACT-Final.pdf and see 74 FR 22837 (May 15, 2009). The NJDEP, taking
a more stringent approach, determined that control options with
significantly higher costs than those discussed in the Phase 2 Rule
would be considered reasonable under the State's RACT analysis. New
Jersey's RACT rule does not suggest a dollar amount, but the NJDEP has
identified a five-factor analysis for determining whether a control
option constitutes RACT:
(1) Past New Jersey costs for retrofitting a given control;
(2) Average RACT cost (dollars per tons reduced) for a control
technology and maximum RACT cost. Once a reasonable number of sources
in a source category achieve a lower emission level, other sources
should do the same;
(3) The seriousness of the Region's ozone air quality exceedance.
For nonattainment areas with higher ozone levels, higher costs for
controls are reasonable;
(4) The seriousness of the need to reduce transported air
pollution. As an OTR state, higher costs for RACT are justified; and
(5) The NJDEP plan for addressing economic feasibility in RACT
rules.
The NJDEP intended to specify RACT at the lowest emission limit
that a reasonable number of facilities that are similar to the source
under consideration had already successfully implemented for each
source category.
II. The EPA's Evaluation of New Jersey's Submittals
In accordance with NJAC 7:27-16.17 and NJAC 7:27-19, NJDEP
requested \4\ for CMC Steel New Jersey to submit updated facility-
specific VOC and NOX control plans so that the State could
determine whether new emission control options for the electric arc
furnace had emerged since the Facility's last submission and NJDEP
approval in 2009. In response, CMC Steel New Jersey submitted to NJDEP
the facility-specific VOC and NOX control plans that are the
subject of this source-specific SIP revision. In a letter from NJDEP
Commissioner Catherine R. McCabe to the U.S. EPA Region 2 Regional
Administrator Peter D. Lopez (dated April 30, 2019), NJDEP requested
the EPA's approval of the current revision to the New Jersey SIP for
the ozone NAAQS to incorporate CMC Steel New Jersey's facility-specific
control plans.
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\4\ By email correspondence (dated September 7, 2018), NJDEP
requested Gerdau Ameristeel (the former owner of the Facility) to
submit updated facility-specific VOC and NOX control
plans, because under NJAC 7:27-16.17 and NJAC 7:27-19, respectively,
such plans have terms of 10 years. Having been approved in about
2009, the CMC Steel New Jersey's facility-specific control plans
under the referenced provisions were near expiration. Note that on
December 5, 2018, the NJDEP approved an administrative amendment to
the Facility's CAA Title V operating permit to reflect the change in
ownership and name from Gerdau Ameristeel to CMC Steel New Jersey.
All control options and operating permit limits for the Sayreville
EAF remain the same for the new owner CMC Steel New Jersey.
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NJDEP's current source-specific SIP revision requests that the EPA
evaluate the RACT analysis which would set CMC Steel New Jersey's
facility-specific VOC emission rate at 57 lb/hr and its facility-
specific maximum allowable NOX emission rate at 31 lb/hr.
The Operating Permit contains a maximum potential to emit (PTE) of 78.7
tons per year (TPY) of VOC and maximum PTE of 78.8 TPY of
NOX for the Sayreville EAF.\5\ According to the most recent
facility emissions inventory, other sources of VOC and NOX
emissions at the Facility's melt shop include: a scrap pre-heater,
three ladle preheaters, a tundish preheater, and billet cutting
torches; each of these enumerated sources contributes well less than 3
lb/hr of VOC emissions and less than 1 TPY of NOX to the
overall VOC and NOX emissions from the Facility. Therefore,
only the Sayreville EAF source operation is subject to the VOC RACT
rule and the NOX RACT rule as set forth in NJAC 7:27-16.17
and NJAC 7:27-19.13, respectively.
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\5\ The electric arc furnace is situated in the Facility's melt
shop.
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The EPA reviewed the NJDEP's April 30, 2019, source-specific SIP
revision submittal, which includes the CMC Steel New Jersey RACT
analysis, for completeness and approvability. The EPA review included:
studying various EPA RACT technical guidance documents, an evaluation
of comparable electric arc furnace emission control technologies
deployed at facilities nationwide, and consultation with air pollution
control experts from the NJDEP and the EPA. Details of the EPA's review
are included in the TSD contained in this docket.
Qualifying To Continue To Operate Under Current Approved Emission
Limits
The CMC Steel New Jersey VOC and NOX control plans
identify the proposed emission limits for the Sayreville EAF. The
Facility met NJDEP's statutory criteria and deadline to qualify for
continuing to operate under existing VOC and NOX emission
limits. Under NJAC: 7:27-16.17(c)(3), facilities that sought to
continue operating with an alternative VOC control plan that was
approved prior to May 19, 2009, were required to submit updated
proposed VOC control plans to NJDEP for review by August 17, 2009. The
initial facility-specific VOC RACT plan for the Sayreville EAF was
approved in October 1994, and on August 17, 2009 the Facility timely
submitted a revised VOC RACT plan with a VOC emission rate of 57 lb/hr.
