Adequacy Determination for the Salt Lake City Area Carbon Monoxide Maintenance State Implementation Plan for Transportation Conformity Purposes; State of Utah, 30946 [05-10770]

Download as PDF 30946 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 103 / Tuesday, May 31, 2005 / Notices ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [R08–OAR–2005–UT–0004; FRL 7918–9] Adequacy Determination for the Salt Lake City Area Carbon Monoxide Maintenance State Implementation Plan for Transportation Conformity Purposes; State of Utah Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of adequacy. AGENCY: SUMMARY: In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the motor vehicle emissions budget for 2019 in the Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan, that was submitted by Utah Governor Olene S. Walker on October 19, 2004, is adequate for transportation conformity purposes. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(2) requires that EPA declare an implenatation plan submission’s motor vehicle emissions budget adequate for conformity purposes prior to the budget being used to satisfy the conformity requirements of 40 CFR 93. As a result of our finding, the Wasatch Front Regional Council of Government, the Utah Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation are required to use the motor vehicle emissions budget from this submitted maintenance plan for future transportation conformity determinations. DATES: This finding is effective June 15, 2005. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Kimes, Air & Radiation Program (8P–AR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202–2466, (303) 312–6445, kimes.jeffrey@epa.gov. The letter documenting our finding is available at EPA’s conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/transp/conform/ adequacy.htm. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ‘‘we’’, ‘‘us’’, or ‘‘our’’ are used to mean EPA. This action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have already made. We sent a letter to the Utah Division of Air Quality on May 2, 2005, stating that the motor vehicle emissions budgets in the submitted Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan are adequate. This finding has also been announced on our conformity Web site at https:// www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/ adequacy.htm. Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. Out conformity rule requires that VerDate jul<14>2003 16:14 May 27, 2005 Jkt 205001 transportation plans, programs, and projects conform to SIPs and establishes the criteria and procedures for determining whether or not they demonstrate conformity. 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’s motor vehicle emission budgets are adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate from our completeness review, and it also should not be used to prejudge our ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved, and vice versa. The process for determining the adequacy of a transportation conformity budget is described at 40 CFR 93.118(f). For the reader’s ease, we have excerpted the motor vehicle emission budget from the Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan it is as follows: Motor vehicle emissions budget for the year 2019 is 278.62 tons per day of CO. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(1) requires that previously approved budget for years other than 2019 must still be used in any conformity determination until the maintenance plan is fully approved by EPA. Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. Dated: May 10, 2005. 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In accordance with the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and its implementing Federal PCB regulations (40 CFR Part 761), the U.S. Navy has applied for and must obtain a risk-based PCB disposal approval prior to sinking the vessel with non-liquid PCBs onboard. The EPA may approve such an application if it finds the disposal action will not pose an unreasonable risk of injury to human health or the environment. To evaluate the potential transfer of non-liquid PCBs to the marine environment and the subsequent risk that they might pose to human and ecological receptors using the artificial reef, the Navy performed leaching studies of different on-board PCB containing materials followed by fate and transport modeling of the leaching results to evaluate how released chemicals might behave in the near-reef marine environment. The U.S. Navy has also developed a fate and transport model known as the Prospective Risk Assessment Model (PRAM). EPA Region 4 has requested that the SAB conduct a consultation followed by an advisory on the U.S. Navy’s assessment of potential human health and environmental risks from PCBs released from the ex-Oriskany following deployment as an artificial reef. The focus of the SAB consultation and advisory includes the leaching studies, the PRAM, and characterization of potential risks. The SAB was established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide independent scientific FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E:\FR\FM\31MYN1.SGM 31MYN1

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[R08-OAR-2005-UT-0004; FRL 7918-9]


Adequacy Determination for the Salt Lake City Area Carbon 
Monoxide Maintenance State Implementation Plan for Transportation 
Conformity Purposes; State of Utah

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

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SUMMARY: In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have 
found that the motor vehicle emissions budget for 2019 in the Salt Lake 
City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan, that was submitted by Utah 
Governor Olene S. Walker on October 19, 2004, is adequate for 
transportation conformity purposes. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(2) requires that 
EPA declare an implenatation plan submission's motor vehicle emissions 
budget adequate for conformity purposes prior to the budget being used 
to satisfy the conformity requirements of 40 CFR 93. As a result of our 
finding, the Wasatch Front Regional Council of Government, the Utah 
Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation 
are required to use the motor vehicle emissions budget from this 
submitted maintenance plan for future transportation conformity 
determinations.

DATES: This finding is effective June 15, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Kimes, Air & Radiation Program 
(8P-AR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999 
18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6445, 
kimes.jeffrey@epa.gov.
    The letter documenting our finding is available at EPA's conformity 
Web site: https://www.epa.gov/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we'', ``us'', or 
``our'' are used to mean EPA.
    This action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have 
already made. We sent a letter to the Utah Division of Air Quality on 
May 2, 2005, stating that the motor vehicle emissions budgets in the 
submitted Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan are 
adequate. This finding has also been announced on our conformity Web 
site at https://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
    Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the 
Clean Air Act. Out conformity rule requires that transportation plans, 
programs, and projects conform to SIPs and establishes the criteria and 
procedures for determining whether or not they demonstrate conformity. 
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's motor vehicle 
emission budgets are adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in 
40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate 
from our completeness review, and it also should not be used to 
prejudge our ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget 
adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved, and vice versa.
    The process for determining the adequacy of a transportation 
conformity budget is described at 40 CFR 93.118(f).
    For the reader's ease, we have excerpted the motor vehicle emission 
budget from the Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan 
it is as follows: Motor vehicle emissions budget for the year 2019 is 
278.62 tons per day of CO. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(1) requires that previously 
approved budget for years other than 2019 must still be used in any 
conformity determination until the maintenance plan is fully approved 
by EPA.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

    Dated: May 10, 2005.
Robert E. Roberts,
Regional Administrator, Region 8.
[FR Doc. 05-10770 Filed 5-27-05; 8:45 am]
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