Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Commonwealth of Virginia; Stage II Vapor Recovery Regulations for Gasoline Dispensing Facilities

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to propose approval of Title 120-01 of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Regulations for the Control and Abatement of Air Pollution, Part IV, Rule 4-37 (Petroleum Liquid Storage and Transfer Operations), Secs. 120-04-3701 to 120-04-3715 and Appendices P and S, as a revision to the Virginia State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone. The effective date for Virginia's State regulation is January 1, 1993. On November 5, 1992, the Commonwealth of Virginia submitted a SIP revision request to EPA to satisfy the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (the Act), which requires all ozone nonattainment areas classified as moderate or worse to require owners and operators of gasoline dispensing facilities to install and operate Stage II vapor recovery equipment. This revision applies to the Virginia portion of the Washington, DC ozone nonattainment area and the Richmond ozone nonattainment area. This revision also contains several other minor amendments to Virginia's Rule 4-37. Although these changes do not necessarily pertain to the Stage II program, they will affect the non- Stage II requirements previously established by this proposed rule.