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Region 5 sent a letter to the Illinois 

Environmental Protection Agency 

stating that the 2009 and 2020 MVEBs 

for the Chicago, Illinois 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment area are adequate. 

Receipt of these MVEBs was announced 

on EPA’s transportation conformity Web 

site, and no comments were submitted. 

The finding is available at EPA’s 

conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

The adequate 2009 and 2020 MVEBs, 

in tons per day (tpd), for VOCs and NOX

for the Chicago, Illinois area are as 

follows: 

Chicago area NOX

(tpd) 

VOCs 

(tpd) 

2009 .................................. 284.65 133.78 

2020 .................................. 88.17 73.68 

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 

conform. Conformity to a State 

Implementation Plan (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 MVEBs are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We 

have described our process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, 

preamble starting at 69 FR 40038, and 

we used the information in these 

resources while making our adequacy 

determination. 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. 

The finding and the response to 

comments are available at EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site: 

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/ 

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. 

Dated: April 29, 2010. 

Walter W. Kovalick Jr., 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761; FRL–9149–8] 

Executive Order 13508 Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration 

Section 203 Final Coordinated 

Implementation Strategy 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of a final strategy for 

restoration and protection of the 

Chesapeake Bay that was prepared 

pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 13508 

of May 12, 2009, Chesapeake Bay 

Protection and Restoration. The purpose 

of this strategy is to describe federal 

actions to protect and restore the health, 

heritage, natural resources, and social 

and economic value of the nation’s 

largest estuarine ecosystem and the 

natural sustainability of its watershed. 

The EO requires that the final strategy 

be published within one year of the date 

of the EO. 

DATES: Effective May 12, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Travis Loop, USEPA, Region 3, 

Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 

Annapolis City Marina, 410 Severn 

Avenue, Suite 109 (3CB10), Annapolis, 

MD 21403; telephone number: (410) 

267–5758; fax number: (410) 267–5777; 

e-mail: loop.travis@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

Executive Order 13508, Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration, dated 

May 12, 2009 (74 FR 23099, May 15, 

2009), established a Federal Leadership 

Committee, chaired by EPA, and 

including senior representatives from 

the departments of Agriculture, 

Commerce, Defense, Homeland 

Security, Interior and Transportation. 

EO 13508 directed these agencies to 

prepare and publish a strategy for 

coordinated implementation of existing 

programs and projects to guide efforts to 

protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. 

The draft strategy was released for 

public comment on November 9, 2009 

(74 FR 57675, November 9, 2009). This 

final strategy incorporates revisions 

resulting from public comments and 

ongoing consideration by the federal 

agencies. 

Why was this document prepared? 

Executive Order 13508, Chesapeake 

Bay Protection and Restoration, dated 

May 12, 2009 (74 FR 23099, May 15, 

2009), required a Federal Leadership 

Committee composed of seven Federal 

agencies to (1) prepare and publish a set 

of reports on key challenges to 

protecting and restoring the Chesapeake 

Bay, (2) prepare and publish a draft 

strategy for coordinated implementation 

of existing programs and projects to 

guide efforts to protect and restore the 

Chesapeake Bay within 180 days of the 

date of the EO, and (3) prepare and 

publish a final strategy for coordinated 

implementation of existing programs 

and projects to guide efforts to protect 

and restore the Chesapeake Bay within 

one year of the date of the EO. 

The federal agency draft reports 

required by EO 13508 Sections 202(a) 

through (g) were released to the public 

for review on September 10, 2009. The 

draft reports were reviewed by the 

Federal Leadership Committee, in 

consultation with relevant state 

agencies. The reports were revised to 

reflect consideration of the comments 

received during state consultation and 

preliminary public input. The revised 

final reports were released on November 

24, 2009. 

The draft strategy for coordinated 

implementation of existing programs 

and projects to guide efforts to protect 

and restore the Chesapeake Bay required 

by EO 13508 Section 203 was released 

for public comment on November 9, 

2009 (74 FR 57675, November 9, 2009). 

The Federal Leadership Committee 

established a docket for public 

comments (EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761). 

Several hundred individual comments 

were received, along with about 45,000 

comments provided through massmailing campaigns. The Federal 

Leadership Committee has prepared a 

summary of its responses to public 

comments on the draft strategy. The 

summary is available at http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. 

The final strategy for restoration and 

protection of the Chesapeake Bay 

incorporates revisions resulting from 

public comments and ongoing 

consideration by the federal agencies. 

This final strategy meets the EO 

requirement to publish the final strategy 

within one year of the EO. 

How can I get copies of this document 

and other related information? 

Docket: EPA has established a docket 

for this action under Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OW–2009–0761. The final EO 

13508 Section 203 strategy document is 

available in the docket at 

http://www.regulations.gov, as well as at 

http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. 

Assistance and tips for accessing the 

docket can be found at http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. For 


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additional information about the public 

docket visit the EPA Docket Center 

homepage at http://www.epa.gov/ 

epahome/dockets.htm. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

electronically either through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the EPA Docket Center, (EPA/DC) EPA 

West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The 

telephone number for this docket is 

202–566–2426. The EPA Docket Center 

Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding legal holidays. The 

telephone number for the Public 

Reading Room is (202) 566–1744. 

