Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; State of Missouri: Regional Haze
air-emissions · Rule · Published 2012-06-26 · Effective 2012-07-26 · MO · 77 FR 38007
Document
Document number
2012-15021
Federal Register citation
77 FR 38007
CFR reference
40 CFR 52
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2012-06-26
Effective date
2012-07-26
State
MO
EPA docket
EPA-R07-OAR-2012-0153
Abstract
EPA is finalizing a limited approval of a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Missouri, submitted by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources on August 5, 2009, and supplemented on January 30, 2012, that addresses Regional Haze for the first implementation period. Specifically, these revisions address the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and EPA's rules that required States to prevent any future and remedy any existing anthropogenic impairment of visibility in Class I Areas (national parks and wilderness areas) caused by emissions of air pollutants located over a wide geographic area (also known as the "regional haze" program). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas. EPA proposed to approve these revisions on February 28, 2012 (77 FR 11958). In a separate rulemaking action, EPA finalized the limited disapproval of Missouri's regional haze SIP and imposed a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for Missouri on June 7, 2012. 77 FR 33642.