Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Rhode Island; Regional Haze
air-emissions · Rule · Published 2012-05-22 · Effective 2012-06-21 · RI · 77 FR 30214
Document
Document number
2012-12289
Federal Register citation
77 FR 30214
CFR reference
40 CFR 52
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2012-05-22
Effective date
2012-06-21
State
RI
EPA docket
EPA-R01-OAR-2009-0631
Abstract
EPA is approving a revision to the Rhode Island State Implementation Plan (SIP) that addresses regional haze for the first planning period from 2008 through 2018. The revision was submitted by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RI DEM) on August 7, 2009. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's regulations that require States to prevent any future, and remedy any existing, manmade impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I Areas caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the "regional haze program").