Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 152 / Monday, August 10, 2009 / Notices 39957 

requires that agencies publish these 

notices in the Federal Register to allow 

for public participation. This notice 

announces the meeting of the Biomass 

Research and Development Technical 

Advisory Committee. 

Dates and Times: September 15, 2009 

at 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; September 16, 

2009 at 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Crowne Plaza, Old Town 

Alexandria, Washington Room, 901 

North Fairfax, Alexandria, VA 22314. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Neal, Designated Federal Official 

for the Committee, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586–7766; 

E-mail: laura.neal@ee.doe.gov or T.J. 

Heibel at (410) 997–7778 ext. 223; Email: theibel@bcs-hq.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice and guidance that promotes 

research and development leading to the 

production of biobased fuels and 

biobased products. 

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will 

include the following: 

• Update on USDA Biomass R&D 

Activities; 

• Update on DOE Biomass R&D 

Activities; 

• Presentation on DOT activities 

related to Biomass R&D; 

• Presentation on Land Use Change 

Workshop; 

• Presentation on Indirect Land Use 

Change (ILUC); 

• Subcommittee Report-Outs 

discussing Committee’s 2009 

recommendations; 

• Committee Discussion on 2010 

Work Plan. 

Public Participation: In keeping with 

procedures, members of the public are 

welcome to observe the business of the 

Biomass Research and Development 

Technical Advisory Committee. To 

attend the meeting and/or to make oral 

statements regarding any of the items on 

the agenda, you should contact Laura 

Neal at 202–586–7766; E-mail: 

laura.neal@ee.doe.gov or T.J. Heibel at 

(410) 997–7778 ext. 223; E-mail: 

theibel@bcs-hq.com. You must make 

your request for an oral statement at 

least 5 business days before the meeting. 

Members of the public will be heard in 

the order in which they sign up at the 

beginning of the meeting. Reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

scheduled oral statements on the 

agenda. The Chair of the Committee will 

make every effort to hear the views of 

all interested parties. If you would like 

to file a written statement with the 

Committee, you may do so either before 

or after the meeting. The Chair will 

conduct the meeting to facilitate the 

orderly conduct of business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying at http:// 

www.brdisolutions.com/publications/ 

default.aspx#meetings. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on August 5, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

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AGENCY 

[Docket No. EPA–R02–OAR–2009–0508; 

FRL–8942–8] 

Adequacy Status of the Municipality of 

Guaynabo, PR submitted PM10 Limited 

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 found 

that the Limited Maintenance Plan for 

PM10 in the Municipality of Guaynabo, 

Puerto Rico is adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. 

DATES: This finding is effective August 

25, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marina Cubias-Castro, Air Programs 

Branch, Environmental Protection 

Agency—Region 2, 290 Broadway, 25th 

floor, New York, NY 10007, 

castro.marina@epa.gov, 212–637–3713. 

The finding and the response to 

comments are available at EPA’s 

conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA Region 2 sent a letter 

to the Puerto Rico Environmental 

Quality Board on June 23, 2009 stating 

that the Municipality of Guaynabo 

submitted PM10 Limited Maintenance 

Plan, is adequate. 

On August 9, 2001, EPA issued 

guidance on streamlined maintenance 

plan provisions for certain moderate 

PM10 nonattainment areas seeking 

redesignation to attainment (Memo from 

Lydia Wegman, Director, Air Quality 

Standards and Strategies Division, 

entitled ‘‘Limited Maintenance Plan 

Option for Moderate PM10

Nonattainment Areas’’). The LMP 

Option memo contains a statistical 

demonstration that areas meeting 

certain air quality criteria will, with a 

high degree of probability, maintain the 

standard 10 years into the future. Since 

the Municipality of Guaynabo has been 

attaining the PM10 NAAQS for at least 

5 years, and has a low risk of future 

exceedances, the limited maintenance 

plan policy allows both Puerto Rico and 

EPA to redesignate this area, which is at 

a low risk of PM10 violations, in an 

expedited manner. EPA’s adequacy 

review of the limited maintenance plan 

for the Municipality of Guaynabo 

primarily focuses on whether the area 

qualifies for the applicable limited 

maintenance plan policy for PM10. We 

have found the maintenance plan for the 

Municipality of Guaynabo adequate for 

conformity purposes under our limited 

maintenance plan policy. 

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 state air quality 

implementation plans (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 motor vehicle emission 

budgets are adequate for conformity 

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 

93.118(e)(4). We’ve 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 should not be 

used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval action for the SIP. Even if we 

find a limited maintenance plan 

adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671 q. 

Dated: July 28, 2009. 

George Pavlou, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 2. 

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