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Delaware; Adequacy Status of the 2008 Reasonable Further Progress Plan for the Delaware Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets

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[Federal Register: December 19, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 245)]
[Notices]
[Page 77682]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8755-2]

Delaware; Adequacy Status of the 2008 Reasonable Further Progress
Plan for the Delaware Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic
City 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets

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) in the Reasonable
Further Progress Plan (RFP) submitted as a State Implementation Plan
(SIP) revision on June 13, 2007 by the Delaware Department of Natural
Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. As a result of EPA's finding, the
State of Delaware must use the MVEBs from the June 13, 2007 RFP Plan
for future conformity determinations for the 8-hour ozone standard.

DATES: These MVEBs are effective January 5, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martin Kotsch, U.S. EPA, Region III,
1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 at (215) 814-3335 or by e-mail
at: kotsch.martin@EPA.gov. The finding is available at EPA's conformity
Web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/
currsips.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we,'' ``us,'' or
``our'' refer to EPA. The word ``budgets'' refers to the motor vehicle
emission budgets for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen
oxides (NOX ). The word ``SIP'' in this document refers to
the RFP Plans for the Delaware portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-
Atlantic City Ozone Nonattainment Area submitted to EPA as SIP
revisions on June 13, 2007.
    Today's notice is simply an announcement of a finding that EPA has
already made. In this notice, EPA is notifying the public that we have
found that the MVEBs in the RFP for 2008, submitted on June 13, 2007 by
DNREC, are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. As a result
of EPA's finding, the State of Delaware must use the MVEBs from the
June 13, 2007 RFP Plan for future conformity determinations for the 8-
hour ozone standard. This finding has also been announced on EPA's
conformity web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/
pastsips.htm. The adequate MVEBs are provided in the following table:

            Table 1--Delaware Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
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                                                 2008 Reasonable Further
                                                        Progress
              Nonattainment area               -------------------------
                                                 VOC (tpd)    NOX (tpd)
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New Castle County.............................        21.35        10.61
Kent County...................................         9.68         4.14
Sussex County.................................        12.86         7.09
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    Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990. 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 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 have described our process for determining the
adequacy of submitted SIP budgets in 40 CFR 93.118(f), and have
followed this rule in making our adequacy determination.

    Dated: December 5, 2008.
William T. Wisniewski,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. E8-30207 Filed 12-18-08; 8:45 am]
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