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Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources for Nonmetallic Mineral Processing Plants; Amendments
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[Federal Register: June 27, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 125)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 33415-33421] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 60 [AD-FRL-5525-5] RIN 2060-AG33 Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources for Nonmetallic Mineral Processing Plants; Amendments AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Proposed rule and notice of public hearing.
SUMMARY: This action proposes revisions and clarifications to several provisions of the standards of performance for nonmetallic mineral processing plants, which were promulgated in the Federal Register on August 1, 1985 (50 FR 31328). On January 26, 1995, the National Stone Association petitioned EPA to review the existing standards. These revisions are in keeping with President Clinton's Regulatory Reinvention Initiative. The intended effect of this action is to reduce the costs of emission testing and reporting and recordkeeping. The affected industries and numerical emission limits remain unchanged except for individual, enclosed storage bins. A public hearing will be held, if requested, to provide interested persons an opportunity for oral presentation of data, views, or arguments concerning the proposed revised standards. DATES: Comments. Comments must be received on or before August 26, 1996.
Public Hearing. If anyone contacts EPA requesting to speak at a public hearing by July 23, 1996, a public hearing will be held on August 5, 1996 beginning at 10 a.m. Persons interested in attending the hearing should call Ms. Cathy Coats at (919) 541-5422 to verify that a hearing will be held.
Request to Speak at Hearing. Persons wishing to present oral testimony must contact EPA by July 23, 1996 (contact Ms. Cathy Coats at (919) 541-5422.) ADDRESSES: Comments. Comments should be submitted (in duplicate if possible) to: The Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center (MC- 6102), ATTN: Docket No. A-95-46, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. Commenters wishing to submit proprietary information for consideration should clearly distinguish such information from other comments, and clearly label it ``Confidential Business Information.'' Submissions containing such proprietary information should be sent directly to the following address, and not to the public docket, to ensure that proprietary information is not inadvertently placed in the docket: Attention: Mr. William Neuffer, c/o Ms. Melva Toomer, U.S. EPA Confidential Business Information Manager, OAQPS/MD-13; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711. Information covered by such a claim of confidentiality will be disclosed by the EPA only to the extent allowed and by the procedures set forth in 40 CFR Part 2. If no claim of confidentiality accompanies a submission when it is received by the EPA, the submission may be made available to the public without further notice to the commenter.
Docket. Docket No. A-95-46, containing supporting information used in developing the proposed revisions is available for public inspection and copying between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center (MC-6102), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone (202) 260-7548, fax (202) 260-4000. A reasonable fee may be charged for copying. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William Neuffer at (919) 541-5435, Emission Standards Division (MD-13), U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Regulated Entities Entities potentially regulated by EPA's final action on this proposed rule are new, modified, or reconstructed affected facilities in nonmetallic mineral processing plants. These categories and entities include:
Category Examples gravel, clay, rock salt, gypsum, sodium compounds, pumice, gilsonite, talc and pyrophyllite, boron, barite, fluorospar, feldspar, diatomite, perlite, vermiculite, mica, kyanite processing plants Applies to 60.1 Applicability........... Yes. 60.2 Definitions............. Yes. 60.3 Units and abbreviations. Yes. 60.4 Address--(a)............ Yes. (b)..................... Yes. 60.5 Deter. of construction Yes. or modification. 60.6 Review of plans......... Yes. recordkeeping. report of anticipated date of initial startup is not required [60.676(g)]. 30 days notice for an initially scheduled perf. test, any rescheduled perf. test requires 7 days notice, not 30 days [60.675(g)]. 60.9 Availability of Yes. information. 60.10 State authority........ Yes. standards and maintenance certain conditions requirements. [sec. 60.675 (c)(4) and (c)(5)], Method 9 observation may be reduced from 3 hrs. to 1 hr. 60.12 Circumvention.......... Yes. 60.13 Monitoring requirements Yes. 60.14 Modification........... Yes. 60.15 Reconstruction......... Yes. 60.16 Priority list.......... Yes. 60.17 Incorporations by Yes. reference. requirements. used to comply with the emission limits. 60.19 General notification Yes. and reporting requirements.