[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 31, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 30946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10770]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[R08-OAR-2005-UT-0004; FRL 7918-9]
Adequacy Determination for the Salt Lake City Area Carbon
Monoxide Maintenance State Implementation Plan for Transportation
Conformity Purposes; State of Utah
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of adequacy.
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SUMMARY: In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have
found that the motor vehicle emissions budget for 2019 in the Salt Lake
City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan, that was submitted by Utah
Governor Olene S. Walker on October 19, 2004, is adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(2) requires that
EPA declare an implenatation plan submission's motor vehicle emissions
budget adequate for conformity purposes prior to the budget being used
to satisfy the conformity requirements of 40 CFR 93. As a result of our
finding, the Wasatch Front Regional Council of Government, the Utah
Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation
are required to use the motor vehicle emissions budget from this
submitted maintenance plan for future transportation conformity
determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective June 15, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Kimes, Air & Radiation Program
(8P-AR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999
18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6445,
[email protected].
The letter documenting our finding is available at EPA's conformity
Web site: http://www.epa.gov/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document ``we'', ``us'', or
``our'' are used to mean EPA.
This action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. We sent a letter to the Utah Division of Air Quality on
May 2, 2005, stating that the motor vehicle emissions budgets in the
submitted Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan are
adequate. This finding has also been announced on our conformity Web
site at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act. Out conformity rule requires that transportation plans,
programs, and projects conform to SIPs and establishes the criteria and
procedures for determining whether or not they demonstrate conformity.
Conformity to a SIP means that transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations, worsen existing violations, or
delay timely attainment of the national ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's motor vehicle
emission budgets are adequate for conformity purposes are outlined in
40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate
from our completeness review, and it also should not be used to
prejudge our ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget
adequate, the SIP could later be disapproved, and vice versa.
The process for determining the adequacy of a transportation
conformity budget is described at 40 CFR 93.118(f).
For the reader's ease, we have excerpted the motor vehicle emission
budget from the Salt Lake City, Utah Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan
it is as follows: Motor vehicle emissions budget for the year 2019 is
278.62 tons per day of CO. 40 CFR 93.118(e)(1) requires that previously
approved budget for years other than 2019 must still be used in any
conformity determination until the maintenance plan is fully approved
by EPA.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: May 10, 2005.
Robert E. Roberts,
Regional Administrator, Region 8.
[FR Doc. 05-10770 Filed 5-27-05; 8:45 am]
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