Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Amendments to Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements for Illinois

Susan Hedman
Environmental Protection Agency
October 17, 2014

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 201 (Friday, October 17, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 62352-62356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24462]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R05-OAR-2014-0123; FRL-9917-42-Region 5]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
Illinois; Amendments to Gasoline Vapor Recovery Requirements for 
Illinois

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a state 
implementation plan (SIP) revision submitted by the Illinois 
Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) on January 17, 2014, concerning 
the state's gasoline vapor recovery requirements. The revision phases 
out the Stage II vapor recovery (Stage II) program requirements in the 
Illinois portion of the Chicago ozone nonattainment area (NAA) as a 
component of the Illinois ozone SIP. The SIP revision also includes 
amendments to the state's permitting regulations applicable to storage 
tanks and fuel dispensing, including repealing the Stage I vapor 
recovery (Stage I) registration provisions due to overlapping Federal 
notification requirements and state tracking systems for gasoline 
dispensing operations. Finally, the SIP revision includes other 
clarifying and clean-up amendments at 35 Ill. Adm. Code Parts 201, 218, 
and 219. The submittal also includes a demonstration under section 
110(l) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) that shows there are no emissions 
impacts associated with the removal of the program.

DATES: This direct final rule is effective December 16, 2014, unless 
EPA receives adverse comments by November 17, 2014. If adverse comments 
are received, EPA will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final 
rule in the Federal Register informing the public that the rule will 
not take effect.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R05-
OAR-2014-0123, by one of the following methods:
    1. www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
    2. Email: blakley.pamela@epa.gov.
    3. Fax: (312) 692-2450.
    4. Mail: Pamela Blakley, Chief, Control Strategies Section, Air 
Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604.
    5. Hand Delivery: Pamela Blakley, Chief, Control Strategies 
Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. Such 
deliveries are only accepted during the Regional Office normal hours of 
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of 
boxed information. The Regional Office official hours of business are 
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding Federal 
holidays.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R05-OAR-
2014-

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0123. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change and may be made available online at 
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided, 
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential 
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include your name and other contact information in the body of your 
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your 
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for 
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic 
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of 
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy. 
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically 
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. This facility is open from 8:30 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays. 
We recommend that you telephone Francisco J. Acevedo, Mobile Source 
Program Manager, at (312) 886-6061 before visiting the Region 5 office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Francisco J. Acevedo, Mobile Source 
Program Manager, Control Strategies Section, Air Programs Branch (AR-
18J), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886-6061, 
acevedo.francisco@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document whenever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA. This supplementary information 
section is arranged as follows:

I. What is the Background for Illinois' Stage II Vapor Recovery 
Program?
II. What Changes Have Been Made to Illinois' Gasoline Vapor Recovery 
Requirements?
III. What is EPA's Analysis of the State's Submittal?
IV. What Action is EPA Taking?
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

