Summary

EPA is approving Hawaii's Regional Haze 5-Year Progress Report (“Progress Report” or “Report”), submitted on October 20, 2017, as a revision to its state implementation plan (SIP). This SIP revision addresses requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or “Act”) and the EPA's rules that require states to submit periodic reports describing the progress toward reasonable progress goals (RPGs) established for regional haze and a determination of adequacy of the state's existing regional haze plan. The EPA is approving the Report on the basis that it addresses the progress report and adequacy determination requirements for the first implementation period for regional haze.

Action

Final rule.

Dates

This rule is effective on September 11, 2019.

Addresses

EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket ID No. EPA-R09-OAR-2018-0744. All documents in the docket are listed on the www.regulations.gov website. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly available docket materials are available at www.regulations.gov, or please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section for additional availability information.

For Further Information Contact

Wienke Tax (tax.wienke@epa.gov), Air Planning Office (AIR-2), EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105; (415) 947-4192.