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The FAA’s authority to issue rules 

regarding aviation safety is found in 

Title 49 of the U.S. Code. Subtitle 1, 

Section 106, describes the authority of 

the FAA Administrator. Subtitle VII, 

Aviation Programs, describes in more 

detail the scope of the agency’s 

authority. This rulemaking is 

promulgated under the authority 

described in Subtitle VII, Part A, 

Subpart I, Section 40103. Under that 

section, the FAA is charged with 

prescribing regulations to assign the use 

of airspace necessary to ensure the 

safety of aircraft and the efficient use of 

airspace. This regulation is within the 

scope of that authority as it establishes 

controlled airspace at Bois Blanc Island 

Airport, Bois Blanc Island, MI. 

Environmental Review 

The FAA has determined that this 

action qualifies for categorical exclusion 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act in accordance with FAA 

Order 1050.1E, ‘‘Environmental 

Impacts: Policies and Procedures,’’ 

paragraph 311a. This airspace action is 

not expected to cause any potentially 

significant environmental impacts, and 

no extraordinary circumstances exist 

that warrant preparation of an 

environmental assessment. 

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 

Airspace, Incorporation by reference, 

Navigation (air). 

Adoption of the Amendment 

In consideration of the foregoing, the 

Federal Aviation Administration 

amends 14 CFR part 71 as follows: 

PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, 

B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR 

TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND 

REPORTING POINTS 

■ 1. The authority citation for 14 CFR 

part 71 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 

40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, 1959– 

1963 Comp., p. 389. 

§ 71.1 [Amended] 

■ 2. The incorporation by reference in 

14 CFR 71.1 of the Federal Aviation 

Administration Order 7400.9X, Airspace 

Designations and Reporting Points, 

dated August 7, 2013, and effective 

September 15, 2013, is amended as 

follows: 

Paragraph 6005: Class E airspace areas 

extending upward from 700 feet or more 

above the surface. 

* * * * * 

AGL MI E5 Bois Blanc Island, MI [New] 

Bois Blanc Island Airport, MO 

(Lat. 38°20′52′′ N., long. 93°20′43′′ W.) 

That airspace extending upward from 700 

feet above the surface within a 6.3-mile 

radius of Bois Blanc Island Airport. 

Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 7, 

2014. 

Walter Tweedy, 

Manager, Operations Support Group, ATO 

Central Service Center. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 71 

[Docket No. FAA–2013–0731; Airspace 

Docket No. 13–ASO–18] 

Establishment of Class E Airspace; 

Blairsville, GA. 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Final rule: correction 

SUMMARY: This action corrects the 

effective date of a final rule, published 

in the Federal Register on April 2, 2014, 

establishing controlled airspace at 

Blairsville Airport, Blairsville, GA. 

DATES: Effective 0901 UTC, The 

effective date of the final rule published 

on April 2, 2014 is corrected from May 

27, 2014, to May 29, 2014. The Director 

of the Federal Register approves this 

incorporation by reference action under 

title 1, Code of Federal Regulations, part 

51, subject to the annual revision of 

FAA Order 7400.9 and publication of 

conforming amendments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Fornito, Operations Support Group, 

Eastern Service Center, Federal Aviation 

Administration, P.O. Box 20636, 

Atlanta, Georgia 30320; telephone (404) 

305–6364. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

History 

On April 2, 2014, the FAA published 

a final rule in the Federal Register 

establishing Class E airspace at 

Blairsville Airport, Blairsville, GA (79 

FR 18442). After publication, the FAA 

found that the effective date was 

incorrectly typed as May 27, 2014, 

instead of May 29, 2014. This action 

makes the correction. 

Correction to Final Rule 

Accordingly, pursuant to the 

authority delegated to me, the effective 

date listed under DATES heading on 

Docket No. FAA–2013–0731, 

establishing Class E airspace at 

Blairsville Airport, Blairsville, GA, as 

published in the Federal Register of 

April 2, 2014, (79 FR 18442), FR Doc. 

2014–07292, is corrected as follows: 

■ On page 18442, column 2, line 44, 

remove, ‘‘May 27’’, and add in its place 

‘‘May 29.’’ 

Issued in College Park, Georgia, on May 15, 

2015. 

