Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan, Conformity Budgets, Emissions Inventories; State of New Jersey, 26895-26910 [06-4287]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[Docket No. EPA–R02–OAR–2006–0342;
FRL–8167–8]
Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; Carbon
Monoxide Maintenance Plan,
Conformity Budgets, Emissions
Inventories; State of New Jersey
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision submitted by the State of New
Jersey. This revision will establish an
updated ten-year carbon monoxide (CO)
maintenance plan for the Nine NotClassified Areas in the State (the City of
Atlantic City, the City of Burlington, the
Borough of Freehold, the Town of
Morristown, the Borough of Penns
Grove, the City of Perth Amboy, the
Borough of Somerville, the Toms River
Area, and the City of Trenton) and
Camden County. In addition, this
document proposes to approve revisions
to the CO, NOX, VOC, and PM2.5 motor
vehicle emissions budgets for Northern
New Jersey. Finally, this document also
proposes to approve revisions to the
general conformity budget for McGuire
Air Force Base and the 2002 base year
emissions inventory.
The Nine Not Classified Areas and
Camden County were redesignated to
attainment of the CO National Ambient
Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) on
February 5, 1996 and maintenance plans
were also approved at that time. By this
action, EPA is proposing to approve the
New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection’s (New Jersey)
second maintenance plans for these
areas because they provide for
continued attainment for an additional
ten years of the CO NAAQS.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before June 8, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R02–
OAR–2006–0342, by one of the
following methods:
• https://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: Werner.Raymond@epa.gov.
• Fax: 212–637–3901.
• Mail: Raymond Werner, Chief, Air
Programs Branch, Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, 290
Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New
York 10007–1866.
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• Hand Delivery: Raymond Werner,
Chief, Air Programs Branch,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, 25th
Floor, New York, New York 10007–
1866. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Regional Office’s normal
hours of operation. The Regional
Office’s official hours of business are
Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30
excluding Federal holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA–R02–OAR–2006–
0342. EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Henry Feingersh
feingersh.henry@epa.gov for general
questions, Raymond Forde
forde.raymond@epa.gov for emissions
inventory questions, or Matthew Laurita
laurita.matthew@epa.gov for mobile
source related questions at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Air
Programs Branch, 290 Broadway, 25th
Floor, New York, NY 10007–1866,
telephone number (212) 637–4249, fax
number (212) 637–3901.
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Copies of the State submittals are
available at the following addresses for
inspection during normal business
hours:
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region II Office, Air Programs Branch,
290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York,
New York 10007–1866.
New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, Office of
Energy, Bureau of Air Quality Planning,
401 East State Street, CN027, Trenton,
New Jersey 08625.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
action is being proposed under a
procedure called parallel processing.
Under parallel processing, EPA
proposes action on a state submission
before it has been formally adopted and
submitted to EPA, and then EPA will
take final action on its proposal if: (1)
The state’s final submission is
substantially unchanged from the
submission on which this proposal is
based, or (2) if significant changes in the
state’s final submission are anticipated
and adequately described in EPA’s
proposal as a basis for EPA’s proposed
action.
EPA views the SIP revisions proposed
in today’s proposal as separable actions.
This means that if EPA receives adverse
comments on particular portions of this
notice and not on other portions, EPA
may choose not to take final action at
the same time in a single notice on all
of these SIP revisions. Instead, EPA may
choose to take final action on these SIP
revisions in separate notices.
For detailed information on New
Jersey’s SIP revisions see the Technical
Support Document, prepared in support
of today’s proposed action. A copy of
the TSD is available upon request from
the EPA Regional Office listed in the
ADDRESSES section or it can be viewed
at https://www.regulations.gov.
The following table of contents
describes the format for this section:
I. What Is the Nature of EPA’s Action?
II. CO Limited Maintenance Plan for Camden
County and Nine Not-Classified Areas
A. What Is a Limited Maintenance Plan?
B. What Is included in a Maintenance
Plan?
1. Attainment Inventory
2. Maintenance Demonstration
3. Monitoring Network
4. Verification of Continued Attainment
5. Contingency Plan
a. Control Measures
b. Contingency Measures
6. Conformity
III. Revisions To the CO Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets for Northern New
Jersey
A. Are these budgets approvable?
IV. Revisions To the NOX and VOC Motor
Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern
New Jersey
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A. Are the Revised Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets Consistent With New
Jersey’s 1-Hour Ozone Attainment
Demonstration?
B. Are these budgets approvable?
V. PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
for Northern New Jersey
A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
VI. Revisions to the General Conformity
Budget for McGuire Air Force Base
A. Are these budgets approvable?
VII. New Jersey Emissions Inventory
A. 2002 Base Year Inventory
B. 2009 Projection Year Inventory
VIII. Conclusions
IX. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
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I. What Is the Nature of EPA’s Action?
EPA is proposing to approve an
updated ten-year CO maintenance plan
for the Nine Not-Classified Areas (the
City of Atlantic City, the City of
Burlington, the Borough of Freehold, the
Town of Morristown, the Borough of
Penns Grove, the City of Perth Amboy,
the Borough of Somerville, the Toms
River Area, and the City of Trenton) and
Camden County in New Jersey. On June
28, 1996, the EPA approved a request
from New Jersey to redesignate the Nine
Not-Classified Areas and Camden
County to attainment of the CO NAAQS
(61 FR 33678). In addition, the EPA also
approved at that time a ten-year CO
maintenance plan for each of those
areas. The Clean Air Act (the Act)
requires that an area redesignated to
attainment of the CO NAAQS must
submit a second ten-year CO
maintenance Plan to show how the area
will continue to attain the CO standard
for an additional ten years. On February
21, 2006, New Jersey submitted a
second ten-year CO maintenance plan
for the Nine Not-Classified Areas and
Camden County and requested that EPA
approve the plan. The following
sections describe how the EPA made its
determination proposing to approve the
second ten-year maintenance plan. EPA
is also proposing to approve revisions to
the CO, NOX, VOC, and PM2.5 motor
vehicle emissions budgets for Northern
New Jersey. Finally, EPA also proposes
to approve revisions to the general
conformity budget for McGuire Air
Force Base and the 2002 base year
emissions inventory. These additional
SIP revisions are discussed in sections
III through VII.
II. CO Limited Maintenance Plan for
Camden County and Nine NotClassified Areas
A. What is a Limited Maintenance Plan?
A maintenance plan is a SIP revision
that must demonstrate continued
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attainment of the applicable NAAQS in
the maintenance area for at least ten
years. The Act requires that a second
ten-year plan be submitted in order to
assure that the area will continue to stay
in compliance with the relevant
NAAQS. For the Nine Not Classified
Areas and Camden County, New Jersey
is proposing to utilize EPA’s limited
maintenance plan approach, as detailed
in the EPA guidance memorandum,
‘‘Limited Maintenance Plan Option for
Nonclassifiable CO Nonattainment
Areas’’ from Joseph Paisie, Group
Leader, Integrated Policy and Strategies
Group, Office of Air Quality and
Planning Standards OAQPS, dated
October 6, 1995. Pursuant to this
approach, EPA will consider the
maintenance demonstration satisfied for
‘‘not classified’’ areas if the monitoring
data show the design value is at or
below 7.65 parts per million (ppm), or
85 percent of the level of the 8-hour CO
NAAQS. The design value must be
based on eight consecutive quarters of
data. For such areas, there is no
requirement to project emissions of air
quality over the maintenance period.
EPA believes if the area begins the
maintenance period at, or below, 85
percent of the CO 8 hour NAAQS, the
applicability of PSD requirements, the
control measures already in the SIP, and
Federal measures, should provide
adequate assurance of maintenance over
the initial 10-year maintenance period.
In addition, the design value for the area
must continue to be at or below 7.65
ppm until the time of final EPA action
on the redesignation.
B. What Is Included in a Maintenance
Plan?
Section 175A of the Act sets forth the
elements of a maintenance plan for
areas seeking redesignation from
nonattainment to attainment. The initial
and subsequent ten-year plans must
each demonstrate continued attainment
of the applicable NAAQS for at least ten
years after approval. In this notice, EPA
is proposing action on the second tenyear maintenance plan which covers the
period from 2008 to 2017. The specific
elements of a maintenance plan are:
1. Attainment Inventory
Since New Jersey’s first ten-year
maintenance plan contained an
attainment inventory, this second tenyear maintenance plan did not need to
include another one. However, given the
amount of time that has passed since
that submittal, New Jersey thought it
more appropriate to submit a 2002
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inventory which is discussed later in
this notice. Since this was a Limited
Maintenance Plan submittal, no
projected inventories were required.
EPA’s October 6, 1995 Limited
Maintenance Plan guidance states that
for inventory purposes the State is only
required to submit an attainment
inventory to EPA that is based on
monitoring data which shows
attainment. There is no requirement to
project emissions over the maintenance
period. This means if 2002 is a calendar
year which has monitoring data which
demonstrates attainment of the
standard, the 2002 base year inventory
can be used as the attainment year
inventory and no projection inventories
are required over the years of the
maintenance period. Only calendar year
2002 summary emissions data (based on
winter season day) are required. In
addition, the inventory should be
consistent with EPA’s most recent
guidance on emission inventories for
nonattainment areas available at the
time and should include emissions
during the time period associated with
the monitoring data showing
attainment.
New Jersey submitted a limited
maintenance plan which included a
2002 base year emissions inventory. The
2002 inventory is also classified as the
attainment year inventory for the
limited maintenance plan. New Jersey
has elected 2002 because it is the
attainment year base year that will be
used for the limited maintenance plan
and 2002 represents one of the years of
violation free monitored data in the
area. The inventory included peak
winter season daily emissions from
stationary point, stationary area, nonroad mobile, and on-road mobile
sources of CO. These emission estimates
were prepared in accordance with EPA
guidance.
EPA is approving the CO inventory
for the counties of Atlantic, Burlington,
Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris,
Ocean, Salem and Somerset (the 9 nonclassified areas) and Camden County.
Details of the inventory review are
located in section VII.A. of this notice.
A more detailed discussion of how the
emission inventory was reviewed and
the results are presented in the technical
support document.
Tables 1 and 2 present a summary of
the 2002 CO peak winter season daily
emissions estimates in tons per day for
the nine not classified areas and
Camden County:
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TABLE 1.—2002 ATTAINMENT INVENTORY NINE NOT CLASSIFIED AREAS CARBON MONOXIDE EMISSION INVENTORY
[Tons/peak winter season day]
County
Point
Nonroad
mobile
Area
Onroad mobile
Total
Atlantic .................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
0.48
1.42
1.46
8.27
0.72
1.23
1.11
2.21
1.17
62.98
59.62
14.32
6.34
30.42
46.59
47.69
13.72
11.65
21.57
54.00
43.01
107.85
78.43
97.30
40.31
6.97
47.55
153.15
308.90
224.90
531.04
423.04
393.14
257.31
50.24
211.93
238.18
423.94
283.69
653.50
532.61
538.26
346.42
73.14
272.30
Nine Not Classified Areas Total ...................................
18.07
293.33
496.99
2,553.65
3,362.04
TABLE 2.—2002 ATTAINMENT INVENTORY CAMDEN COUNTY CARBON MONOXIDE EMISSION INVENTORY
[Tons/peak winter season day]
County
Point
Camden ...........................................................................................................
3.30
2. Maintenance Demonstration
New Jersey has met the Limited
Maintenance Plan air quality criteria
requirement by demonstrating that its
highest monitored design value is less
than 85 percent (7.65 parts per million)
of the CO standard of 9.0 parts per
million. The highest monitored design
value for the 2002–2003 design year was
4.4 parts per million. In addition, New
Jersey commits to continued
implementation of all other federal and
State measures already implemented as
part of its CO SIP. Thus, according to
the Limited Maintenance Guidance,
emission projections are not required.
3. Monitoring Network
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New Jersey continues to operate its
CO monitoring network and will
continue to work with the USEPA
through the air monitoring network
review process as required by 40 CFR
part 58 to determine the adequacy of its
network. New Jersey will continue
annual reviews of its data in order to
verify continued attainment of the
NAAQS. As mentioned earlier, all of
New Jersey’s 8-hour design values are
well below the 9.0 ppm 8-hour NAAQS
for CO with the highest monitor reading
4.4 ppm. This can be seen in Table 3.
TABLE 3.—DESIGN VALUES FOR CO IN
NEW JERSEY
[8-hour standard—9 parts per million]
2002–2003
design value
(parts per million)
Monitoring location
Ancora S.H. ....................
Burlington ........................
Camden Lab 1 .................
East Orange ...................
Elizabeth .........................
Elizabeth Lab ..................
Fort Lee 2 ........................
Freehold ..........................
Hackensack ....................
Jersey City ......................
Morristown ......................
Newark Lab 3 ..................
Perth Amboy ...................
0.8
2.5
2.1
4.2
4.4
3.1
2.6
2.2
3.4
2.9
2.4
2.9
2.5
Notes:
1 Data
not available October–December
2003.
