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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 131 / Tuesday, July 13, 2021 / Rules and Regulations ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
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40 CFR Part 52
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Air Plan Approval; California;
Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District Environmental Protection Agency EPA.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:

The Environmental Protection Agency EPA is taking final action to approve a revision to the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District SMAQMD portion of the California State Implementation Plan SIP. This revision concerns emissions of oxides of nitrogen NOX from water heaters, boilers, and process heaters. We are approving a local rule that regulates
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II. Public Comments and EPA
Responses The EPAs proposed action provided a 30-day public comment period. During this period, we received no comments.
III. EPA Action No comments were submitted.
Therefore, as authorized in section 110k3 of the Act, the EPA is fully approving this rule into the California SIP. The October 25, 2018 version of Rule 414 will replace the previously approved version of this rule in the SIP.

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IV. Incorporation by Reference In this rule, the EPA is finalizing regulatory text that includes incorporation by reference. In accordance with requirements of 1 CFR
51.5, the EPA is finalizing the incorporation by reference of the SMAQMD rule described in the amendments to 40 CFR part 52 set forth below. The EPA has made, and will continue to make, these documents available through www.regulations.gov and at the EPA Region IX Office please contact the person identified in the FOR

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than English or if you are a person with disabilities who needs a reasonable accommodation at no cost to you, please contact the person identified in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Schwartz, EPA Region IX, 75
Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA
94105. By phone: 415 9723286 or by email at schwartz.robert@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, we, us and our refer to the EPA.
Table of Contents I. Proposed Action II. Public Comments and EPA Responses III. EPA Action IV. Incorporation by Reference V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. Proposed Action On April 21, 2021 86 FR 20645, the EPA proposed to approve the following rule into the California SIP.

Rule title
We proposed to approve this rule because we determined that it complies with the relevant CAA requirements.
Our proposed action contains more information on the rule and our evaluation.

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these emission sources under the Clean Air Act CAA or the Act.
DATES: This rule is effective on August 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket ID
No. EPAR09OAR20200414. All documents in the docket are listed on the https www.regulations.gov website. Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., Confidential Business Information CBI or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the internet and will be publicly available only in hard copy form.
Publicly available docket materials are available through https
www.regulations.gov, or please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section for additional availability information. If you need assistance in a language other
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Water Heaters, Boilers and Process Heaters Rated Less Than 1,000,000 Btu per Hour.

section of this preamble for more information.

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews Under the Clean Air Act, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP submission that complies with the provisions of the Act and applicable Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410k;
40 CFR 52.02a. Thus, in reviewing SIP
submissions, the EPAs role is to approve state choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act. Accordingly, this action merely approves state law as meeting Federal requirements and does not impose additional requirements beyond those imposed by state law. For that reason, this action:
Is not a significant regulatory action subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders 12866 58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993 and 13563 76 FR 3821, January 21, 2011;
Does not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act 44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.;
Is certified as not having a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility Act 5
U.S.C. 601 et seq.;
Does not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or uniquely
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affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 Pub. L. 1044;
Does not have federalism implications as specified in Executive Order 13132 64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999;
Is not an economically significant regulatory action based on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997;
Is not a significant regulatory action subject to Executive Order 13211 66 FR
28355, May 22, 2001;
Is not subject to requirements of Section 12d of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 15 U.S.C. 272 note because application of those requirements would be inconsistent with the Clean Air Act;
and Does not provide the EPA with the discretionary authority to address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or environmental effects, using practicable and legally permissible methods, under Executive Order 12898
59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994.
In addition, the SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian reservation land or in any other area where the EPA or an Indian tribe has demonstrated that a tribe has jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian country, the rule does not have tribal implications and will not impose substantial direct costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law as
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