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The authority citation for these
special conditions is as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701,
44702, 44704.
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The Special Conditions
Accordingly, pursuant to the
authority delegated to me by the
Administrator, the following special
conditions are issued as part of the type
certification basis for Cessna, Model
650, Citation VII airplanes modified by
Universal Avionics Systems
Corporation.
Installed Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
and Battery Systems.
These special conditions require that
(1) all characteristics of the rechargeable
lithium batteries and battery installation
that could affect safe operation of the
Cessna, Model 650, Citation VII
airplanes are addressed; and (2)
appropriate instructions for continued
airworthiness, which include
maintenance requirements, are
established to ensure the availability of
electrical power, when needed, from the
batteries.
In lieu of the requirements of Title 14,
Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR)
25.1353(b)(1) through (b)(4) at
amendment 25–123, all rechargeable
lithium batteries and battery systems on
Cessna, Model 650, Citation VII
airplanes, modified by Universal
Avionics Systems Corporation, must be
designed and installed as follows:
1. Safe cell temperatures and
pressures must be maintained during
any foreseeable charging or discharging
condition and during any failure of the
charging or battery monitoring system
not shown to be extremely remote. The
rechargeable lithium battery installation
must preclude explosion in the event of
those failures.
2. Design of the rechargeable lithium
batteries must preclude the occurrence
of self-sustaining, uncontrolled
increases in temperature or pressure.
3. No explosive or toxic gases emitted
by any rechargeable lithium battery in
normal operation, or as the result of any
failure of the battery charging system,
monitoring system, or battery
installation which is not shown to be
extremely remote, may accumulate in
hazardous quantities within the
airplane.
4. Installations of rechargeable
lithium batteries must meet the
requirements of § 25.863(a) through (d).
5. No corrosive fluids or gases that
may escape from any rechargeable
lithium battery may damage
surrounding structure or any adjacent
systems, equipment, or electrical wiring
of the airplane in such a way as to cause
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a major or more severe failure condition,
in accordance with § 25.1309(b) and
applicable regulatory guidance.
6. Each rechargeable lithium battery
installation must have provisions to
prevent any hazardous effect on
structure or essential systems caused by
the maximum amount of heat the
battery can generate during a short
circuit of the battery or of its individual
cells.
7. Rechargeable lithium battery
installations must have a system to
control the charging rate of the battery
automatically, so as to prevent battery
overheating or overcharging, and:
a. A battery temperature sensing and
over-temperature warning system with a
means for automatically disconnecting
the battery from its charging source in
the event of an over-temperature
condition, or,
b. A battery failure sensing and
warning system with a means for
automatically disconnecting the battery
from its charging source in the event of
battery failure.
8. Any rechargeable lithium battery
installation, the function of which is
required for safe operation of the
airplane, must incorporate a monitoring
and warning feature that will provide an
indication to the appropriate flight
crewmembers whenever the state-ofcharge of the batteries has fallen below
levels considered acceptable for
dispatch of the airplane.
9. The instructions for continued
airworthiness required by § 25.1529
must contain maintenance requirements
to assure that the battery is sufficiently
charged at appropriate intervals
specified by the battery manufacturer
and the equipment manufacturer that
contain the rechargeable lithium battery
or rechargeable lithium battery system.
This is required to ensure that lithium
rechargeable batteries and lithium
rechargeable battery systems will not
degrade below specified ampere-hour
levels sufficient to power the airplane
systems for intended applications. The
instructions for continued airworthiness
must also contain procedures for the
maintenance of batteries in spares
storage to prevent the replacement of
batteries with batteries that have
experienced degraded charge retention
ability or other damage due to
prolonged storage at a low state of
charge. Replacement batteries must be
of the same manufacturer and part
number as approved by the FAA.
Precautions should be included in the
instructions for continued airworthiness
maintenance instructions to prevent
mishandling of the rechargeable lithium
battery and rechargeable lithium battery
systems, which could result in short-
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circuit or other unintentional impact
damage caused by dropping or other
destructive means that could result in
personal injury or property damage.
Note 1: The term ‘‘sufficiently
charged’’ means that the battery will
retain enough of a charge, expressed in
ampere-hours, to ensure that the battery
cells will not be damaged. A battery cell
may be damaged by lowering the charge
below a point where the battery
experiences a reduction in the ability to
charge and retain a full charge. This
reduction would be greater than the
reduction that may result from normal
operational degradation.
Note 2: These special conditions are
not intended to replace § 25.1353(b) in
the certification basis of Cessna, Model
650, Citation VII airplanes. These
special conditions apply only to
rechargeable lithium batteries, lithium
battery systems, and their installations.
