Adequacy Status of the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Texas Reasonable Further Progress 8-Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes, 26091-26092 [2017-11602]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OAR–2014–0471; FRL–9962–65–
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Granting Petitions To Add n-Propyl
Bromide to the List of Hazardous Air
Pollutants
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ACTION: Notice, extension of comment
period.
AGENCY:
On January 9, 2017, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
published a draft notice of the rationale
for granting petitions to add n-propyl
bromide (nPB), also known as 1bromopropane (1-BP) (Chemical
Abstract Service No. 106–94–5), to the
list of hazardous air pollutants
contained in section 112(b)(1) of the
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2017, to October 1, 2017, in order to
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The EPA is now granting the request in
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Stephen Page,
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9961–75–Region 6]
Adequacy Status of the HoustonGalveston-Brazoria, Texas Reasonable
Further Progress 8-Hour Ozone Motor
Vehicle Emission Budgets for
Transportation Conformity Purposes
26091
These budgets are effective June
21, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
essential information in this notice will
be available at EPA’s conformity Web
site: https://www.epa.gov/state-andlocal-transportation/adequacy-reviewstate-implementation-plan-sipsubmissions-conformity. You may also
contact Mr. Jeffrey Riley, State
Implementation Section (6MM–AA),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas,
Texas 75202–2733, (214) 665–8542 or
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 December 29, 2016, we received a
SIP revision from the TCEQ. This
revision consisted of an RFP SIP for the
HGB 2008 8-hour ozone NAAQS
nonattainment area. This submission
established MVEBs for the HGB 2008
ozone nonattainment area for the year
2017. The MVEB is the amount of
emissions allowed in the SIP for on-road
motor vehicles; it establishes an
emissions ceiling for the HGB area
regional transportation network, used to
develop the 2017 on-road motor vehicle
emissions projections contained in the
RFP SIP. The MVEBs are provided in
Table 1:
DATES:
TABLE 1—HOUSTON-GALVESTONBRAZORIA REASONABLE FURTHER
PROGRESS NOX AND VOC MVEBS
[Summer ozone season tons per day]
Ozone Precursor
2017 MVEB
AGENCY:
NOX ..........................................
VOC ..........................................
The Environmental Protection
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) State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision for the 2008 8-hour ozone
National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS), submitted on December 29,
2016 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.
On January 18, 2017, EPA posted the
revised HGB area MVEBs on EPA’s Web
site for the purpose of soliciting public
comments, as part of the adequacy
process. The comment period closed on
February 17, 2017, 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 April 28, 2017, finding that
the MVEBs in the HGB RFP SIP,
submitted on December 29, 2016 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://
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation/adequacy-review-stateimplementation-plan-sip-submissionsconformity.
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’’
See 69 FR 40004 (July 1, 2004). Please
note that an adequacy review is separate
from EPA’s SIP completeness review,
and it should not be used to prejudge
EPA’s ultimate action on the HGB 2008
8-hour ozone NAAQS RFP SIP revision
submittal. Even if EPA finds the budgets
adequate in this action, we will
undertake a separate review and action
on the RFP SIP revision that will
determine the approvability of the SIP
revision.
Within 24 months from the effective
date of this notice, the HGB-area
transportation partners, such as the
Houston-Galveston Area Council, 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).
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: April 28, 2017.
Samuel Coleman,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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AGENCY
[FRL–9961–85–OLEM]
Thirty-First Update of the Federal
Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance
Docket
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Since 1988, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
has maintained a Federal Agency
Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket
(‘‘Docket’’) under Section 120(c) of the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act (CERCLA). Section 120(c) requires
EPA to establish a Docket that contains
certain information reported to EPA by
Federal facilities that manage hazardous
waste or from which a reportable
quantity of hazardous substances has
been released. As explained further
below, the Docket is used to identify
Federal facilities that should be
evaluated to determine if they pose a
threat to public health or welfare and
the environment and to provide a
mechanism to make this information
available to the public.
This notice identifies the Federal
facilities not previously listed on the
Docket and also identifies Federal
facilities reported to EPA since the last
update on October 24, 2016. In addition
to the list of additions to the Docket,
this notice includes a section with
revisions of the previous Docket list and
a section of Federal facilities that are to
be deleted from the Docket. Thus, the
revisions in this update include 33
additions, 1 correction, and 13 deletions
to the Docket since the previous update.
At the time of publication of this notice,
the new total number of Federal
facilities listed on the Docket is 2,338.
