Adequacy Status of the Municipality of Guaynabo, PR submitted PM10, 39957 [E9-19068]
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AGENCY
[Docket No. EPA–R02–OAR–2009–0508;
FRL–8942–8]
Adequacy Status of the Municipality of
Guaynabo, PR submitted PM10 Limited
Maintenance Plan for Transportation
Conformity Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that we have found
that the Limited Maintenance Plan for
PM10 in the Municipality of Guaynabo,
Puerto Rico is adequate for
transportation conformity purposes.
DATES: This finding is effective August
25, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marina Cubias-Castro, Air Programs
Branch, Environmental Protection
Agency—Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th
floor, New York, NY 10007,
castro.marina@epa.gov, 212–637–3713.
The finding and the response to
comments are available at EPA’s
conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/
transconf/adequacy.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Today’s notice is simply an
announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region 2 sent a letter
to the Puerto Rico Environmental
Quality Board on June 23, 2009 stating
that the Municipality of Guaynabo
submitted PM10 Limited Maintenance
Plan, is adequate.
On August 9, 2001, EPA issued
guidance on streamlined maintenance
plan provisions for certain moderate
PM10 nonattainment areas seeking
redesignation to attainment (Memo from
Lydia Wegman, Director, Air Quality
Standards and Strategies Division,
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entitled ‘‘Limited Maintenance Plan
Option for Moderate PM10
Nonattainment Areas’’). The LMP
Option memo contains a statistical
demonstration that areas meeting
certain air quality criteria will, with a
high degree of probability, maintain the
standard 10 years into the future. Since
the Municipality of Guaynabo has been
attaining the PM10 NAAQS for at least
5 years, and has a low risk of future
exceedances, the limited maintenance
plan policy allows both Puerto Rico and
EPA to redesignate this area, which is at
a low risk of PM10 violations, in an
expedited manner. EPA’s adequacy
review of the limited maintenance plan
for the Municipality of Guaynabo
primarily focuses on whether the area
qualifies for the applicable limited
maintenance plan policy for PM10. We
have found the maintenance plan for the
Municipality of Guaynabo adequate for
conformity purposes under our limited
maintenance plan policy.
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’ve 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 limited maintenance plan
adequate, the SIP could later be
disapproved.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671 q.
Dated: July 28, 2009.
George Pavlou,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[Docket No. EPA-R02-OAR-2009-0508; FRL-8942-8]
Adequacy Status of the Municipality of Guaynabo, PR submitted
PM10 Limited Maintenance Plan for Transportation Conformity
Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found
that the Limited Maintenance Plan for PM10 in the
Municipality of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico is adequate for transportation
conformity purposes.
DATES: This finding is effective August 25, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marina Cubias-Castro, Air Programs
Branch, Environmental Protection Agency--Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th
floor, New York, NY 10007, castro.marina@epa.gov, 212-637-3713.
The finding and the response to comments are available at EPA's
conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Today's notice is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region 2 sent a letter to the Puerto Rico
Environmental Quality Board on June 23, 2009 stating that the
Municipality of Guaynabo submitted PM10 Limited Maintenance
Plan, is adequate.
On August 9, 2001, EPA issued guidance on streamlined maintenance
plan provisions for certain moderate PM10 nonattainment
areas seeking redesignation to attainment (Memo from Lydia Wegman,
Director, Air Quality Standards and Strategies Division, entitled
``Limited Maintenance Plan Option for Moderate PM10
Nonattainment Areas''). The LMP Option memo contains a statistical
demonstration that areas meeting certain air quality criteria will,
with a high degree of probability, maintain the standard 10 years into
the future. Since the Municipality of Guaynabo has been attaining the
PM10 NAAQS for at least 5 years, and has a low risk of
future exceedances, the limited maintenance plan policy allows both
Puerto Rico and EPA to redesignate this area, which is at a low risk of
PM10 violations, in an expedited manner. EPA's adequacy
review of the limited maintenance plan for the Municipality of Guaynabo
primarily focuses on whether the area qualifies for the applicable
limited maintenance plan policy for PM10. We have found the
maintenance plan for the Municipality of Guaynabo adequate for
conformity purposes under our limited maintenance plan policy.
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've 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
limited maintenance plan adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671 q.
Dated: July 28, 2009.
George Pavlou,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2.
[FR Doc. E9-19068 Filed 8-7-09; 8:45 am]
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