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Adequacy Status of the Submitted Revised Carbon Monoxide Attainment Demonstration for the New Jersey Portion of the New York- Northern New Jersey-Long Island Moderate Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment Area

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[Federal Register: May 8, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 89)]
[Notices]
[Page 26605-26606]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6602-4]


Adequacy Status of the Submitted Revised Carbon Monoxide
Attainment Demonstration for the New Jersey Portion of the New York-
Northern New Jersey-Long Island Moderate Carbon Monoxide Nonattainment
Area

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 budget for carbon monoxide in
the submitted revised attainment demonstration for the New Jersey
portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island nonattainment
area is adequate for transportation conformity purposes. On March 2,
1999, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that submitted SIPs cannot be used
for conformity determinations until EPA has affirmatively found them
adequate. As a result of our finding, the New Jersey portion of the New
York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island nonattainment area must use the
motor vehicle emission budget from this submitted revised carbon
monoxide attainment demonstration for future conformity determinations.

DATES: This finding is effective May 23, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew B. Cairns, Mobile Source Team,
Air Programs Branch, Environmental Protection Agency--Region 2, 290
Broadway, 25th Floor, New York New York 10007-1866, (212) 637-3895,
cairns.matthew@epa.gov.
    The finding and the response to comments will be available at EPA's
conformity website: http://www.epa.gov/oms/traq, (once there, click on
the ``Conformity'' button, then look for ``Adequacy Review of SIP
Submissions for Conformity'').

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Today's document is simply an announcement of a finding that we
have already made. EPA Region 2 sent a letter to the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection on April 6, 2000, stating that
the motor vehicle emissions budget for carbon monoxide in the submitted
revised attainment demonstration (dated December 10, 1999) for the New
Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island
nonattainment area is adequate for transportation conformity purposes.
This finding will also be announced on EPA's conformity website: http:/
/www.epa.gov/oms/traq, (once there, click on the ``Conformity'' button,
then look for ``Adequacy Review of SIP Submissions for Conformity'').
    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 (SIPs) and establishes the criteria and procedures

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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
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 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.
    We've described out process for determining the adequacy of
submitted SIP budgets in guidance (May 14, 1999 memo titled
``Conformity Guidance on Implementation of March 2, 1999 Conformity
Court Decision''). We followed this guidance in making our adequacy
determination.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671 q.

    Dated: April 6, 2000.
William J. Muszynski,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2.
[FR Doc. 00-11432 Filed 5-5-00; 8:45 am]
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