I. What is the background for Illinois' Stage II Vapor Recovery 
Program?

    Stage II and onboard refueling vapor recovery systems (ORVR) are 
two types of emission control systems that capture fuel vapors from 
vehicle gas tanks during refueling. Stage II systems are specifically 
installed at gasoline dispensing facilities (GDF) and capture the 
refueling fuel vapors at the gasoline pump nozzle. The system carries 
the vapors back to the underground storage tank at the GDF to prevent 
the vapors from escaping to the atmosphere. ORVR systems are carbon 
canisters installed directly on automobiles to capture the fuel vapors 
evacuated from the gasoline tank before they reach the nozzle. The fuel 
vapors captured in the carbon canisters are then combusted in the 
engine when the automobile is in operation. Stage II and vehicle ORVR 
were initially both required by the 1990 Amendments to the CAA under 
sections 182(b)(3) and 202(a)(6), respectively. In some areas, Stage II 
has been in place for over 25 years, but was not widely implemented by 
the states until the early to mid-1990s as a result of the CAA 
requirements for moderate, serious, severe, and extreme ozone NAAs and 
for states in the Northeast Ozone Transport Region (OTR) under CAA 
section 184(b)(2). CAA section 202(a)(6) required EPA to promulgate 
regulations for ORVR for light-duty vehicles (passenger cars). EPA 
adopted these requirements in 1994, at which point moderate ozone NAAs 
were no longer subject to the section 182(b)(3) Stage II requirement. 
However, some moderate areas retained Stage II requirements to provide 
a control method to comply with rate-of-progress emission reduction 
targets. ORVR equipment has been phased in for new passenger vehicles 
beginning with model year 1998, and starting in 2001 for light-duty 
trucks and most heavy-duty gasoline-powered vehicles. ORVR equipment 
has been installed on nearly all new gasoline-powered light-duty 
vehicles, light-duty trucks and heavy-duty vehicles since 2006.
    During the phase-in of ORVR controls, Stage II has provided 
volatile organic compound (VOC) reductions in ozone NAAs and certain 
attainment areas of the OTR. Congress recognized that ORVR and Stage II 
would eventually become largely redundant technologies, and provided 
authority to EPA to allow states to remove Stage II from their SIPs 
after EPA finds that ORVR is in widespread use. Effective May 16, 2012, 
the date the final rule was published in the Federal Register (77 FR 
28772), EPA determined that ORVR is in widespread nationwide use for 
control of gasoline emissions during refueling of vehicles at GDFs. 
Currently, more than 75 percent of gasoline refueling nationwide occurs 
with ORVR-equipped vehicles, so Stage II programs have become largely 
redundant control systems and Stage II systems achieve an ever 
declining emissions benefit as more ORVR-equipped vehicles continue to 
enter the on-road motor vehicle fleet.\1\ EPA also exercised its 
authority under CAA section 202(a)(6) to waive certain Federal 
statutory requirements for Stage II gasoline vapor recovery at GDFs. 
This decision exempts all new ozone NAAs classified serious or above 
from the requirement to adopt Stage II control programs. Similarly, any 
states currently implementing Stage II programs may submit SIP 
revisions that, once approved by EPA, would allow for the phase out of 
Stage II control systems.
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    \1\ In areas where certain types of vacuum-assist Stage II 
systems are used, the differences in operational design 
characteristics between ORVR and some configurations of these Stage 
II systems result in the reduction of overall control system 
efficiency compared to what could have been achieved relative to the 
individual control efficiencies of either ORVR or Stage II emissions 
from the vehicle fuel tank.
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    On September 30, 1992, Illinois submitted Stage II vapor recovery 
rules as a SIP revision to EPA to satisfy the requirement of section 
182(b)(3) of the CAA. The revision applied to the Chicago NAA (Cook, 
DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will Counties and Aux Sable and Goose Lake 
Townships in Grundy County and Oswego Township in Kendall County) and 
Metro-East St. Louis NAA (Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair Counties). EPA 
fully approved Illinois' Stage II program on January 12, 1993 (58 FR 
3841), including the program's legal authority and administrative 
requirements found in Sections 218.583, 219.583, 218.586, and 219.586 
of the Illinois Administrative Code (Ill. Adm. Code). In 1994, Illinois 
repealed the Stage II requirements for the Metro-East NAA under Ill. 
Adm. Code 219.586 due to the promulgation by EPA of regulations for 
ORVR for

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light-duty vehicles, at which point, moderate ozone NAAs like the 
Metro-East, were no longer subject to the section 182(b)(3) Stage II 
requirement. EPA approved Illinois request to repeal the Stage II vapor 
recovery control requirements for the Metro-East St. Louis NAA on 
December 16, 1994 (59 FR 64853).