The requirements of § 25.1353(b) remain
in effect for batteries and battery
installations on Cessna, Model 650,
Citation VII airplanes that do not use
lithium batteries.
Issued in Renton, Washington, on February
23, 2015.
Michael Kaszycki,
Acting Manager, Transport Airplane
Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service.
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AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R06–OAR–2014–0871; FRL–9923–80–
Region 6]
Approval and Promulgation of
Implementation Plans: Texas;
Approval of Substitution for
Transportation Control Measures
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule; notice of
administrative change.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is making an
administrative change to update the
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) to
reflect a change made to the Texas State
Implementation Plan (SIP) on November
3, 2014, as a result of EPA’s concurrence
on a substitute transportation control
measure (TCM) for the Dallas/Ft. Worth
(DFW) portion of the Texas SIP. On
November 24, 2014, the State of Texas,
through the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality (TCEQ),
submitted a revision to the Texas SIP
SUMMARY:
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requesting that EPA update its SIP to
reflect a substitution of a TCM. The
substitution was made pursuant to the
TCM substitution provisions contained
in Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA concurred
on this substitution on November 3,
2014. In this administrative action, EPA
is updating the non-regulatory
provisions of the Texas SIP to reflect the
substitution. In summary, the
substitution was a replacement of
environmental speed limits (ESLs)
within the DFW 8-hour ozone
nonattainment area with traffic
signalization projects. EPA has
determined that this action falls under
the ‘‘good cause’’ exemption in the
Administrative Procedures Act (APA)
which, upon finding ‘‘good cause,’’
authorizes an agency to make an action
effective immediately, thereby avoiding
the 30-day delayed effective date
otherwise provided for in the APA.
DATES: This action is effective March 3,
2015.
ADDRESSES: SIP materials which are
incorporated by reference into 40 Code
of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 52 are
available for inspection at the following
location: Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue,
Suite 700, Dallas, TX 75202. Publicly
available materials are available either
electronically in www.regulations.gov or
in hard copy at the Region 6 office. The
Regional Office hours are Monday
through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Jeffrey Riley at (214) 665–8542 or via
electronic mail at riley.jeffrey@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
November 3, 2014, EPA issued a
concurrence letter to TCEQ stating that
the substitution of DFW area ESL TCMs
with traffic signalization project TCMs
met the CAA section 176(c)(8)
requirements for substituting TCMs in
an area’s approved SIP. See also EPA’s
Guidance for Implementing the CAA
section 176(c)(8) Transportation Control
Measure Substitution and Addition
Provision contained in the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users which was signed into law on
August 10, 2005, dated January 2009.
The DFW area ESLs were originally
approved into the SIP as control
measures on October 11, 2005 (70 FR
58978). On January 9, 2014, EPA
approved re-categorization of the DFW
area ESL control measures to TCMs,
making the measures eligible for
substitution under the provisions of
CAA section 176(c)(8) (79 FR 1596).
As a part of the concurrence process,
the public was provided an opportunity
to comment on the proposed TCM
substitution. Public notice and comment
was provided by the DFW metropolitan
planning organization, the North Central
Texas Council of Governments
(NCTCOG), during Regional
Transportation Council meetings held
on July 14, 2014 and July 17, 2014.
Public notice for these meetings was
published in 20 DFW area newspapers
and circulars.
Through this concurrence process,
EPA determined that the requirements
of CAA section 176(c)(8) were met,
including the requirement that the
substitute measures achieve equivalent
or greater emission reductions than the
control measure to be replaced. Upon
EPA’s concurrence, the ESL substitution
took effect as a matter of federal law. A
copy of EPA’s concurrence letter is
included in the Docket for this action.
This letter can be accessed at
www.regulations.gov using Docket ID
No. EPA–R06–OAR–2014–0871. In
accordance with the requirements for
TCM substitution, on November 24,
2014, TCEQ submitted a request for EPA
to update the DFW portion of the Texas
SIP to reflect EPA’s previous approval of
the TCM substitution of the ESLs with
the traffic signalization project TCMs in
its SIP (the subject of this administrative
change). Today, EPA is taking
administrative action to update the nonregulatory provisions of the Texas SIP in
40 CFR 52.2270(e) to reflect EPA’s
concurrence on the substitution of a
TCM for the conversion of ESLs to
traffic signalization projects:
Applicable geographic or
nonattainment area
DFW nine-county area ESL TCMs to traffic signalization TCMs. Affected
counties are Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton, Parker, Johnson, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall.
