Clean Air Act (CAA) Full Approval of Operating Permits Program and Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Arkansas; New Source Review (NSR)

The EPA is taking direct final action to fully approve the Operating Permit Program of the State of Arkansas and to also approve this rule as it pertains to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (SIP). Arkansas' Operating Permit Program was submitted in response to the directive in the 1990 CAA Amendments that States develop, and submit to EPA, programs for issuing operating permits to all major stationary sources and to certain other sources within the States' jurisdiction. The EPA granted interim approval to Arkansas' Operating Permit Program on September 8, 1995. Arkansas revised its program to satisfy the conditions of the interim approval, and this action approves those revisions. Regulation 26, the Regulation of the Arkansas Operating Air Permit Program, is a comprehensive State air quality program which is designed to address all applicable air contaminant emissions and regulatory requirements in a single permit document; as such it incorporates the NSR permitting requirements for major sources, as defined by title V, CAA section 501- 507, 42 U.S.C. 7661-7661f. The EPA is also approving the revised and recodified Regulation 26 as it pertains to the Arkansas SIP.