Approval of Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program Revisions; Negative Declaration of Existing Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators and Administrative Updates; South Dakota

AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION:

Proposed rule.

SUMMARY:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the “Agency”) is proposing full approval of revisions to the South Dakota operating permit program for stationary sources under the Clean Air Act (CAA), title V (the “title V program”) and a Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111(d)/129 negative declaration for incinerators subject to the Hospital/Medical/Infectious Waste Incinerators (HMIWI) Emissions Guidelines. EPA is proposing this action in accordance with the CAA.

DATES:

Written comments must be received on or before June 17, 2022.

ADDRESSES:

Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R08- OAR-2021-0732, to the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from www.regulations.gov. 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 whose disclosure 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. 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.

Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available electronically in www.regulations.gov. To reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission, for this action we do not plan to offer hard copy review of the docket. Please email or call the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section if you need to make alternative arrangements for access to the docket.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carson Coate, Air and Radiation Division, EPA, Region 8, Mail code 8ARD, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129, telephone number: (406) 457-5042, email address: coate.carson@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Throughout this document “we,” “us,” and “our” means EPA. In the Final Rules section of this Federal Register , EPA is approving South Dakota's submissions and making administrative updates as a direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial action and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for the action is set forth in the preamble to the direct final rule. If EPA receives no adverse comments, EPA contemplates no further action. If EPA receives adverse comments, EPA will withdraw the direct final rule and will address all public comments in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period on this action. Any parties interested in commenting must do so at this time. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. For additional information, see the direct final rule of the same title which is located in the Final Rules section of this Federal Register .

List of Subjects

40 CFR Part 60

• Environmental protection
• Administrative practice and procedure
• Air pollution control
• Aluminum
• Beverages
• Carbon monoxide
• Chemicals
• Coal
• Electric power plants
• Fluoride
• Gasoline
• Glass and glass products
• Grains
• Greenhouse gases
• Hazardous substances
• Household appliances
• Industrial facilities
• Insulation
• Intergovernmental relations
• Iron
• Labeling
• Lead
• Lime
• Metals
• Motor vehicle pollution
• Natural gas
• Nitrogen dioxide
• Petroleum
• Phosphate
• Plastics materials and synthetics
• Polymers
• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
• Rubber and rubber products
• Sewage disposal
• Steel
• Sulfur oxides
• Vinyl
• Volatile organic compounds
• Waste treatment and disposal
• Zinc

40 CFR Part 61

• Environmental protection
• Administrative practice and procedure
• Air pollution control
• Arsenic
• Asbestos
• Benzene
• Beryllium
• Hazardous substances
• Intergovernmental relations
• Mercury
• Radioactive materials
• Radon
• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
• Uranium
• Vinyl chloride

40 CFR Part 62

• Environmental protection
• Administrative practice and procedure
• Air pollution control
• Aluminum
• Fertilizers
• Fluoride
• Industrial facilities
• Intergovernmental relations
• Methane
• Ozone
• Phosphate
• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
• Sulfur oxides
• Volatile organic compounds
• Waste treatment and disposal

40 CFR Part 70

• Environmental protection
• Air pollution control
• Intergovernmental relations
• Title V