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available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. Members of the public wishing to 

attend should contact Jacob B. Strickler 

via email at: assumablewaters@epa.gov 

or by phone at: (202) 564–4692 by 

December 5th, 2016, so we can ensure 

adequate phone lines are available. On 

December 9th, 2016, public comments 

will heard beginning at 3:00 p.m. until 

3:30 p.m. EDT or until all comments 

have been heard. 

Meeting Access: The agency will 

strive to reasonably accommodate 

individuals with disabilities. 

Information regarding accessibility and/ 

or accommodations for individuals with 

disabilities should be directed to Jacob 

B. Strickler at the email address or 

phone number listed above. To ensure 

adequate time for processing, please 

make requests for accommodations at 

least 8 days prior to the meeting. 

Dated: November 1, 2016. 

Benita Best-Wong, 

Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and 

Watersheds. 

[FR Doc. 2016–26967 Filed 11–7–16; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9954–45–Region 6] 

Adequacy Status of the Dallas-Fort 

Worth, Texas Attainment 

Demonstration 8-Hour Ozone Motor 

Vehicle Emission Budgets for 

Transportation Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is notifying the public 

that it has found that the motor vehicle 

emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the 

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (DFW) 

Attainment Demonstration (AD) State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision for 

the 2008 8-hour ozone National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard 

(NAAQS), submitted on August 5, 2016 

by the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality (TCEQ) are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. As a result of EPA’s finding, 

the DFW area must use these budgets for 

future conformity determinations. 

DATES: These budgets are effective 

November 23, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

essential information in this notice will 

be available at EPA’s conformity 

Website: https://www.epa.gov/stateand-local-transportation/adequacyreview-state-implementation-plan-sipsubmissions-conformity. You may also 

contact Mr. Jeffrey Riley, State 

Implementation Section (6MM–AA), 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, 

Texas 75202–2733, at (214) 665–8542 or 

Riley.Jeffrey@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refers to EPA. The word 

‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the mobile source 

emissions budget for volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and the mobile 

source emissions budget for nitrogen 

oxides (NOX). 

On August 5, 2016, we received a SIP 

revision from the TCEQ. This revision 

consisted of an AD SIP for the DFW 

2008 8-hour ozone NAAQS 

nonattainment area. This submission 

established MVEBs for the DFW 2008 

ozone nonattainment area for the year 

2017. The MVEB is the amount of 

emissions allowed in the SIP for on-road 

motor vehicles; it establishes an 

emissions ceiling for the DFW area 

regional transportation network, used to 

develop the 2017 on-road motor vehicle 

emissions projections contained in the 

AD SIP. The MVEBs are provided in 

Table 1: 

TABLE 1—DALLAS-FORT WORTH ATTAINMENT DEMONSTRATION NOX

AND VOC MVEBS 

[Summer season tons per day] 

2017 

NOX ...................................... 130.77 

VOC ...................................... 64.91 

On September 7, 2016, EPA posted 

the revised DFW area MVEBs on EPA’s 

Web site for the purpose of soliciting 

public comments, as part of the 

adequacy process. The comment period 

closed on October 6, 2016, and we 

received no comments. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region 6 sent a letter 

to TCEQ on October 17, 2016, finding 

that the MVEBs in the DFW AD SIP, 

submitted on August 5, 2016 are 

adequate and must be used for 

transportation conformity 

determinations in the DFW area. This 

finding has also been announced on 

EPA’s conformity Web site: https://

www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation/adequacy-review-stateimplementation-plan-sip-submissionsconformity. 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. 

EPA’s conformity rule, 40 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) part 93, 

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 do 

so. 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 EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s MVEB is adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We 

have also described the process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, final 

rulemaking entitled, ‘‘Transportation 

Conformity Rule Amendments for the 

New 8-hour Ozone and PM2.5 National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards and 

Miscellaneous Revisions for Existing 

Areas; Transportation Conformity Rule 

Amendments: Response to Court 

Decision and Additional Rule Changes’’ 

See 69 FR 40004 (July 1, 2004). 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 DFW 2008 8- 

hour ozone NAAQS AD SIP revision 

submittal. Even if EPA finds the budgets 

adequate, the DFW AD SIP revision 

submittal could later be disapproved. 

Within 24 months from the effective 

date of this notice, the DFW-area 

transportation partners, such as the 

North Central Texas Council of 

Governments, will need to demonstrate 

conformity to the new MVEBs if the 

demonstration has not already been 

made, pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e). See 

73 FR 4419 (January 24, 2008). 

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

Dated: November 2, 2016. 

Ron Curry, 

Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

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