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high by 1,555-foot-long potentially 

rebuilt South Haiwee dam having a total 

storage capacity of 46,600 acre-feet and 

a water surface area of 660 acres at full 

pool elevation of 3,756 feet msl; (3) 

approximately 13,150 feet of conduit 

connecting the upper to the lower 

reservoir in three different sections: A 

3,000-foot-long by 18.5-foot-diameter, 

concrete-lined low-pressure tunnel, a 

7,850-foot-long by 18.5-foot-diameter 

concrete-lined pressure shaft, and a 

2,300-foot-long by 22.2-foot diameter 

tailrace; and (4) an underground 

powerhouse located roughly 1,500 feet 

east of South Haiwee reservoir at an 

elevation of 3,600 feet msl. 

South Haiwee Alternative B: (1) An 

upper reservoir formed by a 210-foothigh by 1,320-foot-long, RCC dam and a 

25-foot-high by 800-foot-long RCC 

saddle dam having a total storage 

capacity of 14,235 acre-feet and a water 

surface area of 241 acres at full pool 

elevation of 5,000 feet msl; (2) a lower 

reservoir formed by the 91-foot-high by 

1,523-foot-long potentially rebuilt South 

Haiwee dam having a total storage 

capacity of 46,600 acre-feet and a water 

surface area of 800 acres at full pool 

elevation of 3,756 feet msl; (3) 

approximately 14,700 feet of conduit 

connecting the upper to the lower 

reservoir in three different sections: A 

5,100-foot-long by 18.9-foot-diameter, 

concrete-lined low-pressure tunnel, a 

5,600-foot-long by 18.9-foot-diameter 

concrete-lined pressure shaft, and a 

4,000-foot-long by 22.7-foot diameter 

tailrace; and (4) an underground 

powerhouse located roughly 3,300 feet 

southeast of South Haiwee reservoir at 

an elevation of 3,580 feet msl. 

New Reservoir Alternative: (1) An 

upper reservoir formed by a 210-foothigh by 1,320-foot-long, RCC dam 

having a total storage capacity of 14,235 

acre-feet and a water surface area of 241 

acres at full pool elevation of 5,000 feet 

msl; (2) a lower reservoir formed by a 

60-foot-high by 10,600-foot-long RCC 

dam having a total storage capacity of 

46,600 acre-feet and a water surface area 

of 800 acres at full pool elevation of 

3,756 feet above msl; (3) approximately 

12,500 feet of conduit connecting the 

upper to the lower reservoir in three 

different sections: A 3,750-foot-long by 

17.5-foot-diameter, concrete-lined lowpressure tunnel, a 6,300-foot-long by 

17.5-foot-diameter concrete-lined 

pressure shaft, and a 2,500-foot-long by 

21-foot diameter tailrace; and (4) an 

underground located roughly 8,500 feet 

southwest of South Haiwee reservoir at 

an elevation of 3,400 feet msl. 

As a result of preliminary 

investigations, the permittee now 

proposes to make the following changes 

to their issued permit: (1) Eliminate the 

lower reservoir from the New Reservoir 

Alternative (item 2 in the previous 

paragraph); (2) change the total installed 

capacity of Alternative B from 500 MW 

to 250 MW; and (3) adjust the project 

boundary to remove the lands 

associated with the lower reservoir of 

the New Reservoir Alternative and to 

include additional federal lands, 

managed by the BLM, necessary for the 

proposed project. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Matthew 

Shapiro, Haiwee Ridge Hydro, LLC., 

1210 W. Franklin St., Ste. 2, Boise, ID 

83702; phone (208) 246–9925. 

FERC Contact: Kenneth Hogan, 202– 

502–8434 or via email at: 

Kenneth.Hogan@ferc.gov. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene: 60 days from the issuance 

of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments 

and motions to intervene using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please 

send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–14286–001. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the amendment 

application, can be viewed or printed on 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link of Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket 

number (P–14286) in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Dated: July 25, 2014. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–18044 Filed 7–30–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9914–61–Region 3] 

Adequacy Status of the Maintenance 

Plan for the Baltimore, Maryland 1997 

Fine Particulate National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard Nonattainment Area 

for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

is notifying the public that EPA has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEBs) in the Baltimore, 

Maryland (MD) 1997 Fine Particulate 

(PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard (NAAQS) Nonattainment Area 

Maintenance Plan (Baltimore 

Maintenance Plan), submitted as a State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision by 

Maryland Department of the 

Environment (MDE), are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the State of 

Maryland must use the 2017 and 2025 

MVEBs from the Baltimore Maintenance 

Plan for future conformity 

determinations for the 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS. 

