Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets in Submitted State Implementation Plan for Transportation Conformity Purposes; District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia; Washington, DC-MD-VA 2008 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard Nonattainment Area Maintenance Plan 2014, 2025, and 2030 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic Compounds, 38301-38302 [2018-16777]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–R03–OAR–2018–0215; FRL–9981–
71—Region 3]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle
Emission Budgets in Submitted State
Implementation Plan for
Transportation Conformity Purposes;
District of Columbia, Maryland, and
Virginia; Washington, DC-MD-VA 2008
8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air
Quality Standard Nonattainment Area
Maintenance Plan 2014, 2025, and 2030
Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for
Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic
Compounds
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
AGENCY:
In this document, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA
or Agency) is notifying the public that
the Agency has found that the 2014,
2025, and 2030 motor vehicle emissions
budgets (MVEBs) for the ozone
precursors nitrogen oxides (NOX) and
volatile organic compounds (VOC)
contained in the maintenance plan for
the Washington, DC–MD–VA 2008
ozone national ambient air quality
standards (NAAQS) nonattainment area
(hereafter ‘‘the Washington Area’’ or
‘‘the Area’’) are adequate for conformity
purposes. As a result of EPA’s finding,
the Washington Area must use the NOX
and VOC MVEBs from the submitted
maintenance plan for the Washington
Area in future conformity
determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective August
21, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara
Calcinore, (215) 814–2043, or by email
at calcinore.sara@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On March 12, 2018, January 29, 2018,
and January 3, 2018, the District of
Columbia (the District), State of
Maryland (Maryland), and
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Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia),
respectively, formally submitted, as
revisions to their SIPs, a maintenance
plan for the Washington Area. The
maintenance plan includes NOX and
VOC MVEBs for the Washington Area
for the years 2014 (the attainment year),
2025, and 2030. Under 40 CFR part 93,
a MVEB for an area seeking
redesignation to attainment must be
established, at minimum, for the last
year of the maintenance plan. A state
may adopt MVEBs for other years as
well. The MVEBs are the amount of
emissions allowed in the SIP for on-road
motor vehicles and establishes an
emissions ceiling for the regional
transportation network. The most
recently approved MVEBs for the
Washington Area originate from the
attainment plan for the 1997 ozone
NAAQS, which EPA found adequate on
February 7, 2013 (78 FR 9044). The
maintenance plan includes two sets of
NOX and VOC MVEBs, shown in Table
1 and Table 2. The MVEBs shown in
Table 1 will be the applicable motor
vehicle emissions budgets after the
adequacy findings are effective. The
MVEBs shown in Table 2 add a twenty
percent (20%) transportation buffer to
the mobile emissions inventory
projections for NOX and VOC in 2025
and 2030. The MVEBs shown in Table
2 that include a transportation buffer
will be used only as needed in
situations where the conformity analysis
must be based on different data, models,
or planning assumptions, including, but
not limited to, updates to demographic,
land use, or project-related assumptions,
than were used to create the first set of
MVEBs in the maintenance plan (Table
1). The technical analyses used to
demonstrate compliance with the
MVEBs and the need, if any, to use
transportation buffers will be fully
documented in the conformity analysis
and follow the Transportation Planning
Board’s (TPB) interagency consultation
procedures.
TABLE 1—WASHINGTON, DC-MD-VA MAINTENANCE PLAN ON-ROAD MVEBS
MVEBs for NOX
on-road emissions
(tons per day)
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2014 (Attainment Year) ...........................................................................................................
2025 .........................................................................................................................................
2030 .........................................................................................................................................
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61.3
33.2
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TABLE 2—WASHINGTON, DC-MD-VA MAINTENANCE PLAN ON-ROAD MVEBS WITH TRANSPORTATION BUFFERS
MVEBs for NOX
on-road emissions
(tons per day)
Year
2014 (Attainment Year) ...........................................................................................................
2025 .........................................................................................................................................
2030 .........................................................................................................................................
