Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early Progress Plan Imperial County 8-Hour Ozone for Transportation Conformity Purposes; California, 24594 [E8-9821]
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Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early
Progress Plan Imperial County 8-Hour
Ozone for Transportation Conformity
Purposes; California
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that the Agency has
found that the motor vehicle emissions
budgets for 8-hour ozone in the Imperial
County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress
Plan are adequate for transportation
conformity purposes. The Imperial
County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress
Plan was submitted to EPA on March
24, 2008 by the California Air Resources
Board as a revision to the California
State Implementation Plan (SIP). As a
result of our adequacy findings, the
Southern California Association of
Governments and the U.S. Department
of Transportation must use these
budgets in future conformity analyses
once the finding becomes effective.
DATES: This finding is effective May 20,
2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adrienne Priselac, U.S. EPA, Region IX,
Air Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105–3901;
(415) 972–3285 or
priselac.adrienne@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA.
Today’s notice is simply an
announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region IX sent a
letter to the California Air Resources
Board on April 16, 2008 stating that the
motor vehicle emissions budgets in the
submitted Imperial County 8-hour
Ozone Early Progress Plan for 2009 are
adequate. The finding is available at
EPA’s conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/
transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequate
motor vehicle emissions budgets are
provided in the following table:
MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS
Budget year
Volatile organic
compounds 1
(tons per day)
Nitrogen oxides
(tons per day)
2009 .................................................................................................................................................................
7
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plan uses a comparable State term, reactive organic gases (ROG).
Transportation conformity is required
by Clean Air Act section 176(c). EPA’s
conformity rule requires that
transportation plans, transportation
improvement programs, and projects
conform to state air quality
implementation plans (SIPs) and
establishes the criteria and procedures
for determining whether or not they do.
Conformity to a SIP means that
transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations,
worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the national
ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine
whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission
budgets are adequate for conformity
purposes are outlined in 40 CFR
93.118(e)(4). We have described our
process for determining the adequacy of
submitted SIP budgets in our July 1,
2004 preamble starting at 69 FR 40038
and we used the information in these
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resources in making our adequacy
determination. Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review, and should not be
used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval action for the SIP. Even if we
find a budget adequate, the SIP could
later be disapproved.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: April 16, 2008.
Laura Yoshii,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early
Progress Plan Western Mojave Desert
8-Hour Ozone for Transportation
Conformity Purposes; California
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that the Agency has
found that the motor vehicle emissions
budgets for 8-hour ozone in the Western
Mojave Desert 8-hour Ozone Early
Progress Plan are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. The
Western Mojave Desert 8-hour Ozone
Early Progress Plan was submitted to
EPA on March 24, 2008 by the
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R09-OAR-2008-0324; FRL-8561-8]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets in Submitted
Early Progress Plan Imperial County 8-Hour Ozone for Transportation
Conformity Purposes; California
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that the Agency
has found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets for 8-hour ozone in
the Imperial County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress Plan are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. The Imperial County 8-hour Ozone
Early Progress Plan was submitted to EPA on March 24, 2008 by the
California Air Resources Board as a revision to the California State
Implementation Plan (SIP). As a result of our adequacy findings, the
Southern California Association of Governments and the U.S. Department
of Transportation must use these budgets in future conformity analyses
once the finding becomes effective.
DATES: This finding is effective May 20, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Adrienne Priselac, U.S. EPA, Region
IX, Air Division AIR-2, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-
3901; (415) 972-3285 or priselac.adrienne@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, whenever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA.
Today's notice is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region IX sent a letter to the California Air
Resources Board on April 16, 2008 stating that the motor vehicle
emissions budgets in the submitted Imperial County 8-hour Ozone Early
Progress Plan for 2009 are adequate. The finding is available at EPA's
conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequate motor vehicle emissions budgets are provided
in the following table:
Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Volatile organic
Budget year compounds \1\ Nitrogen oxides
(tons per day) (tons per day)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2009.............................. 7 17
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\1\ The plan uses a comparable State term, reactive organic gases (ROG).
Transportation conformity is required by Clean Air Act section
176(c). EPA's conformity rule requires that transportation plans,
transportation improvement programs, and projects conform to state air
quality implementation plans (SIPs) and establishes the criteria and
procedures for determining whether or not they do. Conformity to a SIP
means that transportation activities will not produce new air quality
violations, worsen existing violations, or delay timely attainment of
the national ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's motor vehicle
emission budgets are adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in
40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We have described our process for determining the
adequacy of submitted SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004 preamble starting
at 69 FR 40038 and we used the information in these resources in making
our adequacy determination. Please note that an adequacy review is
separate from EPA's completeness review, and should not be used to
prejudge EPA's ultimate approval action for the SIP. Even if we find a
budget adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: April 16, 2008.
Laura Yoshii,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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