
[Federal Register: March 16, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 49)]
[Proposed Rules]               
[Page 11049-11050]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2008-0884 FRL-8771-2]

 
 Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Hawaii; 
Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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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.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by April 15, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2008-0884, by one of the following methods:
    1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the 
online instructions.
    2. E-mail: vagenas.ginger@epa.gov.
    3. 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 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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 
The 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 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, 
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

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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.

    Dated: February 25, 2009.
Jane Diamond,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. E9-4800 Filed 3-13-09; 8:45 am]

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