II. What changes have been made to Illinois' gasoline vapor recovery 
requirements?

    On January 17, 2014, IEPA submitted a SIP revision requesting the 
phase-out of Stage II requirements for the Chicago area. To support the 
removal of the Stage II requirements, the revision included amended 
copies of 35 Ill. Adm. Code Parts 201, 218, and 219 effective on 
December 23, 2013, authorizing the phase-out of Stage II requirements 
in Illinois; modeling using EPA's MOVES2010b model to determine 
emission impacts of maintaining and removing the Stage II program; and 
a demonstration under CAA section 110(l). The CAA 110(l) demonstration 
included in the state's SIP revision specifically shows that there are 
no emission reduction losses resulting from the removal of Stage II 
program requirements in the Illinois portion of the Chicago NAA. IEPA 
calculated that by 2014 there is a ``cross-over point'' after which the 
simultaneous use of ORVR and incompatible Stage II systems would begin 
to result in an emissions disbenefit. Modeling demonstrates that 
beginning in 2014, ORVR alone would start to provide greater reductions 
in refueling emissions than the simultaneous use of ORVR and Stage II 
in the Illinois portion of the Chicago ozone NAA.
    As discussed above, the amended rules submitted by Illinois as part 
of this SIP revision primarily serve to phase-out the Stage II 
requirements at GDFs in the Illinois portion of the Chicago NAA, 
implement decommissioning procedures by which GDFs are to appropriately 
decommission their current vapor recovery equipment, and establish 
timeframes for these actions to take place. These amendments, as 
described in detail below, affect 35 Ill. Adm. Code Part 218. In 
addition, IEPA has submitted clarifying and clean-up amendments in 35 
Ill. Adm. Code Parts 201 and 219 that are further discussed below.
    Subpart Y of 35 Ill. Adm. Code Part 218 contains the ``Gasoline 
Distribution'' regulations for the Chicago NAA including the ``Motor 
Vehicle Fueling Operations'' requirements in section 218.586. The 
majority of the rule revisions prompted by the proposed phase-out of 
the Stage II program occur in this section. In addition to the 
substantive revisions to the rules addressing the phase-out of the 
Stage II program and the inclusion of decommissioning procedures, 
certain provisions are either being deleted as no longer necessary, 
revised for clarity, or updated to replace outdated references. The 
primary changes to section 218.586 to phase-out the Stage II program 
occur with revisions to subsection 218.586(d), now titled 
``Compliance'', and with the addition of subsection 218.586(i) 
``Decommissioning.'' Subsections 218.586(d)(1) through (5), which 
previously defined the time frame by which GDFs of certain monthly 
gasoline throughput were required to comply with the vapor recovery and 
control requirements, have been deleted. Instead, Illinois is requiring 
in a new subsection (d)(1) that existing affected GDFs continue 
operating such equipment until decommissioning is commenced. As 
provided by subsection 218.586(d)(2), new GDFs will not be subject to 
Stage II vapor recovery requirements.
    Section 218.586(i) defines the decommissioning timeframes and 
procedures. As discussed earlier, in 2014, the vehicle refueling 
emission reductions achieved by the widespread use of ORVR-equipped 
vehicles will exceed reductions achieved by the continued operation of 
the Stage II program. Thus, the continued operation of the Stage II 
program will provide no additional emission reduction benefit. As a 
result, under section 218.586(i)(1)(A), Illinois allowed existing 
affected GDFs to begin decommissioning their Stage II vapor recovery 
equipment as of January 1, 2014. As provided by section 
218.586(i)(1)(B), all Stage II equipment must be decommissioned by 
December 31, 2016. In order to minimize the time that incompatible 
Stage II systems are in operation, all existing affected GDFs must 
complete the decommissioning process within three years from January 1, 
2014. Subsection 218.586(i)(2) contains the decommissioning procedures 
and standards. Decommissioning must be performed in accordance with the 
Petroleum Equipment Institute's ``Recommended Practices for 
Installation and Testing of Vapor-Recovery Systems at Vehicle-Fueling 
Sites,'' PEI/RP300-09, which Illinois has incorporated by reference at 
35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.112. Further, subsection 218.586(i)(2)(B) 
requires contractors involved in the decommissioning process to be 
registered and licensed by the State. Subsection 218.586(i)(2)(B) also 
requires the pressure decay test and tie-tank test to be performed and 
passed using specified procedures. Illinois also requires in subsection 
218.586(i)(2)(A) that the owners or operators of GDFs provide a notice 
of intent to decommission to IEPA at least 10 days prior to commencing 
decommissioning. This notice would allow the state the ability to 
schedule an inspector to be present when the decommissioning takes 
place to the extent this is necessary. Subsection 218.586(i)(2)(C) 
requires owners or operators of the affected GDFs and contractors to 
complete and sign a Stage II decommissioning checklist and 
certification, to be developed by IEPA, documenting the decommissioning 
procedures performed. Within 30 days after completion of the 
decommissioning procedures, owners or operators must provide the 
completed checklist and certification and the test results to IEPA. 
Subsection 218.586(g)(4) requires all decommissioning records to be 
maintained for five years after decommissioning and made available to 
IEPA upon request.
    The Stage I regulations in sections 218.583 and 219.583 require 
controls for vapors displaced from storage tanks at GDFs during the 
transfer of gasoline from product delivery vessels. In sections 
218.583(e) and 219.583(e) which address storage tank filling 
operations, Illinois repealed the registration program for GDFs subject 
to the Stage I vapor recovery requirements in the Chicago and Metro-
East NAAs, respectively, due to overlapping Federal notification 
requirements at 40 CFR part 63, subpart CCCCCC. The Federal National 
Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) rules for GDFs 
at 40 CFR part 63, subpart CCCCCC include notification requirements for 
those that dispense 10,000 gallons of gasoline or more per month. This 
would cover all GDFs, including those subject to Stage I and II 
requirements. The Stage II registration requirements at section 
218.586(h) remain in effect until a GDF begins the decommissioning 
process.
    Previously, GDFs that registered under the state's Stage I and 
Stage II programs were exempted from the requirements of having to 
obtain a permit under the state's minor source permitting program. By 
decommissioning, GDFs would no longer be required to be registered with 
the State II program, resulting in the unintended consequence of 
requiring permitting of such sources. Therefore,

