2023-03575: State Implementation Plans: Findings of Substantial Inadequacy and SIP Calls To Amend Provisions Applying to Excess Emissions During Periods of Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction
Public comment closed .
Get alerted when the next rule lands
New rules open for comment on their own schedule. Pick how you want to hear about them — we email you when one appears.
Publishing to members? Embed a live rule tracker on your own site — the proposed rules in your area and the comment deadlines closing on them, updating themselves. Free, one line of HTML.
Create a free account & build one →Summary
Consistent with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) policy interpretation for State Implementation Plan (SIP) provisions applying to excess emissions during periods of Startup, Shutdown and Malfunction (SSM) as outlined in EPA's 2015 SSM SIP Action, the EPA is proposing to reinstate its findings of substantial inadequacy and associated "SIP calls" that were withdrawn in 2020 for the states of Texas, North Carolina, and Iowa for SSM provisions in those states' SIPs that do not comply with statutory requirements and EPA's SSM Policy. The EPA is also proposing to issue new findings of substantial inadequacy and SIP calls to the state of Connecticut (CT); the state of Maine (ME); Shelby County, Tennessee (TN); the state of North Carolina (NC); Buncombe County, NC; Mecklenburg County, NC; the state of Wisconsin (WI); and the state of Louisiana (LA), for additional SSM provisions identified as deficient by the Agency.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
Rulemaking docket
We haven’t pulled this rulemaking’s full docket yet. View docket EPA-HQ-OAR-2022-0814 on Regulations.gov →
Don't miss the comment window
One Click Politics alerts you on every deadline, hearing, and rule change.
See all rules with comments due soon →