[Federal Register: July 20, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 138)]
[Notices]
[Page 43412]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[UT-001-0058; FRL-7789-8]
Adequacy Status of the Provo, Utah Carbon Monoxide Redesignation
and Maintenance Plan Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity
Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have
found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets in the Provo, Utah
Carbon Monoxide Redesignation and Maintenance Plan, that was submitted
by the Utah Governor on April 1, 2004, are adequate for conformity
purposes. On March 2, 1999, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that budgets
in submitted State Implementation Plans (SIPs) cannot be used for
conformity determinations until EPA has affirmatively found them
adequate. As a result of our finding, the Mountainland Association of
Governments, the Utah Department of Transportation and the U.S.
Department of Transportation are required to use the motor vehicle
emissions budgets from this submitted maintenance plan for future
transportation conformity determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective August 4, 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Kimes, Air & Radiation Program
(8P-AR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999
18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6445.
The letter documenting our finding is available at EPA's conformity Web
site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we'',
``us'', or ``our'' are used we mean EPA.
This action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. We sent a letter to the Utah Division of Air Quality on
June 30, 2004, stating that the motor vehicle emissions budgets in the
submitted Provo, Utah Carbon Monoxide Redesignation and Maintenance
Plan are adequate. This finding has also been announced on our
conformity Web site at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/adequacy.htm
.
Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act. Our conformity rule requires that transportation plans,
programs, and projects conform to SIPs and establishes the criteria and
procedures for determining whether or not they demonstrate conformity.
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
emission budgets are adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in
40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate
from our completeness review, and it also should not be used to
prejudge our ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget
adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved, and vice versa.
We have described our process for determining the adequacy of
submitted SIP budgets in a memo entitled, ``Conformity Guidance on
Implementation of March 2, 1999 Conformity Court Decision,'' dated May
14, 1999. We followed this guidance in making our adequacy
determination.
For the reader's ease, we have excerpted the motor vehicle emission
budgets from the Provo, Utah Carbon Monoxide Redesignation and
Maintenance Plan and they are as follows: Motor vehicle emissions
budget for the year 2014 is 70.44 tons per day of CO. The final year
budget, for the year 2015 and beyond, is 72.10 tons per day of CO.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: July 9, 2004.
Robert E. Roberts,
Regional Administrator, Region VIII.
[FR Doc. 04-16451 Filed 7-19-04; 8:45 am]
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