Jersey County, Illinois

JERSEY COUNTY, ILLINOIS

Effective Redesignation Date: 4/13/95 (60 FR 13634, 3/14/95)

Maintenance Plan - Key Features

• 1990 base year, emissions budget through 2005
• emissions certification and tracking
• maintenance of existing control programs: (1) review and issuance of stationary source permits and (2) inspection of emissions sources
• compliance with CAAA requirements for the Metro-East St. Louis area
• emissions control authority and additional commitments
• revision of the maintenance plan should the EPA find it inadequate to maintain attainment of the ozone NAAQS
• demonstration of maintenance, using growth factors from Regional Economic Models, Inc.

Contingency Plan Trigger

• violation of the ozone NAAQS based on quality assured data and a notice from the EPA

Contingency Measures

• lower RVP for gasoline
• reformulated gasoline program
• Stage I and breathing controls at gasoline service stations
• Stage II vapor recovery controls at gasoline service stations
• extended geographic coverage of existing control measures
• requirements for RACT for existing sources covered by CTGs issued in response to the CAAA
• application of RACT to nonmajor sources
• implementation of one or more transportation control measures (e.g., trip reduction programs, transit improvements, traffic flow improvements, other measures deemed appropriate) sufficient to achieve at least a 0.5 percent reduction in Jersey County VOC emissions
• alternative fuel programs for fleet vehicle operations
• controls on consumer products consistent with those adopted elsewhere in the United States
• requirements for VOC emission offsets for new and modified major VOC sources
• requirements for VOC emission offsets for new and modified minor VOC sources
• increased ratio of emission offsets required for new sources
• requirements for VOC controls on new minor sources

Schedule

• selection and application of the appropriate contingency measure(s) within 18 months of EPA notice

For further information:

Edward Doty
Regulation Development Section (AR-18J)
Regulation Development Branch, Air and Radiation Division
U.S. EPA, Region V
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604

Telephone: (312) 886-6057; Email: doty.edward@epamail.epa.gov