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Adequacy Status of the HoustonGalveston-Brazoria, Texas Reasonable
Further Progress and Attainment
Demonstration 8-Hour Ozone Motor
Vehicle Emission Budgets for
Transportation Conformity Purposes
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy
determination.
AGENCY:
EPA is notifying the public
that it has found that the motor vehicle
emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Texas
(HGB) Reasonable Further Progress
(RFP) and Attainment Demonstration
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revisions, submitted on April 1st and
April 6th, 2010 respectively, by the
Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality (TCEQ) are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. As
a result of EPA’s finding, the HGB area
must use these budgets for future
conformity determinations for the 1997
8-hour ozone standard.
DATES: These budgets are effective
February 9, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
essential information in this notice will
be available at EPA’s conformity Web
site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
SUMMARY:
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stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
You may also contact Mr. Jeffrey Riley,
Air Planning Section (6PD–L), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas,
Texas 75202–2733, telephone (214)
665–8542, E-mail address:
Riley.Jeffrey@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’
and ‘‘our’’ refers to EPA. The word
‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the mobile source
emissions budget for volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) and the mobile
source emissions budget for nitrogen
oxides (NOX).
On April 1st and April 6th, 2010, we
received State Implementation Plan
(SIP) revisions from the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality
(TCEQ). These revisions consisted of a
Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) SIP
and an Attainment Demonstration SIP
for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria
(HGB) ozone nonattainment area. These
submissions established motor vehicle
emissions budgets (MVEB) for the HGB
area for the years 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017
and 2018. The MVEB is the amount of
emissions allowed in the state
implementation plan for on-road motor
vehicles; it establishes an emissions
ceiling for the regional transportation
network. The MVEBs are provided in
Tables 1 and 2:
TABLE 1—HOUSTON-GALVESTON-BRAZORIA REASONABLE FURTHER PROGRESS (RFP) NOX AND VOC MVEBS
[Summer season tons per day]
2008
NOX ......................................................................................
VOC .....................................................................................
2011
193.39
94.75
135.74
75.17
TABLE 2—HOUSTON-GALVESTON- transportation conformity purposes are
BRAZORIA ATTAINMENT DEMONSTRA- outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We
have also described the process for
TION NOX AND VOC MVEB
[Summer season tons per day]
2018
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NOX ......................................
VOC ......................................
49.22
45.97
On June 24, 2010, EPA posted the
availability of the HGB area budgets on
EPA’s Web site, as part of the adequacy
process, for the purpose of soliciting
public comments. The comment period
closed on July 26, 2010, and we
received no comments.
Today’s notice is simply an
announcement of a finding that EPA has
already made. EPA Region 6 sent a letter
to TCEQ on October 8, 2010, finding
that the MVEBs in the HGB RFP and
Attainment Demonstration SIPs,
submitted on April 1st and April 6th,
2010 respectively, are adequate and
must be used for transportation
conformity determinations in the HGB
area. This finding has also been
announced on EPA’s conformity Web
site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
Transportation conformity is required
by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act.
EPA’s conformity rule, 40 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) part 93,
requires that transportation plans,
programs and projects conform to state
air quality implementation plans and
establishes the criteria and procedures
for determining whether or not they do
so. 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 EPA determines
whether a SIP’s MVEB is adequate for
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determining the adequacy of submitted
SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, final
rulemaking entitled, ‘‘Transportation
Conformity Rule Amendments for the
New 8-hour Ozone and PM2.5 National
Ambient Air Quality Standards and
Miscellaneous Revisions for Existing
Areas; Transportation Conformity Rule
Amendments: Response to Court
Decision and Additional Rule Changes’’
(69 FR 40004). Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review, and it should not
be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval of the HGB RFP SIP and
Attainment Demonstration SIP revision
submittals. Even if EPA finds the
budgets adequate, these submittals
could later be disapproved.
Within 24 months from the effective
date of this notice, the transportation
partners will need to demonstrate
conformity to the new MVEBs if the
demonstration has not already been
made, pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e).