2 Data not available July–August 2002.
3 Data not available July–December 2003.
In its SIP revision, New Jersey used
the 2002–2003 design values since they
coincide with the 2002 emissions
inventory. EPA reviewed more recent
data in addition to the 2002–2003 data
and found the maximum 2004–2005
design value for New Jersey to be 3.4
ppm, which continues to show
attainment of the NAAQS.
4. Verification of Continued Attainment
New Jersey will verify that the Nine
Not-Classified Areas and Camden
County areas continue to attain the CO
NAAQS through an annual review of its
monitoring data. If any design value
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Nonroad
mobile
Area
18.42
53.39
Onroad mobile
269.10
exceeds 7.65 ppm, New Jersey will
coordinate with USEPA Region II to
verify and evaluate the data and then, if
warranted, develop a full maintenance
plan for the affected maintenance area.
5. Contingency Plan
Section 175A(d) of the Act requires
that a maintenance plan include a
contingency plan which includes
contingency measures, as necessary, to
promptly correct any violation of the
NAAQS that occurs after redesignation
of the area. Contingency measures do
not have to be fully adopted at the time
of redesignation. However, the
contingency plan is considered to be an
enforceable part of the SIP and should
ensure that the contingency measures
are adopted expeditiously once they are
triggered by a specified event. In
addition, the contingency plan includes
a requirement that the State continue to
implement all control measures used to
bring the area into attainment.
The triggers specified in New Jersey’s
previous maintenance plan are included
in this Limited Maintenance Plan. If air
quality monitoring data indicate that the
CO NAAQS were exceeded, New Jersey
will analyze the data to determine the
cause of the violation. If it is determined
that the violation was caused by a nonlocal motor vehicle usage event, then
the State will institute the contingency
measures described below.
a. Control Measures
New Jersey has implemented a
number of measures to control motor
vehicle CO emissions. Emission
reductions achieved through the
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implementation of these control
measures are enforceable. These
measures include the Federal Motor
Vehicle Control Program, Federal
reformulated gasoline, New Jersey’s pre1990 modifications to its inspection and
maintenance (I/M) program, and local
transportation control measures.
The State of New Jersey has
demonstrated that actual enforceable
emission reductions are responsible for
the air quality improvement and that the
CO emissions in the base year are not
artificially low due to local economic
downturn. EPA finds that the
combination of existing EPA-approved
SIP and Federal measures contribute to
the permanence and enforceability of
reduction in ambient CO levels that
have allowed Camden County to attain
the NAAQS since 1990 and the nine
not-classified areas to attain since 1986.
New Jersey commits to continuing to
implement all control measures used to
bring the area into attainment.
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b. Contingency Measure
The State plans to continue to use the
contingency measure from the original
maintenance plan. The plan included
implementation of an enhanced I/M
program. This program is fully
operational and the State commits to
meet the performance standard for an
enhanced I/M program in an effort to
maintain the CO NAAQS. Although the
plan is currently in place, EPA guidance
allows for it to act as a contingency
measure. In addition, since we had
approved this measure in the previous
maintenance plan, we are proposing to
approve it in this notice.
6. Conformity
Section 176(c) of the Act defines
conformity as meeting the SIP’s purpose
of eliminating or reducing the severity
and number of violations of the NAAQS
and achieving expeditious attainment of
such standards. The Act further defines
transportation conformity to mean that
no Federal transportation activity will:
(1) Cause or contribute to any new
violation of any standard in any area; (2)
increase the frequency or severity of any
existing violation of any standard in any
area; or (3) delay timely attainment of
any standard or any required interim
emission reductions or other milestones
in any area. The Federal transportation
conformity rule, 40 CFR part 93 subpart
A, sets forth the criteria and procedures
for demonstrating and assuring
conformity of transportation plans,
programs and projects which are
developed, funded or approved by the
U.S. Department of Transportation, and
by metropolitan planning organizations
or other recipients of federal funds
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under Title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal
Transit Laws (49 U.S.C. chapter 53).
The transportation conformity rule
applies within all nonattainment and
maintenance areas. As prescribed by the
Rule, once an area has an applicable SIP
with motor vehicle emissions budgets,
the expected emissions from planned
transportation activities must be
consistent with (‘‘conform to’’) such
established budgets for that area.
In the case of the Nine Not Classified
Areas and Camden County CO limited
maintenance plan areas, however, the
emissions budgets may be treated as
essentially not constraining for the
length of this second maintenance
period as long as the area continues to
meet the limited maintenance criteria,
because there is no reason to expect that
these areas will experience so much
growth in that period that a violation of
the CO NAAQS would result. In other
words, emissions from on-road
transportation sources need not be
capped for the maintenance period
because it is unreasonable to believe
that emissions from such sources would
increase to a level that would threaten
the air quality in this area for the
duration of this maintenance period.
Therefore, for the limited maintenance
plan CO maintenance area, all Federal
actions that require conformity
determinations under the transportation
conformity rule are considered to satisfy
the regional emissions analysis and
‘‘budget test’’ requirements in 40 CFR
93.118 of the rule.
Since limited maintenance plan areas
are still maintenance areas, however,
transportation conformity
determinations are still required for
transportation plans, programs and
projects. Specifically, for such
determinations, transportation plans,
transportation improvement programs,
and projects must still demonstrate that
they are fiscally constrained (40 CFR
part 108) and must meet the criteria for
consultation and Transportation Control
Measure (TCM) implementation in the
conformity rule (40 CFR 93.112 and 40
CFR 93.113, respectively). In addition,
projects in limited maintenance areas
will still be required to meet the criteria
for CO hot spot analyses to satisfy
‘‘project level’’ conformity
determinations (40 CFR 93.116 and 40
CFR 93.123) which must incorporate the
latest planning assumptions and models
that are available. All aspects of
transportation conformity (with the
exception of satisfying the emission
budget test) will still be required.
Approval of the limited maintenance
plan will not supersede the current 2007
motor vehicle emissions budget.
Conformity determinations conducted
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prior to the end of 2007 would still have
to include a budget test for 2007.
If one of the CO attainment areas
should monitor CO concentrations at or
above the limited maintenance
eligibility criteria or 7.65 parts per
million then that maintenance area
would no longer qualify for a limited
maintenance plan and would revert to a
full maintenance plan. In this event, the
limited maintenance plan would remain
applicable for conformity purposes only
until the full maintenance plan is
submitted and EPA has found its motor
vehicle emissions budget adequate for
conformity purposes or EPA approves
the full maintenance plan SIP revision.
At that time regional emissions analyses
would resume as a transportation
conformity criteria.
III. Revisions to the CO Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets for Northern New
Jersey
A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
The proposed maintenance plan
revises the motor vehicle emissions
budgets (budgets) for CO for the New
Jersey portion of the New York-Northern
New Jersey-Long Island, NY–NJ–CT CO
maintenance area for the years 2007 and
2014, previously approved by EPA in
the August 30, 2004 Federal Register
(69 FR 52834). These revised budgets
include an allocation of a portion of a
‘‘safety margin’’ established in the CO
maintenance plan.
A ‘‘safety margin’’ is the difference
between the attainment level of
emissions (from all sources) and the
projected level of emissions (from all
sources) in the maintenance plan. The
attainment level of emissions is the
level of emissions during one of the
years in which the area met the air
quality health standard. For example,
1996 is the base year of Northern New
Jersey’s first ten-year maintenance plan,
and the safety margin is calculated
using the differences between 1996 and
future year total emissions.
The total emissions in 1996 from
mobile, stationary and area sources
equaled 1365.31 tons per day of CO.
New Jersey projected the CO emissions
in Northern New Jersey from all sources
for the years 2007 and 2014 to be 997.71
tons per day and 1071.93 tons per day,
respectively. The CO safety margin for
Northern New Jersey in 2007 and 2014
is calculated to be the difference
between the total emissions in 1996 and
the total emissions for each of the
projected years, 367.60 tons per day for
2007 and 293.38 tons per day for 2014.
The 2007 and 2014 CO emission
projections reflecting the total of point,
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area and mobile source reductions are
illustrated in Table 4.
TABLE 4.—CO EMISSIONS AND SAFETY MARGIN DETERMINATIONS, NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
[Tons/day]
CO emissions
Source category
1996
Total .............................................................................................................................................
Safety Margin ...............................................................................................................................
In the submittal the State requested to
allocate the entire safety margin to both
the 2007 and 2014 budgets. This
approach provides the transportation
sector with an adequate budget increase
for the two future scenario years to
account for changes in transportationrelated emissions due to updated
planning assumptions, while still
meeting the requirements of the
2007
1365.31
N/A
997.71
367.60
2014
1071.93
293.38
maintenance plan. The CO motor
vehicle emissions budgets that include
the safety margin allocations are
outlined below in Table 5.
TABLE 5.—CARBON MONOXIDE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS
[Tons/day]
Prior motor
vehicle emissions budgets
Year
2007 .............................................................................................................................................
2014 .............................................................................................................................................
The planned allowable levels of CO
emissions are projected to maintain the
area’s air quality consistent with the air
quality health standard. The safety
margin credit can be allocated to the
transportation sector while maintaining
air quality attainment. The total
emission level, even with this
allocation, will be below the attainment
level, or safety level, and thus is
acceptable.
These revised CO budgets are
consistent with the State’s emission
baseline, projected inventories for
highway mobile sources and use of a
margin of safety. EPA is proposing to
approve the 2007 and 2014 budgets for
CO.
IV. Revisions to the NOX and VOC
Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for
Northern New Jersey
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A. Are the Revised Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets Consistent With New
Jersey’s 1-Hour Ozone Attainment
Demonstration?
New Jersey is proposing to revise the
2005 and 2007 VOC and NOX motor
vehicle emissions budgets (budgets) for
the Northern New Jersey nonattainment
area by setting new budgets based on
updated planning assumptions. These
updated budgets apply to the North
Jersey Transportation Planning
Authority. In its proposal, New Jersey
included a relative reduction
comparison to show that its 1-Hour
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continues to demonstrate attainment
using revised inventories for the
Northern New Jersey nonattainment
area. New Jersey’s attainment
demonstration used photochemical grid
modeling supplemented with weight of
evidence. As such, the State’s
methodology for the relative reduction
comparison consists of comparing the
updated on-road mobile inventories
with the previously approved (67 FR
5152) inventories for the Northern New
Jersey nonattainment area to determine
if attainment will still be predicted by
the established attainment dates.
Specifically, the State calculated the
relative reductions (expressed as
percent reductions) in ozone precursors
between the previous 1996 base year
and attainment year inventories. These
percent reductions were then compared
to the percent reductions between the
revised 1996 base year and attainment
year inventories.
New Jersey’s relative reduction
comparison shows that for the Northern
New Jersey nonattainment area the
percent reduction of VOC emissions
achieved in the revised inventories is
higher than the percent reduction
previously calculated, however the
percent reduction of NOX emissions
achieved in the revised inventories is
lower than the percent reduction
previously calculated, and thus a slight
NOX shortfall is indicated. New Jersey
has previously demonstrated in its Rate
of Progress SIP, approved by EPA on
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allocation
Final motor
vehicle emissions budgets
783.39
605.63
367.60
293.38
1150
899
February 4, 2002 (67 FR 5152), that VOC
or NOX emission reductions are equally
valuable towards attaining the 1-hour
ozone standard. Therefore, New Jersey
substituted excess VOC emission
reductions for NOX emission reductions,
as allowed for under Section
182(c)(2)(C) of the Clean Air Act. To
make such an equivalency
demonstration, the State converted the
percentage changes for VOC and NOX to
+14.01 and ¥6.09 tons per day,
respectively. Based on the emission
inventories, New Jersey has determined
for the Northern New Jersey
nonattainment area that approximately
1.29 tons of VOC emissions equals 1 ton
of NOX emissions, as the emissions
relate to their potential to form ozone.
Consistent with EPA’s policy on
substitution of ozone precursor
emission reductions, New Jersey
increased the NOX reductions and
decreased VOC reductions by their
equivalent amounts, resulting in
offsetting effects with respect to ozone
formation. Thus, the required emission
reductions needed to attain the 1-hour
ozone NAAQS are achieved for the
Northern New Jersey nonattainment
area, and the SIP continues to
demonstrate attainment.
New Jersey’s proposed SIP revision
demonstrates that the new levels of
motor vehicle emissions calculated
using updated planning assumptions
continue to support achievement of the
projected attainment of the 1-Hour
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Ozone NAAQS by the attainment date of
2007 for the Northern New Jersey
nonattainment area.
B. Are These Budgets Approvable?
Table 6 below summarizes New
Jersey’s revised budgets contained in the
proposed SIP revision. These budgets
were developed using the latest
planning assumptions, including 2005
vehicle registration data, vehicle miles
traveled (VMT), speeds, fleet mix, and
SIP control measures and are for the
North Jersey Transportation Planning
Authority. The 2005 budgets are revised
budgets based on the Reasonable
Further Progress plan and the 2007
budgets are revised attainment year
budgets. The increase in the NOX budget
is attributed to the updated planning
assumptions and does not necessarily
indicate an actual increase in emissions.
As described above, New Jersey, in its
proposal, has demonstrated that
attainment is not impacted by this
revision.
TABLE 6.—REVISED MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS FOR THE NORTH JERSEY TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
AUTHORITY
[Tons/day]
VOC
2005
Previous ...........................................................................................................
