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Lexington, Kentucky Area (Fayette County and Scott County)

September 30, 1997

LEXINGTON AREA (FAYETTE COUNTY AND SCOTT COUNTY), KENTUCKY

Effective Redesignation Date: 11/13/95 (60 FR 47089, 9/11/95)

Maintenance Plan - Key Features

  • 1990 base year; projections to 2004
  • EKMA modeling
  • RVP of 8.6 psi
  • fleet turnover
  • will develop emission inventories every 3 years beginning in 1996

Contingency Trigger

  • emission inventory for interim years exceeds the baseline inventory by more than 10 percent
  • air quality violation

Contingency Measures

  • implement RACT on existing major sources in the area where the violation occurred

Schedule

  • implement RACT within 90 days of violation

For further information:

Joey LeVasseur

Air Planning Branch
U.S. EPA, Region IV
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30303

Telephone: (404) 562-9035; Email: levasseur.joey@epamail.epa.gov

 

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