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Public Notice: Proposed Approval of California SIP Revision; Coachella Valley Nonattainment Area; Extreme Area Submission Requirements for Ozone

How to Comment

Comments accepted through: 09/26/2019

Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-OAR-2019-0240 at www.regulations.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. 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 Commenting on EPA Dockets.

Publish Date: 08/27/2019

Summary

EPA recently granted a request by the State of California to voluntarily reclassify the Coachella Valley nonattainment area from “Severe-15” to “Extreme” for the 1997 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) under section 182(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). In this action, EPA is proposing a schedule for the State to submit an Extreme ozone nonattainment area plan and revised title V and new source review (NSR) rules. EPA is proposing deadlines for submittal of those state implementation plan (SIP) revisions and for implementation of the related control requirements. Under EPA's proposed schedule, California would be required to submit these elements no later than July 10, 2020 (12 months from the effective date of the area's reclassification). We are also clarifying some language related to tribal areas that was included in our reclassification rule.

Action

Final Rule

Dates

Comments must arrive by September 26, 2019.

For Further Information Contact

Tom Kelly (kelly.thomasp@epa.gov), EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 972-3856.

Applicant or Respondent

State of California

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