Adequacy Status of the Spokane, WA Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request for Transportation Conformity Purposes, 4118-4119 [05-1632]

Download as PDF 4118 ACTION: Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 18 / Friday, January 28, 2005 / Notices Notice. SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to submit a proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is a request for a new collection. Before submitting the ICR to OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific aspects of the proposed information collection as described below. DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before March 29, 2005. ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing docket ID number OW– 2004–0038, to EPA online using EDocket (our preferred method), by email to ow-docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: Water Docket, 4101T, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Strassler, EPA Office of Water, telephone 202–566–1026, email strassler.eric@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EPA has established a public docket for this ICR under Docket ID number OW–2004– 0038, which is available for public viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Reading Room is 202–566–1744, and the telephone number for the Water Docket is 202–566–2422. An electronic version of the public docket is available through EPA Dockets (EDocket) at https:// www.epa.gov/edocket. Use EDocket to obtain a copy of the draft collection of information, submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the public docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are available electronically. Once in the system, select ‘‘Search,’’ then key in the docket ID number identified above. Any comments related to this ICR should be submitted to EPA within 60 days of this notice. EPA’s policy is that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, will be made available for public viewing in EDocket as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment contains copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI), or other information whose public disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA VerDate jul<14>2003 15:43 Jan 27, 2005 Jkt 205001 identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is placed in EDocket. The entire printed comment, including the copyrighted material, will be available in the public docket. Although identified as an item in the official docket, information claimed as CBI, or whose disclosure is otherwise restricted by statute, is not included in the official public docket, and will not be available for public viewing in EDocket. For further information about the electronic docket, see EPA’s Federal Register notice describing the electronic docket at 67 FR 38102 (May 31, 2002), or go to https://www.epa.gov/edocket. Affected entities: Entities potentially affected by this action are airport owners/operators. Title: Survey of Airport Deicing Operations (Airport Questionnaire) Abstract: EPA is developing wastewater discharge standards, called ‘‘effluent guidelines,’’ for airports pursuant to the Agency’s 2004 Effluent Guidelines Plan (69 FR 53719, September 2, 2004). The focus of the rulemaking is on wastewater discharges from aircraft and runway deicing operations. EPA will send survey questionnaires to a sample of airport owners/operators to help the Agency compile a national assessment of deicing operations. The survey will include questions on the deicing technologies employed, amount of deicing chemicals used, wastewater collection and treatment systems used, pollution prevention techniques, and economic and financial information. Completion of this one-time survey will be mandatory pursuant to sec. 308 of the Clean Water Act. (EPA is preparing a separate questionnaire for airlines. This questionnaire will be announced in a separate Federal Register notice.) An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB control numbers for EPA’s regulations in 40 CFR are listed in 40 CFR part 9. EPA would like to solicit comments to: (i) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 (iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (iv) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Burden Statement. The estimated burden for this survey is 30 hours per airport respondent. The total number of airport respondents is 157, producing an approximate total burden of 4,710 hours. Burden means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by persons to generate, maintain, retain, or disclose or provide information to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review instructions; develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and systems for the purposes of collecting, validating, and verifying information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and providing information; adjust the existing ways to comply with any previously applicable instructions and requirements; train personnel to be able to respond to a collection of information; search data sources; complete and review the collection of information; and transmit or otherwise disclose the information. Dated: January 13, 2005. Geoffrey H. Grubbs, Director, Office of Science and Technology. [FR Doc. 05–1625 Filed 1–27–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [Docket No. R10–OAR–2005–WA–001; FRL– 7864–9] Adequacy Status of the Spokane, WA Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request for Transportation Conformity Purposes Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of adequacy. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the motor vehicle emissions budget contained in the submitted Spokane Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request is adequate for transportation conformity purposes. On March 2, 1999, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that submitted State Implementation Plans (SIPs) cannot be used for conformity determinations E:\FR\FM\28JAN1.SGM 28JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 18 / Friday, January 28, 2005 / Notices until EPA has found them adequate. This affects future transportation conformity determinations prepared, reviewed and approved by the Spokane Regional Transportation Council, Washington State Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration. DATES: This finding is effective February 14, 2005. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The finding is available at EPA’s conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/ transp.htm, (once there, click on the ‘‘Transportation Conformity’’ button, then look for ‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP Submissions’’). You may also contact Wayne Elson, U.S. EPA, Region 10, Office of Air, Waste, and Toxics (AWT– 107), 1200 Sixth Ave, Seattle WA 98101; (206) 553–1463 or elson.wayne@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background Today’s notice is simply an announcement of a finding that we have already made. EPA Region 10 sent a letter to the Washington Department of Ecology January 13, 2005, stating that the SIP is adequate for transportation conformity purposes. Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. EPA’s conformity rule requires that transportation plans, programs, and projects conform to SIPs. Conformity to a SIP means that transportation activities will not produce new air quality violations, worsen existing violations, or delay timely attainment of the national ambient air quality standards. The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP is adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate from EPA’s completeness review and it also should not be used to prejudge our ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a SIP adequate for conformity, the SIP could later be disapproved. For the reader’s ease, the 2002 motor vehicle emission budget excerpted from the Maintenance Plan is 279 tons per winter time day of carbon monoxide. We have described our process for determining adequacy in SIPs in guidance dated May 14, 1999. This guidance is now reflected in the amended transportation conformity rule, July 1, 2004 (69 FR 40004). We followed this process in making our adequacy determination. Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. VerDate jul<14>2003 15:43 Jan 27, 2005 Jkt 205001 Dated: January 20, 2005. Julie M. Hagensen, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10. [FR Doc. 05–1632 Filed 1–27–05; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6560–50–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [ER–FRL–6659–9] Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability Responsible Agency: Office of Federal Activities, General Information (202) 564–7167 or https://www.epa.gov/ compliance/nepa/. 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EIS No. 050022, Draft EIS, AFS, WA, Methow Transmission Project, Construction of New Transmission Line or Reconstruction an Existing Line, Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, Methow Valley Ranger District, Okanogan County, WA, Comment Period Ends: March 15, 2005, Contact: Jan Flatten (509) 826–3277. EIS No. 050023, Final EIS, DOE, SC, Savannah River Site Construction and Operation of a Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility, NUREG– 1767, Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale Counties, SC, Wait Period Ends: February 28, 2005, Contact: Matthew Blevins (301) 415–7684. EIS No. 050024, Draft EIS, AFS, CO, Gold Camp Road Plan, Develop a Feasible Plan to Manage the Operation of Tunnel #3 and the 8.5 mile Road Segment, Pike National Forest, Pikes Peak Ranger District, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO, Comment Period Ends: March 29, 2005, Contact: Frank Landis (719) 477–4203. 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[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 18 (Friday, January 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4118-4119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1632]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[Docket No. R10-OAR-2005-WA-001; FRL-7864-9]


