60492 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 189 / Thursday, September 29, 2011 / Notices 

received by the Secretary of the 

Commission. The communications 

listed are grouped by docket numbers in 

ascending order. These filings are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary 

link. Enter the docket number, 

excluding the last three digits, in the 

docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, please contact 

FERC, Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

Docket No. File date Presenter or requester 

Prohibited: 

1. ER07–86–018, ER07–88–018; ER07–92–018 ................................................................ 9–15–11 Donald Patton.1

2. P–11858–002/004, ER08–654–000, ER06–278–000 ...................................................... 9–20–11 David Kates. 

Exempt: 

1. CP10–480–000 ................................................................................................................ 9–20–11 Hon. Claire McCaskill. 

2. CP10–480–000 ................................................................................................................ 9–8–11 Hon. Patrick J. Toomey. 

3. DI10–9–000 ...................................................................................................................... 9–12–11 Hon. Joyce A. Maker. 

4. DI10–9–000 ...................................................................................................................... 9–12–11 Linda S. Pagels-Wentworth. 

5. Project No. 459–000 ........................................................................................................ 9–21–11 Hon. Blaine Luetkemeye, et al. 

6. Project No. 459–000 ........................................................................................................ 9–9–11 Hon. Claire McCaskill. 

Hon. Roy Blunt. 

7. Project No. 2149–000 ...................................................................................................... 9–21–11 Ron Walter. 

Keith W. Goehner. 

Doug England. 

8. Project No. 13351–000 ........................................................................................................... 9–23–11 Joseph Adamson.2

1 Record of telephone call. 

2Teleconference Summary. 

Dated: September 23, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2011–0468; FRL–9473–1] 

Adequacy Status of the Ohio Portion of 

the Huntington/Ashland Submitted 

Annual Fine Particulate Matter 

Maintenance Plan for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have made 

insignificance findings through the 

transportation conformity adequacy 

process, under the Clean Air Act, for 

directly emitted fine particulate matter 

(PM2.5) and oxides of nitrogen (NOX) in 

the Ohio portion of the Huntington/ 

Ashland WV–KY–OH area. Ohio 

submitted the insignificance findings 

with the redesignation and maintenance 

plan submittal on May 4, 2011. As a 

result of our findings, the Ohio portion 

of the Huntington/Ashland area is no 

longer required to perform a regional 

emissions analysis for either directly 

emitted PM2.5 or NOX as part of future 

PM2.5 conformity determinations for the 

1997 annual PM2.5 air quality standard. 

DATES: These findings are effective 

October 14, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patricia Morris, Environmental 

Scientist, Control Strategies Section, Air 

Programs Branch, Air and Radiation 

Division, United States Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West 

Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 

60604, (312) 353–8656, 

morris.patricia@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

‘‘we’’, ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

EPA. 

Background 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of findings that we have 

already made. On August 11, 2011, EPA 

Region 5 sent a letter to the Ohio 

Environmental Protection Agency 

stating that we have made insignificance 

findings, through the adequacy process, 

for PM2.5 and NOX for the Ohio portion 

of the Huntington/Ashland area, as the 

state had requested in its redesignation 

and maintenance plan submittal. 

Receipt of the submittal was announced 

on EPA’s transportation conformity Web 

site. No comments were received. The 

findings letter is available at EPA’s 

conformity web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

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 

conform. Conformity to a State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) indicates 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 transportation 

conformity purposes are outlined in 40 

CFR 93.118(e)(4). We have described 

our process for determining the 

adequacy of submitted SIP budgets in 

our July 1, 2004 preamble, starting at 69 

FR 40038, and we used the information 

in these resources in making our 

adequacy determination. Please note 

that an adequacy review is separate 

from EPA’s completeness review, and it 

should not be used to prejudge EPA’s 

ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we 

find a budget adequate, the SIP could 

later be disapproved. 

The findings are available at EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site: 

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/ 

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. 

Dated: September 19, 2011. 

Susan Hedman, 

Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

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