
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 47 (Thursday, March 10, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 12626-12627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05272]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2014-0658; FRL-9943-45-Region 5]


Air Plan Approval; Ohio; Base Year Emission Inventories for the 
2008 8-Hour Ozone Standard

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve, under the Clean Air Act (CAA), a State Implementation Plan 
(SIP) revision submitted by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 
(OEPA) on July 18, 2014, to address emission inventory requirements for 
the Cleveland-Akron-Loraine, Ohio (OH) and Columbus, OH ozone 
nonattainment areas and for the Ohio portion of the Cincinnati, Ohio-
Kentucky-Indiana ozone nonattainment area under the 2008 ozone national 
ambient air quality standard. The CAA requires emission inventories for 
all ozone nonattainment areas. The emission inventories contained in 
Ohio's July 18, 2014, submission meet this CAA requirement. EPA is also 
proposing to confirm that the state of Ohio has acceptable stationary 
source annual emission statement regulations, which have been 
previously approved by the EPA.

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DATES: Comments must be received on or before April 11, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2014-0658 at http://www.regulations.gov or via email to 
Aburano.Douglas@epa.gov. 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, 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 http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Doty, Air Programs Branch (AR-
18J), Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6057, Doty.Edward@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Rules and Regulations section of this 
Federal Register, EPA is approving Ohio's SIP revision 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. If no adverse comments are received in response to this rule, 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. 
Please note that, if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment, 
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed 
from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions 
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. For 
additional information see the direct final rule, which is located in 
the Rules section of this Federal Register.

    Dated: February 26, 2016.
Robert A. Kaplan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2016-05272 Filed 3-9-16; 8:45 am]
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