Proposed Rule2022-14897
Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces Constructed After 10/21/74 & On or Before 8/17/83; Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces & Argon-Oxygen Decarburization Constructed After 8/17/83; Extension of Comment Period
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Published
July 13, 2022
Effective
May 16, 2022
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
On May 16, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule titled "Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces Constructed After 10/21/74 & On or Before 8/17/83; Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces & Argon-Oxygen Decarburization Constructed After 8/17/83." The EPA is extending the comment period on this proposed rule that currently closes on July 15, 2022, by 30 days. The comment period will now remain open until August 14, 2022, to allow additional time for stakeholders to review and comment on the proposal.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 41639-41640]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14897]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 63
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0049; FRL-8150-03-OAR]
RIN 2060-AU96
Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces
Constructed After 10/21/74 & On or Before 8/17/83; Standards of
Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces & Argon-Oxygen
Decarburization Constructed After 8/17/83; Extension of Comment Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On May 16, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) proposed a rule titled ``Standards of Performance for Steel
Plants: Electric Arc Furnaces Constructed After 10/21/74 & On or Before
8/17/83; Standards of Performance for Steel Plants: Electric Arc
Furnaces & Argon-Oxygen Decarburization Constructed After 8/17/83.''
The EPA is extending the comment period on this proposed rule that
currently closes on July 15, 2022, by 30 days. The comment period will
now remain open until August 14, 2022, to allow additional time for
stakeholders to review and comment on the proposal.
DATES: The public comment period for the proposed rule published in the
Federal Register on May 16, 2022 (87 FR 29710), originally ending July
15, 2022, is being extended by 30 days. Written comments must be
received on or before August 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2002-0049, by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6e0f430f000a431c430a010d050b1a2e0b1e0f40090118"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="46276b2728226b346b2229252d23320623362768212930">[email protected]</span></a>. Include Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2002-0049 in the subject line of the message.
<bullet> Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2002-0049.
<bullet> Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0049, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
<bullet> Hand Delivery or Courier (by scheduled appointment only):
EPA Docket Center, WJC West Building, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004. The Docket Center's hours of operation
are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday (except Federal holidays).
Instructions. All submissions received must include the Docket ID
No. for this rulemaking. Comments received may be posted without change
to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, including any personal information
provided. For detailed instructions on sending comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process, see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document. Out of an abundance of caution
for members of the public and our staff, the EPA Docket Center and
Reading Room are open to the public by appointment only to reduce the
risk of transmitting COVID-19. Our Docket Center staff also continues
to provide remote customer service via email, phone, and webform. Hand
deliveries and couriers may be received by scheduled appointment only.
For further information on EPA Docket Center services and the current
status, please visit us online at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this action,
contact Donna Lee Jones, Metals and Inorganic Chemicals Group, Sector
Policies and Programs Division (D243-02), Environmental Protection
Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone number:
(919) 541-5251 fax number: (919) 541-3207 email address:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e2a88d8c8791cca68d8c8c83ae8787a2879283cc858d94"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="62280d0c07114c260d0c0c032e0707220712034c050d14">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Rationale. Based on consideration of requests received from
environmental organizations (GASP (AL), GASP (PA), Fairfield
Environmental Justice Alliance, and California Communities Against
Toxics) and industry (Steel Manufacturers Association, American Iron
and Steel Institute, and Specialty Steel Industry of North America),
the EPA is extending the public comment period for an additional 30
days. Therefore, the public comment period will end on August 15, 2022.
Docket. The EPA has established a docket for this rulemaking under
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0049. All documents in the docket are
listed in <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>. Although listed, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., 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. With the exception of such material, publicly available docket
materials are available electronically in <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>.
Instructions. Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2002-0049. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be
included in the public docket without change and may be made available
online at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. Do not submit electronically to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>
any information that you consider to be CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. This type of
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information should be submitted as discussed below.
The EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket.
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 <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</a>.
The <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a> website allows you to submit your
comment anonymously, which means the EPA will not know your identity or
contact information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through
<a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>, your email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the
public docket and made available on the internet. If you submit an
electronic comment, the EPA recommends that you include your name and
other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
digital storage media you submit. If the EPA cannot read your comment
due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification,
the EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files
should not include special characters or any form of encryption and be
free of any defects or viruses. For additional information about the
EPA's public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
Due to public health concerns related to COVID-19, the EPA Docket
Center and Reading Room are open to the public by appointment only. Our
Docket Center staff also continues to provide remote customer service
via email, phone, and webform. Hand deliveries or couriers will be
received by scheduled appointment only. For further information and
updates on EPA Docket Center and Reading Room services, please visit us
online at <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dockets">https://www.epa.gov/dockets</a>.
The EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local area
health departments, and our federal partners so that we can respond
rapidly as conditions change regarding COVID-19.
Submitting CBI. Do not submit information containing CBI to the EPA
through <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/">https://www.regulations.gov/</a>. Clearly mark the part or all of
the information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information on any
digital storage media that you mail to the EPA, note the Docket ID No.,
mark the outside of the digital storage media as CBI, and identify
electronically within the digital storage media the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version
of the comments that includes information claimed as CBI, you must
submit a copy of the comments that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI directly to the public docket through the procedures
outlined in Instructions above. If you submit any digital storage media
that does not contain CBI, mark the outside of the digital storage
media clearly that it does not contain CBI and note the Docket ID No.
Information not marked as CBI will be included in the public docket and
the EPA's electronic public docket without prior notice. Information
marked as CBI will not be disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 2.
Our preferred method to receive CBI is for it to be transmitted
electronically using email attachments, File Transfer Protocol (FTP),
or other online file sharing services (e.g., Dropbox, OneDrive, Google
Drive). Electronic submissions must be transmitted directly to the
OAQPS CBI Office at the email address <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f19e90808182929398b1948190df969e87"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="600f01111013030209200510014e070f16">[email protected]</span></a>, and as
described above, should include clear CBI markings and note the Docket
ID No. If assistance is needed with submitting large electronic files
that exceed the file size limit for email attachments, and if you do
not have your own file sharing service, please email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7c131d0d0c0f1f1e153c190c1d521b130a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ff909e8e8f8c9c9d96bf9a8f9ed1989089">[email protected]</span></a>
to request a file transfer link. If sending CBI information through the
postal service, please send it to the following address: OAQPS Document
Control Officer (C404-02), OAQPS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, Attention Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-OAR-2002-0049. The mailed CBI material should be double wrapped
and clearly marked. Any CBI markings should not show through the outer
envelope.
Panagiotis Tsirigotis,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
[FR Doc. 2022-14897 Filed 7-12-22; 8:45 am]
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