Nashville, Tennessee

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE*

Effective Redesignation Date: 10/30/96 (61 FR 55903, 10/30/96)

Maintenance Plan - Key Features

• 1990 baseline inventory; 1994 base year inventory; projections to 2006
• RVP or 7.8 psi (since summer 1992)
• fleet turnover due to FMVCP
• continue monitoring the area in accordance with 40 CFR part 58
• track indicators of continued attainment during the maintenance period by completing periodic inventories of VOC and NO_x emissions every five years
• submit a revised maintenance SIP eight years after the area is redesignated to attainment, to provide for maintenance for an additional ten years

Contingency Plan Trigger

Three indicators

• a violation of the ozone NAAQS
• the monitored ambient levels of ozone exceed 0.12 ppm more than once in any years at any site in the nonattainment area
• the level of total VOC or NO_x emissions has increased above the attainment level in 1994 by 10 percent or more

Contingency Measures

Upon violation of the ozone NAAQS, implement additional control measures such as:

• lower RVP for gasoline
• lowering the threshold of applicability for major stationary VOC and NO_x sources from 100 tpy to 50 tpy
• application of RACT on sources covered by new CTG categories

Schedule

• additional measures will be implemented within 18 months of the trigger date

*Area consists of Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson Counties

For further information:

Steven Scofield

U.S. EPA, Region IV
100 Alabama Street SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Telephone: (404) 562-9034; Email: scofield.steven@epamail.epa.gov