Clean Air Act Interim Approval of Operating Permits Program; Delegation of Section 112 Standards; State of Massachusetts

On February 2, 1996, the Environmental Protection Agency published a proposed and direct final rule promulgating interim approval of the Operating Permits Program submitted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the purpose of complying with the Federal requirements of an approved program to issue operating permits to all major stationary sources, and to certain other sources, with the exception of Indian Lands. This submittal for the operating permits program was made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 28, 1995. The 30-day comment period for these documents concluded on March 4, 1996. Also in this document, EPA is correcting the date for the interim approval of the Operating Permits Program for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.