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RIN: 2060-AJ12

Publication ID: Spring 2000

Title: ●Extending Operating Permits Program Interim Approval Expiration Dates
Abstract: This action extends until June 1, 2002 all State and local operating permits program interim approvals. Currently all interim approvals expire on June 1, 2000. Revisions to correct deficiencies in State operating permits program that resulted in their being granted interim approval are due 6 months prior to the interim approval expiration date. Program revisions are, therefore, due by December 1, 1999. Permitting authorities have expressed concern over the resource burden of preparing and submitting a program revision addressing interim approval deficiencies and then revising their program again to address the upcoming revisions to the part 70 operating permits regulations. They have requested the option of combining both program revisions into one submittal, thereby going through the regulatory revision or legislative process only once. The EPA recognizes that this would reduce the resources required to prepare program revisions and that the savings in resources could be spent in the early stages of permit issuance. The provision for allowing States to combine their program revisions was included in the August 31, 1995 notice which proposed revisions to part 70. Due to delays in promulgating the part 70 revisions, the Agency has previously extended interim approvals so they would not expire before the part 70 revisions promulgation date. Expiration of these interim approvals prior to the part 70 revisions would deny those permitting authorities the opportunity to combine program revisions. It now appears that the part 70 revisions will not be promulgated until December 2001. In that all interim approvals will expire before that date, the extension of interim approvals until June 1, 2002 is necessary.
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 40 CFR part 70 (Revision) (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: 42 USC 7401 et seq

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	02/14/2000	65 FR 7333
Direct Final Rule	02/14/2000	65 FR 7290
With./Direct Final	04/00/2000
Final Action	05/00/2000

Additional Information: SAN No. 4388
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: Local, State
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Agency Contact: Roger Powell Environmental Protection Agency Air and Radiation MD-12, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Phone:919 541-5331 Fax:919 541-5509 Email: powell.roger@epa.gov