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adjustments (10 CFR part 903) were 

published on September 18, 1985. 

Availability of Information 

All studies, comments, letters, 

memorandums, or other documents that 

Western initiates or uses to develop the 

proposed rates are available for 

inspection and copying at the Upper 

Great Plains Regional Office, located at 

2900 4th Avenue North, Billings, 

Montana. Many of these documents and 

supporting information are also 

available on Western’s Web site under 

the ‘‘2015 Firm Rate Adjustment’’ 

section located at http://www.wapa.gov/ 

ugp/rates/2015firmrateadjust. 

Western held an informal public 

meeting on May 2, 2014, via webinar to 

inform customers, Native American 

tribes, stakeholders, and other interested 

parties about the proposed minor rate 

adjustment. The webinar was recorded 

and posted to the above referenced 

Western Web site. 

Ratemaking Procedure Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969, 42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.; the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508); and DOE NEPA 

Implementing Procedures and 

Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021), Western 

is in the process of determining whether 

an environmental assessment or an 

environmental impact statement should 

be prepared or if this action can be 

categorically excluded from those 

requirements. 

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

Western has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no 

clearance of this notice by the Office of 

Management and Budget is required. 

Dated: July 23, 2014. 

Mark A. Gabriel, 

Administrator. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2014–0485; FRL–9914–85- 

Region 9] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in Submitted 8- 

Hour Ozone Attainment Plan for 

Sacramento Metro; California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is notifying the public 

that the Agency has found that the 

motor vehicle emissions budgets 

(MVEBs) for ozone for the years 2014, 

2017, and 2018 in the Sacramento 

Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment Plan 

and Reasonable Further Progress Plan, 

2013 SIP Revisions (‘‘2013 Sacramento 

Ozone Plan’’) are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. The 

2013 Sacramento Ozone Plan was 

submitted to EPA on December 31, 2013 

by the California Air Resources Board 

(CARB) as a revision to the California 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) and 

includes an attainment demonstration 

for the 1997 8-hour ozone national 

ambient air quality standard. Upon the 

effective date of this notice of adequacy, 

the Sacramento Area Council of 

Governments and the U.S. Department 

of Transportation must use the MVEBs 

for future conformity determinations. 

DATES: This finding is effective August 

25, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Ungvarsky, U.S. EPA, Region IX, Air 

Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901, (415) 

972–3963 or ungvarsky.john@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

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

EPA. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA sent a letter to CARB 

on July 25, 2014 stating that the MVEBs 

for oxides of nitrogen (NOX) and volatile 

organic compounds (VOCs) in the 

submitted 2013 Sacramento Ozone Plan 

for the years of 2014, 2017, and 2018 are 

adequate. The adequate MVEBs are 

provided in the following table: 

MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS IN THE 2013 SACRAMENTO OZONE PLAN

NOX VOC 

Budget year 2014 2017 2018 2014 2017 2018 

Tons per average summer weekday ............................... 49 39 37 23 18 17 

Receipt of the MVEBs in the 2013 

Sacramento Ozone Plan was announced 

on EPA’s transportation conformity Web 

site on May 20, 2014. We received no 

comments in response to the adequacy 

review posting. The finding is available 

at EPA’s transportation conformity Web 

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

resources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Transportation conformity is required 

by Clean Air Act section 176(c). EPA’s 

conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs, and projects 

conform to SIPs and establishes the 

criteria and procedures for determining 

whether or not they do conform. 

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 MVEBs are adequate for 

conformity purposes are outlined in 40 

CFR 93.118(e)(4) which was 

promulgated in our August 15, 1997 

final rule (62 FR 43780, 43781–43783). 

We have further described our process 

for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in our July 1, 

2004 final rule (69 FR 40004, 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 should not be 

used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval action for the SIP. Even if we 

find a budget adequate, the SIP could 

later be disapproved. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: July 25, 2014. 

Jared Blumenfeld, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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