# 2024-30648: Fairbanks Air So Bad It Needs Federal Intervention Plan
2024-30648, Air Plan Approval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-Hour PM2.5 Serious Area and 189(d) Plan, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-08, effective Public comments must be received on or before February 7, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-11).
- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-30648
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.
## Facts
- Document number: 2024-30648
- Title: Air Plan Approval; AK, Fairbanks North Star Borough; 2006 24-Hour PM2.5 Serious Area and 189(d) Plan
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-08
- Effective: Public comments must be received on or before February 7, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11
## In one line
Fairbanks Air So Bad It Needs Federal Intervention Plan
## Summary
The EPA is proposing to approve Alaska’s plan to clean up dirty air in the Fairbanks North Star Borough by cutting harmful tiny particles called PM2.5. This plan includes new rules for big polluters, better tracking of pollution, and steps to meet air quality goals. People and businesses in Fairbanks should get ready for these changes, with public comments open until February 7, 2025.
## Abstract
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve the state implementation plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Alaska (Alaska or the State) on December 4, 2024, to address Clean Air Act requirements for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) national ambient air quality standards in the Fairbanks North Star Borough Serious PM2.5 nonattainment area. Alaska's submission includes SIP revisions to meet nonattainment planning requirements for emissions inventories, modeling and sulfur dioxide precursor demonstration for major stationary sources, control measures, attainment projections and progress to attainment and associated motor vehicle emissions budgets, and contingency measures. The EPA is also starting the adequacy process for the budgets.
## Effects PRIA read
- Stricter rules for home heating: cost, medium. The state's SIP revisions include more stringent performance and operating requirements for residential and commercial heating devices and new regulations for wood sellers in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The SIP was submitted December 4, 2024 and the EPA is proposing action on that plan (publi…
- Local stove change-out cuts PM2.5: benefit, medium. Local programs like the Wood Stove Change Out Program and the Oil-To-Gas Conversion Program (managed by the Fairbanks North Star Borough) reduced direct PM2.5 by over 1.3 tons per episode day for 2020 through 2026. These programs are included in the Fairbanks Revised 189(d) Plan used to project att…
- Tighter air-quality curtailment levels: benefit, low. The State recently tightened its Solid Fuel-Burning Appliance Curtailment Program by lowering alert stages to 20 micrograms per cubic meter and 30 micrograms per cubic meter. These lower thresholds are part of the measures Alaska used in its attainment projection for Fairbanks.
- Plan projects attainment by 2027: benefit, medium. The Fairbanks Revised 189(d) Plan projects attainment of the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 standard by 2027; the EPA proposes to approve the 2027 projected attainment emissions inventory and the 2020 base year inventory. The State reports the 2027 projection yields a 41% reduction in total PM2.5 and a 5% redu…
- Partial BACT findings for local power plants: benefit, low. The EPA's prior and current actions include partial approval of Best Available Control Technology (BACT) and related PM2.5/NH3 determinations for specific Fairbanks-area power plants (e.g., Doyon‑Fort Wainwright Central Heating and Power Plant; University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus Power Plant; Zeh…
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## Sources
- [2024-30648 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/08/2024-30648/air-plan-approval-ak-fairbanks-north-star-borough-2006-24-hour-pm25-serious-area-and-189d-plan)
- [2024-30648 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-08/pdf/2024-30648.pdf)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-30648 (as of 2026-06-11).