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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Proposed Rules 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, this proposed action does not apply on any Indian reservation land or in any other area where 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 as specified by Executive Order 13175 65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Particulate matter.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: February 9, 2021.
Michelle L. Pirzadeh, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
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Air Plan Approval; California; Placer County Air Pollution Control District;
Open Burning Rules Environmental Protection Agency EPA.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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The Environmental Protection Agency EPA is proposing to approve revisions to the Placer County Air Pollution Control District PCAPCD
portion of the California State Implementation Plan SIP. These revisions concern emissions of oxides of nitrogen NOX and particulate matter PM from open burning. We are proposing to approve local rules to regulate these emission sources under the Clean Air Act CAA or the Act. We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before March 22, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPAR09
OAR20200477 at https
www.regulations.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. The EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information CBI
or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions audio, video, etc. must be accompanied by a written comment.
The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary submission i.e. on the web, cloud, or other file sharing system. For additional submission methods, please contact the person identified in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
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FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kevin Gong, EPA Region IX, 75
Hawthorne St., San Francisco, CA
94105. By phone: 415 9723073 or by email at Gong.Kevin@epa.gov.
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Throughout this document, we, us and our refer to the EPA.

Table of Contents I. The States Submittal A. What rules did the State submit?
B. Are there other versions of these rules?
C. What is the purpose of the submitted rule revisions?
II. The EPAs Evaluation and Action A. How is the EPA evaluating the rules?
B. Do the rules meet the evaluation criteria?
C. The EPAs Recommendations To Further Improve the Rules D. Public Comment and Proposed Action III. Incorporation by Reference IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. The States Submittal A. What rules did the State submit?
Table 1 lists the rules addressed by this proposal with the dates that they were adopted by the local air agency and submitted by the California Air Resources Board.

TABLE 1SUBMITTED RULES
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Nonagricultural Burning Smoke Management
Agricultural Waste Burning Smoke Management
Residential Allowable Burning

On May 21, 2019, the submittal for PCAPCD Rules 301 and 302 was deemed by operation of law to meet the completeness criteria in 40 CFR part 51
Appendix V, which must be met before formal EPA review. On July 31, 2019, the submittal for PCAPCD Rule 305 was also deemed by operation of law to meet the criteria.
B. Are there other versions of these rules?
We approved earlier versions of Rules 301, 302, and 305 into the SIP on
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January 31, 2013 78 FR 6736. If we take final action to approve the submitted versions of Rules 301, 302, and 305 that are the subject of this rulemaking, they will replace the previously approved versions of these rules in the SIP.
C. What is the purpose of the rule revisions?
Emissions of NOX contribute to the production of ground-level ozone, smog and PM, which harm human health and the environment. Section 110a of the
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CAA requires states to submit regulations that control NOX emissions.
Emissions of PM, including PM equal to or less than 2.5 microns in diameter PM2.5 and PM equal to or less than 10
microns in diameter PM10, contribute to effects that are harmful to human health and the environment, including premature mortality, aggravation of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, decreased lung function, visibility impairment, and damage to vegetation and ecosystems. Section 110a of the CAA requires states to submit
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