Updated ...........................................................................................................
EPA is proposing to approve the
revisions to the 2005 and 2007 budgets
for VOC and NOX for the North Jersey
Transportation Planning Authority.
V. PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emissions
Budgets for Northern New Jersey
A. Are these budgets approvable?
The proposed early progress PM2.5 SIP
establishes motor vehicle emission
budgets for 2009 for the New Jersey
portion of the New York-Northern New
Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5
nonattainment area. The NY-NJ-CT
PM2.5 nonattainment area and the
Northern New Jersey portion thereof is
violating the annual PM2.5 standard, and
therefore these budgets are being
established for annual emissions of
direct PM2.5 and NOX, a PM2.5 precursor.
Northern New Jersey and the larger
nonattainment area are not violating and
are significantly below the 24-hour
PM2.5 standard, and EPA believes that
the State has deemed that by attaining
the annual standard they will continue
to meet the 24-hour standard. Therefore,
New Jersey did not address or establish
budgets for the 24-hour PM2.5 standard
in this SIP revision. These budgets are
established for annual emissions of
148.27
146.33
direct PM2.5 and NOX, a PM2.5 precursor.
Other PM2.5 precursors (VOC, SOX, and
NH3) were not found to be significant by
either New Jersey or EPA prior to this
submittal and were not included in the
motor vehicle emissions budgets.
Additionally, fugitive dust emissions,
which include re-entrained road dust
and transportation-related construction
dust, were not found to be significant by
either New Jersey or EPA and were not
included in the budgets. However,
approval of these budgets does not
preclude New Jersey or EPA from
finding any of the above precursors or
fugitive dust to be significant
contributors to nonattainment of the
PM2.5 standard in the future. New Jersey
may choose to include any or all
precursors and fugitive dust in future
SIP submittals.
EPA allows for the establishment of
motor vehicle emission budgets for
PM2.5 prior to the state submitting its
first required PM2.5 SIP (69 FR 40028).
These budgets are set through the
establishment of an early SIP that meets
all the requirements of a SIP submittal,
and in which emissions from all
sources, when projected from the base
to a future year, show some progress
NOX
2007
2005
125.82
122.53
253.05
327.83
2007
198.34
256.58
toward attainment. EPA has interpreted
the phrase ‘‘some progress toward
attainment’’ to mean a 5% to 10%
reduction in emissions from all sources
(69 FR 40019). For this SIP submittal
emissions were projected from the 2002
base year to 2009, the attainment year.
Submittal of this early progress SIP
does not satisfy the requirement to
submit a full PM2.5 attainment SIP. New
Jersey may revise the 2009 budgets in
the PM2.5 attainment SIP with
appropriate supporting documentation.
The total annual emissions in 2002
from mobile, stationary and area sources
for Northern New Jersey equaled 13,952
tons per year of direct PM2.5 and
236,251 tons per year of NOX. New
Jersey projected the PM2.5 and NOX
emissions from all sources for 2009 to
be 13,049 tons per year of direct PM2.5
and 159,990 tons per year of NOX. This
represents a 6.5% reduction in direct
PM2.5 and a 32.3% reduction in NOX
emissions from 2002 to 2009, thereby
meeting EPA’s 5% to 10% minimum
reduction guideline. The 2002 and 2009
emission projections reflecting the
point, area and mobile source
reductions are illustrated in Tables 7
and 8.
TABLE 7.—DIRECT PM2.5 EMISSIONS, NJ PORTION OF THE NY-NJ-CT NONATTAINMENT AREA
[Tons/year]
Direct PM2.5 emissions
Source category
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2002
2009
Percent
change
On-Road ......................................................................................................................................
Nonroad .......................................................................................................................................
Stationary .....................................................................................................................................
Area .............................................................................................................................................
2,220
3,206
2,790
5,736
1,296
2,788
3,035
5,930
¥42
¥13
9
3
Total ......................................................................................................................................
13,952
13,049
¥6.5
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TABLE 8.—NOX EMISSIONS, NJ PORTION OF THE NY-NJ-CT NONATTAINMENT AREA
[Tons/year]
NOX emissions
Source category
2002
2009
Percent
change
On-Road ......................................................................................................................................
Nonroad .......................................................................................................................................
Stationary .....................................................................................................................................
Area .............................................................................................................................................
137,701
45,957
34,420
18,173
66,004
37,694
36,804
19,488
¥52
¥18
7
7
Total ......................................................................................................................................
236,251
159,990
¥32.3
A detailed review of the 2002 PM2.5
and NOX annual emission inventories
are covered in section VII. A. of this
notice. Tables 11 and 12 present a
summary of 2002 PM2.5 and NOX annual
emission estimates by source sector and
by county for the New Jersey portion of
the New York-Northern New JerseyLong Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5
nonattainment area.
In the submittal, the State has
established ‘‘sub-area budgets’’ for the
two metropolitan planning
organizations (MPO) within the New
Jersey portion of the larger PM2.5
nonattainment area, the North Jersey
Transportation Planning Authority
(NJTPA) and the Delaware Valley
Regional Planning Commission
(DVRPC). These sub-area budgets allow
each MPO to work independently to
demonstrate conformity by meeting its
own PM2.5 and NOX budgets. Each MPO
must still verify, however, that the other
MPO currently has a conforming long
range transportation plan and
transportation improvement program
(TIP) prior to making a new plan/TIP
conformity determination. The sub-area
budgets are listed in Table 9.
TABLE 9.—2009 SUB-AREA MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS NY-NJ-CT NONATTAINMENT AREA
[Tons/year]
MPO
Direct PM2.5
NJTPA 1
...................................................................................................................................................................
DVRPC 2 ..................................................................................................................................................................
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1,207
89
NOX
61,676
4,328
Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, and Union Counties.
Mercer County only.
The proposed 2009 PM2.5 budgets are
consistent with the State’s 2002
emission baseline and 2009 projected
inventories for highway mobile sources,
as described in Sections VII.A. and B. of
this notice. EPA is therefore proposing
to approve the 2009 sub-area budgets for
direct PM2.5 and NOX, because these
budgets meet all applicable
requirements.
These budgets are currently
undergoing a process to find if they are
adequate for transportation conformity
purposes prior to EPA’s final SIP action.
Once budgets are deemed adequate,
they may be used in making conformity
determinations. EPA believes that the
proposed 2009 budgets meet EPA’s
adequacy criteria (40 CFR 93.118(e)(4))
and, through a separate process, is
taking comments through April 24, 2006
prior to making an adequacy
determination. For more information on
the adequacy process please see EPA’s
adequacy Web site: https://www.epa.gov/
otaq/stateresources/transconf/
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separate from the SIP approval process;
therefore, these budgets may be found
adequate prior to EPA finalizing any
approval action for this SIP. The result
of EPA’s adequacy finding will be
published in the Federal Register.
VI. Revisions to the General Conformity
Budget for McGuire Air Force Base
A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
New Jersey is proposing to update the
1-hour ozone general conformity
emissions budgets for the McGuire Air
Force Base previously approved by EPA
in the July 23, 2003 Federal Register (68
FR 43462). Due to McGuire Air Force
Base’s vital role in the national defense
and need to have operational flexibility
in order to meet its present and future
emissions, New Jersey is proposing a
change to the 2005 emissions budgets.
The year 2005 NOX budget is being
increased by 450 tons per year and the
VOC budget is being decreased by 468
tons per year. This budget will be used
in preparation for a new budget to be
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determined by the 8-hour ozone
attainment demonstration. New Jersey is
proposing this change consistent with
EPA’s policy on substitution of ozone
precursor emission reductions. Based on
the emission inventories, New Jersey
has determined for the Trenton
nonattainment area that approximately
1 ton per year of NOX emissions equals
1.04 tons per year of VOC emissions, as
the emissions relate to their potential to
form ozone. Thus, increasing NOX and
decreasing VOC by their equivalent
amounts results in offsetting effects with
respect to ozone formation. The VOC
emission reduction has been achieved
through the implementation of pollution
prevention measures. Table 10 below
summarizes the revised general
conformity budgets. The revised 2005
budgets would apply to 2005 and all
future years until new budgets are
established based on the 8-hour ozone
attainment demonstration. EPA is
proposing to approve the revised 2005
general conformity emissions budgets.
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TABLE 10.—MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE GENERAL CONFORMITY EMISSIONS BUDGETS
Previously approved budgets
VOC
(tons/year)
2005 1 ...............................................................................................................
NOX
(tons/year)
1,198
1,084
New budgets
VOC
(tons/year)
730
NOX
(tons/year)
1,534
1 2005
budgets updated such that the increase in NOX is offset by a decrease in VOC, resulting in no expected net increase in ozone
formation.
VII. New Jersey Emissions Inventory
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A. 2002 Base Year Inventory
On November 18, 2002, EPA
designated the 2002 base year inventory
as the inventory for SIP planning
process to address the pollutants for the
eight hour-ozone, PM2.5 and CO national
ambient air quality standards.
Identifying the base year gives certainty
to States, and the selection of 2002
harmonizes the date for EPA’s
Consolidated Emissions Reporting rule
(See 67 FR 39602 dated June 10, 2002),
which requires submission of the ozone,
PM2.5 and CO emission inventories
every three years; 2002 is one of the
required years for such updates. These
requirements allow the EPA, based on
the state’s progress in reducing
emissions, to periodically reassess its
policies and air quality standards and
revise them as necessary. Most
important, the 2002 ozone, PM2.5 and
CO inventories will be used to develop
and assess new control strategies that
the states will need to submit in their
attainment demonstration SIPs for the
national ambient air quality standards
for ozone, PM2.5 and CO. The base year
inventory plays an important role in
modeling demonstrations for areas
classified as nonattainment and
transport regions. The base year
inventory may also serve as part of
statewide inventories for purposes of
regional modeling in transport areas.
For the reasons stated above, EPA
would therefore emphasize the
importance and benefits of developing
comprehensive, current, and accurate
2002 ozone, PM2.5 and CO emission
inventories.
There are specific components of an
acceptable emission inventory. The
emission inventory must meet certain
minimum requirements for reporting
each source category. Specifically, the
source requirements are detailed below.
The review process, which is
described in supporting documentation,
is used to determine that all
components of the base year inventory
are present. This review also evaluates
the level of supporting documentation
provided by the state, assesses whether
the emissions were developed according
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to current EPA guidance, and evaluates
the quality of the data.
The review process is outlined here
and consists of 9 points that the
inventory must include. For a base year
emission inventory to be acceptable, it
must pass all of the following
acceptance criteria:
1. Evidence that the inventory was
quality assured by the state and its
implementation documented.
2. The point source inventory was
complete.
3. Point source emissions were
prepared or calculated according to the
current EPA guidance.
4. The area source inventory was
complete.
5. The area source emissions were
prepared or calculated according to the
current EPA guidance.
6. Biogenic emissions were prepared
according to current EPA guidance or
another approved technique.
7. Non-road mobile emissions were
prepared according to current EPA
guidance for all of the source categories.
8. The method (e.g., HPMS or a
network transportation planning model)
used to develop VMT estimates
followed EPA guidance.
9. The MOBILE model was correctly
used to produce emission factors for
each of the vehicle classes.
Based on EPA’s review, New Jersey
satisfied all of EPA’s requirements for
purposes of providing a comprehensive,
accurate, and current inventory of actual
emissions for ozone, PM2.5 and CO
nonattainment areas. Where applicable,
annual emissions are provided for VOC,
NOX, CO, PM2.5, PM10, NH3 and SO2
emissions; VOC, NOX and CO peak
summer season daily emissions are
provided for ozone nonattainment areas
and CO peak winter season daily
emissions are provided for CO
nonattainment areas. The inventory was
developed in accordance with Emission
Inventory Guidance for Implementation
of ozone and Particulate Matter NAAQS
and Regional Haze Regulation, dated
August 2005. A summary of EPA’s
review is given below:
1. The Quality Assurance (QA) plan
was implemented for all portions of the
inventory. The QA plan included a QA/
Quality control (QC) program for
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assessing data completeness and
standard range checking. Critical data
elements relative to the inventory
sources were assessed for completeness.
QA checks were performed relative to
data collection and analysis, and double
counting of emissions from point, area
and mobile sources. QA/QC checks
were conducted to ensure accuracy of
units, unit conversions, transposition of
figures, and calculations.
2. The inventory is well documented.
New Jersey provided documentation
detailing the methods used to develop
emissions estimates for each category. In
addition, New Jersey identified the
sources of data used in developing the
inventory.
3. The point source emissions are
complete in accordance with EPA
guidance.
4. The point source emissions were
prepared/calculated in accordance with
EPA guidance.
5. The area source emissions are
complete and were prepared/calculated
in accordance with EPA guidance.
6. Biogenic emissions were prepared/
calculated using the EPA’s Biogenic
Emission Inventory System Model
version 3.12 in accordance with EPA
guidance.
7. Emission estimates for the non-road
mobile source categories were correctly
based on the latest nonroad mobile
model and prepared in accordance with
EPA guidance.
8. The method used to develop VMT
estimates was in accordance with EPA
guidance and was adequately described
and documented in the inventory
report.
