[Federal Register: December 22, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 246)]
[Proposed Rules]              
[Page 77099-77147]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Parts 60, 62, 72, and 78

[EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0905; FRL-8255-1]
RIN 2060-AN98

Revisions of Standards of Performance for New and Existing
Stationary Sources; Electric Utility Steam Generating Units; Federal
Plan Requirements for Clean Air Mercury Rule; and Revisions of Acid
Rain Program Rules

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: In this action, EPA proposes a Federal Plan to implement Clean
Air Act (CAA) section 111 mercury (Hg) standards of performance for new
and existing coal-fired electric utility steam generating units
(Utility Unit or EGU) located in States or Indian Country covered by
the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) which do not have EPA approved and
currently effective State plans. The EPA will not take final action on
the proposed Federal Plan until EPA either finds that a State has
failed to timely submit a plan or disapproves a submitted plan. Any
final Federal Plan is expected to serve primarily to temporarily fill a
regulatory gap in circumstances where either a State fails to timely
submit a plan or EPA disapproves a submitted plan as, in either case,
States will be free to submit an approvable plan after promulgation of
the Federal Plan and upon approval of the State Plan by EPA, the
Federal Plan will no longer apply to coal-fired Utility Units covered
by the State Plan.
    This action also proposes certain revisions to both the CAMR State
Plan model cap-and-trade rule (in order to make it compatible with the
Federal Plan cap-and-trade rule and to make technical corrections) and
the Acid Rain Program regulations (in order to simplify the provision
concerning alternate designated representatives and to make the
administrative appeals process applicable to the decisions of the
Administrator under the State Plan and Federal Plan cap-and-trade
rules).

DATES: Comments. Comments on this proposal must be received on or
before February 20, 2007. A public hearing will be held in Washington,
DC prior to the end of the public comment period. EPA will publish a
separate Federal Register notice announcing the date, location, and
time for the public hearing. Please refer to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
for additional information on the public hearing.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-
OAR-2006-0905, by one of the following methods:
    A. Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
    B. E-mail: A-AND-R-Docket@epa.gov.
    C. Mail: Air Docket, ATTN: Docket Number EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0905,
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    D. Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Room 3334, Washington, DC. Such deliveries are only accepted during the
Docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be
made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA Docket
Number EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0905. EPA's policy is that all comments received
will be included in the public docket without change and may be made
available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through
http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an
``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through http://www.regulations.gov your e-mail 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, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the
http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, i.e., 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 either electronically in http://www.regulations.gov or
in hard copy at the EPA Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is
(202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the Air Docket is (202)
566-1742.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information concerning this
proposed CAMR Federal Plan as well as Integrated Planning Model (IPM)
analyses performed in developing the final CAMR, contact Meg Victor,
Program Development Branch, Clean Air Markets Division (MC 6204J), EPA,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number (202) 343-9193; fax number (202)
343-2359; electronic mail address: victor.meg@epa.gov.
    For information concerning all other analyses performed in
developing the final CAMR, contact Mr. William Maxwell, Energy
Strategies Group, Sector Policies and Programs Division (Mail Code
D243-01), EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711; telephone
number (919) 541-5430; fax number (919) 541-5450; electronic mail
address: maxwell.bill@epa.gov.
 

 

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