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Name of nonregulatory SIP provision
Dallas-Fort Worth .................................
Under section 553 of the APA, an
agency may find good cause where
procedures are ‘‘impractical,
unnecessary, or contrary to the public
interest.’’ The substitution was made
through the process included in CAA
section 176(c)(8). Effective immediately,
today’s action codifies provisions which
are already in effect. The public had an
opportunity to comment on this
substitution during the public comment
period prior to approval of the
substitution. Immediate notice of this
action in the Federal Register benefits
the public by providing the updated
Texas SIP Compilation and
‘‘Identification of Plan’’ portion of the
Federal Register.
Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
A. General Requirements
Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR
51735, October 4, 1993), this
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administrative action is not a
‘‘significant regulatory action’’ and is
therefore not subject to review by the
Office of Management and Budget. This
action is not subject to Executive Order
13211, ‘‘Actions Concerning Regulations
That Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use’’ (66 FR 28355, May
22, 2001) because it is not a significant
regulatory action under Executive Order
12866. Because the Agency has made a
‘‘good cause’’ finding that this action is
not subject to notice-and-comment
requirements under the APA or any
other statute as indicated in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
above, it is not subject to the regulatory
flexibility provisions of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), or
to sections 202 and 205 of the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995
(Pub. L. 104–4). In addition, this action
does not significantly or uniquely affect
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date/effective date
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small governments or impose a
significant intergovernmental mandate,
as described in sections 203 and 204 of
UMRA.
This administrative action also does
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), nor will
it 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).
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This administrative action also is not
subject to Executive Order 13045 (62
FR19885, April 23, 1997), because it is
not economically significant. This
administrative action does not involve
technical standards; 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. The
administrative action also does not
involve special consideration of
environmental justice related issues as
required by Executive Order 12898 (59
FR 7629, February 16, 1994). This
administrative action does not impose
an information collection burden under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
B. Submission to Congress and the
Comptroller General
The Congressional Review Act (CRA)
(5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), as added by the
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement
Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides
that before a rule may take effect, the
agency promulgating the rule must
submit a rule report, which includes a
copy of the rule, to each House of the
Congress and to the Comptroller General
of the United States. Section 808 allows
the issuing agency to make a rule
effective sooner than otherwise
provided by the CRA if the agency
makes a good cause finding that notice
and public procedure is impracticable,
unnecessary or contrary to the public
interest. Today’s administrative action
simply codifies a provision which is
already in effect as a matter of law in
Federal and approved state programs. 5
U.S.C. 808(2). These announced actions
were effective upon EPA’s concurrence.
EPA will submit a report containing this
action and other required information to
the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of
Representatives, and the Comptroller
General of the United States prior to
publication of this action in the Federal
Register. This update to Texas’ SIP
Compilation is not a ‘‘major rule’’ as
defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
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reference, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone,
Volatile organic compounds.
Dated: February 19, 2015.
Ron Curry,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
40 CFR part 52 is amended as follows:
PART 52—[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for part 52
continues to read as follows:
■
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Subpart SS—Texas
2. In § 52.2270(e), the table titled
‘‘EPA Approved Nonregulatory
Provisions and Quasi-Regulatory
Measures in the Texas SIP’’ is amended
by adding an entry at the end for ‘‘DFW
nine-county area ESL TCM to traffic
signalization TCMs’’.
The addition reads as follows:
■
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
§ 52.2270
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Incorporation by
*
Identification of plan.
*
*
(e) * * *
*
*
EPA-APPROVED NONREGULATORY PROVISIONS AND QUASI-REGULATORY MEASURES IN THE TEXAS SIP
Name of SIP provision
Applicable geographic or
nonattainment area
*
*
DFW nine-county area ESL
TCM to traffic signalization
TCMs.
*
Dallas-Fort Worth: Dallas,
Tarrant, Collin, Denton,
Parker, Johnson, Ellis, Kaufman and Rockwall Counties.
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40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R07–OAR–2014–0399; FRL–9923–66–
Region 7]
Air Quality State Implementation
Plans; Approval and Promulgation:
Missouri; St. Louis Inspection and
Maintenance Program
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Final rule.
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AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is taking final action to
approve revisions to the State
Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by
the State of Missouri relating to its
vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I/
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State
submittal/
effective date
*
9/16/2010
EPA approval date
*
*
*
1/9/2014, 79 FR 1596 ........ DFW ESLs recategorized as
TCM 1/9/2014, substituted
withtraffic signalization
TCMs 11/3/2014.
