Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Plans, Texas and Louisiana; Revision to the Texas and Louisiana State Implementation Plans Regarding Negative Declarations for Source Categories Subject to Reasonably Available Control Technology

Resumen

Section 172(c)(1) of the Clean Air Act (the Act) requires nonattainment areas to reduce emissions from existing sources by adopting, at a minimum, reasonably available control technology (RACT). The EPA has established 13 such source categories for which RACT must be implemented and issued associated Control Technique Guidelines (CTGs) or Alternate Control Techniques (ACTs). If no major sources of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions for a source category in a nonattainment area exist, a State may submit a negative declaration for that category. Louisiana has submitted negative declarations for certain source categories in the Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area. Texas has submitted negative declarations for certain source categories in the Beaumont/Port Arthur, Dallas/Fort Worth, El Paso, and Houston/ Galveston ozone nonattainment areas. Their declarations include the following CTG source categories: offset lithography, plastic parts- business machines, plastic parts-others, wood furniture, aerospace coatings, autobody refinishing, shipbuilding and repair, industrial wastewater, and clean up solvents. The EPA proposes to approve these negative declarations for Louisiana and