Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Wisconsin; Northern Engraving Environmental Cooperative Agreement

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a June 27, 2003, request from Wisconsin to revise its State Implementation Plan (SIP) for a source specific revision for Northern Engraving Corporation (NEC). The Clean Air Act (Act), provides the authority for a state to provide a plan for the implementation, maintenance, and enforcement of the national ambient air quality standards in each air quality control region. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and EPA entered into a memorandum of agreement concerning implementation of a joint cooperative pilot program and agreed to pursue regulatory innovation at two NEC facilities in Holmen, Wisconsin and Sparta, Wisconsin. Since then, the WDNR has amended the agreement to include two additional NEC facilities in Galesville, Wisconsin and West Salem, Wisconsin. Because portions of the Environmental Cooperative Agreement with NEC supercede portions of rules in the Wisconsin SIP, a source-specific SIP revision is required.