Similarly, under NJAC: 7:27-19.13(a)(3), facilities that sought to
continue to operate under existing NOX control plans that
were approved prior to May 1, 2005, were required to submit updated
proposed NOX control plans to NJDEP for review by August 17,
2009. The initial facility-specific NOX RACT plan for the
Sayreville EAF was approved in May 1995, and on August 17, 2009 the
Facility timely submitted a revised NOX RACT plan with a
facility-specific maximum allowable NOX emission rate of 31
lb/hr.
RACT Analysis
The Facility's RACT analysis identifies seven VOC control
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technologies and eight NOX control technologies for a
typical electric arc furnace. Three control technologies are currently
being implemented at the Sayreville EAF (two VOC and one NOX
controls) and one VOC control technology (i.e., a thermal incinerator)
was considered technologically feasible but not currently implemented.
The VOC controls currently implemented at the Sayreville EAF are:
Operating in accordance with the Facility's Scrap Management Plan with
which the Facility achieves reduced VOC emissions by ensuring that
purchased scrap material are of a consistent and verifiable quality to
minimize the amount of nonmetallic/organic material (such as oil,
grease, and plastic) that could result in VOC emissions when heated;
and a direct evacuation system (DES) which destroys \6\ VOC emissions.
The VOC control technologies that are not technologically feasible for
the Sayreville EAF are: Catalytic incineration; flares; mixed bed
carbon adsorption; and condensers/recapture systems.
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\6\ The DES helps destroy VOC emissions by sending the gas
stream back through the high temperature preheater chamber.
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The NOX control currently implemented by the Sayreville
EAF is good operating practices, through which the Facility maintains a
constant temperature in the preheater chamber (which feeds scrap metal
to the EAF) so that scrap metal is melted before it enters the
Sayreville EAF thereby avoiding temperature spikes that could generate
greater NOX emissions. The Facility's good operating
practices also minimizes its electricity consumption which allows the
Facility to avoid indirect NOX emissions. The NOX
control technologies that are not technologically feasible for the
Sayreville EAF are: DES; low NOX/oxy-fuel burner; low excess
air; flue gas recirculation/temperature reduction; selective catalytic
reduction; selective non-catalytic reduction; and non-selective
catalytic reduction.
The Facility conducted the RACT analysis on the thermal incinerator
VOC control technology. The Facility demonstrated that VOC reductions
from the thermal incinerator are not cost effective and therefore not
RACT. Cost effectiveness is measured in dollars per ton of emissions
reductions per year (i.e., the cost per ton of pollutant controlled).
The cost effectiveness analysis includes many factors, among which are:
Consideration of process capital equipment, total plant cost and
investment, fixed and variable operating cost, total capital
requirement and consumable costs. Because sources vary in many
important characteristics (including, among others, age, condition, and
size), the actual cost, emission reduction, and cost effectiveness
levels that an individual source experiences in meeting the RACT
requirements also vary. Costs of meeting RACT also vary by the
geographic locations of different sources as well as between emission
units within a source. Rather than focusing on a single cost
effectiveness figure for controls, EPA recommends that states consider
a cost effectiveness range, because the actual cost effectiveness may
vary. See e.g., Memorandum from D. Kent Berry (dated March 16, 1994),
``Cost effective Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) Reasonably Available
Control Technology (RACT).''
Based on the November 2017 updates to the EPA Air Pollution Control
Cost Manual, the maximum costs considered are for a 50,000 standard
cubic feet per minute (SCFM) thermal incinerator. Although larger
thermal incinerator units can be built, sources rarely use flow rates
above 50,000 SCFM. Therefore, CMC Steel New Jersey calculated the cost
needed to handle a flow rate of 100,000 SCFM based on the cost of two
50,000 SCFM units. The cost effectiveness of operating two thermal
incinerators was calculated by dividing the total annual cost of two
thermal incinerators ($3,647,283) by the amount of VOC emissions that
would be removed (74.8 TPY). The VOC reduction was in turn calculated
by multiplying the baseline of 78.7 TPY (the PTE from the Facility's
Title V permit) by an assumed thermal incinerator control efficiency of
95-percent, which resulted in a reduction of 74.8 TPY of VOC. The 95-
percent control efficiency was selected based on EPA guidance.\7\
Furthermore, as explained in Section I above, under EPA rulemaking
states should consider in their RACT determinations technologies that
achieve 30-50 percent reduction within a cost range of $160-$1,300 per
ton of NOX removed.\8\ The cost effectiveness of installing
two thermal incinerators on the Sayreville EAF expressed in annual
costs is $48,760 per ton VOC reduced. Therefore, NJDEP concluded that
the thermal incinerator control technology is not to be RACT due to
technological and economical infeasibility under federal and state RACT
criteria.
