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receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on February 19, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3104 Filed 2–18–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP10–47–000] 

CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission 

Company; Prior Notice of Activity 

Under Blanket Certificate 

February 3, 2010. 

On January 26, 2010 CenterPoint 

Energy Gas Transmission Company 

(CEGT) filed a prior notice request 

pursuant to sections 157.205, 157.208 

and 157.210 of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

regulations under the Natural Gas Act, 

and CEGT’s certificate issued September 

1, 1982, as amended February 10, 1983, 

in Docket Nos. CP82–384–000 and 

CP82–384–001. CEGT requests 

authorization to construct a new 

compressor station near the town of 

Alto in Richland Parish, Louisiana, all 

as more fully described in the 

application that is available for public 

inspection. 

Any questions regarding the 

application should be directed to 

Michelle Willis, Manager, Regulatory & 

Compliance, CenterPoint Energy Gas 

Transmission Company, P.O. Box 

21734, Shreveport, Louisiana 71151, or 

by calling (318) 429–3708. 

Any person or the Commission’s staff 

may, within 60 days after issuance of 

the instant notice by the Commission, 

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR 

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice 

of intervention and pursuant to section 

157.205 of the regulations under the 

NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the 

request. If no protest is filed within the 

time allowed therefor, the proposed 

activity shall be deemed to be 

authorized effective the day after the 

time allowed for filing a protest. If a 

protest is filed and not withdrawn 

within 30 days after the allowed time 

for filing a protest, the instant request 

shall be treated as an application for 

authorization pursuant to section 7 of 

the NGA. 

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 motions or protests 

must be filed on or before the comment 

date. Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant, 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 comments, 

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 14 copies of the 

intervention or protest 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 e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3098 Filed 2–18–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R04–OAR–2010–0019; FRL–9114–2] 

Adequacy Status of the North Carolina 

Portion of the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock 

Hill Bi-State Area Reasonable Further 

Progress Plan 8-Hour Ozone Sub-Area 

Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for 

Transportation Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Adequacy. 

SUMMARY: EPA is notifying the public 

that it has found that the sub-area motor 

vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) for 

the North Carolina portion of the 

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill bi-state 

area (hereafter referred to as the 

Charlotte bi-state area) in the 1997 8- 

Hour Ozone Reasonable Further 

Progress (RFP) plan, submitted on 

November 30, 2009, by the North 

Carolina Department of Air Quality (NC 

DAQ), are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. The bi-state 

Charlotte moderate 1997 8-hour ozone 

area is comprised of Charlotte-Gastonia 

in North Carolina; and Rock Hill (a 

portion of York County), South 

Carolina. The North Carolina portion of 

the Charlotte bi-state area is comprised 

of the following sub-areas or counties: 

Cabarrus, Gaston, partial of Iredell 

(Davidson and Coddle Creek 

Townships), Lincoln, Mecklenburg, 

Rowan, and Union. North Carolina’s 

RFP plan includes the required MVEBs 

for volatile organic compounds (VOC), 

and voluntary MVEBs for nitrogen 

oxides (NOX). This action relates only to 

the North Carolina portion of the 

Charlotte bi-state area. EPA is 

considering South Carolina’s RFP for 

the applicable portion of York County in 

a separate action. As a result of EPA’s 

finding, which is being announced in 

this notice, the North Carolina portion 

of the Charlotte bi-state area must use 

the sub-area MVEBs for future 

conformity determinations for the 1997 

8-hour ozone standard. 

DATES: These sub-area MVEBs are 

effective March 8, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dianna Smith, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 4, Air 

Planning Branch, 61 Forsyth Street, 

SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Ms. Smith 

can also be reached by telephone at 

(404) 562–9207, or via electronic mail at 

smith.dianna@epa.gov. The finding is 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

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

stateresources/transconf/currsips.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is simply an announcement of a 

finding that EPA has already made. EPA 

Region 4 sent a letter to NC DAQ on 

January 12, 2010, stating that the subarea MVEBs identified for the North 

Carolina portion of the Charlotte bi-state 

area in the 1997 8-hour ozone RFP plan, 

submitted on November 30, 2009, are 

adequate and must be used for 

transportation conformity 

determinations in the North Carolina 

portion of the Charlotte bi-state area. 

EPA posted the availability of the subarea MVEBs contained in the North 

Carolina RFP plan on EPA’s Web site on 

December 3, 2009, as part of the 

adequacy process, for the purpose of 

soliciting comments. EPA’s adequacy 

comment period ran from December 3, 


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2009, through January 3, 2010. During 

EPA’s adequacy comment period, no 

adverse comments were received on the 

MVEBs for North Carolina portion of the 

Charlotte bi-state area. Through this 

notice, EPA is informing the public that 

these sub-area MVEBs are adequate for 

transportation conformity. This finding 

has also been announced on EPA’s 

conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/pastsips.htm. The adequate 

sub-area MVEBs are provided in the 

following table: 

CHARLOTTE (NORTH CAROLINA

PORTION) 8-HOUR OZONE MVEBS 

[kilograms/day] 

County VOC NOx

2008 Sub-Area MVEBS 

Cabarrus ................... 6,941 7,324 

Gaston ...................... 5,132 7,647 

Iredell* ....................... 3,601 5,637 

Lincoln ...................... 2,726 2,948 

Mecklenburg ............. 26,368 34,526 

Rowan ....................... 6,149 7,193 

Union ........................ 6,299 5,660 

*Iredell County MVEB for nonattainment 

area only. 

Transportation conformity is required 

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

EPA’s conformity rule, 40 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 state 

implementation plan (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 MVEBs are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

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

has also described the process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in a 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 RFP plan for the North 

Carolina portion of the Charlotte bi-state 

area. Even if EPA finds a budget 

adequate, the RFP plan 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 MVEBs, 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: February 3, 2010. 

A. Stanley Meiburg, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3239 Filed 2–18–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2003–-0064, FRL–9113–9; 

EPA ICR 1287.10, OMB Control Number 

2040–0101] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Information 

Collection Request for Application for 

Sustainable Water Leadership Program 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document 

announces that EPA is planning to 

submit a request to update an existing 

approved Information Collection 

Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). Before 

submitting the ICR to OMB for review 

and approval, EPA is soliciting 

comments on specific aspects of the 

proposed information collection as 

described below. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 20, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing docket ID number EPA–HQ– 

OW–2003–0064, by one of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• E-mail: ow-docket@epa.gov 

(Identify Docket ID number EPA–HQ– 

OW–2003–0064, in the subject line) 

• Mail: Water Docket, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mailcode: 4203M, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. Please include a 

total of three copies. 

• Hand Delivery: EPA Docket Center, 

EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC. Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments 

identified by the Docket ID number 

EPA–HQ–OW–2003–0064. EPA’s policy 

is that all comments received will be 

included in the public docket without 

change and may be made available 

online at www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://www.regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov, your e-mail 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made available on the Internet. If you 

submit an electronic comment, EPA 

recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Gwaltney, Municipal Support 

Division, Office of Wastewater 

Management, OWM Mail Code: 4204M, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Room 7111—EPA East, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 

564–2340; e-mail address: 

gwaltney.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

How Can I Access the Docket and/or 

Submit Comments? 

EPA has established a public docket 

for the ICR identified in this document 

(ID number EPA–HQ–OW–2003–0064), 

which is available for online viewing at 

http://www.regulations.gov, or in person 

viewing at the Water Docket in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 


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