M) Program. On August 16, 2007, and
December 7, 2007, the Missouri
Department of Natural Resources
(MDNR) requested to amend the SIP to
replace the St. Louis centralized vehicle
test program, called the Gateway Clean
Air Program (GCAP), with a decentralized, OBD-only vehicle I/M
program called the Gateway Vehicle
Inspection Program (GVIP). In this
action, EPA is also approving three
additional SIP revisions submitted by
Missouri related to the state’s I/M
program including: Exemptions for
specially constructed vehicles or ‘‘kitcars,’’ exemptions for Plugin Hybrid
Electric Vehicles (PHEV), and rescission
of Missouri State Highway Patrol rules
from the Missouri SIP.
These revisions to Missouri’s SIP do
not have an adverse effect on air quality
as demonstrated in the technical
support document which is a part of
this docket. EPA’s approval of these SIP
revisions is being done in accordance
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Comments
with the requirements of the Clean Air
Act (CAA).
This final rule is effective on
April 2, 2015.
DATES:
EPA has established a
docket for this action under Docket ID
No. EPA–R07–OAR–2014–0399. All
documents in the docket are listed on
the www.regulations.gov Web site.
Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available,
i.e., CBI or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute.
Certain other material, such as
copyrighted material, is not placed on
the Internet and will be publicly
available only in hard copy form.
Publicly available docket materials are
available either electronically through
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at
the Environmental Protection Agency,
Air Planning and Development Branch,
11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa,
Kansas 66219. The Regional Office’s
official hours of business are Monday
ADDRESSES:
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R06-OAR-2014-0871; FRL-9923-80-Region 6]
Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans: Texas;
Approval of Substitution for Transportation Control Measures
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Final rule; notice of administrative change.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making an
administrative change to update the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
to reflect a change made to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP)
on November 3, 2014, as a result of EPA's concurrence on a substitute
transportation control measure (TCM) for the Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW)
portion of the Texas SIP. On November 24, 2014, the State of Texas,
through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), submitted
a revision to the Texas SIP
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requesting that EPA update its SIP to reflect a substitution of a TCM.
The substitution was made pursuant to the TCM substitution provisions
contained in Clean Air Act (CAA). EPA concurred on this substitution on
November 3, 2014. In this administrative action, EPA is updating the
non-regulatory provisions of the Texas SIP to reflect the substitution.
In summary, the substitution was a replacement of environmental speed
limits (ESLs) within the DFW 8-hour ozone nonattainment area with
traffic signalization projects. EPA has determined that this action
falls under the ``good cause'' exemption in the Administrative
Procedures Act (APA) which, upon finding ``good cause,'' authorizes an
agency to make an action effective immediately, thereby avoiding the
30-day delayed effective date otherwise provided for in the APA.
DATES: This action is effective March 3, 2015.
ADDRESSES: SIP materials which are incorporated by reference into 40
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 52 are available for inspection
at the following location: Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6,
1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 700, Dallas, TX 75202. Publicly available
materials are available either electronically in www.regulations.gov or
in hard copy at the Region 6 office. The Regional Office hours are
Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 4:30, excluding Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeffrey Riley at (214) 665-8542 or
via electronic mail at riley.jeffrey@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 3, 2014, EPA issued a
concurrence letter to TCEQ stating that the substitution of DFW area
ESL TCMs with traffic signalization project TCMs met the CAA section
176(c)(8) requirements for substituting TCMs in an area's approved SIP.
See also EPA's Guidance for Implementing the CAA section 176(c)(8)
Transportation Control Measure Substitution and Addition Provision
contained in the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users which was signed into law on August 10,
2005, dated January 2009. The DFW area ESLs were originally approved
into the SIP as control measures on October 11, 2005 (70 FR 58978). On
January 9, 2014, EPA approved re-categorization of the DFW area ESL
control measures to TCMs, making the measures eligible for substitution
under the provisions of CAA section 176(c)(8) (79 FR 1596).
As a part of the concurrence process, the public was provided an
opportunity to comment on the proposed TCM substitution. Public notice
and comment was provided by the DFW metropolitan planning organization,
the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), during
Regional Transportation Council meetings held on July 14, 2014 and July
17, 2014. Public notice for these meetings was published in 20 DFW area
newspapers and circulars.