Certain material, such as copyrighted 

materials, will be publicly available 

only in hard copy at the Docket Center. 

What information does the final strategy 

contain? 

The Executive Order directed federal 

agencies to develop a strategy that (a) 

defines environmental goals for the 

Chesapeake Bay and describes 

milestones for making progress toward 

attainment of these goals; (b) identifies 

key measurable indicators of 

environmental condition and changes 

that are critical to effective federal 

leadership; (c) describes the specific 

programs and strategies to be 

implemented; (d) identifies the 

mechanisms that will assure that 

governmental and other activities, 

including data collection and 

distribution, are coordinated and 

effective; and (e) describes a process for 

the implementation of adaptive 

management principles, including a 

periodic evaluation of protection and 

restoration measures. 

For the final strategy, federal agencies 

have focused on achieving the most 

essential priorities for a healthy 

Chesapeake ecosystem: Restore Clean 

Water, Recover Habitats, Sustain Fish 

and Wildlife, and Conserve Land and 

Increase Public Access. Chapters on 

each of these goals describe the overall 

goal and explain why it is vital to the 

Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Specific 

measures of progress supporting the 

goal, including numerical targets for 

future progress compared to current 

conditions, are also presented. Each 

chapter also includes a description of 

the actions federal agencies will take to 

accomplish the goal. 

Federal agencies also developed 12 

key environmental outcomes that will 

be achieved through expanded federal 

actions described in the strategy and 

ongoing state activities, and will reflect 

progress toward attainment of the 

overall goals. The environmental 

outcomes are related to water quality, 

stream restoration, agriculture 

conservation, wetland restoration, forest 

buffers, fish passage, oysters, blue crabs, 

brook trout, black ducks, land 

conservation, and public access. 

The strategy also features four 

chapters on supporting strategies that 

provide invaluable cross-cutting support 

to achieving environmental goals or are 

critical complementary efforts in the 

restoration and protection of the 

Chesapeake Bay and watershed. The 

supporting strategy chapters are: 

Expand Citizen Stewardship, Develop 

Environmental Markets, Respond to 

Climate Change, and Strengthen 

Science. 

The final chapter of the strategy 

outlines the role and responsibilities of 

the Federal Leadership Committee in 

implementing the strategy, as well as 

the federal government’s commitment to 

increase accountability by establishing 

milestones every two years for taking 

action. The final chapter also outlines a 

series of accountability tools and 

processes to promote transparency in 

the planning, tracking, reporting, 

evaluating and adapting of restoration 

activities. These tools include an 

Annual Action Plan, an Annual Progress 

Report, Independent Evaluation, and an 

Adaptive Management process. 

What are the next steps in responding 

to EO 13508? 

After release of this final strategy, the 

Federal Leadership Committee will 

implement the actions described in the 

strategy. The Federal Leadership 

Committee will continue to work with 

the jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay 

watershed to better align actions to 

protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. 

EO 13508 also requires the Federal 

Leadership Committee to publish an 

annual Chesapeake Bay Action Plan 

describing how federal funding 

proposed in the President’s Budget will 

be used to protect and restore the 

Chesapeake Bay during the upcoming 

fiscal year. The Federal Leadership 

Committee plans to release the first 

annual Chesapeake Bay Action Plan in 

early fall 2010. 

EO 13508 also requires the Federal 

Leadership Committee to publish an 

annual Progress Report reviewing 

indicators of environmental conditions 

in the Chesapeake Bay, assessing 

implementation of the Action Plan 

during the preceding fiscal year, and 

recommending steps to improve 

progress in restoring and protecting the 

Chesapeake Bay. The Federal 

Leadership Committee plans to release 

the first annual Progress Report in the 

first quarter of calendar year 2012. 

The Federal Leadership Committee 

plans to consult with state agencies, 

local governments, other stakeholders, 

and the general public in the 

development of the annual Action Plan 

and Progress Report. The details of this 

consultation process will be made 

available at http:// 

executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net. 

Dated: May 6, 2010. 

Lisa P. Jackson, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–1017; FRL–8822–4] 

Product Cancellation Order for Certain 

Pesticide Registrations 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA’s 

order for the cancellations, voluntarily 

requested by the registrants and 

accepted by the Agency, of the products 

listed in Table 1, pursuant to section 

6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation 

order follows a February 3, 2010 

Federal Register Notice of Receipt of 

Requests from the registrants listed in 

Table 2 to voluntarily cancel these 

product registrations. In the February 3, 

2010 Notice, EPA indicated that it 

would issue an order implementing the 

cancellations unless the Agency 

received substantive comments within 

the 30–day comment period that would 

merit its further review of these requests 

or unless the registrants withdrew their 

requests. The Agency received 

comments on the notice but none 

merited its further review of the 

requests. The registrants did not 

withdraw their requests. Accordingly, 

EPA hereby issues in this notice a 

cancellation order granting the 

requested cancellations. Any 

distribution, sale, or use of the products 

subject to this cancellation order is 

permitted only in accordance with the 

terms of this order, including any 

existing stocks provisions. 

DATES: The cancellations are effective 

May 11, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maia Tatinclaux, Pesticide Reevaluation Division (7508P), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460– 


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