9. Mobile model 6.2.03 was used
correctly for each of the vehicle classes.
The 2002 base year inventory has
been developed in accordance with EPA
guidance. Therefore, EPA is proposing
to approve the 2002 base year VOC,
NOX, CO, PM2.5, PM10, NH3 and SO2
emission inventories.
A more detailed discussion of how
the emission inventory was reviewed
and the results of the review are
presented in the technical support
document. Detailed emission inventory
development procedures can be found
in the following document: Emission
Inventory Guidance for Implementation
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of ozone and Particulate Matter NAAQS
and Regional Haze Regulation, dated
August 2005.
Tables 11 and 12 present a summary
of 2002 PM2.5 and NOX annual emission
estimates by source sector and by
county for the New Jersey portion of the
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long
Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment
area. Tables 13, 14 and 15 present a
summary of VOC, NOX and CO peak
summer season daily emissions by
source sector by county in New Jersey.
Tables 16 through 22 present a summary
of the 2002 VOC, NOX, CO, PM2.5, NH3,
PM10, and SO2 annual emissions by
source sector by county in New Jersey.
Section II.B.1, Tables 1 and 2 present
CO peak winter season daily emissions.
TABLE 11.—2002 ANNUAL PM2.5 BASE YEAR INVENTORY, THE NEW JERSEY PORTION OF THE NEW YORK-NORTHERN
NEW JERSEY-LONG ISLAND, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 NONATTAINMENT AREA
[In tons/year]
County
Point
Nonroad
mobile
Area
Onroad mobile
Bergen .............................................................................................................
Essex ...............................................................................................................
Hudson .............................................................................................................
Mercer ..............................................................................................................
Middlesex .........................................................................................................
Monmouth ........................................................................................................
Morris ...............................................................................................................
Passaic ............................................................................................................
Somerset ..........................................................................................................
Union ................................................................................................................
149
185
1,077
188
483
55
39
19
55
540
537
411
269
530
467
981
1,284
543
441
272
478
393
345
203
346
501
280
178
149
333
376
291
134
141
347
244
209
141
152
185
Total ..........................................................................................................
2,790
5,736
2,788
2,200
TABLE 12.—2002 ANNUAL NOX BASE YEAR INVENTORY, THE NEW JERSEY PORTION OF THE NEW YORK-NORTHERN NEW
JERSEY-LONG ISLAND, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 NONATTAINMENT AREA
[In tons/year]
County
Point
Nonroad
mobile
Area
Onroad mobile
Bergen .............................................................................................................
Essex ...............................................................................................................
Hudson .............................................................................................................
Mercer ..............................................................................................................
Middlesex .........................................................................................................
Monmouth ........................................................................................................
Morris ...............................................................................................................
Passaic ............................................................................................................
Somerset ..........................................................................................................
Union ................................................................................................................
988
2,441
9,674
13,034
3,567
240
284
122
313
3,757
2,815
2,436
1,735
1,257
2,343
1,806
1,752
1,361
1,048
1,621
6,707
8,137
5,976
2,427
4,849
4,316
3,151
2,413
2,097
5,883
23,917
16,537
7,853
8,505
22,147
14,860
13,758
8,748
9,090
12,294
Total ..........................................................................................................
34,420
18,173
45,957
137,701
TABLE 13.—2002 STATEWIDE VOC SUMMER SEASON DAILY EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
VOC
tons per day
County
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Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
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0.15
5.72
4.02
1.23
0.20
0.46
2.95
32.01
7.33
0.64
2.13
16.08
1.37
1.27
0.26
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source
11.04
36.86
17.54
22.68
5.26
8.93
31.53
20.39
21.09
5.49
13.06
34.87
24.65
20.81
24.01
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36.09
15.80
13.80
4.72
5.37
18.26
9.10
9.10
5.99
11.60
26.00
22.26
18.87
14.30
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Nonroad
mobile
sources
10.25
22.05
10.01
7.23
22.61
11.03
11.92
5.91
5.22
3.66
7.01
14.58
21.26
15.09
21.54
Biogenic
40.38
4.60
39.84
20.06
19.55
28.41
3.40
16.83
3.27
12.44
12.65
12.78
22.00
13.75
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[By county and source sector]
VOC
tons per day
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
source
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
1.99
4.92
0.73
0.25
26.56
2.88
19.84
3.47
12.29
5.69
25.26
5.07
10.22
4.23
10.65
4.62
15.92
4.99
6.62
3.37
6.87
3.86
7.75
2.78
11.04
18.64
12.20
20.48
2.31
13.50
Total in State ................................................................
113.15
369.83
274.74
220.60
371.95
TABLE 14.—2002 STATEWIDE NOX SUMMER SEASON DAILY EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
NOX
tons per day
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
1.67
3.64
12.35
2.69
19.15
10.50
16.18
14.48
51.61
9.47
47.87
44.47
0.86
1.18
3.68
0.68
15.26
3.60
0.21
18.88
1.93
1.17
3.83
1.77
2.10
0.42
0.65
3.31
1.01
2.24
0.54
1.72
3.33
2.23
2.40
2.39
1.79
0.31
1.44
0.57
2.26
0.47
24.50
63.24
31.10
27.00
8.82
10.61
44.06
18.50
21.05
17.17
22.70
58.00
38.15
35.06
24.65
23.01
11.91
23.85
7.47
32.22
15.60
6.26
23.38
12.88
9.44
5.92
7.94
25.70
8.01
20.71
4.70
9.32
17.54
15.74
11.58
7.57
8.88
3.21
7.57
2.46
20.25
2.48
0.21
0.07
0.26
0.21
0.19
0.34
0.07
0.19
0.07
0.19
0.20
0.16
0.22
0.12
0.27
0.10
0.32
0.15
0.15
0.08
0.22
Total in State ................................................................
280.36
35.92
558.66
231.56
3.78
TABLE 15.—2002 STATEWIDE CO SUMMER SEASON DAILY EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
CO
tons per day
County
mstockstill on PROD1PC68 with PROPOSALS
Point sources
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
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0.36
2.36
1.48
3.28
2.18
1.56
3.61
3.27
9.42
6.43
1.51
34.20
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2.66
2.07
1.97
6.89
0.66
1.13
2.40
1.54
1.22
1.03
1.37
2.54
Onroad mobile
sources
155.53
324.50
168.90
145.90
53.58
56.91
187.93
99.80
87.49
64.94
122.70
287.54
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Nonroad
mobile
sources
70.26
358.25
121.35
112.44
80.06
50.35
182.98
77.69
68.72
48.31
104.18
228.84
Biogenic
2.96
0.54
3.33
1.57
1.54
2.28
0.45
1.41
0.44
1.60
1.42
1.16
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[By county and source sector]
CO
tons per day
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
1.28
2.24
1.21
0.40
2.28
5.96
0.33
3.87
2.12
1.79
2.35
29.78
1.23
0.57
1.16
1.80
1.11
1.19
227.22
209.14
135.96
105.86
49.04
112.52
42.35
162.44
56.12
212.60
227.91
143.85
98.09
21.42
107.75
37.57
118.31
26.89
1.98
1.42
3.89
1.13
1.63
1.40
2.00
0.36
1.58
Total in State ................................................................
89.35
66.45
2,856.37
2,497.80
34.09
TABLE 16.—2002 STATEWIDE VOC ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
VOC
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
52
773
927
453
39
102
791
11,560
2,104
144
446
4,366
287
309
76
253
1,034
224
38
5,382
809
5,492
11,243
7,057
7,228
2,474
3,208
9,568
7,032
6,628
2,468
4,445
10,594
8,477
7,947
7,746
6,537
1,516
4,075
3,656
7,652
2,631
3,613
14,048
6,278
5,512
1,348
1,492
7,238
3,650
3,567
2,441
4,636
10,478
8,973
7,662
5,792
4,109
1,205
4,311
1,881
6,354
2,001
3,521
6,361
3,000
2,110
8,480
4,196
3,739
1,686
1,617
1,038
1,922
4,115
6,996
4,211
7,714
2,081
1,162
1,898
1,490
2,237
832
14,748
1,681
14,552
7,326
7,140
10,377
1,244
6,148
1,195
4,545
4,619
4,669
8,036
5,024
15,998
4,034
6,809
4,455
7,479
843
4,931
Total in State ................................................................
30,169
127,673
106,589
70,407
135,851
TABLE 17.—2002 STATEWIDE NOX ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
NOX
tons per year
County
mstockstill on PROD1PC68 with PROPOSALS
Point sources
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
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129
988
1,273
776
3,819
1,778
2,441
4,645
9,776
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2,815
1,424
1,523
357
469
2,436
800
1,735
Onroad mobile
sources
6,764
23,917
11,644
10,074
2,433
2,883
16,537
6,899
7,853
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Nonroad
mobile
sources
1,771
6,707
3,776
2,669
1,959
2,574
8,137
2,200
5,976
Biogenic
78
25
97
77
68
125
27
71
27
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[By county and source sector]
NOX
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
491
13,034
3,651
240
284
395
122
3,267
313
39
4,080
580
424
1,257
2,343
1,806
1,752
1,507
1,361
227
1,048
495
1,621
379
6,444
8,505
22,147
14,860
13,748
9,538
8,748
3,185
9,090
2,936
12,294
5,782
1,223
2,427
4,849
4,316
3,151
2,138
2,413
932
2,097
615
5,883
631
69
72
58
79
43
98
38
116
54
55
28
79
Total in State ................................................................
52,121
26,742
206,280
66,443
1,382
TABLE 18.—2002 STATEWIDE CO ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
CO
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
66
619
413
1,154
311
126
624
1,029
2,058
259
323
3,034
381
266
271
68
487
226
83
1,012
444
10,726
1,453
9,709
3,789
4,145
3,196
1,306
4,513
896
3,973
2,567
1,309
5,252
8,121
10,563
2,985
2,389
2,079
8,995
794
5,306
53,885
166,589
83,768
72,489
18,758
19,994
96,967
49,458
44,767
34,283
61,101
149,288
118,952
109,947
72,072
55,414
17,071
59,270
23,055
84,178
29,700
19,798
93,002
31,350
29,402
26,265
15,941
53,407
19,203
20,015
11,896
25,685
57,965
55,614
56,136
40,914
26,769
5,991
26,731
10,883
31,780
7,198
1,080
199
1,216
574
562
831
164
516
161
585
518
424
722
519
1,420
412
595
511
731
133
578
Total in State ................................................................
13,254
94,067
1,421,004
665,944
12,451
TABLE 19.—2002 STATEWIDE PM2.5 ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
PM2.5
tons per year
County
mstockstill on PROD1PC68 with PROPOSALS
Point sources
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
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19
149
308
233
109
280
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sources
1,541
537
1,448
754
637
495
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104
376
193
167
40
52
09MYP1
Nonroad
mobile
sources
225
478
413
228
468
374
Biogenic
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
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[By county and source sector]
PM2.5
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
185
426
1,077
50
188
483
55
39
38
19
371
55
5
540
240
411
754
269
644
530
467
981
1,284
1,734
543
377
441
1,301
272
809
291
112
134
111
141
347
244
209
160
141
57
152
54
185
92
393
222
345
103
203
346
501
280
409
178
122
149
89
333
64
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Total in State ................................................................
4,868
16,230
3,361
5,922
NA
TABLE 20.—2002 STATEWIDE NH3 ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
PM2.5
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
0
0
0
0
5
1
0
0
14
0
3
11
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
3
0
184
543
522
281
86
310
598
445
461
569
310
492
399
273
258
264
463
423
296
456
371
297
821
454
393
107
118
492
265
222
187
331
765
628
572
396
292
97
317
135
425
152
13
163
39
46
6
20
82
22
56
14
41
108
47
75
21
65
7
43
8
82
12
329
863
520
518
130
203
762
274
572
164
347
746
651
544
616
505
89
309
235
501
153
Total in State ................................................................
38
8,005
7,469
970
9,032
TABLE 21.—2002 STATEWIDE PM10 ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
mstockstill on PROD1PC68 with PROPOSALS
[By county and source sector]
PM10
tons per year
County
Point sources
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
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17
135
318
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sources
1,863
981
2,145
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524
275
09MYP1
Nonroad
mobile
sources
248
524
471
Biogenic
NA
NA
NA
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[By county and source sector]
PM10
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
126
102
266
203
531
1,705
50
221
537
48
46
39
18
435
76
6
434
240
1,210
799
721
646
1,169
431
1,115
967
1,162
1,575
1,813
2,377
835
590
984
1,667
512
1,195
238
58
73
389
161
179
148
201
486
352
305
229
195
77
211
77
261
123
249
509
407
444
242
375
113
224
376
545
309
446
194
132
164
99
362
71
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Total in State ................................................................
