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CFR Citation: 40 CFR Part 52

CA ID: [CA-184-0229; FRL-6585-9]

NOTICE: RULES

ACTION: Air quality implementation plans; approval and promulgation; various States:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Final rule.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California State Implementation Plan Revision, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, South Coast Air Quality Management District, San Diego County Air Pollution Control District, and Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District

EFFECTIVE DATES: This action is effective June 26, 2000.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: EPA is finalizing the approval of revisions to the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) proposed in the Federal Register on January 19, 2000. These revisions concern Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Rule 8.45, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Coating Operations; South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule 1151, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Non Assembly Line Coating Operation; San Diego County Air Pollution Control District (SDCAPCD) Rule 67.19, Coatings and Printing Inks Manufacturing Operations, and Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District (MBUAPCD) Rule 425, Use of Cutback Asphalt. This approval action will incorporate these rules into the federally approved SIP. The intended effect of finalizing this action is to regulate emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) according to the requirements of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 (CAA or the Act). These revised rules control VOC emissions from automobile refinishing, coating and ink manufacturing and use of cutback asphalt. Thus, EPA is finalizing the approval of these revisions into the California SIP under provisions of the CAA regarding EPA action on SIP submittals, SIPs for national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards and plan requirements for nonattainment areas.

SUMMARY: California,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

EPA is approving Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Rule 8.45, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Coating Operations; South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule 1151, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment NonAssembly Line Coating Operations; San Diego County Air Pollution Control District (SDCAPCD) Rule 67.19, Coatings and Printing Inks Manufacturing Operations, and Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District (MBUAPCD) Rule 425, Use of Cutback Asphalt. These rules were submitted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to EPA on August 1, 1997, February 16, 1999, October 18, 1996, and June 3, 1997, respectively.

II. Background

On January 19, 2000 (see 65 FR 2921) EPA proposed to approve the following rules: BAAQMD Rule 8.45, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Coating Operations; SCAQMD Rule 1151, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment NonAssembly Line Coating Operations; SDCAPCD Rule 67.19, Coatings and Printing Inks Manufacturing Operations, and MBUAPCD Rule 425, Use of Cutback Asphalt. BAAQMD adopted Rule 8.45 on November 6, 1996; SCAQMD adopted Rule 1151 on December 11, 1998; SDCAPCD adopted Rule 67.19 on May 15, 1996; and MBUAPCD adopted Rule 425 on March 26, 1997. These rules were submitted in response to EPA's 1988 SIP Call and the CAA section 182(a)(2)(A) requirement that nonattainment areas fix their reasonable available control technology (RACT) rules for ozone in accordance with EPA guidance that interpreted the requirements of the preamendment Act. A detailed discussion of the background for each of the above rules and nonattainment areas is provided in the proposed rule (PR) cited above.

EPA has evaluated all of the above rules for consistency with the requirements of the CAA and EPA regulations and EPA's interpretation of these requirements as expressed in the various EPA policy guidance documents referenced in the PR. EPA is finalizing the proposed approval of these rules in order to strengthen the SIP. A discussion of the submitted rules are as follows:

BAAQMD Rule 8.45, Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Coating Operations includes the following significant changes from the current

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Cynthia G. Allen, Rulemaking Office [[Page 34102]]
(AIR4), Air Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 941053901, (415) 7441189.