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Dated: May 18, 2012.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RM98–1–000]
Records Governing Off-the-Record
Communications; Public Notice
This constitutes notice, in accordance
with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt
of prohibited and exempt off-the-record
communications.
Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222,
September 22, 1999) requires
Commission decisional employees, who
make or receive a prohibited or exempt
off-the-record communication relevant
to the merits of a contested proceeding,
to deliver to the Secretary of the
Commission, a copy of the
communication, if written, or a
summary of the substance of any oral
communication.
Prohibited communications are
included in a public, non-decisional file
associated with, but not a part of, the
decisional record of the proceeding.
Unless the Commission determines that
the prohibited communication and any
responses thereto should become a part
of the decisional record, the prohibited
off-the-record communication will not
be considered by the Commission in
reaching its decision. Parties to a
proceeding may seek the opportunity to
respond to any facts or contentions
made in a prohibited off-the-record
Communication
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communication, and may request that
the Commission place the prohibited
communication and responses thereto
in the decisional record. The
Commission will grant such a request
only when it determines that fairness so
requires. Any person identified below as
having made a prohibited off-the-record
communication shall serve the
document on all parties listed on the
official service list for the applicable
proceeding in accordance with Rule
2010, 18 CFR 385.2010.
Exempt off-the-record
communications are included in the
decisional record of the proceeding,
unless the communication was with a
cooperating agency as described by 40
CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR
385.2201(e)(1)(v).
The following is a list of off-therecord communications recently
received by the Secretary of the
Commission. The communications
listed are grouped by docket numbers in
ascending order. These filings are
available for review at the Commission
in the Public Reference Room or may be
viewed on the Commission’s Web site at
https://www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary
link. Enter the docket number,
excluding the last three digits, in the
docket number field to access the
document. For assistance, please contact
FERC, Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll
free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY,
contact (202) 502–8659.
Prohibited:
1. EL01–10–000 ...................................................................................................
2. FA11–21–000 ..................................................................................................
3. CP11–56–000 ..................................................................................................
4. CP11–161–000 ................................................................................................
Exempt:
1. CP12–30–000 ..................................................................................................
2. CP07–52–000/CP07–53–000 ..........................................................................
3. ER12–1204–000 ..............................................................................................
4. CP12–30–000 ..................................................................................................
5. CP11–515–000 ................................................................................................
6. P–12495–006 ...................................................................................................
7. CP12–50–000 ..................................................................................................
8. EL12–56–000 ...................................................................................................
9. P–2188–000 .....................................................................................................
10. P–12470–000 .................................................................................................
10. AD12–1–000/ER11–4081–000 ......................................................................
11. CP12–18–000 ................................................................................................
12. P–2710–057/P–2712–074 .............................................................................
13. CP11–128–000 ..............................................................................................
14. RM11–26–000/EL11–66–000 ........................................................................
15. CP11–56–000 ................................................................................................
16. CP11–14–000 ................................................................................................
17. AD12–1–000/ER11–4081–000 ......................................................................
Presenter or requester
4–27–12
5–10–12
5–16–12
5–17–12
Ben Tansey.1
Eric Morris.2
Kevin Burke.
James C. Yardley.
3–28–12
4–2–12
4–9–12
4–12–12
4–17–12
4–18–12
4–19–12
4–24–12
4–25–12
5–1–12
5–2–12
5–3–12
5–10–12
5–10–12
5–11–12
5–14–12
5–14–12
5–26–12
Commission Staff.3
Commission Staff.4
Robert F. Powelson.
Commission Staff.5
Hon. Nan Hayworth, M.D.
Hon. Cathy McMorris Rodgers.
Hon. Kent Conrad.
Hon. Eliot L. Engel.
Hon. Max Baucus.
Commission Staff.6
Justin Vickers.
U.S. Dept. of Interior Staff.
Hon. Susan M. Collins.
Hon. Jane L. Corwin.
Hon. Edward J. Markey.
Office of the Mayor, New York, NY.
Commission Staff.7
Joseph M. Power.
1 Email
record.
record for both May 10th and May 17th.
