Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 121 / Thursday, June 22, 2000 / Notices 38825

2. P–8282; 6/08/00; Rafael Montag.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–15735 Filed 6–21–00; 8:45 am]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

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Adequacy Status of Chicago, IL

Submitted Ozone Rate of Progress

Plan Budget for Transportation

Conformity Purposes

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is

notifying the public that in a letter dated

May 23, 2000, EPA found that the motor

vehicle emissions budget in the

Chicago, Illinois ozone nine percent rate

of progress plan and supplemental

information, submitted on December 18,

1997, December 17, 1999, January 14,

2000, and January 21, 2000, is adequate

for conformity purposes. On March 2,

1999, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that

submitted State Implementation Plans

(SIPs) cannot be used for conformity

determinations until EPA has

affirmatively found them adequate. As a

result of our finding, Chicago can use

the motor vehicle emissions budget for

volatile organic compounds for the year

1999 from the submitted ozone nine

percent rate of progress plan for future

conformity determinations. This budget

is effective July 7, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

finding and the response to comments

already received will be available at

EPA’s conformity website: http://

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

click on the ‘‘Conformity’’ button, then

look for ‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP

Submissions for Conformity’’).

Patricia Morris, Environmental

Scientist, Regulation Development

Section (AR–18J), Air Programs Branch,

Air and Radiation Division, United

States Environmental Protection

Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson

Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604,

(312) 353–8656,

morris.patricia@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

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 5 sent a letter

to the Illinois Environmental Protection

Agency on May 23, 2000, stating that

the motor vehicle emissions budget in

the Chicago, Illinois submitted ozone

nine percent rate of progress plan for

1999 is adequate. This finding will also

be announced on EPA’s conformity

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 state air quality

implementation plans 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). Please note that an

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s

completeness review, and it also 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.

We’ve described our process for

determining the adequacy of submitted

SIP budgets in guidance (May 14, 1999

memorandum titled ‘‘Conformity

Guidance on Implementation of March

2, 1999 Conformity Court Decision’’).

We followed this guidance in making

our adequacy determination.

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q.

Dated: June 12, 2000.

David A. Ullrich,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.

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Access to Confidential Business

Information by Logistics Management

Institute

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA has authorized its

contractor Logistics Management

Institute (LMI) of McLean, Virginia

access to information which has been

submitted to EPA under sections 4, 5, 8,

and 12 of the Toxic Substances Control

Act (TSCA). Some of the information

may be claimed or determined to be

confidential business information (CBI).

DATES: Access to the confidential data

submitted to EPA under TSCA section

12(b), occurred as a result of an

approved waiver dated April 6, 2000,

which requested granting LMI

immediate access to this Section of

TSCA CBI. This waiver was necessary to

allow LMI to repair a database

containing 12(b) export notices.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Barbara A. Cunningham, Acting

Director, Environmental Assistance

Division (7408), Office of Pollution

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental

Protection Agency, Rm. E–545, 401 M

St., SW., Washington, DC 20460, (202)

554–1404, TDD: (202) 554–0551; e-mail:

TSCA-Hotline@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Does this Notice Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public

in general. This action may, however, be

of interest to ‘‘those persons who are or

may be required to conduct testing of

chemical substances under the Toxic

Substances Control Act (TSCA).’’ Since

other entities may also be interested, the

Agency has not attempted to describe all

the specific entities that may be affected

by this action. If you have any questions

regarding the applicability of this action

to a particular entity, consult the person

listed under ‘‘FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.’’

II. How Can I Get Additional

Information, Including Copies of this

Document or Other Related Documents?

Electronically. You may obtain

electronic copies of this document, and

certain other related documents that

might be available electronically, from

the EPA Internet Home Page at http://

www.epa.gov/. To access this

document, on the Home Page select

‘‘Laws and Regulations’’ and then look

up the entry for this document under

the ‘‘Federal Register—Environmental

Documents.’’ You can also go directly to

the Federal Register listings at http://

www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/.

III. What Action is the Agency Taking?

Under contract number GS–35F–

4041G, contractor LMI of 2000

Corporate Ridge Road, Mclean, VA, will

assist the Office of Pollution Prevention

and Toxics (OPPTS) by providing

compatible and integrated databases

that have the quality, accessibility,

availability and maintainability for the

workflow applications developed to

support OPPT processes.