<searchTitle>Air Plan Approval; WA; Excess Emissions, Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Revisions, Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council; Federal Register Vol. 89, Issue </searchTitle>
<granuleClass>PRORULE</granuleClass>
<accessId>2024-24211</accessId>
<agency order="1">ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY</agency>
<commentDate>2024-11-21</commentDate>
<departmentDoc>EPA-R10-OAR-2024-0372</departmentDoc>
<departmentDoc>FRL-12293-01-R10</departmentDoc>
<billingCode>6560-50-P</billingCode>
<frDocNumber>2024-24211</frDocNumber>
<action>Proposed rule.</action>
<summary>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve Washington State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions to the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) air quality regulations submitted by the State of Washington, through the Department of Ecology (Ecology) on June 15, 2023. The revisions were submitted in response to EPA's June 12, 2015 "SIP call" in which the EPA found a substantially inadequate Washington SIP provision providing affirmative defenses that operate to limit the jurisdiction of the Federal court in an enforcement action related to excess emissions during startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM) events. The EPA is proposing approval of the SIP revisions and proposing to determine that removal of the substantially inadequate provision corrects the EFSEC deficiency identified in the 2015 SSM SIP call and the EPA's January 2022 finding of failure to submit. Washington withdrew some portions of the revisions submitted that were not identified in the 2015 SSM SIP call and therefore the EPA is not proposing action on those withdrawn portions.</summary>
<dates>Comments must be received on or before November 21, 2024.</dates>
<contact>Randall Ruddick, EPA Region 10 1200 Sixth Avenue (Suite 155), Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 553-1999; or email ruddick.randall@epa.gov.</contact>
<cfr title="40">
<part number="52"/>
<subject>Environmental Protection</subject>
<subject>Air Pollution Control</subject>
<subject>Carbon Monoxide</subject>
<subject>Incorporation by Reference</subject>
<subject>Intergovernmental Relations</subject>
<subject>Lead</subject>
<subject>Nitrogen Dioxide</subject>
<subject>Ozone</subject>
<subject>Particulate Matter</subject>
<subject>Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements</subject>
<subject>Sulfur Oxides</subject>
<subject>Volatile Organic Compounds</subject>
...</cfr>
<tocSubject1>Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations</tocSubject1>
<tocDoc>Washington; Excess Emissions, Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Revisions, Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, </tocDoc>
<emailRef>ruddick.randall@epa.gov</emailRef>
<urlRef>https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets</urlRef>
<urlRef>https://www.regulations.gov</urlRef>
<urlRef>Regulations.gov</urlRef>