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Illinois has clarified the rules so that registration will no longer be 
required in order to obtain an exemption from permitting and believes 
that one permit exemption, contained in one place in the Illinois 
Administrative Code, is less confusing than dual permit exemptions. The 
changes continue the existing exemptions under both programs.
    Section 201.146 provides exemptions from state permit requirements. 
Illinois has established a single Stage II permit exemption in section 
201.146(l) which is combined with a permit exemption for Stage I. This 
Stage II permit exemption applies to fuel dispensing equipment that is 
used for dispensing any fuel to mobile sources for use in such sources. 
Additionally, the amendments clarify sections 201.146(n) and (nn), and 
repeal section 201.146(kk) which provided an exemption from permitting 
for sources that register with IEPA since it is no longer necessary. 
Further, the amendments clarify the requirements for annual emission 
reports at Section 201.302.
    Illinois has also included other revisions to 35 Ill. Adm. Code 
Part 219 that apply to the Metro-East NAA which includes Madison, 
Monroe, and St. Clair counties. Section 219.105 sets forth test methods 
and procedures used in conjunction with this Part. Section 219.105(j) 
which includes the Stage II gasoline vapor recovery test methods is no 
longer applicable due to the repeal of the Metro-East NAA Stage II rule 
in February 1994, therefore Illinois has repealed these test methods. 
Illinois has also removed the incorporation by reference of EPA's Stage 
II vapor recovery technical guidance in section 219.112(v) since this 
guidance is no longer applicable due to the repeal of the Metro-East 
NAA Stage II requirements in 1994.

III. What is EPA's analysis of the State's submittal?

    Our primary consideration for determining the approvability of the 
Illinois revisions to remove Stage II requirements from the SIP is 
whether these revisions comply with section 110(l) of the CAA. Section 
110(l) of the CAA provides that EPA cannot approve a SIP revision if 
that revision interferes with any applicable requirement regarding 
attainment and reasonable further progress or any other requirement 
established in the CAA. The EPA can, however, approve a SIP revision 
that removes or modifies control measures in the SIP once the State 
makes a ``noninterference'' demonstration that such removal or 
modification will not interfere with attainment of the NAAQS, or any 
other CAA requirement. Illinois has evaluated the impacts of approving 
these revisions. The phase-out of the Stage II program in the Illinois 
portion of the Chicago ozone NAA found in section 218.586 would result 
in no loss of emissions reductions since IEPA has determined that 
beginning in 2014, Stage II will no longer be necessary and its 
continued use would result in the release of more refueling emissions 
than with ORVR alone. This is primarily due to the incompatibility of 
the two systems and the widespread use of ORVR in the Chicago NAA.
    The removal of the State's registration requirements for Stage I 
operations is not a relaxation, since the Federal NESHAP (40 CFR part 
63, subpart CCCCCC) includes a notification provision at 40 CFR 
63.11124 requesting similar information to what was required in 
Illinois' rules. The deletion of the State requirement basically 
removes a duplicative regulation and decreases the administrative 
burden on such sources while still providing all the necessary 
information to IEPA. All notifications under the NESHAP are submitted 
to IEPA because it has been delegated authority to implement and 
enforce the NESHAP. Finally, the clarification to the state's 
permitting exemption requirements indicating that Stage I and Stage II 
registration is no longer required to obtain an exemption from 
permitting, would result in no loss of emissions reductions as the 
changes to the requirements only continue the existing exemptions for 
these sources.

