Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 126 / Thursday, June 29, 2000 / Notices 40093

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[KY119–200023; FRL–6726–8]

Adequacy Status of the Northern

Kentucky Submitted Ozone

Redesignation Request and

Maintenance State Implementation

Plan for Transportation Conformity

Purposes

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

SUMMARY: In this document, EPA is

notifying the public that we have found

that the motor vehicle emissions

budgets for oxides of nitrogen and

volatile organic compounds for the year

2010 in the Ozone Redesignation

Request and Maintenance State

Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by

the Commonwealth of Kentucky for

Northern Kentucky are adequate for

transportation conformity purposes. On

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

ruled that submitted SIPs cannot be

used for conformity determinations

until EPA has affirmatively found them

adequate. As a result of our finding, the

motor vehicle emissions budgets in the

submitted Northern Kentucky Ozone

Redesignation Request and Maintenance

SIP must be used for future conformity

determinations.

DATES: These budgets are effective July

14, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The

finding 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’’).

The SIP is available for public

viewing at the United States

Environmental Protection Agency, 61

Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia

30303. You can request a copy of the

SIP submission by contacting Dr. Robert

W. Goodwin, Regulatory Planning

Section, United States Environmental

Protection Agency, 61 Forsyth Street,

SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Phone:

(404) 562–9044, Fax: (404) 562–9019, Esmail: Goodwin.Robert@EPA.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Today’s document is simply an

announcement of a finding that we have

already made. EPA Region 4 sent a letter

to the Kentucky Division for Air Quality

on May 24, 2000, stating that the motor

vehicle emissions budgets in the

submitted Northern Kentucky Ozone

Redesignation Request and Maintenance

SIP for the year 2010 are 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 (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 guidance (May

14, 1999 memo 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 21, 2000.

A. Stanley Meiburg,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6726–9]

Landia Chemical Company Site/

Lakeland, Florida; Notice of Proposed

Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement.

SUMMARY: Under sections 104, 106(a),

107 and 122 of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act

(CERCLA), Agrico Chemical Company

and PCS Joint Venture, Ltd.

(Respondents) entered into an

Administrative Order on Consent (AOC)

with the Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA), whereby Respondents

agreed to perform response activities at

the Landia Chemical Company Site

(Site) located in Lakeland, Florida.

Section VII of the AOC provides for the

reimbursement of EPA’s past response

costs by Respondents. Under the terms

of the AOC, section VII is subject to

section 122(i) of CERCLA, which

requires EPA to publish notice of the

proposed settlement in the Federal

Register for a thirty (30) day public

comment period. EPA will consider

public comments on section VII of the

AOC for thirty days. EPA may withhold

consent to all or part of section VII of

the AOC if comments received disclose

facts or considerations which indicate

that section VII of the AOC is

inappropriate, improper, or inadequate.

Copies of the proposed settlement are

available from: Ms. Paula V. Batchelor,

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,

Region IV, CERCLA Program Services

Branch, Waste Management Division, 61

Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia

30303, (404) 562–8887.

Written comment may be submitted to

Mr. Greg Armstrong at the above

address within 30 days of the date of

publication.

Dated: June 15, 2000.

Franklin E. Hill,

Chief, CERCLA Program Services Branch,

Waste Management Division.

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

Public Information Collections

Approved by Office of Management

and Budget

June 23, 2000.

The Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) has received Office

of Management and Budget (OMB)

approval for the following public

information collections pursuant to the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13. An agency may not

conduct or sponsor and a person is not

required to respond to a collection of

information unless it displays a

currently valid control number. For

further information contact Shoko B.

Hair, Federal Communications

Commission, (202) 418–1379.

Federal Communications Commission

OMB Control No.: 3060–0943

Expiration Date: 12/31/2000

Title: 47 CFR Section 54.809, Carrier

Certification

Form No.: N/A

Respondents: Business or other forprofit.

Estimated Annual Burden: 27

respondents; 1.5 hours per response

(avg.).; 40.5 total annual burden hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $0.