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Docket No. ER14–591, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–781, Southwest Power 

Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1174, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1194, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–1196, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–1197, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–1198, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–1200, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–1201, Southwestern 

Public Service Company 

Docket No. ER14–1406, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1407, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1415, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1416, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1423, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1430, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1530, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1534, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1535, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1580, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1587, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1592, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1628, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1700, Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. 

Docket No. ER14–1713, Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

These meetings are open to the 

public. 

For more information, contact Patrick 

Clarey, Office of Energy Market 

Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at (317) 249–5937 or 

patrick.clarey@ferc.gov. 

Dated: April 22, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09666 Filed 4–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL14–40–000] 

Morongo Transmission LLC; Notice of 

Petition For Declaratory Order 

Take notice that on April 17, 2014, 

Morongo Transmission LLC (Morongo 

Transmission), pursuant to section 

207(a)(2) of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.207(a)(2), filed a petition for 

declaratory order requesting that the 

Commission approve a rate 

methodology for Morongo Transmission 

in connection with its participation in 

the West of Devers Upgrade Project 

being developed by South California 

Edison Company (SCE), as more fully 

described in the petition. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

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

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). 

For assistance with any FERC Online 

service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on May 19, 2014. 

Dated: April 22, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–10–Region 3] 

Adequacy Status of the Submitted 

Maintenance Plan for the District of 

Columbia Portion of the Metropolitan 

Washington, DC, (DC–MD–VA) 1997 

Fine Particulate National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard Nonattainment Area 

for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is notifying the public that EPA has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEBs) in the District of 

Columbia portion of the Metropolitan 

Washington, DC, (DC–MD–VA) 1997 

Fine Particulate (PM2.5) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) 

Nonattainment Area (hereafter, the 

Washington Area) Maintenance Plan, 

submitted as a State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) revision by District of 

Columbia Department of the 

Environment (DDOE), are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. 

DATES: This finding is effective on May 

14, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Becoat, Physical Scientist, 

Office of Air Program Planning (3AP30), 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 814– 

2036; becoat.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Today’s 

notice is simply an announcement of a 

finding that EPA has already made. EPA 

Region III sent a letter to DDOE on 

March 25, 2014, stating that EPA has 

found that the MVEBs in the 

Washington Area’s Maintenance Plan 

for budget years 2017 and 2025, 

submitted on June 3, 2013 by DDOE, are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. As a result of EPA’s finding, 

the District of Columbia must use the 

2017 and 2025 Tier 1 MVEBs shown in 

Table 1 from the Washington Area’s 

Maintenance Plan for future conformity 

determinations for the 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS. The Tier 2 MVEBS shown in 

Table 2 adds a twenty percent (20%) 

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emissions inventory projections for 

PM2.5 and nitrogen oxides (NOX) in 2017 

and 2025. The Tier 2 MVEBs will 

become effective if it is determined that 

technical uncertainties primarily due to 

model changes and to vehicle fleet 

turnover, which may affect future motor 

vehicle emissions inventories, lead to 

motor vehicle emissions estimates above 

the Tier 1 MVEBs. The determination 

will be made through the interagency 

consultation process and fully 

documented within the first conformity 

analysis that uses the Tier 2 MVEBs. 

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. The adequate 

direct particulate matter (PM) and NOX

MVEBs for Tier 1 and Tier 2 are 

provided in Table 1 and Table 2. 

TABLE 1—TIER 1 ON-ROAD MVEBS CONTAINED IN THE WASHINGTON AREA MAINTENANCE PLAN FOR THE 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS 

Year 

Motor vehicle emissions 

budget for PM2.5 on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

Mobile vehicle emissions 

budget for NOX on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

2017 ..................................................................................................................... 1,787 41,709 

2025 ..................................................................................................................... 1,350 27,400 

TABLE 2—TIER 2 ON-ROAD MVEBS CONTAINED IN THE WASHINGTON AREA MAINTENANCE PLAN FOR THE 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS 

Year 

Motor vehicle emissions 

budget for PM2.5 on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

Mobile vehicle emissions 

budget for NOX on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

2017 ..................................................................................................................... 2,144 50,051 

2025 ..................................................................................................................... 1,586 32,880 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA). 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. 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). EPA described the 

process for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in a July 1, 2004 

preamble starting at 69 FR 40038 and 

used the information in these resources 

in making this adequacy determination. 

The District of Columbia did not 

provide emission budgets for sulfur 

dioxide (SO2), volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs), or ammonia for the 

Washington Area’s Maintenance Plan 

because it concluded that emissions of 

these precursors from motor vehicles are 

not significant contributors to the area’s 

PM2.5 air quality problem. The 

transportation conformity rule provision 

at 40 CFR 93.102(b)(2)(v) indicates that 

conformity does not apply for these 

precursors, due to the lack of motor 

vehicle emissions budgets for these 

precursors and state’s conclusion that 

motor vehicle emissions of SO2, VOCs, 

and ammonia do not contribute 

significantly to the area’s PM2.5

nonattainment problem. This provision 

of the transportation conformity rule 

predates and was not disturbed by the 

January 4, 2013 decision in the litigation 

on the PM2.5 implementation rule. 

EPA has preliminarily concluded that 

the District’s decision to not include 

budgets for SO2, VOCs, and ammonia is 

consistent with the requirements of the 

transportation conformity rule. That 

decision does not affect EPA’s adequacy 

finding for the submitted direct PM and 

NOX MVEBs for the Washington Area’s 

Maintenance Plan. 

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 EPA finds the 

budgets for the Washington Area’s 

Maintenance Plan adequate, the SIP 

could later be disapproved. The finding 

and the response to comments are 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. 

Dated: April 11, 2014. 

W. C. Early, Acting 

Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R04–OW–2013–0728] 

Public Water System Supervision 

Program Revision for the State of 

North Carolina 

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of tentative approval. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the State of North Carolina is revising its 

approved Public Water System 

Supervision Program. North Carolina 

has adopted the following rules: Long 

Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water 

Treatment Rule, Long Term 2 Enhanced 

Surface Water Treatment Rule, Stage 2 

Disinfectants and Disinfection 

Byproducts Rule, Lead and Copper Rule 

Short-Term Regulatory Revisions and 

Clarifications, and Ground Water Rule. 

The EPA has determined that North 

Carolina’s rules are no less stringent 

than the corresponding federal 

regulations. Therefore, the EPA is 

tentatively approving this revision to 

the State of North Carolina’s Public 

Water System Supervision Program. 

DATES: Any interested person may 

request a public hearing. A request for 

a public hearing must be submitted by 

May 29, 2014, to the Regional 

Administrator at the EPA Region 4 

address shown below. The Regional 

Administrator may deny frivolous or 


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