ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2008-0884 FRL-____-_    ]

 Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Hawaii; Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: Under the Clean Air Act, EPA is proposing to correct errors in
certain final rules approving or compiling the Hawaii state
implementation plan. These errors relate to the title of the plan,
removal of variance provisions, and compilations of
federally-enforceable regulations. The intended effect is to ensure that
the Hawaii state implementation plan is correctly identified in the
applicable part of the Code of Federal Regulations.

DATE: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by [Insert date 30 days
from date of publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number [DOCKET NUMBER],
by one of the following methods:

Federal eRulemaking Portal:   HYPERLINK "http://www.regulations.gov" 
www.regulations.gov . Follow the on-line instructions.

E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:vagenas.ginger@epa.gov" 
vagenas.ginger@epa.gov .

Mail or deliver: Ginger Vagenas (AIR-2), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-3901. 

Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket without
change and may be made available online at   HYPERLINK
"http://www.regulations.gov"  www.regulations.gov , including any
personal information provided, unless the comment includes Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Information that you consider CBI or otherwise
protected should be clearly identified as such and should not be
submitted through   HYPERLINK "http://www.regulations.gov" 
www.regulations.gov  or e-mail. The   HYPERLINK
"http://www.regulations.gov"  www.regulations.gov  portal is an
“anonymous access” system, and EPA will not know your identity or
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send e-mail directly to EPA, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the public comment. 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. 

Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available
electronically at   HYPERLINK "http://www.regulations.gov" 
www.regulations.gov  and in hard copy at EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, California. While all documents in the docket are
listed in the index, some information may be publicly available only at
the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material), and some may not be
publicly available in either location (e.g., CBI). To inspect the hard
copy materials, please schedule an appointment during normal business
hours with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ginger Vagenas, Plannning Office
(AIR-2), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, (415)
942-3964,   HYPERLINK "mailto:vagenas.ginger@epa.gov" 
vagenas.ginger@epa.gov .

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses corrections to errors
made by EPA in a 1997 final rule removing variance-related provisions
from the Hawaii SIP and in a 2005 final rule compiling the Hawaii SIP.
In the Rules and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are
correcting these errors in a direct final action without prior proposal
because we believe these actions are not controversial. 

If we receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely
withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the comments in
subsequent action based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we
receive adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this
rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the
rule, we may adopt as final those provisions of the rule that are not
the subject of an adverse comment.  

We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone interested in
commenting should do so at this time. If we do not receive adverse
comments, no further activity is planned. For further information,
please see the direct final action.

 2/25/2009          	     ______________________

Dated:					Jane Diamond,

						Acting Regional Administrator,

Region IX.

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