Myron A. Jenkins, 

Manager, Operations Support Group, Eastern 

Service Center, Air Traffic Organization. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R05–OAR–2014–0274; FRL–9910–92– 

Region 5] 

Approval and Promulgation of Air 

Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; 

Revision to the Chicago 8-Hour Ozone 

Maintenance Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Direct final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is approving Illinois’ 

March 28, 2014, state implementation 

plan (SIP) revision to the 1997 8-hour 

ozone maintenance plan for the Illinois 

portion of the Chicago-Gary-Lake 

County, Illinois-Indiana area (the 

Greater Chicago Area). This SIP revision 

establishes new Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets (MVEB) for volatile 

organic compounds (VOC) and oxides of 

nitrogen (NOX) for the year 2025. EPA 

is approving the allocation of a portion 

of the safety margin for VOC and NOX

in the ozone maintenance plan to the 

2025 MVEBs. Total year 2025 emissions 

of VOC and NOX for the area will 

remain below the attainment level 

required by the transportation 

conformity regulations. 

DATES: This direct final rule is effective 

July 21, 2014, unless EPA receives 

adverse comments by June 23, 2014. If 

adverse comments are received, EPA 

will publish a timely withdrawal of the 

direct final rule in the Federal Register 

informing the public that the rule will 

not take effect. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R05– 

OAR–2014–0274, by one of the 

following methods: 

1. www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

2. Email: blakley.pamela@epa.gov. 

3. Fax: (312) 692–2450. 

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4. Mail: Pamela Blakley, Chief, 

Control Strategies Section, Air Programs 

Branch (AR–18J), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. 

5. Hand Delivery: Pamela Blakley, 

Chief, Control Strategies Section, Air 

Programs Branch (AR–18J), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 77 

West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

Illinois 60604. Such deliveries are only 

accepted during the Regional Office 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. The 

Regional Office official hours of 

business are Monday through Friday, 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding 

Federal holidays. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–R05–OAR–2014– 

0274. 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 www.regulations.gov 

or email. The 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 email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov your email 

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. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 5, Air and Radiation Division, 77 

West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 

Illinois 60604. This facility is open from 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, excluding Federal holidays. We 

recommend that you telephone Michael 

Leslie, Environmental Engineer, at (312) 

353–6680 before visiting the Region 5 

office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Leslie, Environmental 

Engineer, Control Strategies Section, Air 

Programs Branch (AR–18J), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353–6680, 

leslie.michael@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document whenever 

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

EPA. This supplementary information 

section is arranged as follows: 

I. What is the background for this action? 

II. What is a safety margin? 

III. How does this action change the Chicago 

area’s ozone maintenance plan? 

IV. What action is EPA taking? 

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. What is the background for this 

action? 

On August 13, 2012 (77 FR 48062), 

EPA approved a request from the State 

of Illinois to redesignate the Illinois 

portion of the Greater Chicago Area to 

attainment of the 1997 8-hour ozone 

national ambient air quality standard 

(NAAQS). In addition to approving the 

ozone redesignation request, EPA 

approved the State’s plan for 

maintaining the 1997 8-hour ozone 

standard in the Illinois portion of the 

Greater Chicago Area through 2025. The 

ozone maintenance plan established 

MVEBs for VOC and NOX for the year 

2025 to account for new transportation 

planning assumptions. 

MVEBs are the projected levels of 

controlled emissions from the 

transportation sector (mobile sources) 

that are estimated in the SIP to provide 

for maintenance of the ozone standard. 

The transportation conformity rule 

allows the MVEB to be changed as long 

as the total level of emissions from all 

sources remains below the attainment 

levels. 

II. What is a safety margin? 

A ‘‘safety margin’’, as defined in the 

transportation conformity rule (40 CFR 

part 93 subpart A), is the amount by 

which the total projected emissions 

from all sources of a given pollutant are 

less than the total emissions that would 

satisfy the applicable requirement for 

reasonable further progress, attainment, 

or maintenance. The attainment level of 

emissions is the level of emissions 

during one of the years in which the 

area met the NAAQS. Table 1 gives 

detailed information on the safety 

margin for the Illinois portion of the 

Greater Chicago Area. Table 1 includes 

a comparison of the VOC and NOX

emissions in the year 2008 (Illinois’ 

attainment year), to the projected 

emissions of VOC and NOX in the year 

2025. The difference between the 

projected emissions in the year 2025 

and the actual emissions in the year 

2008 is referred to as the safety margin 

or the amount of excess emission 

reductions. 

