Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Tennessee: Approval of Revisions to the Nashville/Davidson County Portion of the Tennessee SIP

Resumen

The EPA proposes to approve revisions to the Nashville/ Davidson County portion of the Tennessee State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning air pollution control regulations by the Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County government. The State of Tennessee through the Tennessee Department of Air Pollution Control submitted the revisions to EPA on April 7, 1997. To be consistent with federal requirements, the State of Tennessee amended the definition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and deleted various words in Chapter 10.56, ``Air Pollution Control,'' of the Metropolitan Code of Laws. In the final rules section of this Federal Register, the EPA is approving the State of Tennessee SIP revision as a direct final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a noncontroversial revision amendment and anticipates no adverse comments. A detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to the direct final rule, no further activity is contemplated in relation to this proposed rule. If EPA receives adverse comments, the direct final rule will be withdrawn and all public comments received will be addre