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wishing to make public comment will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Erik Olds’ office at the 

address or phone number listed above. 

Minutes will also be available at the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.hanford.gov/ 

?page=413&parent=397. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on May 1, 2008. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–10098 Filed 5–6–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

State Energy Advisory Board 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Open Teleconference. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

teleconference of the State Energy 

Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public 

notice of these teleconferences be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: May 15, 2008 from 2 p.m. to 

3 p.m. EDT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Burch, STEAB Designated Federal 

Officer, Acting Assistant Manager, 

Office of Commercialization and Project 

Management, Golden Field Office, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1617 Cole 

Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401, 

Telephone 303/275–4801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Purpose of 

the Board: To make recommendations to 

the Assistant Secretary for the Office of 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable 

Energy regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–

440). 

Tentative Agenda: Update members 

on routine business matters. 

Public Participation: The 

teleconference is open to the public. 

Written statements may be filed with 

the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Members of the public who 

wish to make oral statements pertaining 

to agenda items should contact Gary 

Burch at the address or telephone 

number listed above. Reasonable 

provision will be made to include 

requested topic(s) on the agenda. The 

Chair of the Board is empowered to 

conduct the call in a fashion that will 

facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. This notice is being published 

less than 15 days before the date of the 

meeting due to programmatic issues. 

Notes: The notes of the teleconference 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

Web site, http://www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on May 2, 2008. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–10096 Filed 5–6–08; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2008–0325; FRL–8562–4] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in Submitted 

Coachella Valley 8-hour Ozone Early 

Progress Plan for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes; California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that the Agency has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for 8-hour ozone in the 

Coachella Valley 8-hour Ozone Early 

Progress Plan are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. The 

Coachella Valley 8-hour Ozone Early 

Progress Plan was submitted to EPA on 

March 24, 2008 by the California Air 

Resources Board as a revision to the 

California State Implementation Plan 

(SIP). As a result of our adequacy 

findings, the Southern California 

Association of Governments and the 

U.S. Department of Transportation must 

use these budgets in future conformity 

analyses once the finding becomes 

effective. 

DATES: This finding is effective May 22, 

2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Rosen, U.S. EPA, Region IX, Air 

Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901; (415) 

947–4154 or rosen.rebecca@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

EPA. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA Region IX sent a 

letter to the California Air Resources 

Board on April 16, 2008 stating that the 

motor vehicle emissions budgets in the 

submitted Coachella Valley 8-hour 

Ozone Early Progress Plan for 2012 are 

adequate. The finding is available at 

EPA’s conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otag/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequate 

motor vehicle emissions budgets are 

provided in the following table: 

MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS

Budget year 

Volatile organic compounds 1Nitrogen oxides 

(tons per 

day) 

(tons per 

day) 

2012 .................. 7 26 

1The plan uses a comparable State term, 

reactive organic gases (ROG). 

Transportation conformity is required 

by Clean Air Act section 176(c). EPA’s 

conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs, and projects 

conform to state air quality 

implementation plans (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 motor vehicle emission 

budgets are adequate for 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 in making our adequacy 

determination. 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 we 

find a budget adequate, the SIP could 

later be disapproved. 

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

Dated: April 16, 2008. 

Laura Yoshii, 

Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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