Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
West Virginia; MOBILE6-Based Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for
Greenbrier County and the Charleston, Huntington, and Parkersburg 1-
Hour Ozone Maintenance Areas
[Federal Register: February 10, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 27)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 6223-6224]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 52
[WV063-6032b; FRL-7613-1]
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans;
West Virginia; MOBILE6-Based Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for
Greenbrier County and the Charleston, Huntington, and Parkersburg 1-
Hour Ozone Maintenance Areas
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve revisions to the West Virginia State
Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions amend the 1-hour ozone
maintenance plans for Greenbrier County and the Charleston, Huntington
and Parkersburg areas. These revisions amend the maintenance plan's
base year and 2005 highway mobile volatile organic compound (VOC) and
nitrogen oxide (NOX) emission inventories and the 2005 motor
vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) to reflect the use of MOBILE6. These
revisions also reallocate a portion of each plans' safety margins which
results in an increase in the MVEBs. The revised plans continue to
demonstrate maintenance of the 1-hour national ambient air quality
standard (NAAQS) for ozone. In the final rules section of this Federal
Register, EPA is approving West Virginia's SIP submittal as a direct
final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a
noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final
rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to this action,
no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives adverse comments,
the direct final rule will be withdrawn and public comments received
will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed
rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period. Any parties
interested in commenting on this action should do so at this time.
DATES: Comments must be received in writing by March 11, 2004.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted either by mail or electronically.
Written comments should be mailed to Larry Budney, Energy, Radiation
and Indoor Environment Branch, Mailcode 3AP23, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19103. Electronic comments should be sent either to
budney.larry@epa.gov or to http://www.regulations.gov,
which is an alternative method for submitting electronic comments to EPA.
To submit comments, please follow the detailed instructions described in
the Supplementary Information section. Copies of the documents relevant
to this action are available for public inspection during normal business
hours at the Air Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103;
and at the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection,
Division of Air Quality, 7012 MacCorkle Avenue, SE., Charleston, WV
25304-2943.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Budney, (215) 814-2184, or by e-
mail at budney.larry@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please see the
information provided in the direct final action, with the same title,
that is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this
Federal Register publication.
You may submit comments either electronically or by mail. To ensure
proper receipt by EPA, identify the appropriate rulemaking
identification number, WV063-6032, in the subject line on the first
page of your comment. Please ensure that your comments are submitted
within the specified comment period. Comments received after the
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close of the comment period will be marked ``late.'' EPA is not
required to consider these late comments.
1. Electronically. If you submit an electronic comment as
prescribed below, EPA recommends that you include your name, mailing
address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in the body
of your comment. Also include this contact information on the outside
of any disk or CD ROM you submit, and in any cover letter accompanying
the disk or CD ROM. This ensures that you can be identified as the
submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact you in case EPA
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties or needs further
information on the substance of your comment. EPA's policy is that EPA
will not edit your comment, and any identifying or contact information
provided in the body of a comment will be included as part of the
comment that is placed in the official public docket. If EPA cannot
read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you
for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
i. E-mail. Comments may be sent by electronic mail (e-mail) to
budney.larry@epa.gov, attention WV063-6032. EPA's e-mail system is not
an ``anonymous access'' system. If you send an e-mail comment directly
without going through Regulations.gov, EPA's e-mail system
automatically captures your e-mail address. E-mail addresses that are
automatically captured by EPA's e-mail system are included as part of
the comment that is placed in the official public docket.
ii. Regulations.gov. Your use of Regulation.gov is an alternative
method of submitting electronic comments to EPA. Go directly to
http://www.regulations.gov, then select ``Environmental
Protection Agency'' at the top of the page and use the ``go'' button. The
list of current EPA actions available for comment will be listed. Please
follow the online instructions for submitting comments. The system is an
``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity,
e-mail address, or other contact information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment.
iii. Disk or CD ROM. You may submit comments on a disk or CD ROM
that you mail to the mailing address identified in the ADDRESSES
section of this document. These electronic submissions will be accepted
in WordPerfect, Word or ASCII file format. Avoid the use of special
characters and any form of encryption.
2. By Mail. Written comments should be addressed to the EPA
Regional office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this document.
For public commenters, it is important to note that EPA's policy is
that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper,
will be made available for public viewing at the EPA Regional Office,
as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment contains
copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI), or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA
identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide
a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is
placed in the official public rulemaking file. The entire printed
comment, including the copyrighted material, will be available at the
Regional Office for public inspection.
Submittal of CBI Comments--Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI electronically to EPA. You may claim information
that you submit to EPA as CBI by marking any part or all of that
information as CBI (if you submit CBI on disk or CD ROM, mark the
outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then identify electronically
within the disk or CD ROM the specific information that is CBI).
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR Part 2. In addition to one complete
version of the comment that includes any information claimed as CBI, a
copy of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as
CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the official public regional
rulemaking file. If you submit the copy that does not contain CBI on
disk or CD ROM, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM clearly that it
does not contain CBI. Information not marked as CBI will be included in
the public file and available for public inspection without prior
notice. If you have any questions about CBI or the procedures for
claiming CBI, please consult the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
Considerations When Preparing Comments to EPA
You may find the following suggestions helpful for preparing your
comments:
1. Explain your views as clearly as possible.
2. Describe any assumptions that you used.
3. Provide any technical information and/or data you used that
support your views.
4. If you estimate potential burden or costs, explain how you
arrived at your estimate.
5. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns.
6. Offer alternatives.
7. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline
identified.
8. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, identify the appropriate
regional file/rulemaking identification number in the subject line on
the first page of your response. It would also be helpful if you
provided the name, date, and Federal Register citation related to your
comments.
Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment,
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed
from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.
Dated: January 14, 2004.
James W. Newsom,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
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