3 Meeting record.
4 Telephone record.
5 Meeting record.
6 Email record.
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Dated: May 21, 2012.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[R08–CO–2012–0001; FRL–9676–4]
Adequacy Determination for Aspen
PM10 and Fort Collins Carbon
Monoxide Maintenance Plans’ Motor
Vehicle Emissions Budgets for
Transportation Conformity Purposes;
State of Colorado
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
AGENCY:
In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that the Agency has
found the following adequate for
transportation conformity purposes: The
‘‘Revised PM10 Maintenance Plan for the
Aspen Attainment/Maintenance Area’’ 1
and its motor vehicle emissions budget,
and the ‘‘Revised Carbon Monoxide
Maintenance Plan Fort Collins
Attainment/Maintenance Area.’’ As
more fully explained in the
Supplementary Information section of
this notice, this finding will affect future
transportation conformity
determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective June 11,
2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim
Russ, Air Program, Mailcode 8P–AR,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 8, 1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver,
Colorado 80202–1129, telephone
number (303) 312–6479, fax number
(303) 312–6064, or email
russ.tim@epa.gov.
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SUMMARY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our,’’ are used, we mean
EPA.
Transportation conformity is required
by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act
(CAA). The conformity rule provisions
at 40 CFR 93 require that transportation
plans, programs, and projects conform
to a State Implementation Plan (SIP) and
establish 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,
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10 refers to particulate matter less than or
equal to 10 microns in size.
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worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the National
Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS).
The criteria by which we determine
whether a SIP revision’s motor vehicle
emissions budget (MVEB) is adequate
for conformity purposes are outlined in
40 CFR 93.118(e)(4), which was
promulgated August 15, 1997 (62 FR
43780). We described our process for
determining the adequacy of submitted
SIP MVEBs in our July 1, 2004
Transportation Conformity Rule
Amendments (69 FR 40004). In
addition, in certain areas with
monitored ambient carbon monoxide
(CO) values significantly below the
NAAQS, EPA has allowed states to use
limited maintenance plans (LMPs),
which contain no future year
maintenance projections and, therefore,
no MVEBs. (See ‘‘Limited Maintenance
Plan Option for Nonclassifiable CO
Nonattainment Areas,’’ signed by Joseph
Paisie, Group Leader, Integrated Policy
and Strategies Group (MD–15), October
6, 1995, also known as EPA’s ‘‘LMP
Policy.’’) In an area covered by an
approved carbon monoxide LMP, the
Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and
Transportation Improvement Program
(TIP) are presumed to automatically
satisfy the emissions budget test
requirement, and no regional emissions
analysis with respect to a MVEB under
sections 40 CFR 93.118 or 93.119 (i.e.,
MVEB(s), build less than no-build, or
build less than base year) of the
conformity rule is required for RTP and
TIP conformity. We used these
resources in making our adequacy
determinations announced in this
notice.
This notice is simply an
announcement of findings that we have
already made and are as described
below:
Aspen (PM10): The State submitted the
‘‘Revised PM10 Maintenance Plan for the
Aspen Attainment/Maintenance Area’’
on May 25, 2011. The State prepared the
submittal to meet the requirements of
section 175A(b) of the CAA for a second
10-year maintenance plan. EPA sent a
letter to the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment
(CDPHE) on August 11, 2011, stating
that the submitted Aspen PM10 second
10-year maintenance plan and the 2023
p.m.10 MVEB were adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. We
posted the ‘‘Revised PM10 Maintenance
Plan for the Aspen Attainment/
Maintenance Area’’ for adequacy review
on EPA’s transportation conformity Web
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site on June 20, 2011. The public
comment period closed on July 20,
2011, and we did not receive any
comments in response to the adequacy
review posting (see https://www.epa.gov/
otaq/stateresources/transconf/
currsips.htm#aspen).
Fort Collins (Carbon Monoxide): The
State submitted the ‘‘Revised Carbon
Monoxide Maintenance Plan Fort
Collins Attainment/Maintenance Area’’
on May 25, 2011. The State prepared the
submittal to meet the requirements of
section 175A(b) of the CAA for a second
10-year maintenance plan and used, as
appropriate, the provisions of EPA’s CO
LMP policy. Thus, the LMP contains no
MVEB. EPA sent a letter to the CDPHE
on August 9, 2011, stating that the
submitted Fort Collins second 10-year
maintenance plan was adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. We
posted the ‘‘Revised Carbon Monoxide
Maintenance Plan Fort Collins
Attainment/Maintenance Area’’ for
adequacy review on EPA’s
transportation conformity Web site on
June 20, 2011. The public comment
period closed on July 20, 2011, and we
did not receive any comments in
response to the adequacy review posting
(see https://www.epa.gov/otaq/
stateresources/transconf/
currsips.htm#ftcollins).
For the Aspen PM10 maintenance
area, the MVEB we found adequate is
1146 pounds of PM10 per day in 2023.
