[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 25, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13576-13578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04990]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 60
[EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0419; FRL-11542-03-OAR]
RIN 2060-AW21
Review of New Source Performance Standards for Stationary
Combustion Turbines and Stationary Gas Turbines; Reopening of Comment
Period
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: On December 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) proposed amendments to the new source performance standards
(NSPS) for new, modified, and reconstructed stationary combustion
turbines and stationary gas turbines. The EPA is reopening the public
comment period for this proposed rule to allow additional time for
stakeholders to review and comment on the proposal. The initial 90-day
public comment period, which ended March 13, 2025, is being reopened
for an additional 21 days, from March 25, 2025 to April 15, 2025.
DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published on December
13, 2024, at 89 FR 101306, is reopened. Comments must be received on or
before April 15, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-
OAR-2024-0419, by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov
(our
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preferred method). Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: a-and-r-docket@epa.gov. Include Docket ID No. EPA-
HQ-OAR-2024-0419 in the subject line of the message.
Fax: (202) 566-9744. Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2024-0419.
Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0419, 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.-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 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 below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Ashley, Sector Policies and
Programs Division (D243-02), Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander
Drive P.O. Box 12055 RTP, North Carolina 27711; telephone number: (919)
541-1458; and email address: ashley.john@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Rationale. On December 13, 2024, pursuant to its statutory duty to
review and, if appropriate, revise NSPS under section 111(b)(1)(B) of
the Clean Air Act, the EPA proposed to strengthen the limits for
emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOX) from most new, modified,
and reconstructed stationary combustion turbines under new subpart
KKKKa of 40 CFR part 60. In addition, the EPA proposed amendments to
address specific technical and editorial issues in the current
regulations for new, modified, and reconstructed stationary combustion
turbines and stationary gas turbines under 40 CFR part 60, subparts
KKKK and GG. The EPA received multiple requests for an extension of the
initial 90-day comment period to allow stakeholders additional time to
review and comment on the proposed rule. This initial comment period
ended March 13, 2025. The EPA has decided to reopen the comment period
for 21 days. The public comment period will now end on April 15, 2025.
Docket. The EPA has established a docket for this rulemaking under
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-0419. All documents in the docket are
listed in https://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index,
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 as pdf
versions that can only be accessed on the EPA computers in the docket
office reading room. Certain databases and physical items cannot be
downloaded from the docket but may be requested by contacting the
docket office at (202) 566-1744. The docket office has up to 10
business days to respond to these requests. Except for such material,
publicly available docket materials are available electronically in
Regulations.gov.
Instructions. Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-
2024-0419. 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 to https://www.regulations.gov
any information that you consider to be CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. This type of 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 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.
Submitting CBI. Do not submit information containing CBI to the EPA
through https://www.regulations.gov. Clearly mark the part or all 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,
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.
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 oaqpscbi@epa.gov and, as
described above, should include clear CBI markings and note the docket
ID. If assistance is needed with submitting large electronic files that
exceed the file size limit for email attachments, and if
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you do not have your own file sharing service, please email
oaqpscbi@epa.gov to request a file transfer link. If sending CBI
information through the postal service, please send it to the following
address: U.S. EPA, Attn: OAQPS Document Control Officer, Mail Drop:
C404-02, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12055, Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina 27711, Attention Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2024-
0419. The mailed CBI material should be double wrapped and clearly
marked. Any CBI markings should not show through the outer envelope.
Penny Lassiter,
Director, Sector Policies and Programs Division.
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