Through this concurrence process, EPA determined that the
requirements of CAA section 176(c)(8) were met, including the
requirement that the substitute measures achieve equivalent or greater
emission reductions than the control measure to be replaced. Upon EPA's
concurrence, the ESL substitution took effect as a matter of federal
law. A copy of EPA's concurrence letter is included in the Docket for
this action. This letter can be accessed at www.regulations.gov using
Docket ID No. EPA-R06-OAR-2014-0871. In accordance with the
requirements for TCM substitution, on November 24, 2014, TCEQ submitted
a request for EPA to update the DFW portion of the Texas SIP to reflect
EPA's previous approval of the TCM substitution of the ESLs with the
traffic signalization project TCMs in its SIP (the subject of this
administrative change). Today, EPA is taking administrative action to
update the non-regulatory provisions of the Texas SIP in 40 CFR
52.2270(e) to reflect EPA's concurrence on the substitution of a TCM
for the conversion of ESLs to traffic signalization projects:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Applicable
Name of nonregulatory SIP geographic or State submittal date/
provision nonattainment effective date
area
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DFW nine-county area ESL TCMs Dallas-Fort Worth 9/16/2010
to traffic signalization
TCMs. Affected counties are
Dallas, Tarrant, Collin,
Denton, Parker, Johnson,
Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall.
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Under section 553 of the APA, an agency may find good cause where
procedures are ``impractical, unnecessary, or contrary to the public
interest.'' The substitution was made through the process included in
CAA section 176(c)(8). Effective immediately, today's action codifies
provisions which are already in effect. The public had an opportunity
to comment on this substitution during the public comment period prior
to approval of the substitution. Immediate notice of this action in the
Federal Register benefits the public by providing the updated Texas SIP
Compilation and ``Identification of Plan'' portion of the Federal
Register.
Statutory and Executive Order Reviews
A. General Requirements
Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this
administrative action is not a ``significant regulatory action'' and is
therefore not subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget.
This action is not subject to Executive Order 13211, ``Actions
Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use'' (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001) because it is not a
significant regulatory action under Executive Order 12866. Because the
Agency has made a ``good cause'' finding that this action is not
subject to notice-and-comment requirements under the APA or any other
statute as indicated in the Supplementary Information section above, it
is not subject to the regulatory flexibility provisions of the
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), or to sections 202
and 205 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) of 1995 (Pub. L.
104-4). In addition, this action does not significantly or uniquely
affect small governments or impose a significant intergovernmental
mandate, as described in sections 203 and 204 of UMRA.
This administrative action also does 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),
nor will it 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).
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This administrative action also is not subject to Executive Order
13045 (62 FR19885, April 23, 1997), because it is not economically
significant. This administrative action does not involve technical
standards; 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. The administrative action also does not involve special
consideration of environmental justice related issues as required by
Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). This
administrative action does not impose an information collection burden
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
B. Submission to Congress and the Comptroller General
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), as added
by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996,
generally provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency
promulgating the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy
of the rule, to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller
General of the United States. Section 808 allows the issuing agency to
make a rule effective sooner than otherwise provided by the CRA if the
agency makes a good cause finding that notice and public procedure is
impracticable, unnecessary or contrary to the public interest. Today's
administrative action simply codifies a provision which is already in
effect as a matter of law in Federal and approved state programs. 5
U.S.C. 808(2). These announced actions were effective upon EPA's
concurrence. EPA will submit a report containing this action and other
required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of
Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior
to publication of this action in the Federal Register. This update to
Texas' SIP Compilation is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C.
804(2).
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Incorporation by
reference, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Volatile organic compounds.
Dated: February 19, 2015.
Ron Curry,
Regional Administrator, Region 6.
40 CFR part 52 is amended as follows:
PART 52--[AMENDED]
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1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Subpart SS--Texas
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2. In Sec. 52.2270(e), the table titled ``EPA Approved Nonregulatory
Provisions and Quasi-Regulatory Measures in the Texas SIP'' is amended
by adding an entry at the end for ``DFW nine-county area ESL TCM to
traffic signalization TCMs''.
The addition reads as follows:
Sec. 52.2270 Identification of plan.
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(e) * * *
EPA-Approved Nonregulatory Provisions and Quasi-Regulatory Measures in the Texas SIP
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State
Name of SIP provision Applicable geographic or submittal/ EPA approval date Comments
nonattainment area effective date
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DFW nine-county area ESL TCM to Dallas-Fort Worth: 9/16/2010 1/9/2014, 79 FR 1596....................... DFW ESLs recategorized
traffic signalization TCMs. Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, as TCM 1/9/2014,
Denton, Parker, Johnson, substituted withtraffic
Ellis, Kaufman and signalization TCMs 11/3/
Rockwall Counties. 2014.
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