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• The percentage of NIDRR-supported 

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(e.g., new or improved tools, methods, 

discoveries, standards, interventions, 

programs, or devices) developed or 

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• The average number of publications 

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interventions, programs, and devices 

using rigorous methods. 

• The number of new or improved 

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designed technologies, products, and 

devices transferred to industry for 

potential commercialization. 

Each grantee must annually report its 

performance through NIDRR’s Annual 

Performance Report (APR) form. NIDRR 

uses APR information submitted by 

grantees to assess progress on these 

measures. 

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Education and Rehabilitative Services, 

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Rehabilitative Services. 

Dated: July 23, 2009. 

Andrew J. Pepin, 

Executive Administrator for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2009–0374; FRL–8936–5] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in Submitted 

Attainment and Reasonable Further 

Progress Plan for Sacramento 8-hour 

Ozone for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes; California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy and 

inadequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that the Agency has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for the years 2011, 2014 and 

2017 from the Sacramento Regional 8- 

Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable 

Further Progress Plan (‘‘2009 

Sacramento Ozone Plan’’), are adequate 

for transportation conformity purposes. 

In this notice, EPA is also notifying the 

public that the Agency has found that 

the motor vehicle emissions budgets for 

the year 2018 from the 2009 Sacramento 

Ozone Plan are inadequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. The 

2009 Sacramento Ozone Plan was 

submitted to EPA on April 17, 2009 by 

the California Air Resources Board 

(CARB) as a revision to the California 

State Implementation Plan (SIP). As a 

result of our adequacy findings, the 

Sacramento Area Council of 

Governments (SACOG) and the U.S. 

Department of Transportation must use 

the adequate budgets and cannot use the 

inadequate budget in future 

transportation conformity analyses once 

the finding becomes effective. 

DATES: This finding is effective August 

12, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Kelly, U.S. EPA, Region IX, Air Division 

AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne Street, San 

Francisco, CA 94105–3901; (415) 947– 

4151 or kelly.johnj@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 Region IX sent a 

letter to CARB on July 16, 2009 stating 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets in the submitted 2009 

Sacramento Ozone Plan for the 

reasonable further progress (RFP) 

milestone years of 2011, 2014 and 2017 

are adequate. The finding is available at 

EPA’s conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequate 

motor vehicle emissions budgets are 

provided in the following table: 

ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS

[summer planning] 

Budget year 

Reactive organic 

gases 1

(tons per day) 

Nitrogen oxides 

(tons per day) 

2011 ......................................................................................................................................................... 38 78 

2014 ......................................................................................................................................................... 32 61 

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ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS—Continued 

[summer planning] 

Budget year 

Reactive organic 

gases 1

(tons per day) 

Nitrogen oxides 

(tons per day) 

2017 ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 48 

1 Reactive organic gases (ROG) is the term used in the plan and is comparable to the Federal term, volatile organic compounds (VOC). 

Our letter dated July 16, 2009 also 

states that budgets for 2018 are 

inadequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. The 2018 budgets 

include estimated emission reductions 

associated with a number of 

commitments for future rule adoption 

that lack specificity. As such, the 

SACOG would not be able to accurately 

quantify future emission reductions 

associated with the commitments. 

Without additional specificity, it is also 

unclear how the 2018 budgets are 

precisely quantified or related to the 

overall emissions inventory and other 

measures. Therefore, the 2018 budgets 

do not meet the adequacy criteria found 

in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4)(iii), (iv), and (v). 

The inadequate motor vehicle emissions 

budgets are provided in the following 

table: 

INADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS

[summer planning] 

Budget year 

Reactive organic 

gases 1

(tons per day) 

Nitrogen oxides 

(tons per day) 

2018 ......................................................................................................................................................... 24 34 

1 Reactive organic gases (ROG) is the term used in the plan is comparable to the Federal term, volatile organic compounds (VOC). 

Acting in response to a request by 

CARB for parallel processing of the 

final, but not yet adopted, 2009 

Sacramento Ozone Plan and related 

budgets, we announced availability of 

the plan and related budgets on EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site on 

March 18, 2009. We received no 

comments in response to the adequacy 

review posting. The finding is available 

at EPA’s conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

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 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) 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, at 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 16, 2009. 

Laura Yoshii, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2006–0408; FRL–8936–3] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; EPA’s WaterSense 

Program (Renewal); EPA ICR No. 

2233.04, OMB Control No. 2040–0272 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that EPA is planning to 

submit a request to renew an existing 

approved Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). This 

ICR is scheduled to expire on January 

31, 2010. Before submitting the ICR to 

OMB for review and approval, EPA is 

soliciting comments on specific aspects 

of the proposed information collection 

as described below. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before September 28, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2006–0408 by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: OW-Docket@epa.gov. 

• Mail: Water Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 28221T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. Hand Delivery: 

Public Reading Room, Room 3334, EPA 

West Building, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. Such 

deliveries are only accepted during the 

Docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2006– 

0408. EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

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