Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes; CT, 24859-24860 [2017-11222]
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AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA–R01–OAR–2017–0158; A–1–FRL–
9961–72–Region 1]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets for Transportation
Conformity Purposes; CT
Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is notifying the public
that it has found that the 2017 motor
vehicle emission budgets for the Greater
Connecticut ozone nonattainment area
for the 2008 national ambient air quality
standard (NAAQS) for ozone are
adequate for transportation conformity
purposes. As a result of our finding,
Connecticut must use these motor
vehicle emissions budgets for future
transportation conformity
determinations. These budgets were
contained in the January 17, 2017
attainment demonstration State
Implementation Plan (SIP) for the
Greater Connecticut ozone
nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS.
DATES: This finding is effective June 15,
2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ariel Garcia, Air Quality Planning Unit,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
EPA Region 1 Regional Office, 5 Post
Office Square, Suite 100 (mail code:
OEP05–2), Boston, MA 02109–3912,
telephone number (617) 918–1660, fax
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number (617) 918–0660, email
garcia.ariel@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA.
Today’s action is simply an
announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region 1 sent a letter
to the Connecticut Department of
Energy and Environmental Protection
(CT DEEP) on March 20, 2017 stating
that the 2017 motor vehicle emissions
budgets (MVEBs) for the Greater
Connecticut nonattainment area for the
2008 ozone NAAQS are adequate. CT
DEEP submitted the budgets on January
17, 2017, as part of its attainment
demonstration SIP for the Greater
Connecticut nonattainment area for the
2008 ozone NAAQS. This submittal was
announced on EPA’s conformity Web
site, and received no comments. (See
https://www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation/adequacy-review-stateimplementation-plan-sip-submissionsconformity. Once there, click on ‘‘What
SIP submissions are currently under
EPA adequacy review?’’)
The 2017 MVEBs, in tons per summer
day (tpsd), for volatile organic
compounds (VOC) and oxides of
nitrogen (NOX) for Greater Connecticut,
are as follows:
2017 ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE
EMISSIONS
BUDGETS
GREATER
CONNECTICUT AREA
VOC
(tpsd)
NOX
(tpsd)
15.9
22.2
Year 2017 .........
Transportation conformity is required
by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act.
EPA’s conformity rule requires that
transportation plans, programs, and
projects conform to state air quality
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implementation plans and establishes
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 emissions
budgets are adequate for transportation
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, conformity final rule
preamble starting at 69 FR 40038, and
we used the information in these
resources while making our adequacy
determination. Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review, and it also should
not be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval of the SIP. Even if we find a
budget adequate, the SIP could later be
disapproved.
Connecticut’s January 17, 2017 SIP
revision also includes 2017 MVEBs for
the Connecticut portion of the New
York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT (Southwest Connecticut)
nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone
NAAQS. However, we are not able to
evaluate the budgets for the Southwest
Connecticut nonattainment area at this
time since Connecticut DEEP has not yet
submitted its reasonable further
progress and attainment demonstration
SIPs for this area. EPA will not take
action, nor make an adequacy
determination, on MVEBs for the 2008
ozone standard for the Southwest
Connecticut nonattainment area, until a
SIP revision meeting the requirements
for reasonable further progress or an
attainment demonstration is submitted
for that nonattainment area.
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Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Incorporation by reference,
Intergovernmental relations, Lead,
Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Particulate
matter, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile
organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q.
Dated: April 10, 2017.
Deborah A. Szaro,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA New
England.
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Region 3]
Approval and Promulgation of Air
Quality Implementation Plans;
Pennsylvania; Revisions to Allegheny
County Health Department Rules
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Direct final rule.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is taking direct final
action to approve revisions to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania state
implementation plan (SIP). The
revisions pertain to administrative and
definition amendments made to
Allegheny County Health Department’s
(ACHD) Rules and Regulations Article
XXI, Air Pollution Control. The
amendments updated the name of the
Bureau of Environmental Quality to the
Bureau of Environmental Health and
revised the definition of ‘‘County
Executive’’ to agree with the definition
in the Allegheny County Home Rule
Charter. EPA is approving these
revisions to Article XXI in accordance
with the requirements of the Clean Air
Act (CAA).
DATES: This rule is effective on July 31,
2017 without further notice, unless EPA
receives adverse written comment by
June 30, 2017. If EPA receives such
comments, it will publish a timely
withdrawal of the direct final rule in the
Federal Register and inform the public
that the rule will not take effect.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R03–
OAR–2017–0064 at https://
www.regulations.gov, or via email to
rehn.brian@epa.gov. For comments
submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the
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comments. Once submitted, comments
cannot be edited or removed from
Regulations.gov. For either manner of
submission, EPA may publish any
comment received to its public docket.
Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be
confidential business information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara
Calcinore, (215) 814–2043, or by email
at calcinore.sara@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
December 15, 2016, the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania submitted, on behalf of
Allegheny County, a formal revision to
the Pennsylvania SIP.
I. Background
The SIP revision consists of
administrative and definition
amendments to ACHD’s Rules and
Regulations Article XXI, Air Pollution
Control. These amendments were
submitted by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection
(PADEP) as a formal revision to the
Pennsylvania SIP, on behalf of
Allegheny County. The regulations were
adopted by the ACHD.
II. Summary of SIP Revision and EPA
Analysis
The December 15, 2016 SIP revision
submittal includes amended versions of
ACHD’s Rules and Regulations Article
XXI, Air Pollution Control, section
2101.07 paragraph (a), Administration
and Organization—Administration, and
section 2101.20, Definitions.