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\7\ Handbook Control Technologies for Hazardous Air Pollutants,
EPA/625/6-91/014, June 1991.
\8\ As explained in the TSD, the NOX Supplement
applies to major stationary sources of NOX the same as
major stationary sources of VOC emissions.
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The EPA agrees that thermal incineration technology is not cost
effective and is not routinely implemented on electric arc furnaces.
This technology's poor performance with electric arc furnaces possibly
results from its unsuitability for applications where there are large
fluctuations in flow rate or those in which reduced residence time and
mixing during increased flow would result in lower destruction
efficiency. EPA's review of the available literature reveals that while
thermal incineration can handle minor flow rate fluctuations, the
system cannot handle excessive flow rate fluctuations, which could
require use of a flare. Thermal incinerators also have high fuel
consumption demands and are better suited for small process operations,
and not those found at the Facility. Finally, thermal incineration
forms highly corrosive acid gases whose effects require the operation
of post-oxidation acid gas treatment system. To remedy the problems
associated with use of a thermal incineration system would add costs to
the already high costs of operating thermal incineration units at the
Facility.\9\
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\9\ See e.g., EPA Air Pollution Control Technology Fact Sheet,
Technology: Thermal Incinerator, EPA 452/F-03-022, https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/P100RQ6F.PDF?Dockey=P100RQ6F.PDF (last
accessed Mar. 19, 2020).
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III. Proposed Action
The EPA finds that the current source-specific SIP revision is
approvable because the Facility can meet emission limits set by NJDEP,
implement RACT controls, and the Facility's application for facility-
specific alternative control plans for VOC and NOX meet the
relevant regulatory requirements. First, based on a thorough review of
similar sources, and an analysis of this source-specific SIP revision,
the EPA proposes to allow CMC Steel New Jersey to continue to operate
under the NJDEP-approved emission limits for the Sayreville EAF.
Specifically, the EPA proposes to set the Facility's VOC emission rate
at 57 lb/hr and the NOX emission rate at 31 lb/hr. The EPA
finds that no VOC and no NOX controls other than those the
Facility already has in place can be designated RACT. The VOC controls
currently implemented at the Facility (i.e., the DES and the Scrap
Management Plan) allow the Facility to meet the 57 lb/hr VOC limit. For
NOX, the Facility will continue to implement the Best
Management Practices to avoid temperature spikes and minimize
electricity use which would allow the Facility to meet the 31 lb/hr
NOX limit. Second, the Facility's application meets the
statutory requirement for facilities
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that seek to continue to operate under existing facility-specific
control plans for VOC and NOX. The Facility had existing
facility-specific control plans that were approved prior to May 19,
2009 and submitted its facility-specific control plan by August 17,
2009, as required under NJAC 7:27-16.17(c)(3) for VOC and under NJAC
7:27-19.13(a)(3) for NOX. As stated, the Facility underwent
a change in ownership to CMC Steel New Jersey but made no changes to
its equipment. As a result, the Facility is entitled to rely on its
previously approved facility-specific control plans under both
statutory provisions.
IV. Incorporation by Reference
In this document, we are proposing to include regulatory text in an
EPA final rule that includes incorporation by reference. In accordance
with requirements of 1 CFR 51.5, we are proposing to incorporate by
reference the provisions described above in Section III. Proposed
Action.
The EPA has made, and will continue to make, these documents
generally available electronically through http://www.regulations.gov
and in hard copy at the appropriate EPA regional office, 290 Broadway,
25th floor, New York, New York, 10007-1866.
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this
action merely proposes to approve state law as meeting Federal
requirements and does not impose additional requirements beyond those
imposed by state law. For that reason, this proposed action:
Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to
review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Order
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21,
2011);
Is not an Executive Order 13771 (82 FR 9339, February 2,
2017) regulatory action because SIP approvals are exempted under
Executive Order 12866;
Does not impose an information collection burden under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
Is certified as not having a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or
uniquely affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
Does not have Federalism implications as specified in
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
Is not an economically significant regulatory action based
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR
19885, April 23, 1997);
Is not a significant regulatory action subject to
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
Is not subject to requirements of section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent
with the CAA; and
Does not provide EPA with the discretionary authority to
address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental
effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
In addition, this proposed rule does not have tribal implications
as specified by Executive Order 13175, because the SIP is not approved
to apply in Indian country located in the state, and EPA notes that it
will not impose substantial direct costs on tribal governments or
preempt tribal law. Thus, Executive Order 13175 does not apply to this
action.
List of Subjects 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Volatile organic compound.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: June 30, 2020.
Peter Lopez,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.
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