[Federal Register: October 1, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 190)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[UT-001-0050; FRL-7388-2]
Adequacy Status of the Utah County, Utah PM10 State
Implementation Plan Revision for Transportation Conformity Purposes
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 budgets (for 2010 and 2020) in
the Utah County, Utah particulate matter of 10 micrograms in size or
smaller (PM10) State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision
submitted on July 3, 2002, are adequate for conformity purposes. On
March 2, 1999, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that submitted SIPs cannot
be used for conformity determinations until EPA has affirmatively found
them adequate. As a result of our finding, the Mountainland Association
of Governments, the Utah Department of Transportation, and the U.S.
Department of Transportation are required to use the 2010 and 2020
motor vehicle emissions budgets from this submitted SIP revision for
future conformity determinations.
DATES: This finding is effective October 16, 2002.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kerri Fiedler, Air & Radiation Program
(8P-AR), United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8, 999
18th Street, Suite 300, Denver, Colorado 80202-2466, (303) 312-6493.
The letter documenting our finding is available at EPA's conformity
website: http://www.epa.gov/oms/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we,''
``us,'' or ``our'' are used we mean EPA.
This action is simply an announcement of a finding that we have
already made. We sent a letter to the Utah Department of Environmental
Quality on September 5, 2002 stating that the 2010 and 2020
PM10 and NOX motor vehicle emissions budgets in
the submitted Utah County PM10 SIP revision are adequate.
This finding has also been announced on our conformity website at
http://www.epa.gov/oms/transp/conform/adequacy.htm.
Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the
Clean Air Act. Our conformity rule requires that transportation plans,
programs, and projects conform to SIPs and establishes the criteria and
procedures for determining whether or not they do. 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.
We've described our process for determining the adequacy of
submitted SIP budgets in a memo entitled, ``Conformity Guidance on
Implementation of March 2, 1999 Conformity Court Decision,'' dated May
14, 1999. We followed this guidance in making our adequacy
determination.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: September 23, 2002.
Robert E. Roberts,
Regional Administrator, Region VIII.
[FR Doc. 02-24916 Filed 9-30-02; 8:45 am]
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