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Adequacy Status of the Columbus and Toledo, OH, Submitted 8-Hour Ozone Redesignation and Maintenance Plans for Transportation Conformity Purposes

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[Federal Register: May 1, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 83)]
[Notices]
[Page 23815]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01my07-57]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[OH-167-1; FRL-8307-9]

Adequacy Status of the Columbus and Toledo, OH, Submitted 8-Hour Ozone
Redesignation and Maintenance Plans 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 volatile organic
compounds (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOX) in the
Columbus, Ohio area (Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Knox, Licking, and
Madison Counties) and the Toledo, Ohio area (Lucas and Wood Counties)
are adequate for use in transportation conformity determinations. Ohio
submitted the Columbus budgets with an 8-hour ozone redesignation
request and maintenance plan on December 28, 2006, January 10, 2007,
and March 9, 2007. Ohio submitted the Toledo budgets with an 8-hour
ozone redesignation request and maintenance plan on December 22, 2006,
and March 9, 2007. As a result of our finding, Columbus and Toledo,
Ohio must use the MVEBs from the submitted 8-hour ozone redesignation
and maintenance plan for future transportation conformity determinations.

DATES: This finding is effective May 16, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Maietta, Life 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)
353-8777, Maietta.anthony@epa.gov.

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 April 5, 2007, EPA Region 5 sent a letter to the Ohio
Environmental Protection Agency stating that the 2009 and 2018 MVEBs
for the Columbus and Toledo areas, which were submitted with the 8-hour
ozone redesignation request and maintenance plans, 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 and 2018 MVEBs, in tons per day (tpd), for VOC
for Columbus and Toledo are as follows:

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                                                        2009      2018
                                                        MVEB      MVEB
                                                        (tpd)     (tpd)
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Columbus............................................     72.16     41.50
Toledo..............................................     18.99     11.20
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    The adequate 2009 and 2018 MVEBs, in tons per day (tpd), for
NOX for Columbus and Toledo are as follows:

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                                                        2009      2018
                                                        MVEB      MVEB
                                                        (tpd)     (tpd)
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Columbus............................................    125.43     56.30
Toledo..............................................     33.75     14.11
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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 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: April 19, 2007.
Bharat Mathur,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. E7-8278 Filed 4-30-07; 8:45 am]
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