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On May 21, 2018, EPA posted the
availability of the 2014, 2025, and 2030
NOX and VOC MVEBs for the
Washington Area on EPA’s website for
the purpose of soliciting public
comments as part of the adequacy
process. The comment period closed on
June 20, 2018 and EPA received no
comments.
This document is simply an
announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region III sent
letters to the District of Columbia
Department of Energy and Environment
(DOEE), Maryland Department of the
Environment (DOE), and the Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ) on July 24, 2018 finding that the
2014, 2025, and 2030 NOX and VOC
MVEBs in the maintenance plan for the
Washington Area submitted by the
District, Maryland, and Virginia on
March 12, 2018, January 29, 2018, and
January 3, 2018, respectively, are
adequate and must be used for
transportation conformity
determinations in the Washington
Area.1 The finding and associated letters
are available at EPA’s conformity
website: https://www.epa.gov/state-andlocal-transportation.
Transportation conformity is required
by Clean Air Act (CAA) section 176(c).
EPA’s conformity rule requires that
transportation plans, transportation
improvement programs, and projects
conform to state air quality
implementation plans (SIPs) and
establishes 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,
worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the NAAQS.
The criteria by which we determine
whether a SIP’s MVEBs are adequate for
conformity purposes are outlined in 40
CFR 93.118(e)(4). We’ve described our
1 EPA originally informed the District, Maryland,
and Virginia that the 2014, 2025, and 2030 MVEBs
were adequate for use in transportation conformity
analyses in letters dated July 18, 2018. EPA revised
language in these letters and sent the revised letters
to the District, Maryland, and Virginia on July 24,
2018. The original and revised letters are available
online at https://www.regulations.gov as well as
EPA’s conformity website: https://www.epa.gov/
state-and-local-transportation.
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process for determining the adequacy of
submitted SIP budgets in our July 1,
2004 preamble starting at 69 FR 40038,
and we used the information in these
resources in making our adequacy
determination. Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review and should not be
used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval action for the SIP. Even if we
find a budget adequate, the SIP could
later be disapproved.
The finding for the 2014, 2025, and
2030 NOX and VOC MVEBs contained
in the maintenance plan for the
Washington Area and the response to
comments are available at EPA’s
conformity website: https://
www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q.
Dated: July 24, 2018.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
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28.9
PFAS. These engagements are the next
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R03-OAR-2018-0215; FRL-9981-71--Region 3]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets in Submitted
State Implementation Plan for Transportation Conformity Purposes;
District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia; Washington, DC-MD-VA 2008
8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard Nonattainment Area
Maintenance Plan 2014, 2025, and 2030 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
for Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic Compounds
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or
Agency) is notifying the public that the Agency has found that the
2014, 2025, and 2030 motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for the
ozone precursors nitrogen oxides (NOX) and volatile organic
compounds (VOC) contained in the maintenance plan for the Washington,
DC-MD-VA 2008 ozone national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS)
nonattainment area (hereafter ``the Washington Area'' or ``the Area'')
are adequate for conformity purposes. As a result of EPA's finding, the
Washington Area must use the NOX and VOC MVEBs from the
submitted maintenance plan for the Washington Area in future conformity
determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective August 21, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara Calcinore, (215) 814-2043, or by
email at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On March 12, 2018, January 29, 2018, and January 3, 2018, the
District of Columbia (the District), State of Maryland (Maryland), and
Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia), respectively, formally submitted,
as revisions to their SIPs, a maintenance plan for the Washington Area.
