Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Commonwealth of Kentucky: Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Nonattainment New Source Review Rules: Nitrogen Oxide as Precursor to Ozone

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EPA is proposing to approve a revision to Kentucky's State Implementation Plan (SIP), submitted by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, through the Kentucky Division of Air Quality (KDAQ) to EPA on February 5, 2010. The proposed revision modifies Kentucky's prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) and nonattainment new source review (NNSR) permitting regulations in the SIP to address permit requirements promulgated in the 1997 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Implementation Rule-- Phase 2 (hereafter referred to as the "Ozone Implementation NSR Update"). The Ozone Implementation NSR Update revised permit requirements relating to the implementation of the 1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS specifically incorporating nitrogen oxides (NO X ) as a precursor to ozone. The proposed revision also includes provisions addressing permit requirements promulgated by EPA on May 1, 2007, which exclude from the NSR major source permitting requirements "chemical process plants" that produce ethanol through a natural fermentation process (hereafter referred to as the "Ethanol Rule".)