Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA is taking direct final action on "Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations: Correcting and Other Amendments" to correct and clarify parts of a recent final rule published on October 17, 2006, that amended the ambient air monitoring requirements for criteria pollutants. These errors included several instances where the wording in the preamble and regulatory text were not completely consistent, several regulatory text passages that contained some imprecise language, two instances of regulatory text omission, an outdated address reference, and numerous publication errors in tables and equations. EPA is also amending the monitoring rule to allow EPA Regional Administrators to approve departures from the minimum number of PM<INF>10</INF> monitors otherwise specified in the rule. The October 17, 2006, final rule revised requirements for reference and equivalent method determinations, modified requirements for general monitoring network design, and modified other requirements pertaining to quality assurance, annual network plans and assessments, data reporting, monitoring methodology, and probe and monitor siting criteria. All other preamble and regulatory text printed in the October 17, 2006, final rule is correct.
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR Parts 53 and 58 [EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0018; FRL-8308-7] RIN 2060-AO06 AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Direct final rule. SUMMARY: The EPA is taking direct final action on “Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations: Correcting and Other Amendments” to correct and clarify parts of a recent final rule published on October 17, 2006, that amended the ambient air monitoring requirements for criteria pollutants. These errors included several instances where the wording in the preamble and regulatory text were not completely consistent, several regulatory text passages that contained some imprecise language, two instances of regulatory text omission, an outdated address reference, and numerous publication errors in tables and equations. EPA is also amending the monitoring rule to allow EPA Regional Administrators to approve departures from the minimum number of PM 10 monitors otherwise specified in the rule. The October 17, 2006, final rule revised requirements for reference and equivalent method determinations, modified requirements for general monitoring network design, and modified other requirements pertaining to quality assurance, annual network plans and assessments, data reporting, monitoring methodology, and probe and monitor siting criteria. All other preamble and regulatory text printed in the October 17, 2006, final rule is correct. DATES: This rule is effective on September 10, 2007, without further notice, unl…
Other Federal Register documents from the same docket.
Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations: Correcting and Other Amendments
Revisions to Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations
Public Hearings for Proposed Rules-National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter and Revisions to Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations
Revisions to Ambient Air Monitoring Regulations
Citation: 72 FR 32193
