Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Massachusetts; Regional Haze
air-emissions · Rule · Published 2013-09-19 · Effective 2013-10-21 · MA · 78 FR 57487
Document
Document number
2013-22692
Federal Register citation
78 FR 57487
CFR reference
40 CFR 52
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2013-09-19
Effective date
2013-10-21
State
MA
EPA docket
EPA-R01-OAR-2012-0025
Abstract
EPA is approving a revision to the Massachusetts State Implementation Plan (SIP) that addresses regional haze for the first planning period from 2008 through 2018. The revision was submitted by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) on December 30, 2011, with supplemental final submittals on August 9, 2012 and August 28, 2012. These submittals address the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules 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"). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I areas.