See, 73 FR 4419 (January 24, 2008).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: January 13, 2011.
Al Armendariz,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9256-8]
Adequacy Status of the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Texas
Reasonable Further Progress and Attainment Demonstration 8-Hour Ozone
Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy determination.
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SUMMARY: EPA is notifying the public that it has found that the motor
vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria,
Texas (HGB) Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) and Attainment
Demonstration State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions, submitted on
April 1st and April 6th, 2010 respectively, by the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality (TCEQ) are adequate for transportation conformity
purposes. As a result of EPA's finding, the HGB area must use these
budgets for future conformity determinations for the 1997 8-hour ozone
standard.
DATES: These budgets are effective February 9, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The essential information in this
notice will be available at EPA's conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/otaq/
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stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. You may also contact Mr. Jeffrey
Riley, Air Planning Section (6PD-L), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733, telephone
(214) 665-8542, E-mail address: Riley.Jeffrey@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we,'' ``us,'' and
``our'' refers to EPA. The word ``budget(s)'' refers to the mobile
source emissions budget for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the
mobile source emissions budget for nitrogen oxides (NOX).
On April 1st and April 6th, 2010, we received State Implementation
Plan (SIP) revisions from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
(TCEQ). These revisions consisted of a Reasonable Further Progress
(RFP) SIP and an Attainment Demonstration SIP for the Houston-
Galveston-Brazoria (HGB) ozone nonattainment area. These submissions
established motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEB) for the HGB area for
the years 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2018. The MVEB is the amount of
emissions allowed in the state implementation plan for on-road motor
vehicles; it establishes an emissions ceiling for the regional
transportation network. The MVEBs are provided in Tables 1 and 2:
Table 1--Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Reasonable Further Progress (RFP) NOX and VOC MVEBS
[Summer season tons per day]
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2008 2011 2014 2017 2018
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NOX............................. 193.39 135.74 95.26 67.95 60.92
VOC............................. 94.75 75.17 61.84 53.23 51.35
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Table 2--Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Attainment Demonstration NOX and VOC
MVEB
[Summer season tons per day]
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2018
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NOX..................................................... 49.22
VOC..................................................... 45.97
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On June 24, 2010, EPA posted the availability of the HGB area
budgets on EPA's Web site, as part of the adequacy process, for the
purpose of soliciting public comments. The comment period closed on
July 26, 2010, and we received no comments.
Today's notice is simply an announcement of a finding that EPA has
already made. EPA Region 6 sent a letter to TCEQ on October 8, 2010,
finding that the MVEBs in the HGB RFP and Attainment Demonstration
SIPs, submitted on April 1st and April 6th, 2010 respectively, are
adequate and must be used for transportation conformity determinations
in the HGB area. This finding has also been announced on EPA's
conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act. EPA's conformity rule, 40 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) part 93, requires that transportation plans, programs and
projects conform to state air quality implementation plans and
establishes the criteria and procedures for determining whether or not
they do so. 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 EPA determines whether a SIP's MVEB is
adequate for transportation conformity purposes are outlined in 40 CFR
93.118(e)(4). We have also described the process for determining the
adequacy of submitted SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, final rulemaking
entitled, ``Transportation Conformity Rule Amendments for the New 8-
hour Ozone and PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards and
Miscellaneous Revisions for Existing Areas; Transportation Conformity
Rule Amendments: Response to Court Decision and Additional Rule
Changes'' (69 FR 40004). Please note that an adequacy review is
separate from EPA's completeness review, and it should not be used to
prejudge EPA's ultimate approval of the HGB RFP SIP and Attainment
Demonstration SIP revision submittals. Even if EPA finds the budgets
adequate, these submittals could later be disapproved.
Within 24 months from the effective date of this notice, the
transportation partners will need to demonstrate conformity to the new
MVEBs if the demonstration has not already been made, pursuant to 40
CFR 93.104(e). See, 73 FR 4419 (January 24, 2008).
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: January 13, 2011.
Al Armendariz,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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