[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 148 (Friday, July 31, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 46046-46047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-15870]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R03-OAR-2020-0157; FRL-10012-73-Region 3]
Air Plan Approval; Pennsylvania; Allegheny County Area Attainment
Plan for the 2012 Fine Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality
Standard; Reopening of Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the
comment period for a document published in the Federal Register on June
12, 2020. EPA is reopening the comment period based on the Clean Air
Council's request for a 30-day extension. Clean Air Council's request
seeks an extension of the comment period until August 13, 2020.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published June 12, 2020
(85 FR 35852), is reopened. The EPA must receive comments on or before
August 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R03-
OAR-2020-0157 at https://www.regulations.gov, or via email to
[email protected]. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov,
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted,
comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. For either
manner of submission, 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. 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 for comments on this
proposed approval of the Allegheny County Area PM2.5 plan,
please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section. For the full EPA public comment policy, information
about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making
effective comments, please visit
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http://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Rehn, Planning & Implementation
Branch (3AD30), Air & Radiation Division, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
The telephone number is (215) 814-2176. Mr. Rehn can also be reached
via electronic mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA proposed to approve portions of a state
implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted on September 30, 2019 by
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) on
behalf of the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD). The SIP
submittal (also referred to as ``the Allegheny County PM2.5
Plan'') addresses Clean Air Act (CAA or ``the Act'') requirements for
the 2012 annual fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS or ``standards'') in the Allegheny
County Moderate PM2.5 nonattainment area (``Allegheny County
area''). EPA's June 12, 2020 document proposed to fully approve all
elements of the plan except for those addressing contingency measure
requirements and motor vehicle emissions budgets, which EPA proposed to
conditionally approve.
EPA is reopening the comment period based on a request by Clean Air
Council for a 30-day extension of the comment period. Clean Air
Council's request, which is in the docket \1\ for this matter, seeks an
extension of the comment period until August 13, 2020. Their
justification for such an extension included the complexity of the plan
and EPA's proposed action, substantial changes to the plan made by ACHD
following public comment at the local level, and the fact that EPA's
proposed rule's July 13, 2020 close of comment period occurs at a
similar time as those of several other state and Federal actions
related to air quality in the area, for which comments are due on or
around the same time. After reviewing these arguments, EPA has decided
to reopen the comment period to August 13, 2020. All comments received
on or before August 13, 2020 will be entered into the public record and
considered by EPA before taking final action on the proposed rule.
Comments submitted between the close of the original comment period and
the re-opening of this comment period will be accepted and considered.
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\1\ https://regulations.gov, Docket ID No. EPA-R03-OAR-2020-
0157.
Dated: July 17, 2020.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2020-15870 Filed 7-30-20; 8:45 am]
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