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transportation buffer to the mobile 

emissions inventory projections for 

PM2.5 and nitrogen oxides (NOX) in 2017 

and 2025. The Tier 2 MVEBs will 

become effective if it is determined that 

technical uncertainties primarily due to 

model changes and to vehicle fleet 

turnover, which may affect future motor 

vehicle emissions inventories, lead to 

motor vehicle emissions estimates above 

the Tier 1 MVEBs. The determination 

will be made through the interagency 

consultation process and fully 

documented within the first conformity 

analysis that uses the Tier 2 MVEBs. 

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. The adequate 

direct particulate matter (PM) and NOX

MVEBs for Tier 1 and Tier 2 are 

provided in Table 1 and Table 2. 

TABLE 1—TIER 1 ON-ROAD MVEBS

CONTAINED IN THE WASHINGTON

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 .......... 1,787 41,709 

2025 .......... 1,350 27,400 

TABLE 2—TIER 2 ON-ROAD MVEBS

CONTAINED IN THE WASHINGTON

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 .......... 2,144 50,051 

2025 .......... 1,586 32,880 

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 we determine 

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. 

Maryland did not provide emission 

budgets for sulfur dioxide (SO2), volatile 

organic compounds (VOCs), or ammonia 

for the Washington Area’s 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. EPA has 

preliminarily concluded that the State’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 direct PM and NOX MVEBs 

for the Washington Area’s 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 Washington Area’s 

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: April 11, 2014. 

W.C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09580 Filed 4–25–14; 8:45 am] 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–09–Region 3] 

Adequacy Status of the Submitted 

Maintenance Plan for the Virginia 

Portion of the Metropolitan 

Washington, DC, (DC-MD-VA) 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 Commonwealth 

of Virginia portion of the Metropolitan 

Washington, DC, (DC-MD-VA) 1997 

Fine Particulate (PM2.5) National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) 

Nonattainment Area (hereafter, the 

Washington Area) Maintenance Plan, 

submitted as a State Implementation 

Plan (SIP) revision by the Virginia 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(VADEQ), are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. 

DATES: This finding is effective on May 

13, 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 VADEQ on March 25, 2014, 

stating that EPA has found that the 

MVEBs in the Washington Area’s 

Maintenance Plan for budget years 2017 

and 2025, submitted on June 3, 2013 by 

VADEQ, are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. As a result of 

EPA’s finding, the Commonwealth of 

Virginia must use the 2017 and 2025 

Tier 1 MVEBs shown in Table 1 from 

the Washington Area’s Maintenance 

Plan for future conformity 

determinations for the 1997 PM2.5

NAAQS. The Tier 2 MVEBS shown in 

Table 2 adds a twenty percent (20%) 

transportation buffer to the mobile 

emissions inventory projections for 

PM2.5 and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in 2017 

and 2025. The Tier 2 MVEBs will 

become effective if it is determined that 

technical uncertainties primarily due to 

model changes and to vehicle fleet 


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turnover, which may affect future motor 

vehicle emissions inventories, lead to 

motor vehicle emissions estimates above 

the Tier 1 MVEBs. The determination 

will be made through the interagency 

consultation process and fully 

documented within the first conformity 

analysis that uses the Tier 2 MVEBs. 

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. The adequate 

direct particulate matter (PM) and NOx

MVEBs for Tier 1 and Tier 2 are 

provided in Table 1 and Table 2. 

TABLE 1—TIER 1 ON-ROAD MVEBS

CONTAINED IN THE WASHINGTON

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 .......... 1,787 41,709 

2025 .......... 1,350 27,400 

TABLE 2—TIER 2 ON-ROAD MVEBS

CONTAINED IN THE WASHINGTON

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 .......... 2,144 50,051 

2025 .......... 1,586 32,880 

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 we determine 

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 Commonwealth of Virginia did not 

provide emission budgets for sulfur 

dioxide (SO2), volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs), or ammonia for the 

Washington Area’s 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. EPA 

has preliminarily concluded that the 

Commonwealth’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 direct PM and NOx MVEBs 

for the Washington Area’s 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 Washington Area’s 

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: April 11, 2014. 

W.C. Early, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09577 Filed 4–25–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2013–0677; FRL–9909–77] 

Receipt of Test Data Under the Toxic 

Substances Control Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing its receipt 

of test data submitted pursuant to a test 

rule issued by EPA under the Toxic 

Substances Control Act (TSCA). As 

required by TSCA, this document 

identifies each chemical substance and/ 

or mixture for which test data have been 

received; the uses or intended uses of 

such chemical substance and/or 

mixture; and describes the nature of the 

test data received. Each chemical 

substance and/or mixture related to this 

announcement is identified in Unit I. 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Kathy 

Calvo, Chemical Control Division 

(7405M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (202) 564–8089; email address: 

calvo.kathy@epa.gov. 

For general information contact: The 

TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422 

South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 

14620; telephone number: (202) 554– 

1404; email address: TSCA-Hotline@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Chemical Substances and/or Mixtures 

Information about the following 

chemical substance and/or mixture is 

provided in Unit IV.: 

• Propanoic acid, 2-methyl-, 3- 

(benzoyloxy)-2, 2, 4-trimethylpentyl 

ester (CASRN 22527–63–5). 

II. Authority 

Section 4(d) of TSCA (15 U.S.C. 

2603(d)) requires EPA to publish a 

notice in the Federal Register reporting 

the receipt of test data submitted 

pursuant to test rules promulgated 

under TSCA section 4 (15 U.S.C. 2603). 

III. Docket Information 

A docket, identified by the docket 

identification (ID) number EPA–HQ– 

OPPT–2013–0677, has been established 

for this Federal Register document that 

announces the receipt of data. The test 

data received have been added to the 

docket for the TSCA section 4 test rule 

that required the test data. Use the 

document ID number provided in Unit 

IV. to access the test data in the docket 

for the related TSCA section 4 test rule. 

The docket for this Federal Register 

document and the docket for each 

related TSCA section 4 test rule is 

available electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov or in person at the 

Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics Docket (OPPT Docket), 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William 

Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 


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