DATES: The adequacy finding for the 

PM2.5 MVEBs is effective on August 15, 

2014 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Becoat, Physical Scientist, 

Office of Air Program Planning (3AP30), 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 814– 

2036; becoat.gregory@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region III sent a 

letter to MDE on July, 2, 2014, stating 

that EPA has found that the MVEBs in 

the Baltimore Maintenance Plan for 

budget years 2017 and 2025, submitted 

on December 12, 2013 by MDE, are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. As a result of EPA’s finding, 

the State of Maryland must use the 2017 

and 2025 MVEBs from the December 12, 

2013 Baltimore Maintenance Plan for 

future conformity determinations in the 

Baltimore, MD 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS 

Nonattainment Area. Receipt of the 

submittal was announced on EPA’s 

transportation conformity Web site. No 

comments were received. The findings 

letter is available at EPA’s conformity 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 


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1EPA issued conformity regulations to implement 

the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS (69 FR 40004, July 1, 2004 

and 70 FR 24280, May 6, 2005, respectively). Those 

actions were not part of the final rule recently 

remanded to EPA by the Court of Appeals for the 

District of Columbia in NRDC v. EPA, No. 08–1250 

(January 4, 2013), in which the Court remanded to 

EPA the implementation rule for the PM2.5 NAAQS 

because it concluded that EPA must implement that 

NAAQS pursuant to the PM-specific 

implementation provisions of subpart 4 of Part D of 

Title I of the CAA, rather than solely under the 

general provisions of subpart 1. 

The adequate particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) MVEBs are 

provided in Table 1. 

TABLE 1—ON-ROAD MVEBS CONTAINED IN THE BALTIMORE, MD 1997 PM2.5 NONATTAINMENT AREA MAINTENANCE PLAN

FOR THE 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS 

Year 

Motor vehicle emissions 

budget for PM2.5 on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

Mobile vehicle emissions 

budget for NOX on-road 

emissions 

(tons per year) 

2017 ..................................................................................................................... 1,218.60 29,892.01 

2025 ..................................................................................................................... 1,051.39 21,594.96 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act 

(CAA). EPA’s conformity rule requires 

that transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs, and projects 

conform to 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 EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s MVEBs are adequate for 

conformity purposes are outlined in 40 

CFR 93.118(e)(4). EPA described the 

process for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in a July 1, 2004 

preamble starting at 69 FR 40038 and 

used the information in these resources 

in making this adequacy determination. 

The State of Maryland did not provide 

emission budgets for sulfur dioxide 

(SO2), volatile organic compounds 

(VOCs), or ammonia for the Baltimore 

Maintenance Plan because it concluded 

that emissions of these precursors from 

motor vehicles are not significant 

contributors to the Area’s PM2.5 air 

quality problem. The transportation 

conformity rule provision at 40 CFR 

93.102(b)(2)(v) indicates that conformity 

does not apply for these precursors, due 

to the lack of motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for these precursors and state’s 

conclusion that motor vehicle emissions 

of SO2, VOCs, and ammonia do not 

contribute significantly to the area’s 

PM2.5 nonattainment problem. This 

provision of the transportation 

conformity rule predates and was not 

disturbed by the January 4, 2013 

decision in the litigation on the PM2.5

implementation rule.1 EPA has 

preliminarily concluded that 

Maryland’s decision to not include 

budgets for SO2, VOCs, and ammonia is 

consistent with the requirements of the 

transportation conformity rule. That 

decision does not affect EPA’s adequacy 

finding for the submitted PM2.5 and NOX

MVEBs for the Baltimore Maintenance 

Plan. 

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 EPA finds the 

budgets for the Baltimore Maintenance 

Plan adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. The finding and the 

response to comments are available at 

EPA’s conformity Web site: http://

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/

transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q. 

Dated: July 11, 2014. 

W.C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. 2014–18046 Filed 7–30–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9914–60–OGC] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘CAA’’ or the ‘‘Act’’), notice is hereby 

given of a proposed consent decree to 

address a lawsuit filed by the Center for 

Biological Diversity in the United States 

District Court for the Northern District 

of California: Center for Biological 

Diversity v. McCarthy, Civil Action No. 

4:13–cv–5142–SBA (N.D. Cal.). On 

November 5, 2013, Plaintiff filed a 

complaint; on January 28, 2014, Plaintiff 

filed a first amended complaint; and on 

January 30, 2014, Plaintiff filed a second 

amended complaint. Plaintiff alleged 

that Gina McCarthy, in her official 

capacity as Administrator of the United 

States Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’), failed to: (a) Perform a 

mandatory duty to find that certain 

states failed to submit nonattainment 

state implementation plans (‘‘SIPs’’) for 

named areas designated nonattainment 

for the 2006 fine particulate matter, or 

PM2.5, National Ambient Air Quality 

Standard (‘‘NAAQS’’); and (b) take 

timely final action to approve or 

disapprove, in whole or in part, certain 

2006 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment SIP 

submissions addressing nonattainment 

new source review from states for 

named areas. The proposed consent 

decree would establish deadlines for 

EPA to take some of these actions. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed consent decree must be 

received by September 2, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2014–0553, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to oei.docket@

epa.gov; by mail to EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

or by hand delivery or courier to EPA 

Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. Comments on 

a disk or CD–ROM should be formatted 

in Word or ASCII file, avoiding the use 

of special characters and any form of 

encryption, and may be mailed to the 

mailing address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Bennett Bianco, Air and 

Radiation Law Office (2344A), Office of 

General Counsel, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460; 


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