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[Federal Register: January 2, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 1)]
[Notices]
[Page 107-108]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6926-9]


Petition for Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for
Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide, and Fine Particulate Matter and
Related Request

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On August 9, 2000 (65 FR 48699), EPA published a notice
announcing receipt of a petition for rulemaking under section 109 of
the Clean Air Act (CAA), to promulgate revised secondary national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for pollutants associated with
the formation of acid rain, including nitrogen dioxide
(NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and fine particulate
matter (PM2.5). The petition was submitted by
representatives of the States of New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont in a letter to the
EPA Administrator, dated October 26, 1999. In that letter, the States
request EPA to address what they assert to be a wide range of adverse
environmental effects associated with these pollutants through the
mechanism of revised secondary NAAQS. In addition, EPA has received a
related request for rulemaking from the U.S. Department of the Interior
(DOI) in a letter to the EPA Administrator, dated July 19, 2000, to
address many of the same adverse environmental effects associated with
the same types of air pollutants, and with ozone (O3) that
DOI asserts are occurring in national parks and wilderness areas.
    To consider and respond to this petition and related requests
properly, EPA is reviewing relevant scientific information and
consulting with the public and potentially affected stakeholders to
ensure that decisions in response to these requests are based on the
best available information. By this action, EPA is extending the
comment period to give the public additional time to review this
petition for rulemaking from the States and this request from DOI and
to submit public comments to EPA.

DATES: Comments and associated information and analyses should be
submitted on or before April 2, 2001.

ADDRESSES: You may comment in various ways:
    On paper. Send paper comments (in duplicate, if possible) to the
Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center (6102), Attention
Docket No. A-2000-36, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
    Electronically. Send electronic comments to EPA at: A-and-R-
Docket@epa.gov. We accept comments as e-mail attachments or on disk.
Either way, they must be in Wordperfect 5.1, 6.0, Corel 8, or ASCII
file format. Avoid the use of special characters and any form of
encryption. Be sure to identify all comments by Docket No. A-2000-36.
    Public Inspection. Docket No. A-2000-36 containing the letters and
related information is available for public inspection and copying
between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays at the Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center (6102),
401 M Street, SW, Room M-1500, Washington, DC 20460, phone 202-260-
7548, fax 202-260-4400. A reasonable fee for copying may be charged.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. McKee, MD-15, Air Quality
Strategies and Standards Division, Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle
Park, NC 27711, telephone (919) 541-5288, e-mail mckee.dave@epa.gov; or
Geoffrey L. Wilcox, Mail Code 2344A,

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Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460, telephone (202) 564-
5601, e-mail: wilcox.geoffrey@epa.gov.

    Dated: December 20, 2000.
John S. Seitz,
Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards.
[FR Doc. 00-33428 Filed 12-29-00; 8:45 am]
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