[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 24, 2021)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 11214-11215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-03266]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 70

[EPA-R08-OAR-2020-0722; FRL-10019-26-Region 8]


Proposed Full Approval of Revised Clean Air Act Operating Permit 
Program; North Dakota

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the ``Agency'') is 
proposing full approval of the revised and recodified North Dakota 
operating permit program for stationary sources subject to title V of 
the Clean Air Act (CAA or the ``Act''). On August 6, 2018, North Dakota 
submitted a request for approval of its revisions to the North Dakota 
operating permit program (the ``title V program'') for stationary 
sources subject to title V of the CAA and recodification of the State's 
title V program under a new title of the North Dakota Administrative 
Code (NDAC). The EPA determined that the revised and recodified program 
substantially met the requirements of title V of the Act and Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) but was not fully approvable because the 
State law provisions for judicial review were not consistent with 
program requirements found in the CFR. Thus, EPA issued an interim 
approval of North Dakota's title V program. North Dakota has made the 
changes required for full program approval. Accordingly, the EPA is 
proposing this action in accordance with the CAA and CFR title V 
program approval requirements.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 26, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08-
OAR-2020-0722, to the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from 
www.regulations.gov. 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, the full EPA public comment 
policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general 
guidance on making effective comments, please visit http://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available electronically in 
www.regulations.gov. To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, for 
this action we do not plan to offer hard copy review of the docket. 
Please email or call the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section if you need to make alternative arrangements for access 
to the docket.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Lohrke, Air and Radiation 
Division, EPA, Region 8, Mailcode 8ARD, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, 
Colorado, 80202-1129, (303) 312-6396, lohrke.gregory@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we,'' ``us,'' and 
``our'' means the EPA.
    Proposed Action: In the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this 
issue of the Federal Register, the EPA is publishing a direct final 
rule without prior proposal to amend 40 CFR part 70 to reflect the full 
final approval of the North Dakota title V program. The EPA views this 
as a noncontroversial action and anticipates no adverse comments. A 
detailed rationale for the action is set forth in the preamble to the 
direct final rule. If the EPA receives no adverse comments, EPA 
contemplates no further action. If the EPA receives adverse comments, 
EPA will withdraw the direct final rule and will address all public 
comments in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed rule. The 
EPA will not institute a second comment period on this action. Any 
parties interested in commenting must do so at this time. For 
additional information, see the direct final rule of

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the same title which is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' 
section of this issue of the Federal Register.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 70

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Intergovernmental 
relations, Title V.

    Dated: February 11, 2021.
Debra Thomas,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 8.
[FR Doc. 2021-03266 Filed 2-23-21; 8:45 am]
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