EPA Acting Regional Administrator Alexis Strauss signed the following rule on August 15, 2016 

and the EPA is submitting it for publication in the Federal Register (FR). While we have taken 

steps to ensure the accuracy of this version of this rule, it is not the official version. Please refer 

to the official version in a forthcoming FR publication appearing on the Government Printing 

Office website, https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/, and on www.regulations.gov in Docket Number 

EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0096.

6560-50-P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0096; FRL-]

Air Plan Approval; Reno, Nevada; Second 10-Year Carbon Monoxide Maintenance Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing approval of a State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Nevada (“State”). On July 3, 2008,

the EPA redesignated the Truckee Meadows area, consisting largely of the cities of Reno and 

Sparks in Washoe County, Nevada, from nonattainment to attainment for the carbon monoxide 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and approved the State’s plan addressing the 

area’s maintenance of the NAAQS for ten years. On November 7, 2014, the State submitted to 

the EPA a second maintenance plan for the Truckee Meadows area that addressed maintenance 

of the NAAQS through 2030. The EPA is also proposing to find adequate and approve 

transportation conformity motor vehicle emissions budgets for the years 2015, 2020, 2020, 2025 

and 2030. We are making this proposal under the Clean Air Act.

DATE: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by [Insert date 30 days after date of 

publication in the Federal Register].

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0096
This document is a prepublication version signed by EPA Acting Regional Administrator Alexis 

Strauss on August 15, 2016. We have taken steps to ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is 

not the official version.

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at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to John Kelly, Air Planning Office, at 

kelly.johnj@epa.gov. For comments submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions 

for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be removed or edited from 

Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, the EPA may publish any comment received 

to its public docket. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by 

statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all 

points you wish to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents 

located outside of the primary submission (i.e. on the web, cloud, or other file sharing system). 

For additional submission methods, please contact the person identified in the “FOR 

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT” section. For the full EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Kelly, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-4151,

kelly.johnj@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, “we,” “us” and “our” 

refer to the EPA. This proposal addresses the following local plan, “Second 10-Year 

Maintenance Plan for the Truckee Meadows 8-Hour Carbon Monoxide Attainment Area, August 

28, 2014,” and associated motor vehicle emissions budgets. In the Rules and Regulations section 

of this Federal Register, we are approving this local plan in a direct final action without prior 
This document is a prepublication version signed by EPA Acting Regional Administrator Alexis 

Strauss on August 15, 2016. We have taken steps to ensure the accuracy of this version, but it is 

not the official version.

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proposal because we believe this SIP revision is not controversial. If we receive adverse 

comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule and address the 

comments in subsequent action based on this proposed rule.

We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone interested in commenting 

should do so at this time. If we do not receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned.

For further information, please see the direct final action.

August 15, 2016 /s/

________________ ______________________

Dated: Alexis Strauss,

Acting Regional Administrator,

Region IX.