[Federal Register: June 12, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 114)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R01-OAR-2008-0117; A-1-FRL-8578-4]
Adequacy Status of the Connecticut 8-Hour Ozone Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets and Out-Year Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for
Transportation Conformity Purposes; Connecticut
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: EPA is notifying the public that EPA has found that the 2008,
2009 and 2012 motor vehicle emissions budgets in the February 1, 2008
Connecticut 8-hour ozone State Implementation Plan revision are
adequate for transportation conformity purposes. The submittal includes
2008, 2009 and 2012 motor vehicle emission budgets for the Connecticut
portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT
(Southwest Connecticut) and the Greater Connecticut 8-hour ozone
nonattainment areas. As a result of our finding, Connecticut must use
these motor vehicle emission budgets for future conformity
determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective June 27, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald O. Cooke, Environmental
Scientist, Air Quality Planning Unit, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, EPA New England Regional Office, One Congress Street, Suite
1100 (CAQ),
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Boston, MA 02114-2023, (617) 918-1668, cooke.donald@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 New England sent a letter to the Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection on June 2, 2008, stating that
the 2008, 2009 and 2012 motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the
Connecticut portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island,
NY-NJ-CT (Southwest Connecticut) and the Greater Connecticut 8-hour
ozone nonattainment areas are adequate. Connecticut submitted the
budgets on February 1, 2008, as part of the 8-hour ozone attainment
demonstration and reasonable further progress plan for Southwest and
Greater Connecticut. This submittal was announced on EPA's conformity
Web site, and received no comments. (See http://www.epa.gov/otaq/
stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. Once there, click on ``What SIP
submissions are currently under EPA adequacy review?'')
The 2008, 2009, and 2012 MVEBs, in tons per summer day (tpsd), for
volatile organic compounds (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen
(NOX) for Southwest and Greater Connecticut, are as follows:
2008, 2009 and 2012 Adequate Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
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Connecticut portion of the New York- Greater Connecticut area
Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT -------------------------------------------
Year (Southwest CT) Area
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VOC (tpsd) NOX (tpsd)
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Year 2008....................................................... 29.7 60.5 28.5 54.3
Year 2009....................................................... 27.4 54.6 26.3 49.2
Year 2012....................................................... 20.6 38.2 19.8 34.8
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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 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 national
ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's motor vehicle
emissions budgets are adequate for 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, 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.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q.
Dated: June 4, 2008.
Robert W. Varney,
Regional Administrator, EPA New England.
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