5,555
24,760
4,718
6,505
NA
TABLE 22.—2002 STATEWIDE SO2 ANNUAL EMISSION INVENTORY
[By county and source sector]
SO2
tons per year
County
Point sources
Area sources
Onroad mobile
sources
Nonroad
mobile
sources
Biogenic
10
82
286
162
12,178
665
2,110
5,431
19,250
18
14,379
504
55
52
38
26
4,590
41
0
1,253
101
498
819
459
506
163
412
1,078
390
625
391
450
689
510
798
652
494
156
273
566
602
345
202
634
361
313
75
89
429
211
196
163
264
590
453
403
290
231
85
250
98
321
134
176
620
2,462
1,057
993
2,115
980
1,243
1,582
123
501
612
929
276
216
223
673
180
69
1,680
63
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Total in State ................................................................
mstockstill on PROD1PC68 with PROPOSALS
Atlantic .................................................................................
Bergen ..................................................................................
Burlington .............................................................................
Camden ................................................................................
Cape May .............................................................................
Cumberland ..........................................................................
Essex ...................................................................................
Gloucester ............................................................................
Hudson .................................................................................
Hunterdon ............................................................................
Mercer ..................................................................................
Middlesex .............................................................................
Monmouth ............................................................................
Morris ...................................................................................
Ocean ...................................................................................
Passaic .................................................................................
Salem ...................................................................................
Somerset ..............................................................................
Sussex .................................................................................
Union ....................................................................................
Warren .................................................................................
61,231
10,876
5,793
16,772
NA
B. 2009 Projection Year Inventory
New Jersey included in its submittal
2009 projection year inventories with
post-2002 controls showing that future
emissions will be less than 5 percent of
those contained in the 2002 base year
emissions inventory. Annual PM2.5 and
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onroad mobile emissions were projected
from 2002 base year to 2009. New Jersey
did so using the appropriate growth
factors and methodologies, in a manner
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heavily upon what type of indicator was
considered to have a significant impact
on emissions. In all cases mentioned
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below, the 2002 emissions were grown
to the 2009 projection year:
1. Major point sources were grown
using growth factors from EPA EGAS
model version 4.0 for all point sources
except those that combust fuel. For
combustion sources, projection data
were obtained from the Annual Energy
Outlook report produced by the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy
Information Administration (EIA).
2. Area sources were grown using
growth factors from EPA EGAS model
version 4.0 for all area sources except
those that combust fuel. For combustion
sources, projection data were obtained
from the Annual Energy Outlook report
produced by the DOE–EIA.
3. Nonroad mobile source emissions
were developed by conducting
independent runs for 2009 emission
inventories by using the NONROAD
2004 emissions model.
4. Aircraft emissions were developed
for 2002 using landings and take offs
(LTO) operation numbers for each
aircraft type into the Emissions and
Dispersion Modeling Systems for NOX
emissions, and PM2.5 emission factors
were used with LTO data to estimate
PM2.5 annual emissions. Growth factors
from FAA database based on future
flight operations were used to project
emissions from 2002 to 2009.
5. Commercial Marine Vessels (CMV)
emissions were grown from 2002–2009
based on an extensive review of
historical trends in the different types of
CMV calling in on the Northern New
Jersey ports to project CMV growth. This
information was obtained from the
Maritime Association of the Port of New
York and New Jersey.
6. Calendar year 2009 onroad mobile
source emission factor data were
generated from the Mobile 6.2.03 model.
Emission factors from the model were
then applied to actual and projected
VMT and fleet distribution data based
on annual or projection measurements
of VMT taken from the Transportation
Demand Model and Highway
Performance Monitoring System from
the North Jersey Transportation
Planning Authority and Delaware Valley
Regional Planning Commission.
EPA finds the methodologies for all
sources to be acceptable in accordance
with EPA guidance for inventory budget
planning purposes.
A summary of the 2009 annual PM2.5
and NOX emissions in the New Jersey
portion of the New York-Northern New
Jersey-Long Island NY-NJ-CT PM2.5
nonattainment area is found in section
V. of this notice. A more detailed
discussion of how the 2009 emission
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are presented in the technical support
document.
VIII. Conclusions
EPA has evaluated New Jersey’s
submittals for consistency with the Act
and Agency regulations and policy. EPA
is proposing to approve New Jersey’s CO
limited maintenance plan because it
meets the requirements set forth in
section 175A of the Act and continues
to demonstrate that the NAAQS for CO
will continue to be met for the next ten
years. EPA is proposing to approve the
revisions to the CO, NOX, VOC, and
PM2.5 motor vehicle emissions budgets
for Northern New Jersey. Finally, this
notice also proposes to approve
revisions to the general conformity
budget for McGuire Air Force Base and
the 2002 base year emission inventories.
Note that New Jersey will be
submitting additional information on
the emission inventories. EPA will
consider all information submitted prior
to any final rulemaking action as a
supplement or amendment to the
February 21, 2006 submittal.
EPA views the SIP revisions proposed
in today’s proposal as separable actions.
This means that if EPA receives adverse
comments on particular portions of this
notice and not on other portions, EPA
may choose not to take final action at
the same time in a single notice on all
of these SIP revisions. Instead, EPA may
choose to take final action on these SIP
revisions in separate notices.
Interested parties may participate in
the Federal rulemaking procedure by
submitting written comments to the
EPA Region 2 Office by one of the
methods discussed in the ADDRESSES
section of this action.
IX. Statutory and Executive Order
Reviews
Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR
51735, October 4, 1993), this proposed
action is not a ‘‘significant regulatory
action’’ and therefore is not subject to
review by the Office of Management and
Budget. For this reason, this action is
also not subject to Executive Order
13211, ‘‘Actions Concerning Regulations
That Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use’’ (66 FR 28355, May
22, 2001). This proposed action merely
proposes to approve state law as
meeting Federal requirements and
imposes no additional requirements
beyond those imposed by state law.
Accordingly, the Administrator certifies
that this proposed rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities
under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5
U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Because this rule
proposes to approve pre-existing
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requirements under state law and does
not impose any additional enforceable
duty beyond that required by state law,
it does not contain any unfunded
mandate or significantly or uniquely
affect small governments, as described
in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4).
This proposed rule also does not have
tribal implications because it will not
have a substantial direct effect on one or
more Indian tribes, on the relationship
between the Federal Government and
Indian tribes, or on the distribution of
power and responsibilities between the
Federal Government and Indian tribes,
as specified by Executive Order 13175
(65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000). This
action also does not have Federalism
implications because it does not have
substantial direct effects on the States,
on the relationship between the national
government and the States, or on the
distribution of power and
responsibilities among the various
levels of government, as specified in
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255,
August 10, 1999). This action merely
proposes to approve a state rule
implementing a Federal standard, and
does not alter the relationship or the
distribution of power and
responsibilities established in the Clean
Air Act. This proposed rule also is not
subject to Executive Order 13045
‘‘Protection of Children from
Environmental Health Risks and Safety
Risks’’ (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997),
because it is not economically
significant.
In reviewing SIP submissions, EPA’s
role is to approve state choices,
provided that they meet the criteria of
the Clean Air Act. In this context, in the
absence of a prior existing requirement
for the State to use voluntary consensus
standards (VCS), EPA has no authority
to disapprove a SIP submission for
failure to use VCS. It would thus be
inconsistent with applicable law for
EPA, when it reviews a SIP submission,
to use VCS in place of a SIP submission
that otherwise satisfies the provisions of
the Clean Air Act. Thus, the
requirements of section 12(d) of the
National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C.
272 note) do not apply. This proposed
rule does not impose an information
collection burden under the provisions
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Intergovernmental relations, Ozone,
Particulate matter, Reporting and
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organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: April 28, 2006.
Alan J. Steinberg,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R09–OAR–2006–0322; FRL–8167–9]
Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans; Las Vegas
Valley Carbon Monoxide Attainment
Plan
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve a
revised attainment plan for the Las
Vegas Valley carbon monoxide
nonattainment area on the condition
that Clark County and the State of
Nevada withdraw the 2030 motor
vehicle emission budget, or, in the
alternative, to disapprove the plan. This
plan has been submitted to the Agency
by the State of Nevada as a revision to
the Nevada state implementation plan.
The revised attainment plan includes
revised base year and future year
emissions inventories and a revised
demonstration of continued attainment
of the carbon monoxide national
ambient air quality standard in Las
Vegas Valley through 2030 based on the
most recent emissions models and
planning assumptions and establishes
new motor vehicle emissions budgets.
EPA is proposing this action under
section 110(k) of the Clean Air Act,
which obligates the Agency to take
action on State submittals of revisions to
state implementation plans. The
intended effect of this proposed
approval action is to update the carbon
monoxide motor vehicle emissions
budgets in the Las Vegas area and
thereby make them available for the
purposes of transportation conformity,
and the intended effect of this proposed
disapproval action is to retain the
previously-approved budgets.
DATES: Any comments on this proposal
must arrive by June 8, 2006. Public
comments on this action are requested
and will be considered before taking
final action.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments,
identified by docket number EPA–R09–
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following methods:
1. https://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
2. E-mail: oconnor.karina@epa.gov.
3. Mail or deliver: Karina O’Connor
(AIR–2), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105–3901.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
EPA–R09–OAR–2006–0322. EPA’s
policy is that all comments received
will be included in the public docket
without change and may be made
available online at https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected through https://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The
https://www.regulations.gov, Web site is
an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through https://
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public docket and
made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA
recommends that you include your
name and other contact information in
the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA
cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact
you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment.
Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses.
Docket: All documents in the
electronic docket are listed in the
https://www.regulations.gov index.
Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available,
e.g., CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other information, such as
copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy. Publicly
available docket materials are available
either electronically in https://
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street,
San Francisco, California. To inspect the
hard copy materials, please schedule an
appointment during normal business
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FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karina O’Connor, EPA Region IX,
telephone number: (775) 833–1276; fax
number: (775) 833–1276; e-mail address:
oconnor.karina@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’
and ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA.
Table of Contents
I. Summary of Action
II. Introduction
A. What Is the Purpose of this Proposed
Rulemaking?
B. What Did the State Submit To EPA?
C. What Is a SIP and How Is it Revised
From Time to Time?
D. What Is the Background of Today’s
Action?
E. What Are MOBILE6 And MOBILE6.2?
F. What Is the Current Status of CO Levels
in Las Vegas Valley and how do the
Levels Compare With the Federal
Standards?
III. Review of the Las Vegas Valley 2005 CO
Plan Submittal
A. What Is the Purpose and Content of
Nevada’s Submittal?
B. How Is EPA Evaluating This Submittal?
C. How Have Emissions of Carbon
Monoxide in Las Vegas Valley Changed?
D. How Has the Attainment Demonstration
Changed?
E. Are Las Vegas Valley’s Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets Approvable?
F. How Does This Action Affect
Transportation Conformity?
IV. Proposed Action and Request for Public
Comment
V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. Summary of Action
Under section 110(k) of the Clean Air
Act (CAA or Act), EPA proposes to
approve a revised attainment plan for
the Las Vegas Valley carbon monoxide
(CO) nonattainment area on the
condition that Clark County and the
State of Nevada withdraw the 2030
motor vehicle emission budget, or, in
the alternative, to disapprove the plan.
This plan has been submitted to EPA
by the Nevada Division of
Environmental Protection (NDEP) as a
revision to the Nevada state
implementation plan (SIP). The revised
attainment plan includes revised base
year and future year emissions
inventories and a revised demonstration
of continued attainment of the carbon
monoxide national ambient air quality
standard in Las Vegas Valley through
2030 based on the most recent
emissions models and planning
assumptions and establishes new motor
vehicle emissions budgets. The
intended effect of this proposed
approval action is to update the carbon
monoxide motor vehicle emissions
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[Docket No. EPA-R02-OAR-2006-0342; FRL-8167-8]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Carbon
Monoxide Maintenance Plan, Conformity Budgets, Emissions Inventories;
State of New Jersey
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to
approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the
State of New Jersey. This revision will establish an updated ten-year
carbon monoxide (CO) maintenance plan for the Nine Not-Classified Areas
in the State (the City of Atlantic City, the City of Burlington, the
Borough of Freehold, the Town of Morristown, the Borough of Penns
Grove, the City of Perth Amboy, the Borough of Somerville, the Toms
River Area, and the City of Trenton) and Camden County. In addition,
this document proposes to approve revisions to the CO, NOX,
VOC, and PM2.5 motor vehicle emissions budgets for Northern
New Jersey. Finally, this document also proposes to approve revisions
to the general conformity budget for McGuire Air Force Base and the
2002 base year emissions inventory.
The Nine Not Classified Areas and Camden County were redesignated
to attainment of the CO National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
on February 5, 1996 and maintenance plans were also approved at that
time. By this action, EPA is proposing to approve the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection's (New Jersey) second
maintenance plans for these areas because they provide for continued
attainment for an additional ten years of the CO NAAQS.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 8, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R02-
OAR-2006-0342, by one of the following methods:
https://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: Werner.Raymond@epa.gov.
Fax: 212-637-3901.
Mail: Raymond Werner, Chief, Air Programs Branch,
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, 25th
Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866.
