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U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of 

Representatives, and the Comptroller 

General of the United States prior to 

publication of the rule in the Federal 

Register. A major rule cannot take effect 

until 60 days after it publishes in the 

Federal Register. This action is not a 

‘‘major rule’’ as defined by 5 U.S.C. 

804(2). 

Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, 

petitions for judicial review of this 

action must be filed in the United States 

Court of Appeals for the appropriate 

circuit by August 7, 2018. Filing a 

petition for reconsideration by the 

Administrator of this final rule does not 

affect the finality of this action for the 

purposes of judicial review nor does it 

extend the time within which a petition 

for judicial review may be filed, and 

shall not postpone the effectiveness of 

such rule or action. This action 

approving the revision to the State of 

Arizona’s SIP may not be challenged 

later in proceedings to enforce its 

requirements. (See section 307(b)(2)). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Intergovernmental relations, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Sulfur dioxide. 

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

Dated: May 25, 2018. 

Deborah Jordan, 

Acting Regional Administrator, EPA Region 

IX. 

Chapter I, title 40 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations is amended as 

follows: 

PART 52—APPROVAL AND 

PROMULGATION OF 

IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 52 

continues to read as follows: 

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

Subpart D—Arizona 

■ 2. In § 52.120, table 1 in paragraph (e) 

is amended by adding the entry 

‘‘Maintenance Plan Renewal, 1971 

Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient Air 

Quality Standards, Douglas 

Maintenance Area’’ after the entry 

‘‘Modeling and Emissions Inventory 

Supplement for the Douglas Sulfur 

Dioxide Nonattainment Area State 

Implementation and Maintenance Plan 

and Redesignation Request, dated 

September 2005’’ to read as follows: 

§ 52.120 Identification of plan. 

* * * * * 

(e) * * * 

TABLE 1—EPA-APPROVED NON-REGULATORY AND QUASI-REGULATORY MEASURES

[Excluding certain resolutions and statutes, which are listed in tables 2 and 3, respectively] 1

Name of SIP provision 

Applicable 

geographic or 

nonattainment 

area or 

title/subject 

State submittal date EPA approval 

date Explanation 

*******

Part D Elements and Plans (Other than for the Metropolitan Phoenix or Tucson Areas) 

*******

Maintenance Plan Renewal, 1971 

Sulfur Dioxide National Ambient 

Air Quality Standards, Douglas 

Maintenance Area.

Douglas Sulfur Dioxide Air Quality Planning 

Area.

December 14, 2016 ....... June 8, 2018, [insert Federal 

Register citation].

Adopted by the Arizona Department 

of Environmental Quality on December 14, 2016. Fulfills requirements for second 10-year maintenance plan. 

* * * * * * * 

1Table 1 is divided into three parts: Clean Air Act Section 110(a)(2) State Implementation Plan Elements (excluding Part D Elements and 

Plans), Part D Elements and Plans (other than for the Metropolitan Phoenix or Tucson Areas), and Part D Elements and Plans for the Metropolitan Phoenix and Tucson Areas. 

* * * * * 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[Docket No. EPA–R02–OAR–2018–0197; 

FRL–9978–07—Region 2] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets for the New York 

Portion of the New York-Northern New 

Jersey-Long Island, NY–NJ–CT, 2008 

8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notification of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’ or ‘‘Agency’’) is notifying the 

public that the Agency has found that 

the 2017 motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (‘‘budgets’’) for volatile organic 

compounds (‘‘VOCs’’) and nitrogen 

oxides (‘‘NOX’’) submitted by the New 

York State Department of 

Environmental Conservation for the 

2008 national ambient air quality 

standard (‘‘NAAQS’’) for ozone are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes for the New York portions of 

the New York-Northern New JerseyLong Island, NY–NJ–CT 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment area. The transportation 

conformity rule requires that the EPA 


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conduct a public process and make an 

affirmative decision on the adequacy of 

these budgets before they can be used by 

metropolitan planning organizations in 

conformity determinations. As a result 

of this finding, upon the effective date 

of this notification of adequacy, the New 

York Metropolitan Transportation 

Council must use these budgets in 

future transportation conformity 

determinations. The budgets are 

contained in New York’s November 10, 

2017, state implementation plan 

submittal for the 2008 ozone NAAQS 

and are associated with the reasonable 

further progress milestone 

demonstration. 

DATES: This finding is effective June 25, 

2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Hannah Greenberg, Environmental 

Protection Agency Region 2, Air 

Programs Branch, 290 Broadway, 25th 

Floor, New York, New York 10007– 

1866; (212) 637–3829, 

greenberg.hannah@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

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

the EPA. 

