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Monday, July 16, 2007 Part IV Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR Parts 51 and 59 National Volatile Organic Compound Emission Standards for Aerosol Coatings; Proposed Rule VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:29 Jul 13, 2007 Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4717 Sfmt 4717 E:\FR\FM\16JYP2.SGM 16JYP2 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with PROPOSALS2 38952 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 135 / Monday, July 16, 2007 / Proposed Rules ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DATES: Comments. Written comments and included as part of the comment AGENCY on the proposed regulation must be that is placed in the public docket and received by EPA by August 15, 2007, made available on the Internet. If you 40 CFR Parts 51 and 59 unless a public hearing is requested by submit an electronic comment, EPA July 26, 2007. If a hearing is requested, recommends that you include your [EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0971; FRL–8336–5] written comments must be received by name and other contact information in August 30, 2007. the body of your comment and with any RIN 2060–AN69 Public Hearing. If anyone contacts disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA EPA requesting to speak at a public cannot read your comment due to National Volatile Organic Compound hearing concerning the proposed technical difficulties and cannot contact Emission Standards for Aerosol regulation by July 26, 2007, we will you for clarification, EPA may not be Coatings hold a public hearing on July 31, 2007. able to consider your comment. AGENCY: Environmental Protection ADDRESSES: Comments. Submit your Electronic files should avoid the use of Agency (EPA). comments, identified by Docket ID No. special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or ACTION: Proposed rule. EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0971, by one of the following methods: viruses. SUMMARY: This action proposes a • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// Public Hearing. If a public hearing is national reactivity-based volatile www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line held, it will be held at 10 a.m. on July organic compound (VOC) emissions instructions for submitting comments. 31, 2007 at Building C on the EPA regulation for the aerosol coatings • E-mail: [email protected]. campus in Research Triangle Park, NC, (aerosol spray paints) category under • Fax: (202) 566–1741. or at an alternate site nearby. Persons section 183(e) of the Clean Air Act • Mail: Air and Radiation Docket, interested in presenting oral testimony (CAA). The proposed standards Environmental Protection Agency, must contact Ms. Dorothy Apple, U.S. implement section 183(e) of the CAA, as Mailcode 6102T, 1200 Pennsylvania EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and amended in 1990, which requires the Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460. Standards, Sector Policies and Programs Administrator to control VOC emissions Please include a total of two copies. We Division, Natural Resources and from certain categories of consumer and request that a separate copy also be sent Commerce Group (E143–03), Research commercial products for purposes of to the contact person identified below Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, minimizing VOC emissions contributing (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). telephone number: (919) 541–4487, fax to ozone formation and causing non- In addition, please mail a copy of your number (919) 541–3470, e-mail address: attainment. This regulation will comments on the information collection [email protected], no later than establish a nationwide reactivity-based provisions to the Office of Information July 26, 2007 in the Federal Register. standard for aerosol coatings. States and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Persons interested in attending the have promulgated rules for the aerosol Management and Budget (OMB), Attn: public hearing must also call Ms. Apple coatings category based upon reductions Desk Officer for EPA, 725 17th St., NW., to verify the time, date, and location of of VOC by mass; however, the Agency Washington, DC 20503. the hearing. If no one contacts Ms. believes that a national rule based upon • Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, Apple by July 26, 2007 in the Federal the relative reactivity approach may Public Reading Room, EPA West, Room Register with a request to present oral achieve more reduction in ozone 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., testimony at the hearing, we will cancel formation than can be achieved by a Washington, DC 20460. Such deliveries the hearing. mass-based approach for this specific are only accepted during the Docket’s Docket: All documents in the docket product category. EPA believes that this normal hours of operation, and special are listed in the www.regulations.gov rule will better control a product’s arrangements should be made for index. Although listed in the index, contribution to ozone formation by deliveries of boxed information. some information is not publicly encouraging the use of less reactive VOC Instructions: Direct your comments to available, e.g., CBI or other information ingredients, rather than treating all VOC the applicable docket. EPA’s policy