Hand Delivery: Raymond Werner, Chief, Air Programs Branch,
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, 25th
Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the Regional Office's normal hours of operation. The Regional
Office's official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 to
4:30 excluding Federal holidays.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R02-OAR-
2006-0342. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the public docket without change and may be made available online at
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through https://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The https://www.regulations.gov Web site
is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without
going through https://www.regulations.gov your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any
disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of
any defects or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/
epahome/dockets.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henry Feingersh
feingersh.henry@epa.gov for general questions, Raymond Forde
forde.raymond@epa.gov for emissions inventory questions, or Matthew
Laurita laurita.matthew@epa.gov for mobile source related questions at
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Programs Branch, 290
Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866, telephone number (212)
637-4249, fax number (212) 637-3901.
Copies of the State submittals are available at the following
addresses for inspection during normal business hours:
Environmental Protection Agency, Region II Office, Air Programs
Branch, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866.
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of
Energy, Bureau of Air Quality Planning, 401 East State Street, CN027,
Trenton, New Jersey 08625.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This action is being proposed under a
procedure called parallel processing. Under parallel processing, EPA
proposes action on a state submission before it has been formally
adopted and submitted to EPA, and then EPA will take final action on
its proposal if: (1) The state's final submission is substantially
unchanged from the submission on which this proposal is based, or (2)
if significant changes in the state's final submission are anticipated
and adequately described in EPA's proposal as a basis for EPA's
proposed action.
EPA views the SIP revisions proposed in today's proposal as
separable actions. This means that if EPA receives adverse comments on
particular portions of this notice and not on other portions, EPA may
choose not to take final action at the same time in a single notice on
all of these SIP revisions. Instead, EPA may choose to take final
action on these SIP revisions in separate notices.
For detailed information on New Jersey's SIP revisions see the
Technical Support Document, prepared in support of today's proposed
action. A copy of the TSD is available upon request from the EPA
Regional Office listed in the ADDRESSES section or it can be viewed at
https://www.regulations.gov.
The following table of contents describes the format for this
section:
I. What Is the Nature of EPA's Action?
II. CO Limited Maintenance Plan for Camden County and Nine Not-
Classified Areas
A. What Is a Limited Maintenance Plan?
B. What Is included in a Maintenance Plan?
1. Attainment Inventory
2. Maintenance Demonstration
3. Monitoring Network
4. Verification of Continued Attainment
5. Contingency Plan
a. Control Measures
b. Contingency Measures
6. Conformity
III. Revisions To the CO Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for
Northern New Jersey
A. Are these budgets approvable?
IV. Revisions To the NOX and VOC Motor Vehicle Emissions
Budgets for Northern New Jersey
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A. Are the Revised Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets Consistent
With New Jersey's 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration?
B. Are these budgets approvable?
V. PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern New
Jersey
A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
VI. Revisions to the General Conformity Budget for McGuire Air Force
Base
A. Are these budgets approvable?
VII. New Jersey Emissions Inventory
A. 2002 Base Year Inventory
B. 2009 Projection Year Inventory
VIII. Conclusions
IX. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
I. What Is the Nature of EPA's Action?
EPA is proposing to approve an updated ten-year CO maintenance plan
for the Nine Not-Classified Areas (the City of Atlantic City, the City
of Burlington, the Borough of Freehold, the Town of Morristown, the
Borough of Penns Grove, the City of Perth Amboy, the Borough of
Somerville, the Toms River Area, and the City of Trenton) and Camden
County in New Jersey. On June 28, 1996, the EPA approved a request from
New Jersey to redesignate the Nine Not-Classified Areas and Camden
County to attainment of the CO NAAQS (61 FR 33678). In addition, the
EPA also approved at that time a ten-year CO maintenance plan for each
of those areas. The Clean Air Act (the Act) requires that an area
redesignated to attainment of the CO NAAQS must submit a second ten-
year CO maintenance Plan to show how the area will continue to attain
the CO standard for an additional ten years. On February 21, 2006, New
Jersey submitted a second ten-year CO maintenance plan for the Nine
Not-Classified Areas and Camden County and requested that EPA approve
the plan. The following sections describe how the EPA made its
determination proposing to approve the second ten-year maintenance
plan. EPA is also proposing to approve revisions to the CO,
NOX, VOC, and PM2.5 motor vehicle emissions
budgets for Northern New Jersey. Finally, EPA also proposes to approve
revisions to the general conformity budget for McGuire Air Force Base
and the 2002 base year emissions inventory. These additional SIP
revisions are discussed in sections III through VII.
II. CO Limited Maintenance Plan for Camden County and Nine Not-
Classified Areas
A. What is a Limited Maintenance Plan?
A maintenance plan is a SIP revision that must demonstrate
continued attainment of the applicable NAAQS in the maintenance area
for at least ten years. The Act requires that a second ten-year plan be
submitted in order to assure that the area will continue to stay in
compliance with the relevant NAAQS. For the Nine Not Classified Areas
and Camden County, New Jersey is proposing to utilize EPA's limited
maintenance plan approach, as detailed in the EPA guidance memorandum,
``Limited Maintenance Plan Option for Nonclassifiable CO Nonattainment
Areas'' from Joseph Paisie, Group Leader, Integrated Policy and
Strategies Group, Office of Air Quality and Planning Standards OAQPS,
dated October 6, 1995. Pursuant to this approach, EPA will consider the
maintenance demonstration satisfied for ``not classified'' areas if the
monitoring data show the design value is at or below 7.65 parts per
million (ppm), or 85 percent of the level of the 8-hour CO NAAQS. The
design value must be based on eight consecutive quarters of data. For
such areas, there is no requirement to project emissions of air quality
over the maintenance period. EPA believes if the area begins the
maintenance period at, or below, 85 percent of the CO 8 hour NAAQS, the
applicability of PSD requirements, the control measures already in the
SIP, and Federal measures, should provide adequate assurance of
maintenance over the initial 10-year maintenance period. In addition,
the design value for the area must continue to be at or below 7.65 ppm
until the time of final EPA action on the redesignation.
B. What Is Included in a Maintenance Plan?
Section 175A of the Act sets forth the elements of a maintenance
plan for areas seeking redesignation from nonattainment to attainment.
The initial and subsequent ten-year plans must each demonstrate
continued attainment of the applicable NAAQS for at least ten years
after approval. In this notice, EPA is proposing action on the second
ten-year maintenance plan which covers the period from 2008 to 2017.
The specific elements of a maintenance plan are:
1. Attainment Inventory
Since New Jersey's first ten-year maintenance plan contained an
attainment inventory, this second ten-year maintenance plan did not
need to include another one. However, given the amount of time that has
passed since that submittal, New Jersey thought it more appropriate to
submit a 2002 inventory which is discussed later in this notice. Since
this was a Limited Maintenance Plan submittal, no projected inventories
were required.
EPA's October 6, 1995 Limited Maintenance Plan guidance states that
for inventory purposes the State is only required to submit an
attainment inventory to EPA that is based on monitoring data which
shows attainment. There is no requirement to project emissions over the
maintenance period. This means if 2002 is a calendar year which has
monitoring data which demonstrates attainment of the standard, the 2002
base year inventory can be used as the attainment year inventory and no
projection inventories are required over the years of the maintenance
period. Only calendar year 2002 summary emissions data (based on winter
season day) are required. In addition, the inventory should be
consistent with EPA's most recent guidance on emission inventories for
nonattainment areas available at the time and should include emissions
during the time period associated with the monitoring data showing
attainment.
New Jersey submitted a limited maintenance plan which included a
2002 base year emissions inventory. The 2002 inventory is also
classified as the attainment year inventory for the limited maintenance
plan. New Jersey has elected 2002 because it is the attainment year
base year that will be used for the limited maintenance plan and 2002
represents one of the years of violation free monitored data in the
area. The inventory included peak winter season daily emissions from
stationary point, stationary area, non-road mobile, and on-road mobile
sources of CO. These emission estimates were prepared in accordance
with EPA guidance.
EPA is approving the CO inventory for the counties of Atlantic,
Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem and
Somerset (the 9 non-classified areas) and Camden County. Details of the
inventory review are located in section VII.A. of this notice. A more
detailed discussion of how the emission inventory was reviewed and the
results are presented in the technical support document.
Tables 1 and 2 present a summary of the 2002 CO peak winter season
daily emissions estimates in tons per day for the nine not classified
areas and Camden County:
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Table 1.--2002 Attainment Inventory Nine Not Classified Areas Carbon Monoxide Emission Inventory
[Tons/peak winter season day]
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Nonroad
County Point Area mobile Onroad mobile Total
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Atlantic........................ 0.48 62.98 21.57 153.15 238.18
Burlington...................... 1.42 59.62 54.00 308.90 423.94
Mercer.......................... 1.46 14.32 43.01 224.90 283.69
Middlesex....................... 8.27 6.34 107.85 531.04 653.50
Monmouth........................ 0.72 30.42 78.43 423.04 532.61
Morris.......................... 1.23 46.59 97.30 393.14 538.26
Ocean........................... 1.11 47.69 40.31 257.31 346.42
Salem........................... 2.21 13.72 6.97 50.24 73.14
Somerset........................ 1.17 11.65 47.55 211.93 272.30
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Nine Not Classified Areas 18.07 293.33 496.99 2,553.65 3,362.04
Total......................
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Table 2.--2002 Attainment Inventory Camden County Carbon Monoxide Emission Inventory
[Tons/peak winter season day]
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Nonroad
County Point Area mobile Onroad mobile
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Camden.......................................... 3.30 18.42 53.39 269.10
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2. Maintenance Demonstration
New Jersey has met the Limited Maintenance Plan air quality
criteria requirement by demonstrating that its highest monitored design
value is less than 85 percent (7.65 parts per million) of the CO
standard of 9.0 parts per million. The highest monitored design value
for the 2002-2003 design year was 4.4 parts per million. In addition,
New Jersey commits to continued implementation of all other federal and
State measures already implemented as part of its CO SIP. Thus,
according to the Limited Maintenance Guidance, emission projections are
not required.
3. Monitoring Network
New Jersey continues to operate its CO monitoring network and will
continue to work with the USEPA through the air monitoring network
review process as required by 40 CFR part 58 to determine the adequacy
of its network. New Jersey will continue annual reviews of its data in
order to verify continued attainment of the NAAQS. As mentioned
earlier, all of New Jersey's 8-hour design values are well below the
9.0 ppm 8-hour NAAQS for CO with the highest monitor reading 4.4 ppm.
This can be seen in Table 3.
Table 3.--Design Values for CO in New Jersey
[8-hour standard--9 parts per million]
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2002-2003 design
Monitoring location value (parts per
million)
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Ancora S.H........................................... 0.8
Burlington........................................... 2.5
Camden Lab \1\....................................... 2.1
East Orange.......................................... 4.2
Elizabeth............................................ 4.4
Elizabeth Lab........................................ 3.1
Fort Lee \2\......................................... 2.6
Freehold............................................. 2.2
Hackensack........................................... 3.4
Jersey City.......................................... 2.9
Morristown........................................... 2.4
Newark Lab \3\....................................... 2.9
Perth Amboy.......................................... 2.5
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Notes:
\1\ Data not available October-December 2003.
\2\ Data not available July-August 2002.
\3\ Data not available July-December 2003.
In its SIP revision, New Jersey used the 2002-2003 design values
since they coincide with the 2002 emissions inventory. EPA reviewed
more recent data in addition to the 2002-2003 data and found the
maximum 2004-2005 design value for New Jersey to be 3.4 ppm, which
continues to show attainment of the NAAQS.
4. Verification of Continued Attainment
New Jersey will verify that the Nine Not-Classified Areas and
Camden County areas continue to attain the CO NAAQS through an annual
review of its monitoring data. If any design value exceeds 7.65 ppm,
New Jersey will coordinate with USEPA Region II to verify and evaluate
the data and then, if warranted, develop a full maintenance plan for
the affected maintenance area.
5. Contingency Plan
Section 175A(d) of the Act requires that a maintenance plan include
a contingency plan which includes contingency measures, as necessary,
to promptly correct any violation of the NAAQS that occurs after
redesignation of the area. Contingency measures do not have to be fully
adopted at the time of redesignation. However, the contingency plan is
considered to be an enforceable part of the SIP and should ensure that
the contingency measures are adopted expeditiously once they are
triggered by a specified event. In addition, the contingency plan
includes a requirement that the State continue to implement all control
measures used to bring the area into attainment.
The triggers specified in New Jersey's previous maintenance plan
are included in this Limited Maintenance Plan. If air quality
monitoring data indicate that the CO NAAQS were exceeded, New Jersey
will analyze the data to determine the cause of the violation. If it is
determined that the violation was caused by a non-local motor vehicle
usage event, then the State will institute the contingency measures
described below.
a. Control Measures
New Jersey has implemented a number of measures to control motor
vehicle CO emissions. Emission reductions achieved through the
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implementation of these control measures are enforceable. These
measures include the Federal Motor Vehicle Control Program, Federal
reformulated gasoline, New Jersey's pre-1990 modifications to its
inspection and maintenance (I/M) program, and local transportation
control measures.
The State of New Jersey has demonstrated that actual enforceable
emission reductions are responsible for the air quality improvement and
that the CO emissions in the base year are not artificially low due to
local economic downturn. EPA finds that the combination of existing
EPA-approved SIP and Federal measures contribute to the permanence and
enforceability of reduction in ambient CO levels that have allowed
Camden County to attain the NAAQS since 1990 and the nine not-
classified areas to attain since 1986.
