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Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

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document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. or call 

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(202) 502–8659. 

Dated: April 30, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. EL14–42–000; QF87–120–014] 

Badger Creek Limited; Notice of 

Petition for Limited Waiver 

Take notice that on April 29, 2014, 

pursuant to section 292.205(c) of the 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) Rules of 

Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

292.205(c), Badger Creek Limited (BCL) 

filed a petition for limited waiver of the 

qualifying facility operating and 

efficiency standards set forth in 18 CFR 

292.205(a) of the Commission’s 

Regulations for its facility located in 

Bakersfield, California (Facility), for 

calendar years 2014 and 2015. BCL 

makes such a request due to a 

permanent discontinuation of steam 

sales to the Facility’s thermal host. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on May 20, 2014. 

Dated: April 30, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM13–5–000] 

Version 5 Critical Infrastructure 

Protection Reliability Standards; 

Supplemental Notice Concerning Post 

Technical Conference Comments 

As announced during the Commission 

staff convened technical conference 

held on April 29, 2014 to discuss issues 

related to Critical Infrastructure 

Protection Issues Identified in Order No. 

791, parties may choose to file posttechnical conference comments. Parties 

wishing to file comments on the matters 

discussed at the technical conference 

should do so on the following schedule: 

Comments: Due on or before May 21, 

2014. 

Dated: April 30, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–10430 Filed 5–6–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–47–Region–3] 

Adequacy Status of the Submitted 

Maintenance Plan for the Maryland 

Portion of the MartinsburgHagerstown, WV–MD 1997 Fine 

Particulate National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard Nonattainment Area 

for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is notifying the public that EPA has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEBs) in the Maryland 

portion of the Martinsburg-Hagerstown, 

WV–MD 1997 Fine Particulate (PM2.5) 

National Ambient Air Quality Standard 

(NAAQS) Nonattainment Area 

Maintenance Plan (Hagerstown 

Maintenance Plan), submitted as a State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision by 

Maryland Department of the 

Environment (MDE), are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the State of 

Maryland must use the 2017 and 2025 

MVEBs from the Hagerstown 

Maintenance Plan for future conformity 

determinations for the 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS. 

DATES: Effective on May 22, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Becoat, Physical Scientist, 

Office of Air Program Planning (3AP30), 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 814– 

2036; becoat.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Today’s 

notice is simply an announcement of a 

finding that EPA has already made. EPA 

Region III sent a letter to MDE on April 

3, 2014, stating that EPA has found that 

the MVEBs in the Hagerstown 

Maintenance Plan for budget years 2017 

and 2025, submitted on December 23, 

2013 by MDE, are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the State of 

Maryland must use the 2017 and 2025 

MVEBs from the December 23, 2013 

Hagerstown Maintenance Plan for future 

conformity determinations in the 

Maryland portion of the MartinsburgHagerstown, WV–MD 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS Nonattainment Area. Receipt of 

the submittal was announced on EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site. No 

comments were received. The findings 

letter is available at EPA’s conformity 


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1EPA issued conformity regulations to implement 

the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS (69 FR 40004, July 1, 2004 

and 70 FR 24280, May 6, 2005, respectively). Those 

actions were not part of the final rule recently 

remanded to EPA by the Court of Appeals for the 

District of Columbia in NRDC v. EPA, No. 08–1250 

(January 4, 2013), in which the Court remanded to 

EPA the implementation rule for the PM2.5 NAAQS 

because it concluded that EPA must implement that 

NAAQS pursuant to the PM-specific 

implementation provisions of subpart 4 of Part D of 

Title I of the CAA, rather than solely under the 

general provisions of subpart 1. 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

The adequate direct particulate matter 

(PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) MVEBs 

are provided in Table 1. 

TABLE 1—ON-ROAD MVEBS CONTAINED IN THE MARYLAND PORTION

OF THE MARTINSBURG-HAGERSTOWN, WV–MD 1997 PM2.5 NONATTAINMENT AREA MAINTENANCE

PLAN FOR THE 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS 

Year 

Motor vehicle 

emissions 

budget for 

PM2.5 on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

Mobile vehicle 

emissions 

budget for 

NOX on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

2017 .......... 149.63 4,057.00 

2025 .......... 93.35 2,774.63 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA). EPA’s conformity rule requires 

that transportation plans, transportation 

improvement 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 we determine 

whether a SIP’s MVEBs are adequate for 

conformity purposes are outlined in 40 

CFR 93.118(e)(4). EPA described the 

process for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in a July 1, 2004 

preamble starting at 69 FR 40038 and 

used the information in these resources 

in making this adequacy determination. 

