Miami, Florida Area

MIAMI/SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

Effective Redesignation Date: 4/25/95 (60 FR 10325, 2/24/95)

Maintenance Plan - Key Features

• 1990 base year, emissions budget through 2005
• inventories developed in the NEDS format
• submit periodic inventories of VOC and NO_x emissions every 3 years
• lower RVP of 7.8 psi
• Federal Motor Vehicle Control Program
• I/M program
• Stage II
• VOC RACT regulations

Contingency Plan Trigger

• violation of the ozone NAAQS
• periodic inventory update showing emissions of VOC increasing by 5 percent above the 1990 levels

Contingency Measures

• reinstatement of NSR
• less volatile or reformulated gasoline
• expansion of control strategies to adjacent counties for VOC and/or NO_x and to new CTG categories
• enhanced I/M

Schedule

• Trigger 1 - violation. Actions: verification will take place; hold workshop within 90 days proposing a control strategy for reducing VOC and/or NO_x emissions; present proposed new rules to Environmental Regulation Commission for adoption 180 days; implement
• Trigger 2 - increase in emissions. Actions: determination made if emissions trend is significant; if upward trend, within 6 months complete evaluation of cost-effective means; hold workshop within 90 days proposing control strategy; present proposed new rules to ERC for adoption 180 days; implement

For further information:

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

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