The maintenance plan includes NOX and VOC MVEBs for the
Washington Area for the years 2014 (the attainment year), 2025, and
2030. Under 40 CFR part 93, a MVEB for an area seeking redesignation to
attainment must be established, at minimum, for the last year of the
maintenance plan. A state may adopt MVEBs for other years as well. The
MVEBs are the amount of emissions allowed in the SIP for on-road motor
vehicles and establishes an emissions ceiling for the regional
transportation network. The most recently approved MVEBs for the
Washington Area originate from the attainment plan for the 1997 ozone
NAAQS, which EPA found adequate on February 7, 2013 (78 FR 9044). The
maintenance plan includes two sets of NOX and VOC MVEBs,
shown in Table 1 and Table 2. The MVEBs shown in Table 1 will be the
applicable motor vehicle emissions budgets after the adequacy findings
are effective. The MVEBs shown in Table 2 add a twenty percent (20%)
transportation buffer to the mobile emissions inventory projections for
NOX and VOC in 2025 and 2030. The MVEBs shown in Table 2
that include a transportation buffer will be used only as needed in
situations where the conformity analysis must be based on different
data, models, or planning assumptions, including, but not limited to,
updates to demographic, land use, or project-related assumptions, than
were used to create the first set of MVEBs in the maintenance plan
(Table 1). The technical analyses used to demonstrate compliance with
the MVEBs and the need, if any, to use transportation buffers will be
fully documented in the conformity analysis and follow the
Transportation Planning Board's (TPB) interagency consultation
procedures.
Table 1--Washington, DC-MD-VA Maintenance Plan On-Road MVEBs
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MVEBs for NOX on-road MVEBs for VOC on-road
Year emissions (tons per emissions (tons per
day) day)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2014 (Attainment Year)........................................ 136.8 61.3
2025.......................................................... 40.7 33.2
2030.......................................................... 27.4 24.1
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Table 2--Washington, DC-MD-VA Maintenance Plan On-Road MVEBs With Transportation Buffers
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MVEBs for NOX on-road MVEBs for VOC on-road
Year emissions (tons per emissions (tons per
day) day)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2014 (Attainment Year)........................................ 136.8 61.3
2025.......................................................... 48.8 39.8
2030.......................................................... 32.9 28.9
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On May 21, 2018, EPA posted the availability of the 2014, 2025, and
2030 NOX and VOC MVEBs for the Washington Area on EPA's
website for the purpose of soliciting public comments as part of the
adequacy process. The comment period closed on June 20, 2018 and EPA
received no comments.
This document is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region III sent letters to the District of Columbia
Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE), Maryland Department of the
Environment (DOE), and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ) on July 24, 2018 finding that the 2014, 2025, and 2030
NOX and VOC MVEBs in the maintenance plan for the Washington
Area submitted by the District, Maryland, and Virginia on March 12,
2018, January 29, 2018, and January 3, 2018, respectively, are adequate
and must be used for transportation conformity determinations in the
Washington Area.\1\ The finding and associated letters are available at
EPA's conformity website: https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation.
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\1\ EPA originally informed the District, Maryland, and Virginia
that the 2014, 2025, and 2030 MVEBs were adequate for use in
transportation conformity analyses in letters dated July 18, 2018.
EPA revised language in these letters and sent the revised letters
to the District, Maryland, and Virginia on July 24, 2018. The
original and revised letters are available online at https://www.regulations.gov as well as EPA's conformity website: https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation.
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Transportation conformity is required by Clean Air Act (CAA)
section 176(c). EPA's conformity rule requires that transportation
plans, transportation improvement programs, and projects conform to
state air quality implementation plans (SIPs) and establishes 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, worsen existing violations, or
delay timely attainment of the NAAQS.
The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's MVEBs are
adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4).
We've described our process for determining the adequacy of submitted
SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004 preamble starting at 69 FR 40038, and
we used the information in these resources in making our adequacy
determination. Please note that an adequacy review is separate from
EPA's completeness review and should not be used to prejudge EPA's
ultimate approval action for the SIP. Even if we find a budget
adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved.
The finding for the 2014, 2025, and 2030 NOX and VOC
MVEBs contained in the maintenance plan for the Washington Area and the
response to comments are available at EPA's conformity website: https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.
Dated: July 24, 2018.
Cosmo Servidio,
Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 2018-16777 Filed 8-3-18; 8:45 am]
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