This document is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA Region 2 sent a letter 

to the New York State Department of 

Environmental Conservation on April 

19, 2018, stating that the 2017 motor 

vehicle emissions budgets (‘‘budgets’’) 

in the submitted state implementation 

plan (‘‘SIP’’) for the 2008 national 

ambient air quality standard for ozone 

for the New York portions of the New 

York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island 

8-hour ozone nonattainment area are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. These budgets are associated 

with the SIP’s reasonable further 

progress milestone demonstration and 

must apply to future transportation 

conformity determinations conducted 

by the New York Metropolitan 

Transportation Council (‘‘NYMTC’’). 

On November 10, 2017, the New York 

State Department of Environmental 

Conservation submitted a SIP revision 

for the New York portion of the New 

York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, 

NY–NJ–CT, 2008 8-hour ozone 

nonattainment area. This revision to the 

SIP included 2017 summer day volatile 

organic compound (‘‘VOC’’) and 

nitrogen oxides (‘‘NOX’’) motor vehicle 

emissions budgets associated with the 

SIP’s reasonable further progress 

demonstration. We announced 

availability of the plan and related 

budgets on the EPA’s transportation 

conformity website on December 6, 

2017, requesting comments by January 

5, 2018. We received no comments in 

response to the adequacy review 

posting. 

This finding will also be available at 

the EPA’s conformity website: https://

www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation/conformity-adequacyreview-region-2. 

The motor vehicle emissions budgets 

are provided in Table 1 below. 

TABLE 1—2017 MOTOR VEHICLE

EMISSIONS BUDGETS FOR NYMTC 

[Tons per year] 

Year VOC NOX

2017 65.69 117.21 

Transportation conformity is required 

by Clean Air Act section 176(c). The 

EPA’s conformity rule requires that 

long-range transportation plans, 

transportation improvement programs, 

and transportation projects conform to a 

state’s air quality SIP and establishes the 

criteria and procedures for determining 

whether or not they conform. 

Conformity to a SIP means that 

transportation activities will not 

produce new air quality violations, 

worsen existing violations, or delay 

timely attainment of the NAAQS. 

The criteria the EPA uses to 

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 further 

described our process for determining 

the adequacy of submitted SIP budgets 

in 40 CFR 93.118(f), and we followed 

this rule in making our adequacy 

determination. Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from the 

EPA’s completeness review and should 

not be used to prejudge the EPA’s 

ultimate action on the SIP. Even if we 

find a budget adequate, the SIP could 

later be disapproved. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e), within 

2 years of the effective date of this 

document, NYMTC and the U.S. 

Department of Transportation will need 

to demonstrate conformity to the new 

budgets. For demonstrating conformity 

to the budgets in this plan, the on-road 

motor vehicle emissions from 

implementation of the long-range 

transportation plan should be projected 

consistently with the budgets in this 

plan. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671 q. 

Dated: April 30, 2018. 

Peter D. Lopez, 

Regional Administrator, Region 2. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2018–0319; FRL–9979– 

11—Region 7] 

Adequacy Determination for the St. 

Louis Area 2008 8-Hour Ozone 

Redesignation Request and 

Maintenance State Implementation 

Plan, Motor Vehicle Emissions 

Budgets for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes; State of Missouri 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notification of adequacy 

determination. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the EPA is 

notifying the public that the St. Louis 

area 2008 8-hour ozone redesignation 

request and maintenance plan motor 

vehicle emission budgets (MVEBs) for 

volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and 

nitrogen oxides (NOX) are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result, these budgets must be used by 

the State of Missouri for future 

transportation conformity 

determinations for the St. Louis area. 

DATES: This finding is effective June 22, 

2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Hamilton, at (913) 551–7039, by 

email at Hamilton.heather@epa.gov, or 

by mail at U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Air Planning and 

Development Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

or ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA. The word 

‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the motor vehicle 

emission budgets (MVEBs) for volatile 

organic compounds and nitrogen 

oxides. For the purposes of this 

document, ‘‘SIP’’ refers to the St. Louis 

Area 2008 8-Hour Ozone Redesignation 

Request and Maintenance State 

Implementation Plan, submitted by 

Missouri Department of Natural 

Resources to EPA as a SIP revision on 

September 12, 2016. The Plan was 

revised on February 16, 2018. 

This document is an announcement of 

a finding that EPA has already made. 

EPA Region 7 sent a letter to Missouri 

Department of Natural Resources on 

May 15, 2018, stating that the MVEBs 

contained in the Redesignation Request 

and Maintenance Plan are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the State of 

Missouri must use the MVEBs from the 

February 16, 2018, Redesignation 

Request and Maintenance Plan for 


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