Date: April 8, 2016

MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: List of P ublic C omments Submissions Made In Re sponse to the May 15, 2014 Proposed Rule to

Rescind the Determination of Attainment and Call for Attainment Plans for the New York - N. New Jersey - Long Island, NY - NJ - CT 1997 Ozone Nonattainment Area FROM: H. Lynn Dail, Project Lead

State and Local Programs Group, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, North Carolina TO: Docket EPA - HQ - OA R - 2015 - 0468 In the Federal Register (79 FR 27830), dated May 15, 2014, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) propos ed to rescind its previously issued determination of attainment (Clean Data Determination) for the 1997 8 - hour ozone standard for the New York - N. New Jersey - Long Island, (NY - NJ - CT) ozone nonattainment area because recent complete, quality - assured monitoring data show that the area ha d subsequently violated the 1997 8 - hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). In addition, EPA propos ed to call for revisions to the State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. If finalized, this SIP call will require each of these States to submit a revised attainment SIP for the 1997 8 - hour ozone NAAQ S for its portion of the NY - NJ - CT moderate nonattainment area within 18 months of final action on this SIP call. We requested public comments on this proposal and the comment period ended June 14, 2014. The EPA received a number of comments that can be ac cessed through the EPA’s docket website at www.regulations.gov . The official docket for the May 15, 2014 proposal is identified by Docket ID number EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251. In the agency’s August 27, 2015, proposal (80 FR 51992), regarding determinations of attainment of the 2008 Marginal o zone areas, the EPA discussed how its proposed actions affected the May 2014 proposed options for responding to a SIP Call for the 1997 8 - hour ozone NAAQS and we solicited comments . The EPA did not receive adverse comments on its August 27, 2015, proposal to reclassify the NY - NJ - CT nonattainment area to Moderate, nor did the EPA receive comments about its statement that submitting an attainment plan for the 2008 ozone standard would satisfy a final SIP Call on the 1997 ozone standard. We received a number of comments on the May 15, 2014, proposal (79 FR 27830) to rescind the CDD for the NY - NJ - CT 1997 8 - hour ozone nonattainment area and the accompanying SIP Call for attainment plans. In Table 1 below, we list the specific submissions commenters made into the docket, along with each docket number, for the May 15, 2014 , proposal . We have included these comment into this rulemaking docket and have responded to these comments in a docume nt titled, “ Response to Comments: Proposed Rule: Rescission of Determination of Attainment and Call for Attainment Plans for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for the 1997 8 - Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for the NY

- NJ - CT 1997 Ozone N onattainment Area,” which is available in the docket associated with this rulemaking .Table 1 . List of Commenters and Associated Docket Numbers



### Docket Number Commenter Name EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0002 Anonymous Commenter 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0003 Robert J. Klee, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hartford, Connecticut 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0004 Roger Caiazza, Director, Environmental Energy Alliance of New York, Albany, New York 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0005 Jane Korzinski, Esq., Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, New Jersey 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0006 Andrea Schmitz, Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, Consolidated Edison Company of New York Incor porated, New York, New York 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0007 Haley Stein, Senior Counsel, Environmental Law Division, New York City Law Department, New York, New York 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0008 Joseph J. Martens, Commissioner, New York State Department of Envi ronmental Conservation, Albany, New York 

### EPA - R02 - OAR - 2014 - 0251 - 0009 Seth L. Johnson, Attorney, Earthjustice, Washington, D.C.