Pennsylvania requests that EPA approve
this submittal so that these amended
regulations become part of the
Pennsylvania SIP. The amendment to
section 2101.07 paragraph (a) changed
the name of the ‘‘Allegheny County
Health Department Bureau of
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Environmental Quality’’ to the
‘‘Allegheny County Health Department
Bureau of Environmental Health.’’ The
amendment to section 2101.20 updates
the definition of ‘‘County Executive’’
from the ‘‘Chief Executive of Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania’’ to ‘‘the Chief
Executive of Allegheny, Pennsylvania,
as defined in the Allegheny County
Home Rule Charter.’’
EPA’s review of this material
indicates the December 15, 2016
submittal is approvable as it meets
requirements of the CAA under section
110(a) and contains only minor
administrative changes to regulations
that were previously included in the
Pennsylvania SIP. None of these
changes affects emissions of air
pollutants, and none of the changes will
interfere with any applicable
requirement concerning attainment of
reasonable further progress or any other
applicable requirements in the CAA.
Thus, EPA finds the revision approvable
specifically for section 110(1) of the
CAA.
III. Final Action
EPA is approving the Pennsylvania
SIP revision for Allegheny County,
which was submitted on December 15,
2016. EPA is publishing this rule
without prior proposal because EPA
views this as a noncontroversial
amendment and anticipates no adverse
comment. However, in the ‘‘Proposed
Rules’’ section of today’s Federal
Register, EPA is publishing a separate
document that will serve as the proposal
to approve the SIP revision if adverse
comments are filed. This rule will be
effective on July 31, 2017 without
further notice unless EPA receives
adverse comment by June 30, 2017. If
EPA receives adverse comment, EPA
will publish a timely withdrawal in the
Federal Register informing the public
that the rule will not take effect. EPA
will address all public comments in a
subsequent final rule based on the
proposed rule. EPA will not institute a
second comment period on this action.
Any parties interested in commenting
must do so at this time. Please note that
if EPA receives adverse comment on an
amendment, paragraph, or section of
this rule and if that provision may be
severed from the remainder of the rule,
EPA may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an
adverse comment.
IV. Incorporation by Reference
In this rule, EPA is finalizing
regulatory text that includes
incorporation by reference. In
accordance with requirements of 1 CFR
51.5, EPA is finalizing the incorporation
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[EPA-R01-OAR-2017-0158; A-1-FRL-9961-72-Region 1]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for
Transportation Conformity Purposes; CT
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is notifying the
public that it has found that the 2017 motor vehicle emission budgets
for the Greater Connecticut ozone nonattainment area for the 2008
national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone are adequate
for transportation conformity purposes. As a result of our finding,
Connecticut must use these motor vehicle emissions budgets for future
transportation conformity determinations. These budgets were contained
in the January 17, 2017 attainment demonstration State Implementation
Plan (SIP) for the Greater Connecticut ozone nonattainment area for the
2008 ozone NAAQS.
DATES: This finding is effective June 15, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ariel Garcia, Air Quality Planning
Unit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Region 1 Regional
Office, 5 Post Office Square, Suite 100 (mail code: OEP05-2), Boston,
MA 02109-3912, telephone number (617) 918-1660, fax number (617) 918-
0660, email garcia.ariel@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document whenever ``we,'' ``us,'' or ``our'' is
used, we mean EPA.
Today's action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region 1 sent a letter to the Connecticut Department
of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) on March 20, 2017
stating that the 2017 motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for the
Greater Connecticut nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone NAAQS are
adequate. CT DEEP submitted the budgets on January 17, 2017, as part of
its attainment demonstration SIP for the Greater Connecticut
nonattainment area for the 2008 ozone NAAQS. This submittal was
announced on EPA's conformity Web site, and received no comments. (See
https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/adequacy-review-state-implementation-plan-sip-submissions-conformity. Once there, click
on ``What SIP submissions are currently under EPA adequacy review?'')
The 2017 MVEBs, in tons per summer day (tpsd), for volatile organic
compounds (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOX) for Greater
Connecticut, are as follows:
2017 Adequate Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets Greater Connecticut Area
------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOX (tpsd)
VOC (tpsd)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Year 2017................................... 15.9 22.2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act. EPA's conformity rule requires that transportation
plans, programs, and projects conform to state air quality
implementation plans and establishes 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
emissions budgets are adequate for transportation 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,
conformity final rule preamble starting at 69 FR 40038, and we used the
information in these resources while making our adequacy determination.
Please note that an adequacy review is separate from EPA's completeness
review, and it also should not be used to prejudge EPA's ultimate
approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget adequate, the SIP could
later be disapproved.
Connecticut's January 17, 2017 SIP revision also includes 2017
MVEBs for the Connecticut portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-
Long Island, NY-NJ-CT (Southwest Connecticut) nonattainment area for
the 2008 ozone NAAQS. However, we are not able to evaluate the budgets
for the Southwest Connecticut nonattainment area at this time since
Connecticut DEEP has not yet submitted its reasonable further progress
and attainment demonstration SIPs for this area. EPA will not take
action, nor make an adequacy determination, on MVEBs for the 2008 ozone
standard for the Southwest Connecticut nonattainment area, until a SIP
revision meeting the requirements for reasonable further progress or an
attainment demonstration is submitted for that nonattainment area.
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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Lead, Nitrogen
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.
Dated: April 10, 2017.
Deborah A. Szaro,
Acting Regional Administrator, EPA New England.
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