DATES: This list is current as of March
10, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Electronic versions of the Docket and
more information on its implementation
can be obtained at https://www.epa.gov/
fedfac/previous-federal-agencyhazardous-waste-compliance-docketupdates by clicking on the link for
Cleanups at Federal Facilities or by
contacting Benjamin Simes
(Simes.Benjamin@epa.gov), Federal
Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance
Docket Coordinator, Federal Facilities
Restoration and Reuse Office (Mail Code
5106R), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20460. Additional
information on the Docket and a
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obtained at: https://www.epa.gov/
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Regional Docket Coordinators
3.0 Revisions of the Previous Docket
4.0 Process for Compiling the Updated
Docket
5.0 Facilities Not Included
6.0 Facility NPL Status Reporting, Including
NFRAP Status
7.0 Information Contained on Docket Listing
1.0
Introduction
Section 120(c) of CERCLA, 42 United
States Code (U.S.C.) § 9620(c), as
amended by the Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act
of 1986 (SARA), requires EPA to
establish the Federal Agency Hazardous
Waste Compliance Docket. The Docket
contains information on Federal
facilities that manage hazardous waste
and such information is submitted by
Federal agencies to EPA under Sections
3005, 3010, and 3016 of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA),
42 U.S.C. 6925, 6930, and 6937.
Additionally, the Docket contains
information on Federal facilities with a
reportable quantity of hazardous
substances that has been released and
such information is submitted by
Federal agencies to EPA under Section
103 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9603.
Specifically, RCRA Section 3005
establishes a permitting system for
certain hazardous waste treatment,
storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities;
RCRA Section 3010 requires waste
generators, transporters and TSD
facilities to notify EPA of their
hazardous waste activities; and RCRA
Section 3016 requires Federal agencies
to submit biennially to EPA an
inventory of their Federal hazardous
waste facilities. CERCLA Section 103(a)
requires the owner or operator of a
vessel or onshore or offshore facility to
notify the National Response Center
(NRC) of any spill or other release of a
hazardous substance that equals or
exceeds a reportable quantity (RQ), as
defined by CERCLA Section 101.
Additionally, CERCLA Section 103(c)
requires facilities that have ‘‘stored,
treated, or disposed of’’ hazardous
wastes and where there is ‘‘known,
suspected, or likely releases’’ of
hazardous substances to report their
activities to EPA.
CERCLA Section 120(d) requires EPA
to take steps to assure that a Preliminary
Assessment (PA) be completed for those
sites identified in the Docket and that
the evaluation and listing of sites with
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9961-75-Region 6]
Adequacy Status of the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Texas
Reasonable Further Progress 8-Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets
for Transportation Conformity Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 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) State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision for the
2008 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS),
submitted on December 29, 2016 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.
DATES: These budgets are effective June 21, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The essential information in this
notice will be available at EPA's conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/adequacy-review-state-implementation-plan-sip-submissions-conformity. You may also contact
Mr. Jeffrey Riley, State Implementation Section (6MM-AA), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas,
Texas 75202-2733, (214) 665-8542 or 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 December 29, 2016, we received a SIP revision from the TCEQ.
This revision consisted of an RFP SIP for the HGB 2008 8-hour ozone
NAAQS nonattainment area. This submission established MVEBs for the HGB
2008 ozone nonattainment area for the year 2017. The MVEB is the amount
of emissions allowed in the SIP for on-road motor vehicles; it
establishes an emissions ceiling for the HGB area regional
transportation network, used to develop the 2017 on-road motor vehicle
emissions projections contained in the RFP SIP. The MVEBs are provided
in Table 1:
Table 1--Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Reasonable Further Progress NOX and
VOC MVEBS
[Summer ozone season tons per day]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ozone Precursor 2017 MVEB
------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOX........................................................ 121.81
VOC........................................................ 68.04
------------------------------------------------------------------------
On January 18, 2017, EPA posted the revised HGB area MVEBs on EPA's
Web site for the purpose of soliciting public comments, as part of the
adequacy process. The comment period closed on February 17, 2017, 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 April 28, 2017,
finding that the MVEBs in the HGB RFP SIP, submitted on December 29,
2016 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://
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www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/adequacy-review-state-
implementation-plan-sip-submissions-conformity.
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'' See 69 FR 40004 (July 1, 2004). Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA's SIP completeness review, and it
should not be used to prejudge EPA's ultimate action on the HGB 2008 8-
hour ozone NAAQS RFP SIP revision submittal. Even if EPA finds the
budgets adequate in this action, we will undertake a separate review
and action on the RFP SIP revision that will determine the
approvability of the SIP revision.
Within 24 months from the effective date of this notice, the HGB-
area transportation partners, such as the Houston-Galveston Area
Council, 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: April 28, 2017.
Samuel Coleman,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6.
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