[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2022)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 421-423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-28544]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 63
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0155; FRL-8391-03-OAR]
RIN 2060-AV44
National Perchloroethylene Air Emission Standards for Dry
Cleaning Facilities Technology Review; Correction
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: On December 27, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) proposed amendments to the National Emission Standards for
Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for dry cleaning facilities using
perchloroethylene (PCE) as the cleaning solvent (PCE Dry Cleaning
NESHAP). The proposed amendments addressed the results of the
technology review for the PCE Dry Cleaning NESHAP, in accordance with
section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA). This action is being issued to
correct a typographical error which stated that we would hold a virtual
public hearing if anyone contacted us requesting a public hearing on or
before January 11, 2022 (i.e., 15 days after publication of the
proposed rule). However, that same notice also said that if requested,
the virtual hearing would be held on January 11, 2022. Logistically, we
cannot have the same date for both actions because we need to know
several days ahead of time whether stakeholders request a hearing so
that we have sufficient time to plan accordingly and make all the
necessary arrangements. For most proposed rules, the EPA states that if
anyone contacts us requesting a public hearing on or before a date five
days after publication of the proposed rule, that the EPA will hold
such public hearing on a date 15 days after publication of such rule.
To correct this error, in this correction notice, EPA states that if
anyone contacts us requesting a public hearing on or before January 10,
2022 the virtual hearing will be held on January 20, 2022. As
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described below, several other dates regarding the preparations for
such hearing and the deadline for submitting public comments have also
been revised accordingly.
DATES: Comments on the proposed rule that was published in the Federal
Register on December 27, 2021 (86 FR 73207) must be received on or
before February 22, 2022.
Public hearing: If anyone contacts us requesting a public hearing
on or before January 10, 2022, we will hold a virtual public hearing.
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for information on requesting and
registering for a public hearing.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2005-0155, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov/
(our preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: [email protected]. Include Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2005-0155 in the subject line of the message.
Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2005-0155.
Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0155, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460.
Hand/Courier Delivery: 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. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through 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 https://www.regulations.gov/, 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about this correction,
contact Brian Storey, Sector Policies and Programs Division (Mail Code
D243-04), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
27711; telephone number: (919) 541-1103; fax number: (919) 541-4991;
and email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For the sake of clarity, the EPA is
reiterating information concerning the public hearing and comment
processes, with the correct dates provided below.
Participation in virtual public hearing. Please note that because
of current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recommendations, as well as state and local orders for social
distancing to limit the spread of COVID-19, the EPA cannot hold in-
person public meetings at this time.
To request a virtual public hearing, contact the public hearing
team at (888) 372-8699 or by email at [email protected]. If
requested, the virtual hearing will be held on January 20, 2022. The
hearing will convene at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) and will conclude
at 3:00 p.m. ET. The EPA may close a session 15 minutes after the last
pre-registered speaker has testified if there are no additional
speakers. The EPA will announce further details at https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/dry-cleaning-facilities-national-perchloroethylene-air-emission.
If a public hearing is requested, the EPA will begin pre-
registering speakers for the hearing upon publication of this document
in the Federal Register. To register to speak at the virtual hearing,
please use the online registration form available at https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/dry-cleaning-facilities-national-perchloroethylene-air-emission or contact the public hearing
team at (888) 372-8699 or by email at [email protected]. The
last day to pre-register to speak at the hearing will be January 18,
2022. Prior to the hearing, the EPA will post a general agenda that
will list pre-registered speakers in approximate order at: https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/dry-cleaning-facilities-national-perchloroethylene-air-emission.
The EPA will make every effort to follow the schedule as closely as
possible on the day of the hearing; however, please plan for the
hearings to run either ahead of schedule or behind schedule.
Each commenter will have 5 minutes to provide oral testimony. The
EPA encourages commenters to provide the EPA with a copy of their oral
testimony electronically (via email) by emailing it to
[email protected]. The EPA also recommends submitting the text of
your oral testimony as written comments to the rulemaking docket.
The EPA may ask clarifying questions during the oral presentations
but will not respond to the presentations at that time. Written
statements and supporting information submitted during the comment
period will be considered with the same weight as oral testimony and
supporting information presented at the public hearing.
Please note that any updates made to any aspect of the hearing will
be posted online at https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/dry-cleaning-facilities-national-perchloroethylene-air-emission. While the EPA expects the hearing to go forward as set forth
above, please monitor our website or contact the public hearing team at
(888) 372-8699 or by email at [email protected] to determine if
there are any updates. The EPA does not intend to publish a document in
the Federal Register announcing updates.
If you require the services of a translator or special
accommodation such as audio description, please pre-register for the
hearing with the public hearing team and describe your needs by January
12, 2022. The EPA may not be able to arrange accommodations without
advanced notice.
Docket. The EPA has established a docket for this rulemaking under
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0155. All documents in the docket are
listed in https://www.regulations.gov/. 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 Regulations.gov.
Instructions. Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2005-0155. 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 https://www.regulations.gov/, 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 any information that you consider
to be CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by
statute. This type of information should be submitted by mail 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
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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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
The https://www.regulations.gov/ 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
https://www.regulations.gov/, 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 https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Due to public health concerns related to COVID-19, the 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 services, please visit us online at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
The EPA continues to carefully and continuously monitor information
from the 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 https://www.regulations.gov/ or email. 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, mark the outside of
the digital storage media as CBI and then 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. 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. Send or deliver information identified as CBI only 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-2005-0155. Note that
written comments containing CBI and submitted by mail may be delayed
and no hand deliveries will be accepted.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Hazardous
substances, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Joseph Goffman,
Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2021-28544 Filed 1-4-22; 8:45 am]
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