IV. What action is EPA taking?

    EPA is approving the revisions to the Illinois ozone SIP submitted 
on January 17, 2014, concerning the State's Stage II vapor recovery 
program standards in Illinois. EPA is also approving amendments to 35 
Ill. Adm. Code Parts 201, 218, and 219 to make necessary updates and to 
be consistent with the repeal of the Stage II program standards. EPA 
finds that the revisions will not interfere with any applicable 
requirement concerning attainment, reasonable further progress or any 
other applicable CAA requirement.
    We are publishing this action without prior proposal because we 
view this as a noncontroversial amendment and anticipate no adverse 
comments. However, in the proposed rules section of this Federal 
Register publication, we are publishing a separate document that will 
serve as the proposal to approve the state plan if relevant adverse 
written comments are filed. This rule will be effective December 16, 
2014 without further notice unless we receive relevant adverse written 
comments by November 17, 2014. If we receive such comments, we will 
withdraw this action before the effective date by publishing a 
subsequent document that will withdraw the final action. All public 
comments received will then be addressed in a subsequent final rule 
based on the proposed action. EPA will not institute a second comment 
period. Any parties interested in commenting on this action should do 
so at this time. Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an 
amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may 
be severed from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those 
provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment. 
If we do not receive any comments, this action will be effective 
December 16, 2014.

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP 
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA and applicable 
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in 
reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state choices, 
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. 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 Order 
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993);
     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 affect small governments, as described in the Unfunded 
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-4);
     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);

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     Is not subject to requirements of Section 12(d) 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 CAA; and
     Does not provide 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).
    This rule is not approved to 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, nor will it impose substantial direct costs on tribal 
governments or preempt tribal law.
    The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the 
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally 
provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating 
the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, 
to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the 
United States. EPA will submit a report containing this action and 
other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of 
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior 
to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot 
take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal 
Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 
804(2).
    Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review 
of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for 
the appropriate circuit by December 16, 2014. Filing a petition for 
reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect 
the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor 
does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may 
be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or 
action. Parties with objections to this direct final rule are 
encouraged to file a comment in response to the parallel notice of 
proposed rulemaking for this action published in the proposed rules 
section of this Federal Register, rather than file an immediate 
petition for judicial review of this direct final rule, so that EPA can 
withdraw this direct final rule and address the comment in the proposed 
rulemaking. This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to 
enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2).)

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by 
reference, Oxides of nitrogen, Ozone, Volatile organic compounds.

    Dated: September 24, 2014.
Susan Hedman,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.

    40 CFR part 52 is amended as follows:

PART 52--APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS

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1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.


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2. Section 52.720 is amended by adding paragraph (c)(202) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  52.720  Identification of plan.

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    (c) * * *
    (202) On January 17, 2013, the Illinois Environmental Protection 
Agency submitted a request to phase out Stage II vapor recovery 
standards at 35 Ill. Adm. Code 218.586 and to make other related 
revisions to 35 Ill. Adm. Code Parts 201, 218, and 219.
    (i) Incorporation by reference.
    (A) Illinois Administrative Code, Title 35: Environmental 
Protection, Subtitle B: Air Pollution, Chapter I: Pollution Control 
Board, Subchapter a: Permits and General Provisions, Part 201: Permits 
and General Provisions, Subpart C: Prohibitions, Section 201.146 
``Exemptions from State Permit Requirements'' and Subpart K: Records 
and Reports, Section 201.302 ``Reports'', effective December 23, 2013.
    (B) Illinois Administrative Code, Title 35: Environmental 
Protection, Subtitle B: Air Pollution, Chapter I: Pollution Control 
Board, Subchapter C: Emissions Standards And Limitations For Stationary 
Sources, Part 218: Organic Material Emission Standards and Limitations 
For the Chicago Area, Subpart A: General Provisions, Section 218.112 
``Incorporations By Reference'' and Subpart Y: Gasoline Distribution, 
Sections 218.583 ``Gasoline Dispensing Operations--Storage Tank Filling 
Operations'' and 218.586 ``Gasoline Dispensing Operations--Motor 
Vehicle Fueling Operations'', effective December 23, 2013.
    (C) Illinois Administrative Code, Title 35: Environmental 
Protection, Subtitle B: Air Pollution, Chapter I: Pollution Control 
Board, Subchapter c: Emission Standards and Limitations for Stationary 
Sources, Part 219: Organic Material Emission Standards and Limitations 
for the Metro East Area, Subpart A: General Provisions, Sections 
219.105 ``Test Methods and Procedures'' and 219.112 ``Incorporations by 
Reference'', and Subpart Y: Gasoline Distribution, Section 219.583 
``Gasoline Dispensing Operations--Storage Tank Filling Operations'', 
effective December 23, 2013.

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