New Jersey commits to continuing to implement all control measures
used to bring the area into attainment.
b. Contingency Measure
The State plans to continue to use the contingency measure from the
original maintenance plan. The plan included implementation of an
enhanced I/M program. This program is fully operational and the State
commits to meet the performance standard for an enhanced I/M program in
an effort to maintain the CO NAAQS. Although the plan is currently in
place, EPA guidance allows for it to act as a contingency measure. In
addition, since we had approved this measure in the previous
maintenance plan, we are proposing to approve it in this notice.
6. Conformity
Section 176(c) of the Act defines conformity as meeting the SIP's
purpose of eliminating or reducing the severity and number of
violations of the NAAQS and achieving expeditious attainment of such
standards. The Act further defines transportation conformity to mean
that no Federal transportation activity will: (1) Cause or contribute
to any new violation of any standard in any area; (2) increase the
frequency or severity of any existing violation of any standard in any
area; or (3) delay timely attainment of any standard or any required
interim emission reductions or other milestones in any area. The
Federal transportation conformity rule, 40 CFR part 93 subpart A, sets
forth the criteria and procedures for demonstrating and assuring
conformity of transportation plans, programs and projects which are
developed, funded or approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation,
and by metropolitan planning organizations or other recipients of
federal funds under Title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Laws (49
U.S.C. chapter 53).
The transportation conformity rule applies within all nonattainment
and maintenance areas. As prescribed by the Rule, once an area has an
applicable SIP with motor vehicle emissions budgets, the expected
emissions from planned transportation activities must be consistent
with (``conform to'') such established budgets for that area.
In the case of the Nine Not Classified Areas and Camden County CO
limited maintenance plan areas, however, the emissions budgets may be
treated as essentially not constraining for the length of this second
maintenance period as long as the area continues to meet the limited
maintenance criteria, because there is no reason to expect that these
areas will experience so much growth in that period that a violation of
the CO NAAQS would result. In other words, emissions from on-road
transportation sources need not be capped for the maintenance period
because it is unreasonable to believe that emissions from such sources
would increase to a level that would threaten the air quality in this
area for the duration of this maintenance period. Therefore, for the
limited maintenance plan CO maintenance area, all Federal actions that
require conformity determinations under the transportation conformity
rule are considered to satisfy the regional emissions analysis and
``budget test'' requirements in 40 CFR 93.118 of the rule.
Since limited maintenance plan areas are still maintenance areas,
however, transportation conformity determinations are still required
for transportation plans, programs and projects. Specifically, for such
determinations, transportation plans, transportation improvement
programs, and projects must still demonstrate that they are fiscally
constrained (40 CFR part 108) and must meet the criteria for
consultation and Transportation Control Measure (TCM) implementation in
the conformity rule (40 CFR 93.112 and 40 CFR 93.113, respectively). In
addition, projects in limited maintenance areas will still be required
to meet the criteria for CO hot spot analyses to satisfy ``project
level'' conformity determinations (40 CFR 93.116 and 40 CFR 93.123)
which must incorporate the latest planning assumptions and models that
are available. All aspects of transportation conformity (with the
exception of satisfying the emission budget test) will still be
required. Approval of the limited maintenance plan will not supersede
the current 2007 motor vehicle emissions budget. Conformity
determinations conducted prior to the end of 2007 would still have to
include a budget test for 2007.
If one of the CO attainment areas should monitor CO concentrations
at or above the limited maintenance eligibility criteria or 7.65 parts
per million then that maintenance area would no longer qualify for a
limited maintenance plan and would revert to a full maintenance plan.
In this event, the limited maintenance plan would remain applicable for
conformity purposes only until the full maintenance plan is submitted
and EPA has found its motor vehicle emissions budget adequate for
conformity purposes or EPA approves the full maintenance plan SIP
revision. At that time regional emissions analyses would resume as a
transportation conformity criteria.
III. Revisions to the CO Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern
New Jersey
A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
The proposed maintenance plan revises the motor vehicle emissions
budgets (budgets) for CO for the New Jersey portion of the New York-
Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT CO maintenance area for the
years 2007 and 2014, previously approved by EPA in the August 30, 2004
Federal Register (69 FR 52834). These revised budgets include an
allocation of a portion of a ``safety margin'' established in the CO
maintenance plan.
A ``safety margin'' is the difference between the attainment level
of emissions (from all sources) and the projected level of emissions
(from all sources) in the maintenance plan. The attainment level of
emissions is the level of emissions during one of the years in which
the area met the air quality health standard. For example, 1996 is the
base year of Northern New Jersey's first ten-year maintenance plan, and
the safety margin is calculated using the differences between 1996 and
future year total emissions.
The total emissions in 1996 from mobile, stationary and area
sources equaled 1365.31 tons per day of CO. New Jersey projected the CO
emissions in Northern New Jersey from all sources for the years 2007
and 2014 to be 997.71 tons per day and 1071.93 tons per day,
respectively. The CO safety margin for Northern New Jersey in 2007 and
2014 is calculated to be the difference between the total emissions in
1996 and the total emissions for each of the projected years, 367.60
tons per day for 2007 and 293.38 tons per day for 2014. The 2007 and
2014 CO emission projections reflecting the total of point,
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area and mobile source reductions are illustrated in Table 4.
Table 4.--CO Emissions and Safety Margin Determinations, Northern New Jersey
[Tons/day]
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CO emissions
Source category -----------------------------------------------
1996 2007 2014
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Total........................................................... 1365.31 997.71 1071.93
Safety Margin................................................... N/A 367.60 293.38
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In the submittal the State requested to allocate the entire safety
margin to both the 2007 and 2014 budgets. This approach provides the
transportation sector with an adequate budget increase for the two
future scenario years to account for changes in transportation-related
emissions due to updated planning assumptions, while still meeting the
requirements of the maintenance plan. The CO motor vehicle emissions
budgets that include the safety margin allocations are outlined below
in Table 5.
Table 5.--Carbon Monoxide Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
[Tons/day]
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Final motor
Safety margin vehicle
Year Prior motor vehicle emissions budgets allocation emissions
budgets
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2007 783.39...................................................... 367.60 1150
2014 605.63...................................................... 293.38 899
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The planned allowable levels of CO emissions are projected to
maintain the area's air quality consistent with the air quality health
standard. The safety margin credit can be allocated to the
transportation sector while maintaining air quality attainment. The
total emission level, even with this allocation, will be below the
attainment level, or safety level, and thus is acceptable.
These revised CO budgets are consistent with the State's emission
baseline, projected inventories for highway mobile sources and use of a
margin of safety. EPA is proposing to approve the 2007 and 2014 budgets
for CO.
IV. Revisions to the NOX and VOC Motor Vehicle Emissions
Budgets for Northern New Jersey
A. Are the Revised Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets Consistent With New
Jersey's 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration?
New Jersey is proposing to revise the 2005 and 2007 VOC and
NOX motor vehicle emissions budgets (budgets) for the
Northern New Jersey nonattainment area by setting new budgets based on
updated planning assumptions. These updated budgets apply to the North
Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. In its proposal, New Jersey
included a relative reduction comparison to show that its 1-Hour Ozone
Attainment Demonstration SIP continues to demonstrate attainment using
revised inventories for the Northern New Jersey nonattainment area. New
Jersey's attainment demonstration used photochemical grid modeling
supplemented with weight of evidence. As such, the State's methodology
for the relative reduction comparison consists of comparing the updated
on-road mobile inventories with the previously approved (67 FR 5152)
inventories for the Northern New Jersey nonattainment area to determine
if attainment will still be predicted by the established attainment
dates. Specifically, the State calculated the relative reductions
(expressed as percent reductions) in ozone precursors between the
previous 1996 base year and attainment year inventories. These percent
reductions were then compared to the percent reductions between the
revised 1996 base year and attainment year inventories.
New Jersey's relative reduction comparison shows that for the
Northern New Jersey nonattainment area the percent reduction of VOC
emissions achieved in the revised inventories is higher than the
percent reduction previously calculated, however the percent reduction
of NOX emissions achieved in the revised inventories is
lower than the percent reduction previously calculated, and thus a
slight NOX shortfall is indicated. New Jersey has previously
demonstrated in its Rate of Progress SIP, approved by EPA on February
4, 2002 (67 FR 5152), that VOC or NOX emission reductions
are equally valuable towards attaining the 1-hour ozone standard.
Therefore, New Jersey substituted excess VOC emission reductions for
NOX emission reductions, as allowed for under Section
182(c)(2)(C) of the Clean Air Act. To make such an equivalency
demonstration, the State converted the percentage changes for VOC and
NOX to +14.01 and -6.09 tons per day, respectively. Based on
the emission inventories, New Jersey has determined for the Northern
New Jersey nonattainment area that approximately 1.29 tons of VOC
emissions equals 1 ton of NOX emissions, as the emissions
relate to their potential to form ozone. Consistent with EPA's policy
on substitution of ozone precursor emission reductions, New Jersey
increased the NOX reductions and decreased VOC reductions by
their equivalent amounts, resulting in offsetting effects with respect
to ozone formation. Thus, the required emission reductions needed to
attain the 1-hour ozone NAAQS are achieved for the Northern New Jersey
nonattainment area, and the SIP continues to demonstrate attainment.
New Jersey's proposed SIP revision demonstrates that the new levels
of motor vehicle emissions calculated using updated planning
assumptions continue to support achievement of the projected attainment
of the 1-Hour
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Ozone NAAQS by the attainment date of 2007 for the Northern New Jersey
nonattainment area.
B. Are These Budgets Approvable?
Table 6 below summarizes New Jersey's revised budgets contained in
the proposed SIP revision. These budgets were developed using the
latest planning assumptions, including 2005 vehicle registration data,
vehicle miles traveled (VMT), speeds, fleet mix, and SIP control
measures and are for the North Jersey Transportation Planning
Authority. The 2005 budgets are revised budgets based on the Reasonable
Further Progress plan and the 2007 budgets are revised attainment year
budgets. The increase in the NOX budget is attributed to the
updated planning assumptions and does not necessarily indicate an
actual increase in emissions. As described above, New Jersey, in its
proposal, has demonstrated that attainment is not impacted by this
revision.
Table 6.--Revised Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
[Tons/day]
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VOC NOX
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2005 2007 2005 2007
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Previous........................................ 148.27 125.82 253.05 198.34
Updated......................................... 146.33 122.53 327.83 256.58
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EPA is proposing to approve the revisions to the 2005 and 2007
budgets for VOC and NOX for the North Jersey Transportation
Planning Authority.
V. PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern New
Jersey
A. Are these budgets approvable?
The proposed early progress PM2.5 SIP establishes motor
vehicle emission budgets for 2009 for the New Jersey portion of the New
York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5
nonattainment area. The NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area
and the Northern New Jersey portion thereof is violating the annual
PM2.5 standard, and therefore these budgets are being
established for annual emissions of direct PM2.5 and
NOX, a PM2.5 precursor. Northern New Jersey and
the larger nonattainment area are not violating and are significantly
below the 24-hour PM2.5 standard, and EPA believes that the
State has deemed that by attaining the annual standard they will
continue to meet the 24-hour standard. Therefore, New Jersey did not
address or establish budgets for the 24-hour PM2.5 standard
in this SIP revision. These budgets are established for annual
emissions of direct PM2.5 and NOX, a
PM2.5 precursor. Other PM2.5 precursors (VOC,
SOX, and NH3) were not found to be significant by
either New Jersey or EPA prior to this submittal and were not included
in the motor vehicle emissions budgets. Additionally, fugitive dust
emissions, which include re-entrained road dust and transportation-
related construction dust, were not found to be significant by either
New Jersey or EPA and were not included in the budgets. However,
approval of these budgets does not preclude New Jersey or EPA from
finding any of the above precursors or fugitive dust to be significant
contributors to nonattainment of the PM2.5 standard in the
future. New Jersey may choose to include any or all precursors and
fugitive dust in future SIP submittals.
EPA allows for the establishment of motor vehicle emission budgets
for PM2.5 prior to the state submitting its first required
PM2.5 SIP (69 FR 40028). These budgets are set through the
establishment of an early SIP that meets all the requirements of a SIP
submittal, and in which emissions from all sources, when projected from
the base to a future year, show some progress toward attainment. EPA
has interpreted the phrase ``some progress toward attainment'' to mean
a 5% to 10% reduction in emissions from all sources (69 FR 40019). For
this SIP submittal emissions were projected from the 2002 base year to
2009, the attainment year.
Submittal of this early progress SIP does not satisfy the
requirement to submit a full PM2.5 attainment SIP. New
Jersey may revise the 2009 budgets in the PM2.5 attainment
SIP with appropriate supporting documentation.
The total annual emissions in 2002 from mobile, stationary and area
sources for Northern New Jersey equaled 13,952 tons per year of direct
PM2.5 and 236,251 tons per year of NOX. New
Jersey projected the PM2.5 and NOX emissions from
all sources for 2009 to be 13,049 tons per year of direct
PM2.5 and 159,990 tons per year of NOX. This
represents a 6.5% reduction in direct PM2.5 and a 32.3%
reduction in NOX emissions from 2002 to 2009, thereby
meeting EPA's 5% to 10% minimum reduction guideline. The 2002 and 2009
emission projections reflecting the point, area and mobile source
reductions are illustrated in Tables 7 and 8.