Adequacy Status of the Spokane, WA Carbon Monoxide Maintenance 
Plan and Redesignation Request for Transportation Conformity Purposes

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

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SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found 
that the motor vehicle emissions budget contained in the submitted 
Spokane Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan and Redesignation Request is 
adequate for transportation conformity purposes. On March 2, 1999, the 
D.C. Circuit Court ruled that submitted State Implementation Plans 
(SIPs) cannot be used for conformity determinations

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until EPA has found them adequate. This affects future transportation 
conformity determinations prepared, reviewed and approved by the 
Spokane Regional Transportation Council, Washington State Department of 
Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit 
Administration.

DATES: This finding is effective February 14, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The finding is available at EPA's 
conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp.htm, (once there, 
click on the ``Transportation Conformity'' button, then look for 
``Adequacy Review of SIP Submissions''). You may also contact Wayne 
Elson, U.S. EPA, Region 10, Office of Air, Waste, and Toxics (AWT-107), 
1200 Sixth Ave, Seattle WA 98101; (206) 553-1463 or 
elson.wayne@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Today's notice is simply an announcement of a finding that we have 
already made. EPA Region 10 sent a letter to the Washington Department 
of Ecology January 13, 2005, stating that the SIP is adequate for 
transportation conformity purposes.
    Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the 
Clean Air Act. EPA's conformity rule requires that transportation 
plans, programs, and projects conform to SIPs. Conformity to a SIP 
means that transportation activities will not produce new air quality 
violations, worsen existing violations, or delay timely attainment of 
the national ambient air quality standards.
    The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP is adequate for 
conformity purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note 
that an adequacy review is separate from EPA's completeness review and 
it also should not be used to prejudge our ultimate approval of the 
SIP. Even if we find a SIP adequate for conformity, the SIP could later 
be disapproved. For the reader's ease, the 2002 motor vehicle emission 
budget excerpted from the Maintenance Plan is 279 tons per winter time 
day of carbon monoxide.
    We have described our process for determining adequacy in SIPs in 
guidance dated May 14, 1999. This guidance is now reflected in the 
amended transportation conformity rule, July 1, 2004 (69 FR 40004). We 
followed this process in making our adequacy determination.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.

    Dated: January 20, 2005.
Julie M. Hagensen,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
[FR Doc. 05-1632 Filed 1-27-05; 8:45 am]
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