[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 4064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1461]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R05-OAR-2008-0682; FRL-9106-4]
Adequacy Status of the Steubenville, OH and the Canton, OH
Submitted Annual Fine Particulate Matter Attainment Demonstration for
Transportation Conformity Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have found
that the motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for fine particulate
matter (PM2.5) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) as a
precursor to fine particulate matter in Steubenville, Ohio (Jefferson
County) and Canton, Ohio (Stark County) are adequate for use in
transportation conformity determinations. Ohio submitted the
Steubenville and Canton area budgets with the attainment demonstration
submittal initially on July 16, 2008, and subsequently submitted the
public hearing results on December 5, 2008. As a result of our finding,
the Steubenville, Ohio area (Jefferson County) and the Canton, Ohio
area (Stark County) must use the MVEBs from the submitted
PM2.5 attainment demonstration plan for future
transportation conformity determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective February 10, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Morris, Environmental
Scientist, Criteria Pollutant Section (AR-18J), Air Programs Branch,
Air and Radiation Division, United States Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604,
(312) 353-8656, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, whenever ``we'',
``us'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA.
Background
Today's notice is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. On December 7, 2009, EPA Region 5 sent a letter to the
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency stating that the 2009 MVEBs for
the Steubenville area, and also for the Canton area, which were
submitted with the state's PM2.5 attainment demonstration,
are adequate. Receipt of these MVEBs was announced on EPA's
transportation conformity website, and no comments were submitted. The
finding is available at EPA's conformity web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
The adequate 2009 MVEBs, in tons per year (tpy), for
PM2.5 and NOX for the Steubenville area and the
Canton area are as follows:
Steubenville (Jefferson County), Ohio
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PM2.5 (tpy) NOX (tpy)
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2009.................................. 19.80 1208.81
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Canton (Stark County), Ohio
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PM2.5 (tpy) NOX (tpy)
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2009.................................. 88.38 5103.36
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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 conform. Conformity to a State
Implementation Plan (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 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,
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.
The finding and the response to comments are available at EPA's
transportation conformity web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671 q.
Dated: January 13, 2010.
Walter W. Kovalick Jr.,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2010-1461 Filed 1-25-10; 8:45 am]
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