Proposed Rule2025-04908
Air Plan Approval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-Hour PM2.5 Serious Area and 189(d) Plan
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Published
March 24, 2025
Effective
January 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the public comment period on the proposed rule entitled "Air Plan Approval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-hour PM<INF>2.5</INF> Serious Area and 189(d) Plan" published on January 8, 2025. Commenters requested more time to review the proposal and prepare comments. In response, the EPA is providing an additional 30 days for the public to provide comment on all aspects of the proposed rule. The January 8, 2025, notice of proposed rulemaking also started the EPA's adequacy process for the motor vehicle emissions budgets and began the public comment period for that process. The EPA is not reopening the public comment period for the adequacy process, and it intends to proceed with the adequacy process outside of this rulemaking.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 55 (Monday, March 24, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13431-13432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04908]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R10-OAR-2024-0595; FRL-12391-05-R10]
Air Plan Approval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-Hour
PM2.5 Serious Area and 189(d) Plan
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the
public comment period on the proposed rule entitled ``Air Plan
Approval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-hour
PM<INF>2.5</INF> Serious Area and 189(d) Plan'' published on January 8,
2025. Commenters requested more time to review the proposal and prepare
comments. In response, the EPA is providing an additional 30 days for
the public to provide comment on all aspects of the proposed rule. The
January 8, 2025, notice of proposed rulemaking also started the EPA's
adequacy process for the motor vehicle emissions budgets and began the
public comment period for that process. The EPA is not reopening the
public comment period for the adequacy process, and it intends to
proceed with the adequacy process outside of this rulemaking.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on January 8,
2025, at 90 FR 1600, is reopened to allow more time to review the
proposal and prepare comments. The EPA is reopening the comment period
and the comments must be received on or before April 23, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R10-
OAR-2024-0595, at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot
be edited or removed from <a href="http://Regulations.gov">Regulations.gov</a>. The 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 the disclosure of which 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. The EPA
will generally not consider comments or comment
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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>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Jentgen, EPA Region 10, 1200
Sixth Avenue--Suite 155, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-0340,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#adc7c8c3d9cac8c383c0ccd9d9c5c8daedc8ddcc83cac2db"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d4beb1baa0b3b1bafab9b5a0a0bcb1a394b1a4b5fab3bba2">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 8, 2025, the EPA published a
notice of proposed rulemaking to approve changes to the Alaska State
Implementation Plan (90 FR 1600). The changes, submitted by the State
of Alaska on December 4, 2024, address Clean Air Act requirements for
the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) national
ambient air quality standards in the Fairbanks North Star Borough
Serious PM<INF>2.5</INF> nonattainment area. Alaska's submission
includes State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions to meet
nonattainment planning requirements for emissions inventories, modeling
and sulfur dioxide precursor demonstration for major stationary
sources, control measures, attainment projections and progress to
attainment and associated motor vehicle emissions budgets, and
contingency measures. The public comment period closed on February 7,
2025. Commenters requested more time to review the proposal and prepare
comments with respect to the energy efficiency and weatherization
measures discussed in the January 8, 2025, notice of proposed
rulemaking.\1\ In response to this request, the EPA is reopening the
public comment period on the proposed rule and providing an additional
30 days for the public to provide comments on all aspects of the
proposed rule.
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\1\ 90 FR 1600, January 8, 2025, section II.C.3.a.iv.
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The January 8, 2025, notice of proposed rulemaking also started the
transportation conformity adequacy process for the motor vehicle
emissions budgets in Alaska's submitted SIP. As noted in the proposal,
the EPA may find budgets adequate before the SIP submission is approved
in a final rule, once the public has been provided with a comment
period of at least 30 days. The EPA is not reopening the public comment
period for the adequacy process, and it intends to proceed with the
adequacy process outside of this rulemaking, as described in 40 CFR
93.118(f).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Lead, Nitrogen
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.
Krishnaswamy Viswanathan,
Air and Radiation Division Director, Region 10.
[FR Doc. 2025-04908 Filed 3-21-25; 8:45 am]
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