37368 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 115 / Wednesday, June 14, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–150–001]

Millennium Pipeline Company, L.P.;

Notice of Meeting

June 8, 2000.

The Commission staff, Millennium

Pipeline Company, L.P. (Millennium)

and interested parties will meet on June

21, 2000, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 3M–2B

at the Commission’s offices at 888 First,

Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.

Millennium previously filed on May 9,

2000, in Docket No. CP98–150–001 to

amend its pending application to reflect

a route variation in Westchester County,

New York. That application to amend

was rejected as incomplete by letter

dated May 16, 2000, without prejudice

to Millennium refiling a complete

application.

Millennium has requested a meeting

in anticipation of refiling of the

application to amend.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

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Adequacy Status of Submitted State

Implementation Plans for

Transportation Conformity Purposes:

Houston-Galveston Area (HGA)

Attainment Demonstration SIP for

Ozone

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy status.

SUMMARY: In this notice, the EPA is

announcing that the motor vehicle

emissions budgets contained in the

submitted HGA Attainment

Demonstration State Implementation

Plan (SIP) for ozone are adequate for

transportation conformity purposes. As

a result of this determination, the

budgets from the submitted attainment

SIP must be used for transportation

conformity determinations in the HGA.

The EPA received two public comment

letters.

DATES: These budgets are effective June

29, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

J. Behnam, P. E., The U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, 1445

Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202;

telephone (214) 665–7247.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Transportation conformity is required

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

The EPA’s conformity rule, 40 CFR part

93, requires that transportation plans,

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 EPA determines

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission

budgets are adequate for conformity

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR

93.118(e)(4). An adequacy review is

separate from EPA’s completeness

review, and it should not be used to

prejudge EPA’s ultimate approval of the

SIP. Even if we find a budget adequate,

the SIP could later be disapproved.

On March 2, 1999, the D. C. Circuit

Court of Appeals ruled that budgets

contained in submitted SIPs cannot be

used for conformity determinations

unless EPA has affirmatively found the

conformity budget adequate. We have

described our process for determining

the adequacy of submitted SIP budgets

in the policy guidance dated May 14,

1999, and titled Conformity Guidance

on Implementation of March 2, 1999

Conformity Court Decision. You may

obtain a copy of this guidance from

EPA’s conformity web site: http://

www.epa.gov/oms/traq (once there,

click on ‘‘conformity’’ and then scroll

down) or by contacting us at the address

above.

By this notice, we are simply

announcing the adequacy determination

that we have already made. On

November 15, 1999, we received the

HGA attainment SIP which contained a

volatile organic compounds budget of

79.00 tons/day and a nitrogen oxides

budget of 195.00 tons/day. The public

comment period closed on May 1, 2000.

We received two public comment

letters. We responded to all comments.

After the public comment process, we

sent a letter to the Texas Natural

Resource Conservation Commission

stating that these budgets are adequate

and they must be used for transportation

conformity determinations, and we

enclosed a copy of our response to

comments.

Therefore, the budgets contained in

the submitted HGA attainment SIP as

referenced above must be used for

transportation conformity by the

Metropolitan Planning Organization for

the Houston-Galveston Area.

Dated: May 31, 2000.

Gregg A. Cooke,

Regional Administrator, Region 6.

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2000 National Resource Conservation

and Recovery Act Program Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of Public Invitation to

Plenary Sessions of RCRA National

Meeting and to Environmental Indicator

Forum Sessions.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of

public invitation to the plenary sessions

of the regular meeting of the National

Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act (RCRA) Program, ‘‘RCRA: Visions

for the Future.’’ This meeting, August

15–18, 2000, brings together RCRA

program representatives from the

Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA), state government, and tribes. The

National Meeting will explore future

management issues of hazardous and

nonhazardous (industrial, municipal,

and other) waste. A long-standing

tradition, the National RCRA Program

Meeting continues to be a great

opportunity to share with, and learn

from, each other. It promotes new EPA

Headquarters initiatives, and fosters

discussion and education concerning

regional and state issues.

Although attendance at the National

Meeting breakout sessions is limited to

regulators, the general public is invited

to attend the two plenary sessions. An

Environmental Indicator Forum will be

held during the Meeting. The Forum

attempts to improve our efforts to

ensure the protection of public health,

and to control the migration of

contaminated water.

DATES: The two plenary sessions at the

2000 National RCRA Program Meeting

are open to the public. The first plenary

starts at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August

15, 2000 and ends at noon. The second

plenary starts at 8:30 am on Thursday,

August 17, 2000 and ends at 10:00 am.

The Environmental Indicator Forum,

will start at 1:00 pm on August 15, and

continue through August 17. It is also

open to the public.

ADDRESSES: The 2000 National RCRA

Program Meeting and the Environmental

Indicator Forum will both be held at the