Table 7.--Direct PM2.5 Emissions, NJ Portion of the NY-NJ-CT Nonattainment Area
[Tons/year]
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Direct PM2.5 emissions
Source category -----------------------------------------------
2002 2009 Percent change
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On-Road......................................................... 2,220 1,296 -42
Nonroad......................................................... 3,206 2,788 -13
Stationary...................................................... 2,790 3,035 9
Area............................................................ 5,736 5,930 3
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Total....................................................... 13,952 13,049 -6.5
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Table 8.--NOX Emissions, NJ Portion of the NY-NJ-CT Nonattainment Area
[Tons/year]
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NOX emissions
Source category -----------------------------------------------
2002 2009 Percent change
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On-Road......................................................... 137,701 66,004 -52
Nonroad......................................................... 45,957 37,694 -18
Stationary...................................................... 34,420 36,804 7
Area............................................................ 18,173 19,488 7
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Total....................................................... 236,251 159,990 -32.3
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A detailed review of the 2002 PM2.5 and NOX
annual emission inventories are covered in section VII. A. of this
notice. Tables 11 and 12 present a summary of 2002 PM2.5 and
NOX annual emission estimates by source sector and by county
for the New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long
Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area.
In the submittal, the State has established ``sub-area budgets''
for the two metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) within the New
Jersey portion of the larger PM2.5 nonattainment area, the
North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) and the Delaware
Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). These sub-area budgets
allow each MPO to work independently to demonstrate conformity by
meeting its own PM2.5 and NOX budgets. Each MPO
must still verify, however, that the other MPO currently has a
conforming long range transportation plan and transportation
improvement program (TIP) prior to making a new plan/TIP conformity
determination. The sub-area budgets are listed in Table 9.
Table 9.--2009 Sub-Area Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets NY-NJ-CT
Nonattainment Area
[Tons/year]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPO Direct PM2.5 NOX
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NJTPA \1\............................... 1,207 61,676
DVRPC \2\............................... 89 4,328
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\1\ Covers Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic,
Somerset, and Union Counties.
\2\ Covers Mercer County only.
The proposed 2009 PM2.5 budgets are consistent with the
State's 2002 emission baseline and 2009 projected inventories for
highway mobile sources, as described in Sections VII.A. and B. of this
notice. EPA is therefore proposing to approve the 2009 sub-area budgets
for direct PM2.5 and NOX, because these budgets
meet all applicable requirements.
These budgets are currently undergoing a process to find if they
are adequate for transportation conformity purposes prior to EPA's
final SIP action. Once budgets are deemed adequate, they may be used in
making conformity determinations. EPA believes that the proposed 2009
budgets meet EPA's adequacy criteria (40 CFR 93.118(e)(4)) and, through
a separate process, is taking comments through April 24, 2006 prior to
making an adequacy determination. For more information on the adequacy
process please see EPA's adequacy Web site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequacy process is separate
from the SIP approval process; therefore, these budgets may be found
adequate prior to EPA finalizing any approval action for this SIP. The
result of EPA's adequacy finding will be published in the Federal
Register.
VI. Revisions to the General Conformity Budget for McGuire Air Force
Base
A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
New Jersey is proposing to update the 1-hour ozone general
conformity emissions budgets for the McGuire Air Force Base previously
approved by EPA in the July 23, 2003 Federal Register (68 FR 43462).
Due to McGuire Air Force Base's vital role in the national defense and
need to have operational flexibility in order to meet its present and
future emissions, New Jersey is proposing a change to the 2005
emissions budgets. The year 2005 NOX budget is being
increased by 450 tons per year and the VOC budget is being decreased by
468 tons per year. This budget will be used in preparation for a new
budget to be determined by the 8-hour ozone attainment demonstration.
New Jersey is proposing this change consistent with EPA's policy on
substitution of ozone precursor emission reductions. Based on the
emission inventories, New Jersey has determined for the Trenton
nonattainment area that approximately 1 ton per year of NOX
emissions equals 1.04 tons per year of VOC emissions, as the emissions
relate to their potential to form ozone. Thus, increasing
NOX and decreasing VOC by their equivalent amounts results
in offsetting effects with respect to ozone formation. The VOC emission
reduction has been achieved through the implementation of pollution
prevention measures. Table 10 below summarizes the revised general
conformity budgets. The revised 2005 budgets would apply to 2005 and
all future years until new budgets are established based on the 8-hour
ozone attainment demonstration. EPA is proposing to approve the revised
2005 general conformity emissions budgets.
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Table 10.--McGuire Air Force Base General Conformity Emissions Budgets
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Previously approved budgets New budgets
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VOC (tons/ NOX (tons/ VOC (tons/ NOX (tons/
year) year) year) year)
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2005 \1\........................................ 1,198 1,084 730 1,534
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\1\ 2005 budgets updated such that the increase in NOX is offset by a decrease in VOC, resulting in no expected
net increase in ozone formation.
VII. New Jersey Emissions Inventory
A. 2002 Base Year Inventory
On November 18, 2002, EPA designated the 2002 base year inventory
as the inventory for SIP planning process to address the pollutants for
the eight hour-ozone, PM2.5 and CO national ambient air
quality standards. Identifying the base year gives certainty to States,
and the selection of 2002 harmonizes the date for EPA's Consolidated
Emissions Reporting rule (See 67 FR 39602 dated June 10, 2002), which
requires submission of the ozone, PM2.5 and CO emission
inventories every three years; 2002 is one of the required years for
such updates. These requirements allow the EPA, based on the state's
progress in reducing emissions, to periodically reassess its policies
and air quality standards and revise them as necessary. Most important,
the 2002 ozone, PM2.5 and CO inventories will be used to
develop and assess new control strategies that the states will need to
submit in their attainment demonstration SIPs for the national ambient
air quality standards for ozone, PM2.5 and CO. The base year
inventory plays an important role in modeling demonstrations for areas
classified as nonattainment and transport regions. The base year
inventory may also serve as part of statewide inventories for purposes
of regional modeling in transport areas. For the reasons stated above,
EPA would therefore emphasize the importance and benefits of developing
comprehensive, current, and accurate 2002 ozone, PM2.5 and
CO emission inventories.
There are specific components of an acceptable emission inventory.
The emission inventory must meet certain minimum requirements for
reporting each source category. Specifically, the source requirements
are detailed below.
The review process, which is described in supporting documentation,
is used to determine that all components of the base year inventory are
present. This review also evaluates the level of supporting
documentation provided by the state, assesses whether the emissions
were developed according to current EPA guidance, and evaluates the
quality of the data.
The review process is outlined here and consists of 9 points that
the inventory must include. For a base year emission inventory to be
acceptable, it must pass all of the following acceptance criteria:
1. Evidence that the inventory was quality assured by the state and
its implementation documented.
2. The point source inventory was complete.
3. Point source emissions were prepared or calculated according to
the current EPA guidance.
4. The area source inventory was complete.
5. The area source emissions were prepared or calculated according
to the current EPA guidance.
6. Biogenic emissions were prepared according to current EPA
guidance or another approved technique.
7. Non-road mobile emissions were prepared according to current EPA
guidance for all of the source categories.
8. The method (e.g., HPMS or a network transportation planning
model) used to develop VMT estimates followed EPA guidance.
9. The MOBILE model was correctly used to produce emission factors
for each of the vehicle classes.
Based on EPA's review, New Jersey satisfied all of EPA's
requirements for purposes of providing a comprehensive, accurate, and
current inventory of actual emissions for ozone, PM2.5 and
CO nonattainment areas. Where applicable, annual emissions are provided
for VOC, NOX, CO, PM2.5, PM10,
NH3 and SO2 emissions; VOC, NOX and CO
peak summer season daily emissions are provided for ozone nonattainment
areas and CO peak winter season daily emissions are provided for CO
nonattainment areas. The inventory was developed in accordance with
Emission Inventory Guidance for Implementation of ozone and Particulate
Matter NAAQS and Regional Haze Regulation, dated August 2005. A summary
of EPA's review is given below:
1. The Quality Assurance (QA) plan was implemented for all portions
of the inventory. The QA plan included a QA/Quality control (QC)
program for assessing data completeness and standard range checking.
Critical data elements relative to the inventory sources were assessed
for completeness. QA checks were performed relative to data collection
and analysis, and double counting of emissions from point, area and
mobile sources. QA/QC checks were conducted to ensure accuracy of
units, unit conversions, transposition of figures, and calculations.
2. The inventory is well documented. New Jersey provided
documentation detailing the methods used to develop emissions estimates
for each category. In addition, New Jersey identified the sources of
data used in developing the inventory.
3. The point source emissions are complete in accordance with EPA
guidance.
4. The point source emissions were prepared/calculated in
accordance with EPA guidance.
5. The area source emissions are complete and were prepared/
calculated in accordance with EPA guidance.
6. Biogenic emissions were prepared/calculated using the EPA's
Biogenic Emission Inventory System Model version 3.12 in accordance
with EPA guidance.
7. Emission estimates for the non-road mobile source categories
were correctly based on the latest nonroad mobile model and prepared in
accordance with EPA guidance.
8. The method used to develop VMT estimates was in accordance with
EPA guidance and was adequately described and documented in the
inventory report.
9. Mobile model 6.2.03 was used correctly for each of the vehicle
classes.
The 2002 base year inventory has been developed in accordance with
EPA guidance. Therefore, EPA is proposing to approve the 2002 base year
VOC, NOX, CO, PM2.5, PM10,
NH3 and SO2 emission inventories.
A more detailed discussion of how the emission inventory was
reviewed and the results of the review are presented in the technical
support document. Detailed emission inventory development procedures
can be found in the following document: Emission Inventory Guidance for
Implementation
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of ozone and Particulate Matter NAAQS and Regional Haze Regulation,
dated August 2005.
Tables 11 and 12 present a summary of 2002 PM2.5 and
NOX annual emission estimates by source sector and by county
for the New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long
Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area. Tables 13, 14 and
15 present a summary of VOC, NOX and CO peak summer season
daily emissions by source sector by county in New Jersey. Tables 16
through 22 present a summary of the 2002 VOC, NOX, CO,
PM2.5, NH3, PM10, and SO2
annual emissions by source sector by county in New Jersey. Section
II.B.1, Tables 1 and 2 present CO peak winter season daily emissions.
Table 11.--2002 Annual PM2.5 Base Year Inventory, the New Jersey Portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-
Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 Nonattainment Area
[In tons/year]
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Nonroad
County Point Area mobile Onroad mobile
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Bergen.......................................... 149 537 478 376
Essex........................................... 185 411 393 291
Hudson.......................................... 1,077 269 345 134
Mercer.......................................... 188 530 203 141
Middlesex....................................... 483 467 346 347
Monmouth........................................ 55 981 501 244
Morris.......................................... 39 1,284 280 209
Passaic......................................... 19 543 178 141
Somerset........................................ 55 441 149 152
Union........................................... 540 272 333 185
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Total....................................... 2,790 5,736 2,788 2,200
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Table 12.--2002 Annual NOX Base Year Inventory, the New Jersey Portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long
Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 Nonattainment Area
[In tons/year]
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Nonroad
County Point Area mobile Onroad mobile
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Bergen.......................................... 988 2,815 6,707 23,917
Essex........................................... 2,441 2,436 8,137 16,537
Hudson.......................................... 9,674 1,735 5,976 7,853
Mercer.......................................... 13,034 1,257 2,427 8,505
Middlesex....................................... 3,567 2,343 4,849 22,147
Monmouth........................................ 240 1,806 4,316 14,860
Morris.......................................... 284 1,752 3,151 13,758
Passaic......................................... 122 1,361 2,413 8,748
Somerset........................................ 313 1,048 2,097 9,090
Union........................................... 3,757 1,621 5,883 12,294
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Total....................................... 34,420 18,173 45,957 137,701
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Table 13.--2002 Statewide VOC Summer Season Daily Emission Inventory
[By county and source sector]
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VOC tons per day
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County Onroad mobile Nonroad
Point sources Area sources source mobile sources Biogenic
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Atlantic........................ 0.15 11.04 12.85 10.25 40.38
Bergen.......................... 5.72 36.86 36.09 22.05 4.60
Burlington...................... 4.02 17.54 15.80 10.01 39.84
Camden.......................... 1.23 22.68 13.80 7.23 20.06
Cape May........................ 0.20 5.26 4.72 22.61 19.55
Cumberland...................... 0.46 8.93 5.37 11.03 28.41
Essex........................... 2.95 31.53 18.26 11.92 3.40
Gloucester...................... 32.01 20.39 9.10 5.91 16.83
Hudson.......................... 7.33 21.09 9.10 5.22 3.27
Hunterdon....................... 0.64 5.49 5.99 3.66 12.44
Mercer.......................... 2.13 13.06 11.60 7.01 12.65
Middlesex....................... 16.08 34.87 26.00 14.58 12.78
Monmouth......................
