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Notice of Availability in the Federal 

Register on April 29, 2011 and will 

continue for 60 days until June 28, 2011. 

NNSA will consider comments received 

after this date to the extent practicable 

as it prepares the Final CMRR–NF SEIS. 

Questions or Comments concerning the 

Draft CMRR–NF SEIS can be submitted 

to the NNSA Los Alamos Site Office at 

the same postal and electronic addresses 

given above. Additionally, the LASO 

CMRR–NF SEIS Hotline provides 

instructions on how to record 

comments. Please mark all envelopes, 

faxes and e-mail: ‘‘Draft CMRR–NF SEIS 

Comments’’. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 10, 

2011. 

Thomas P. D’Agostino, 

Administrator, National Nuclear Security 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11909 Filed 5–13–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R06–OAR–2010–0774; FRL–9306–4] 

Adequacy Status of the Baton Rouge, 

Louisiana Maintenance Plan 8-Hour 

Ozone Motor Vehicle Emission 

Budgets for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy 

determination. 

SUMMARY: EPA is notifying the public 

that it has found that the motor vehicle 

emissions budgets (MVEB) in the Baton 

Rouge, Louisiana Redesignation 

Request/Maintenance Plan State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision, 

submitted on August 31, 2010 and 

February 14, 2011, by the Louisiana 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(LDEQ) are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. As a result of 

EPA’s finding, the Baton Rouge area 

must use these budgets for future 

conformity determinations for the 1997 

8-hour ozone standard. 

DATES: These budgets are effective May 

31, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

essential information in this notice will 

be available at EPA’s conformity Web 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

You may also contact Mr. Jeffrey Riley, 

Air Planning Section (6PD–L), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, 

Texas 75202–2733, telephone (214) 

665–8542, E-mail address: 

Riley.Jeffrey@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refers to EPA. The word 

‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the mobile source 

emissions budget for volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and the mobile 

source emissions budget for nitrogen 

oxides (NOX). 

On August 31, 2010, we received a 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision from the Louisiana Department 

of Environmental Quality (LDEQ). This 

revision consisted of a Redesignation 

Request/Maintenance Plan SIP for the 

Baton Rouge ozone nonattainment area. 

In response to further EPA 

communication with LDEQ, we received 

a technical amendment to the Baton 

Rouge Redesignation Request/ 

Maintenance Plan SIP from LDEQ on 

February 14, 2011. This submittal 

established the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEB) for the Baton Rouge 

area for the year 2022. The MVEB is the 

amount of emissions allowed in the 

state implementation plan for on-road 

motor vehicles; it establishes an 

emissions ceiling for the regional 

transportation network. The MVEB is 

provided in Table 1: 

TABLE 1—BATON ROUGE NOX AND

VOC MVEB 

[Summer season tons per day] 

2022 

NOX .................................................. 6.96 

VOC .................................................. 7.55 

On March 3, 2011, EPA posted the 

availability of the Baton Rouge area 

budget on EPA’s Web site, as part of the 

adequacy process, for the purpose of 

soliciting public comments. The 

comment period closed on April 4, 

2011, and we received no comments. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region 6 sent a letter 

to LDEQ on April 27, 2011, finding that 

the MVEB in the Baton Rouge 

Redesignation Request/Maintenance 

Plan SIP, submitted on August 31, 2010 

and February 14, 2011, is adequate and 

must be used for transportation 

conformity determinations in the Baton 

Rouge area. This finding has also been 

announced on EPA’s conformity Web 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. 

EPA’s conformity rule, 40 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) part 93, 

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 

so. 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 EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s MVEB is adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

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

have also described the process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004, final 

rulemaking entitled, ‘‘Transportation 

Conformity Rule Amendments for the 

New 8-hour Ozone and PM2.5 National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards and 

Miscellaneous Revisions for Existing 

Areas; Transportation Conformity Rule 

Amendments: Response to Court 

Decision and Additional Rule Changes’’ 

(69 FR 40004). Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and it should not 

be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval of the Baton Rouge 

Redesignation Request/Maintenance 

Plan SIP revision submittal. Even if EPA 

finds a budget adequate, the 

Redesignation Request/Maintenance 

Plan SIP revision submittal could later 

be disapproved. 

Within 24 months from the effective 

date of this notice, the transportation 

partners will need to demonstrate 

conformity to the new MVEB if the 

demonstration has not already been 

made, pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e). 

See, 73 FR 4419 (January 24, 2008). 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: May 6, 2011. 

Al Armendariz, 

Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11944 Filed 5–13–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Petition IV–2010–1; FRL–9306–2] 

Clean Air Act Operating Permit 

Program; Petition for Objection to 

State Operating Permit for Tennessee 

Valley Authority—Paradise Fossil Fuel 

Plant; Muhlenberg County, KY 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of final order on petition 

to object to a state operating permit. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Clean Air Act 

(CAA) Section 505(b)(2) and 40 CFR 


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