Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: Approval of Revisions to the South Carolina State Implementation Plan (SIP)

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EPA is approving a revision to the South Carolina State Implementation Plan (SIP) to incorporate new permitting regulations and to allow the State of South Carolina to issue Federally enforceable state construction and operating permits (FESCOP). On July 12, 1995, the State of South Carolina through the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) submitted a SIP revision which updates the procedural rules governing the issuance of air permits in South Carolina and fulfills the requirements necessary for a state FESCOP program to become Federally enforceable. In order to extend the Federal enforceability of South Carolina's FESCOP program to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), EPA is also approving South Carolina's FESCOP program pursuant to section 112 of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 (CAA) so that South Carolina may issue Federally enforceable construction and operating permits for HAPs.