Following the effective date listed in the
DATES section of this notice, the
Colorado Department of Transportation
and the U.S. Department of
Transportation are required to use this
motor vehicle emissions budget for
future transportation conformity
determinations for projects in the Aspen
PM10 maintenance area. As noted above,
the ‘‘Revised Carbon Monoxide
Maintenance Plan Fort Collins
Attainment/Maintenance Area’’
contains no MVEB, and, under EPA’s
LMP interpretation, the North Front
Range Metropolitan Planning
Organization, the Colorado Department
of Transportation, and the U.S.
Department of Transportation may
presume that RTPs and TIPs satisfy the
emissions budget test requirement with
respect to such revised plan. However,
prior MVEBs may apply as we described
in our adequacy letter to the State.
Please note that our adequacy review
described above is separate from our
rulemaking action on the two
maintenance plans discussed above and
should not be used to prejudge our
ultimate approval or disapproval of each
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RM98-1-000]
Records Governing Off-the-Record Communications; Public Notice
This constitutes notice, in accordance with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of
the receipt of prohibited and exempt off-the-record communications.
Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, September 22, 1999) requires Commission
decisional employees, who make or receive a prohibited or exempt off-
the-record communication relevant to the merits of a contested
proceeding, to deliver to the Secretary of the Commission, a copy of
the communication, if written, or a summary of the substance of any
oral communication.
Prohibited communications are included in a public, non-decisional
file associated with, but not a part of, the decisional record of the
proceeding. Unless the Commission determines that the prohibited
communication and any responses thereto should become a part of the
decisional record, the prohibited off-the-record communication will not
be considered by the Commission in reaching its decision. Parties to a
proceeding may seek the opportunity to respond to any facts or
contentions made in a prohibited off-the-record communication, and may
request that the Commission place the prohibited communication and
responses thereto in the decisional record. The Commission will grant
such a request only when it determines that fairness so requires. Any
person identified below as having made a prohibited off-the-record
communication shall serve the document on all parties listed on the
official service list for the applicable proceeding in accordance with
Rule 2010, 18 CFR 385.2010.
Exempt off-the-record communications are included in the decisional
record of the proceeding, unless the communication was with a
cooperating agency as described by 40 CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR
385.2201(e)(1)(v).
The following is a list of off-the-record communications recently
received by the Secretary of the Commission. The communications listed
are grouped by docket numbers in ascending order. These filings are
available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or
may be viewed on the Commission's Web site at https://www.ferc.gov using
the eLibrary link. Enter the docket number, excluding the last three
digits, in the docket number field to access the document. For
assistance, please contact FERC, Online Support at
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY,
contact (202) 502-8659.
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Communication Presenter or
Docket No. date requester
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Prohibited:
1. EL01-10-000............... 4-27-12 Ben Tansey.\1\
2. FA11-21-000............... 5-10-12 Eric Morris.\2\
3. CP11-56-000............... 5-16-12 Kevin Burke.
4. CP11-161-000.............. 5-17-12 James C. Yardley.
Exempt:
1. CP12-30-000............... 3-28-12 Commission Staff.\3\
2. CP07-52-000/CP07-53-000... 4-2-12 Commission Staff.\4\
3. ER12-1204-000............. 4-9-12 Robert F. Powelson.
4. CP12-30-000............... 4-12-12 Commission Staff.\5\
5. CP11-515-000.............. 4-17-12 Hon. Nan Hayworth,
M.D.
6. P-12495-006............... 4-18-12 Hon. Cathy McMorris
Rodgers.
7. CP12-50-000............... 4-19-12 Hon. Kent Conrad.
8. EL12-56-000............... 4-24-12 Hon. Eliot L. Engel.
9. P-2188-000................ 4-25-12 Hon. Max Baucus.
10. P-12470-000.............. 5-1-12 Commission Staff.\6\
10. AD12-1-000/ER11-4081-000. 5-2-12 Justin Vickers.
11. CP12-18-000.............. 5-3-12 U.S. Dept. of
Interior Staff.
12. P-2710-057/P-2712-074.... 5-10-12 Hon. Susan M.
Collins.
13. CP11-128-000............. 5-10-12 Hon. Jane L. Corwin.
14. RM11-26-000/EL11-66-000.. 5-11-12 Hon. Edward J.
Markey.
15. CP11-56-000.............. 5-14-12 Office of the Mayor,
New York, NY.
16. CP11-14-000.............. 5-14-12 Commission Staff.\7\
17. AD12-1-000/ER11-4081-000. 5-26-12 Joseph M. Power.
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\1\ Email record.
\2\ Email record for both May 10th and May 17th.
\3\ Meeting record.
\4\ Telephone record.
\5\ Meeting record.
\6\ Email record.
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\7\ Telephone record.
Dated: May 21, 2012.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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