[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 30, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24799-24800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11585]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-R05-OAR-2017-0147; FRL-9978-66--Region 5]
Adequacy Status of the Indiana Portion of the Chicago-Naperville,
IL-IN-WI Area for the Submitted 2008 Ozone Standard Fifteen Percent
Rate of Progress Plan for Transportation Conformity Purposes
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of finding of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, the EPA is notifying the public that we find
the motor vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) and oxides of nitrogen (NOX) in the 15%
Rate of Progress Plan for the Indiana portion of the Chicago-
Naperville, IL-IN-WI 2008 ozone standard nonattainment area (Lake and
Porter Counties) adequate for use in transportation conformity
determinations. On February 28, 2017, the Indiana Department of
Environmental Management (IDEM) submitted a 2008 ozone standard 15%
Rate of Progress Plan for Lake and Porter Counties, which included the
MVEBs for 2017. IDEM provided further clarification to the Plan on
January 9, 2018. As a result of our finding, this area must use these
MVEBs from the submitted 15% Rate of Progress Plan for future
transportation conformity determinations.
DATES: This finding is applicable June 14, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Maietta, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Control Strategies Section (AR-18J), Air
Programs Branch, Air and Radiation Division, United States
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353-8777, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, whenever ``we'',
``us'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA.
Background
On February 28, 2017, IDEM submitted to EPA a 15% Rate of Progress
Plan for the Indiana portion of the 2008 8-hour ozone Chicago-
Naperville, IL-IN-WI nonattainment area, and provided further
clarification to the Plan on January 9, 2018. This plan included MVEBs
for VOC and NOX for the year 2017. On March 8, 2018, EPA
sent a letter to IDEM stating that the MVEBs are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. Receipt of these MVEBs was
announced on EPA's transportation conformity website: https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/adequacy-review-state-implementation-plan-sip-submissions-conformity. The finding and other
relevant information are also available on EPA's transportation
conformity website.
The 2017 MVEBs for Lake and Porter Counties are 16.68 tons per day
(tpd) of NOX and 6.85 tpd of VOCs.
Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act. 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 conform. Conformity to a State
Implementation Plan (SIP) means that transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations, worsen existing violations, or
delay
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timely attainment of the national ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's MVEBs are
adequate for transportation 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 is also a separate action from EPA's
evaluation of and decision whether to approve a proposed SIP revision.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671 q.
Dated: May 16, 2018.
Cathy Stepp,
Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2018-11585 Filed 5-29-18; 8:45 am]
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