7734 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 15, 2005 / Notices 

1The submitted Ozone Plan includes a rate-ofprogress demonstration for milestone years 2008 

and 2010 and a demonstration that the San Joaquin 

Valley will attain by no later than the 2010 

attainment date for areas classified ‘‘extreme’’ under 

the federal 1-hour ozone standard.

Dated: February 8, 2005. 

Bonnie C. Gitlin, 

Acting Director, Radiation Protection 

Division, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air.

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AGENCY 

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Adequacy Status of the San Joaquin 

Valley Unified Air Pollution Control 

District, California, Submitted Ozone 

Attainment Plan for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy 

determination. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have found 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets contained in the submitted 

2004 State Implementation Plan for 

Ozone in the San Joaquin Valley are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. 

As a result of our finding, the various 

transportation planning agencies in the 

San Joaquin Valley and the Federal 

Highway Administration must use the 

VOC and NOX motor vehicle emissions 

budgets from the submitted 2004 State 

Implementation Plan for Ozone in the 

San Joaquin Valley for future conformity 

determinations.

DATES: This determination is effective 

March 2, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

finding is available at EPA’s conformity 

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

transp/traqconf.htm (once there, click 

on the ‘‘Transportation Conformity’’

link, then look for ‘‘Adequacy Web 

Pages’’). 

You may also contact David Wampler, 

U.S. EPA, Region IX, Air Division AIR–

2, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 

CA 94105; (415) 972–3975, or 

wampler.david@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces our finding that the 

emissions budgets contained in the 2004 

State Implementation Plan 1 for Ozone 

in the San Joaquin Valley (‘‘Ozone 

Plan’’), submitted by the State of 

California on behalf of the San Joaquin 

Valley Unified Air Pollution Control 

District on November 15, 2004, are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes. EPA Region IX made this 

finding in a letter to the State of 

California, Air Resources Board on 

February 7, 2005. We are also 

announcing this finding on our 

conformity Web site: http://

www.epa.gov/oms/transp/traqconf.htm

(once there, click on the 

‘‘Transportation Conformity’’ link, then 

look for ‘‘Adequacy Web Pages’’).

Transportation conformity is required 

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

Our conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, 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). One of these criteria is that 

the motor vehicle emissions budgets, 

when considered together with all other 

emission sources, is consistent with 

applicable requirements for the 

reasonable further progress plan. We 

have preliminarily determined that the 

2004 State Implementation Plan for 

Ozone in the San Joaquin Valley plan 

meets the necessary rate of progress 

reductions for milestone years 2008 and 

2010 and demonstrates attainment by no 

later than 2010. Therefore, the motor 

vehicle emissions budgets can be found 

adequate. Please note that an adequacy 

review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and it also should 

not be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval of the submitted plan itself. 

Even if we find a budget adequate, the 

submitted plan could later be 

disapproved. 

We have described our process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in guidance (May 14, 1999 

memo titled ‘‘Conformity Guidance on 

Implementation of March 2, 1999 

Conformity Court Decision’’). This 

guidance is now reflected in the 

amended transportation conformity 

rule, July 1, 2004 (69 FR 40004), and in 

the correction notice, July 20, 2004 (69 

FR 43325). We followed this process in 

making our adequacy determination on 

the motor vehicle emissions budgets 

contained in the 2004 State 

Implementation Plan for Ozone in the 

San Joaquin Valley.

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401–7671q.

Dated: February 8, 2005. 

Karen Schwinn, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Request for Nominations for the 

Science Advisory Board’s 

Consultation on EPA’s Framework for 

Revising the Aquatic Life Criteria 

Guidelines

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is requesting 

nominations to augment expertise on 

the SAB Ecological Processes and 

Effects Committee for a panel to provide 

consultation to EPA on the framework 

for revising the Aquatic Life Criteria 

Guidelines.

DATES: Nominations should be 

submitted by March 1, 2005 per the 

instructions below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding this Request for 

Nominations may contact Dr. Thomas 

Armitage, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), via telephone/voice mail at (202) 

343–9995; via e-mail at 

armitage.thomas@epa.gov; or at the U.S. 

EPA Science Advisory Board (1400F), 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. General 

information about the SAB can be found 

in the SAB Web site at http://

www.epa.gov/sab.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: EPA’s recommended 

ambient water quality criteria for 

aquatic life provide guidance to states 

and tribes for adopting water quality 

standards which are the basis for 

controlling discharges or releases of 

pollutants. Currently, ambient water 

quality criteria for aquatic life 

protection are derived according to the 

Guidelines for Derivation of Ambient 

Water Quality Criteria for the Protection 

of Aquatic Life and Their Uses, 

published in 1985. To ensure that 

ambient water quality criteria are 

derived from the best available science, 

EPA’s Office of Water assessed the need 

to update the Guidelines and identified 

issues that should be addressed in the