# Revisions to the Federal NO
X
Budget Trading Program, the Emissions Monitoring Provisions, the Permits Regulation Provisions, and the Appeal Procedures; Extension of Comment Period
**AGENCY:**
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
**ACTION:**
Proposed rule; extension of comment period.
**SUMMARY:**
The Environmental Protection Agency published a proposed rule in the *Federal Register* on June 13, 2001 at (66 FR 31978) on “Revisions to the Federal NO <sub>X</sub> Budget Trading Program, the Emissions Monitoring Provisions, the Permits Regulation Provisions, and the Appeal Procedures” which provided a 45-day comment period, which expires on July 30, 2001. The EPA has received a request to extend the comment period for this proposed rule for 21 days. The EPA is today extending the comment period for the Revisions to the Federal NO <sub>X</sub> Budget Trading Program, the Emissions Monitoring Provisions, the Permits Regulation Provisions, and the Appeal Procedures for 21 days until August 20, 2001.
**DATES:**
Comments must be submitted by August 20, 2001.
**ADDRESSES:**
Comments. Comments must be mailed (in duplicate if possible) to: EPA Air Docket (6102), Attention: Docket No. A-2000-33, Room—1500, Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW., Washington, DC 20460. Docket. Docket No. A-2000-33, containing supporting information used to develop the proposal, is available for public inspection and copying from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays, at EPA's Air Docket Section at the above address.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Gabrielle Stevens, Clean Air Markets Division (6204N), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, telephone number (202) 564-2681 or the Acid Rain Hotline at (202) 564-9620. Electronic copies of the proposed rulemaking document and technical support documents can be accessed through the EPA Web site at: *http:// www.epa.gov/airmarkets.*
Dated: July 23, 2001.
Brian J. McLean,
Director, Clean Air Markets Division/Office of Atmospheric Programs, Environmental Protection Agency.