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were not adequate and that the ROP

budgets were adequate. The December

22, 1999 letter also clearly indicated

that it superseded any final actions

which had occurred on October 26,

1999, and that the withdrawal of the

findings made on October 26, 1999 was

effective immediately (December 22,

1999).

As stated above, on December 22,

1999, we informed the Commonwealth

of our finding that the motor vehicle

emission budgets in the Phase II SIP

submitted by the Commonwealth are

not adequate for the purposes of

transportation conformity. Among other

things, the attainment budgets, when

considered together with all other

emission reductions, must be consistent

with applicable requirements for

attainment as required in 40 CFR Part

93, § 93.118(e)(4)(iv). In making our

finding that the attainment budgets are

not adequate, we have preliminarily

determined that the submitted Phase II

attainment SIP does not fully provide

for attainment. This preliminary

determination is not a final agency

action and is rather one of the issues in

our December 16, 1999 Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking (64 FR 70428).

On December 22, 1999, we also

informed the Commonwealth that we

found the motor vehicle emission

budgets in the 1999, 2002, and 2005

ROP plan adequate since they met the

review criteria in 40 CFR Part 93,

§ 93.118(e)(4)(i) through (e)(4)(vi) of the

conformity rule.

This is an announcement of adequacy

findings that we already made on

December 22, 1999. The effective date of

these findings is February 4, 2000.

These findings will also be announced

on EPA’s website: http://www.epa.gov/

oms/traq (once there, click on the

‘‘Conformity’’ button, then look for

‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP Submissions

for Conformity’’). Transportation

conformity is required by section 176(c)

of the Clean Air Act. EPA’s conformity

rule requires that transportation plans,

programs, and projects conform to SIPs

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 NAAQS.

The criteria by which we determine

whether a SIP’s budgets are adequate for

conformity purposes are outlined in 40

CFR 93.118(e)(4). Please note that an

adequacy finding is separate from EPA’s

completeness finding, and separate from

EPA’s finding whether or not the SIP is

approvable. Even if we find a budget

adequate, the SIP could later be

disapproved. We described our process

for determining the adequacy of

submitted SIP budgets in a guidance

memorandum dated May 14, 1999 titled

‘‘Conformity Guidance on

Implementation of March 2, 1999

Conformity Court Decision’’. We

followed this guidance in making our

adequacy findings for the budgets

contained in the ‘‘SIP for Rate of

Progress Emission Reductions and for

Attainment of the NAAQS for Ozone

Meeting the Requirements of the

Alternative Ozone Attainment

Demonstration Policy—Phase II’’

submitted on April 30, 1998 by PADEP.

You may obtain a copy of this guidance

from EPA’s conformity web site referred

to above or by calling the contact name

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this notice.

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q.

Dated: January 10, 2000.

Bradley M. Campbell,

Regional Administrator, Region III.

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BILLIING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6526–7]

Contractor Access to Confidential

Business Information Under the Clean

Air Act

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The EPA has authorized the

following contractor and subcontractors

for access to information that has been,

or will be, submitted to EPA under

sections 108–112, 114, 129 and 183 of

the Clean Air Act (CAA) as amended:

Research Triangle Institute, 3040

Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle

Park, North Carolina 27709; PechanAvanti Group, 5537–C Hempstead Way,

Springfield, Virginia 22151; Stratus

Consulting, Inc., Suite 201, 1881 Ninth

Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302;

Mathtech, Inc., Suite 111, 202 Carnegie

Center, Princeton, New Jersey 08540;

The Kevric Company, Inc., Suite 610,

8401 Colesville Road, Silver Spring,

Maryland 20910 under contract number

68–D–99–024.

Some of the information may be

claimed to be confidential business

information (CBI) by the submitter.

DATES: Access to confidential data

submitted to EPA under the CAA will

occur no sooner than 10 days after

issuance of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Melva Toomer, Document Control

Officer, Office of Air Quality Planning

and Standards (MD–11), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

27711, (919) 541–0880.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA

is issuing this notice to inform all

submitters of information under

sections 108–112, 114, 129 and 183 of

the CAA that EPA may provide the

above mentioned contractor and

subcontractors access to these materials

on a need-to-know basis. This contractor

and subcontractors will provide

technical support to the Office of Air

Quality Planning and Standards

(OAQPS) in the analyses of cost and

benefits of actual or potential EPA

action taken under the CAA.

In accordance with 40 CFR, part 2.

subparts B and other EPA regulations

and policies, EPA has determined that

this contractor and subcontractors

require access to CBI, submitted to EPA

under sections 108–112, 114, 129 and

183 of the CAA, in order to perform

work satisfactorily under the above

noted contract. The contractor and

subcontractor personnel will be given

access to information submitted under

the above mentioned section of the

CAA. Some of the information may be

claimed or determined to be CBI. The

contractor and subcontractor personnel

will be required to sign nondisclosure

agreements and will be briefed on

appropriate security procedures before

they are permitted access to CAA CBI.

All access to CAA CBI will take place

at the prime contractor’s facility. This

prime contractor has appropriate

procedures and facilities in place to

safeguard the CAA CBI to which the

contractor has access.

Clearance for access to CAA CBI is

scheduled to expire on September 30,

2004 under contract 68–D–99–024.

Dated: January 11, 2000.

Robert Brenner,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Air and

Radiation.

[FR Doc. 00–1363 Filed 1–19–00; 8:45 am]

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Acephate, Disulfoton, and

Methamidophos, Revised Pesticide

Risk Assessment; Notice of Public

Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).