Clean Air Act Full Approval of Operating Permit Program; Virginia

EPA is taking final action to grant full approval of the Commonwealth of Virginia's operating permit program. The Commonwealth's operating permit program was submitted in response to the Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 that required each States to develop, and submit to EPA, a programs for issuing operating permits to all major stationary sources and to certain other sources within the State's jurisdiction. The EPA granted final interim approval of Virginia's operating permit program on June 10, 1997, as corrected on March 19, 1998. The Commonwealth of Virginia amended its operating permit program to address the deficiencies identified in the interim approval, and this final rulemaking action approves those amendments. The EPA proposed full approval of Virginia's operating permit program in the Federal Register on October 10, 2001. This final rulemaking summarizes the adverse comments EPA received on the October 19, 2001 proposal, provides EPA's responses, and promulgates final full approval of the Commonwealth of Virginia's operating permit program.