is whose disclosure is restricted by statute. in a product alike through the that all comments received will be Certain other material, such as traditional mass-based approach. We are included in the public docket without copyrighted material, is not placed on also proposing to revise EPA’s change and may be made available the Internet and will be publicly regulatory definition of VOC exempt online at http://www.regulations.gov, available only in hard copy form. compounds for purposes of this including any personal information Publicly available docket materials are regulation in order to account for all the provided, unless the comment includes available either electronically through reactive compounds in aerosol coatings information claimed to be confidential www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at that contribute to ozone formation. business information (CBI) or other the EPA Docket Center, Public Reading Therefore, compounds that would not information whose disclosure is Room, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 be VOC under the otherwise applicable restricted by statute. Do not submit Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, definition will count towards a information that you consider to be CBI DC 20460. The Public Reading Room is product’s reactivity limits under this or otherwise protected through open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., proposed regulation. The initial listing www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The Monday through Friday, excluding legal of product categories and schedule for www.regulations.gov Web site is an holidays. The telephone number for the regulation was published on March 23, ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1742, 1995 (60 FR 15264). This proposed means EPA will not know your identity and the telephone number for the Air action announces EPA’s final decision or contact information unless you Docket is (202) 566–1744. to list aerosol coatings for regulation provide it in the body of your comment. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For under group III of the consumer and If you send an e-mail comment directly information concerning the aerosol commercial product category for which to EPA without going through coatings rule, contact Ms. J. Kaye regulations are mandated under section www.regulations.gov, your e-mail Whitfield, U.S. EPA, Office of Air 183 (e) of the Act. address will be automatically captured Quality Planning and Standards, Sector VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:29 Jul 13, 2007 Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\16JYP2.SGM 16JYP2 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with PROPOSALS2 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 135 / Monday, July 16, 2007 / Proposed Rules 38953 Policies and Programs Division, Natural Division, Natural Resources and manufacturers, processors, wholesale Resources and Commerce Group (E143– Commerce Group (E143–03), Research distributors, or importers of aerosol 03), Research Triangle Park, North Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, coatings for sale or distribution in the Carolina 27711, telephone number: telephone number: (919) 541–5460, fax United States, or manufacturers, (919) 541–2509, fax number (919) 541– number (919) 541–3470, e-mail address: processors, wholesale distributors, or 3470, e-mail address: [email protected]. importers that supply the entities listed [email protected]. For information with aerosol coatings for sale or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Entities concerning the CAA section 183(e) distribution in interstate commerce in Potentially Affected by this Action. The consumer and commercial products the United States. The entities entities potentially regulated by the program, contact Mr. Bruce Moore, U.S. potentially affected by this action proposed regulation encompass aerosol EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and include: Standards, Sector Policies and Programs coatings operations. This includes a Examples of regulated Category NAICS code entities Paint and coating manufacturing ................................................ 32551 Manufacturing of lacquers, varnishes, enamels, epoxy coat- ings, oil and alkyd vehicle, plastisols, polyurethane, primers, shellacs, stains, water repellant coatings. All other miscellaneous chemical production and preparation 325998 Aerosol can filling, aerosol packaging services. manufacturing. a http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html. This table is not intended to be Web (WWW) through the Technology A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory exhaustive, but rather provides a guide Transfer Network (TTN). Following Planning and Review for readers regarding entities likely to be signature, a copy of the proposed action B. Paperwork Reduction Act affected by this action. To determine will be posted on the TTN’s policy and C. Regulatory Flexibility Act D. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act whether you would be affected by this guidance page for newly proposed or E. Executive Order 13132: Federalism action, you should examine the promulgated rules at the following F. Executive Order 13175: Consultation applicable industry description in address: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/. and Coordination with Indian Tribal section I.E of this notice.