[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 26, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 30020-30021]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12349]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R03-OAR-2014-0422; FRL-9927-91-Region 3]

Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
Virginia; Revisions to the Attainment Plans for the Commonwealth of
Virginia Portion of the Washington, DC-MD-VA 1990 1-Hour and 1997 8-
Hour Ozone Nonattainment Areas and the Maintenance Plan for the
Fredericksburg 1997 8-Hour Ozone Maintenance Area To Remove the Stage
II Vapor Recovery Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to approve
revisions to the Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia) State
Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions remove the Stage II vapor
recovery program (Stage II) from the attainment plans for the Virginia
portion of the Washington, DC-MD-VA 1990 1-Hour and 1997 8-Hour
National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) Nonattainment Areas
(Northern Virginia Areas), as well as from the maintenance plan for the
Fredericksburg 1997 8-Hour Ozone NAAQS Maintenance Area (Fredericksburg
Area). These revisions also include an analysis that addresses the
impact of removal of Stage II from the attainment and maintenance
plans. The analysis submitted by the Commonwealth satisfies the
requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA). In the Final Rules section of
this Federal Register, EPA is approving the Commonwealth's SIP
submittal as a direct final rule without prior proposal because the
Agency views this as a noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no
adverse comments. A detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in
the direct final rule and the Technical Support Document (TSD) prepared
in support of this rulemaking action. A copy of the TSD is available,
upon request, from the EPA Regional Office listed in the ADDRESSES
section of this document. If no adverse comments are received in
response to this action, no further activity is contemplated. 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receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and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. EPA will not institute a second
comment period. Any parties interested in commenting on this action
should do so at this time.

DATES: Comments must be received in writing by June 25, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-
R03-OAR-2014-0422 by one of the following methods:
    A. www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
    B. Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>    C. Mail: EPA-R03-OAR-2014-0422, Cristina Fernandez, Associate
Director, Office of Air Program Planning, Mailcode 3AP30, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
    D. Hand Delivery: At the previously-listed EPA Region III address.
Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R03-OAR-
2014-0422. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change, and may be made available online
at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov or email. The
www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which
means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email comment
directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov, your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. 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: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. Although

listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e.,
CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on
the Internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy during normal business hours at
the Air Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Copies
of the State submittal are available at the Virginia Department of
Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Asrah Khadr,<PHONE_NUMBER>, or by
email at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please see the
information provided in the direct final action, with the same title,
that is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this
Federal Register publication.

    Dated: May 7, 2015.
William C. Early,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2015-12349 Filed 5-22-15; 8:45 am]
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