The State of Maryland did not provide 

emission budgets for sulfur dioxide 

(SO2), volatile organic compounds 

(VOCs), or ammonia for the Hagerstown 

Maintenance Plan because it concluded 

that emissions of these precursors from 

motor vehicles are not significant 

contributors to the area’s PM2.5 air 

quality problem. The transportation 

conformity rule provision at 40 CFR 

93.102(b)(2)(v) indicates that conformity 

does not apply for these precursors, due 

to the lack of motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for these precursors and state’s 

conclusion that motor vehicle emissions 

of SO2, VOCs, and ammonia do not 

contribute significantly to the area’s 

PM2.5 nonattainment problem. This 

provision of the transportation 

conformity rule predates and was not 

disturbed by the January 4, 2013 

decision in the litigation on the PM2.5

implementation rule.1 EPA has 

preliminarily concluded that 

Maryland’s decision to not include 

budgets for SO2, VOCs, and ammonia is 

consistent with the requirements of the 

transportation conformity rule. That 

decision does not affect EPA’s adequacy 

finding for the submitted direct PM and 

NOX MVEBs for the Hagerstown 

Maintenance Plan. 

Please note that an adequacy review 

is separate from EPA’s completeness 

review, and should not be used to 

prejudge EPA’s ultimate approval action 

for the SIP. Even if EPA finds the 

budgets for the Hagerstown 

Maintenance Plan adequate, the SIP 

could later be disapproved. The finding 

and the response to comments are 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. 

Dated: April 25, 2014. 

W.C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–46-Region-5] 

Notification of a Public Meeting of the 

Great Lakes Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) announces a public 

meeting of the Great Lakes Advisory 

Board (Board). The purpose of this 

meeting is to address administrative 

matters and discuss further advice to 

strengthen the effectiveness of the Great 

Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 from 

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time, 

11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. 

An opportunity will be provided to the 

public to comment. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at the EPA Region 5 Offices, Lake 

Michigan Room, twelfth floor, in the 

Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 

W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 

60604. The teleconference number is: 

(877) 744–6030; Participant code: 

24658751. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this meeting may 

contact Taylor Fiscus, Acting 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO), by 

telephone at 312–353–6059 or email at 

Fiscus.Taylor@epa.gov. General 

information on the GLRI and the Board 

can be found at http://www.glri.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Board is a federal 

advisory committee chartered under the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), Public Law 92–463. EPA 

established the Board in 2013 to provide 

independent advice to the EPA 

Administrator in her capacity as Chair 

of the federal Great Lakes Interagency 

Task Force (IATF). The Board conducts 

business in accordance with FACA and 

related regulations. 

The Board consists of 18 members 

appointed by EPA’s Administrator in 

her capacity as IATF Chair. Members 

serve as representatives of state, local 

and tribal government, environmental 

groups, agriculture, business, 

transportation, foundations, educational 

institutions, and as technical experts. 

The Board held teleconferences and 

meetings in 2013 to develop 

recommendations for the FY 2015–2019 

GLRI Action Plan. In December 2013, 

the Board issued its Advisory Report. 

See http://greatlakesrestoration.us/

advisory/index.html. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

agenda and other materials in support of 

the meeting will be available on the 

GLRI Web site at http://www.glri.us in 

advance of the meeting. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Federal advisory committees provide 

independent advice to federal agencies. 

Members of the public can submit 

relevant comments for consideration by 

the Board. Input from the public to the 

Board will have the most impact if it 

provides specific information for the 

Board to consider. Members of the 

public wishing to provide comments 

should contact the Acting DFO directly. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at this public meeting will 

be limited to three minutes per speaker, 

subject to the number of people wanting 

to comment. Interested parties should 

contact the Acting DFO in writing 

(preferably via email) at the contact 


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