TABLE 1—SAFETY MARGIN FOR CHICAGO’S 1997 8-HOUR OZONE MAINTENANCE PLAN

Pollutant 

2008 Attainment 

year emissions 

(tons/day) 

2025 Projected 

year maintenance 

emissions 

(tons/day) 

Safety margin 

(tons/day) 

VOC ........................................................................................................................... 787.45 611.95 175.60 

NOX ............................................................................................................................ 896.76 427.11 469.65 

Illinois has requested the allocation of 

12 tons/day of the VOC and 25 tons/day 

of NOX from the safety margins to the 

MVEBs. The revised maintenance plan 

will have a safety margin of 163.6 tons/ 

day of VOC and 444.65 tons/day of 

NOX. The 2025 projected emissions, 

even with this allocation, will be below 

the 2008 attainment year emissions for 

both VOC and NOX. For this reason, 

EPA finds that the allocation of the 

safety margin to the 2025 MVEBs for the 

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Illinois portion of the Greater Chicago 

Area meets the requirements of the 

transportation conformity regulations at 

40 CFR part 93, and is approvable. 

III. How does this action change the 

Chicago area’s ozone maintenance 

plan? 

This action changes the MVEBs for 

mobile sources. The maintenance plan 

is designed to provide for future growth 

while still maintaining the ozone 

NAAQS. Growth in industries, 

population, and traffic is offset by 

reductions from cleaner cars and other 

emission reduction programs. Through 

the maintenance plan, the State and 

local agencies can manage and maintain 

clean air quality while providing for 

growth. 

In the submittal, Illinois requested to 

allocate a portion of the safely margins 

for VOC and NOX to the 2025 MVEBs. 

Table 2 details the updated MVEBs for 

the 1997 8-hour ozone maintenance 

plan for the Illinois portion of the 

Greater Chicago Area. Table 2 shows the 

2025 MVEBs for VOC and NOX

(approved by EPA on August 13, 2012), 

the amount of excess emission 

reductions or safety margin to be 

allocated into the new MVEBs, and the 

new 2025 MVEBs for VOC and NOX. 

TABLE 2—CHICAGO 1997 8-HOUR OZONE MAINTENANCE PLAN MVEBS

Pollutant 

Approved 

2025 MVEB 

(tons/day) 

Safety margin 

allocation 

(tons/day) 

New 2025 

MVEB 

(tons/day) 

VOC ............................................................................................................................................. 48.13 12.00 60.13 

NOX .............................................................................................................................................. 125.27 25.00 150.27 

IV. What action is EPA taking? 

EPA is approving a revision to the 

1997 8-hour ozone maintenance plan for 

the Illinois portion of the Greater 

Chicago Area. The revision will change 

the MVEBs for VOC and NOX that are 

used for transportation conformity 

purposes. The revision will keep the 

total emissions for the area at or below 

the attainment level required by law. 

This action will allow State or local 

agencies to continue to maintain air 

quality while providing for 

transportation growth. 

We are publishing this action without 

prior proposal because we view this as 

a noncontroversial amendment and 

anticipate no adverse comments. 

However, in the proposed rules section 

of this Federal Register publication, we 

are publishing a separate document that 

will serve as the proposal to approve the 

state plan if relevant adverse written 

comments are filed. This rule will be 

effective July 21, 2014 without further 

notice unless we receive relevant 

adverse written comments by June 23, 

2014. If we receive such comments, we 

will withdraw this action before the 

effective date by publishing a 

subsequent document that will 

withdraw the final action. All public 

comments received will then be 

addressed in a subsequent final rule 

based on the proposed action. EPA will 

not institute a second comment period. 

Any parties interested in commenting 

on this action should do so at this time. 

Please note that if EPA receives adverse 

comment on an amendment, paragraph, 

or section of this rule and if that 

provision may be severed from the 

remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt 

as final those provisions of the rule that 

are not the subject of an adverse 

comment. If we do not receive any 

comments, this action will be effective 

July 21, 2014. 

V. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Under the Clean Air Act, the 

Administrator is required to approve a 

SIP submission that complies with the 

provisions of the Clean Air Act and 

applicable Federal regulations. 42 

U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, 

in reviewing SIP submissions, EPA’s 

role is to approve state choices, 

provided that they meet the criteria of 

the Clean Air Act. Accordingly, this 

action merely approves state law as 

meeting Federal requirements and does 

not impose additional requirements 

beyond those imposed by state law. For 

that reason, this action: 

• Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory 

action’’ subject to review by the Office 

of Management and Budget under 

Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993); 

• Does not impose an information 

collection burden under the provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.); 

• Is certified as not having a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.); 

• Does not contain any unfunded 

mandate or significantly or uniquely 

affect small governments, as described 

in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4); 

• Does not have Federalism 

implications as specified in Executive 

Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 

1999); 

• Is not an economically significant 

regulatory action based on health or 

safety risks subject to Executive Order 

13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997); 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 

28355, May 22, 2001); 

• Is not subject to requirements of 

Section 12(d) of the National 

Technology Transfer and Advancement 

Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because 

application of those requirements would 

be inconsistent with the Clean Air Act; 

and 

• Does not provide EPA with the 

discretionary authority to address, as 

appropriate, disproportionate human 

health or environmental effects, using 

practicable and legally permissible 

methods, under Executive Order 12898 

(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). 

In addition, this rule does not have 

tribal implications as specified by 

Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, 

November 9, 2000), because the SIP is 

not approved to apply in Indian country 

located in the state, and EPA notes that 

it will not impose substantial direct 

costs on tribal governments or preempt 

tribal law. 

The Congressional Review Act, 5 

U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides 

that before a rule may take effect, the 

agency promulgating the rule must 

submit a rule report, which includes a 

copy of the rule, to each House of the 

Congress and to the Comptroller General 

of the United States. EPA will submit a 

report containing this action and other 

required information to the 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 

is published in the Federal Register. 

This action is not a ‘‘major rule’’ as 

defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). 

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1For a more detailed description of the SJV PM2.5

SIP, see 76 FR 41338, 41339 to 41359 (July 13, 

2011). 

Under section 307(b)(1) of the Clean 

Air Act, petitions for judicial review of 

this action must be filed in the United 

States Court of Appeals for the 

appropriate circuit by July 21, 2014. 

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. Parties with 

objections to this direct final rule are 

encouraged to file a comment in 

response to the parallel notice of 

proposed rulemaking for this action 

published in the proposed rules section 

of today’s Federal Register, rather than 

file an immediate petition for judicial 

review of this direct final rule, so that 

EPA can withdraw this direct final rule 

and address the comment in the 

proposed rulemaking. This action 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, Oxides of Nitrogen, 

Ozone, Volatile organic compounds, 

Incorporation by reference. 

Dated: May 2, 2014. 

Susan Hedman, 

Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

40 CFR part 52 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. 

■ 2. Section 52.726 is amended by 

adding paragraph (oo) to read as 

follows: 

§ 52.726 Control strategy; Ozone. 

* * * * * 

(oo) Approval—On March 28, 2014, 

the State of Illinois submitted a revision 

to its State Implementation Plan for the 

Illinois portion of the Chicago-GaryLake County, Illinois-Indiana area (the 

Greater Chicago Area). The submittal 

established new Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets (MVEB) for Volatile 

Organic Compounds (VOC) and Oxides 

of Nitrogen (NOX) for the year 2025. The 

MVEBs for the Illinois portion of the 

Greater Chicago Area are now: 60.13 

tons per day of VOC emissions and 

150.27 tons per day of NOX emissions 

for the year 2025. 

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AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2013–0534; FRL–9911–07– 

Region 9] 

Approval and Promulgation of 

Implementation Plans; California; San 

Joaquin Valley; Contingency Measures 

for the 1997 PM2.5 Standards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is approving a State 

implementation plan (SIP) revision 

submitted by California that corrects 

deficiencies in the Clean Air Act (CAA) 

contingency measures for the 1997 

annual and 24-hour national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for fine 

particulate matter (PM2.5) in the San 

Joaquin Valley (SJV). Approval of this 

SIP revision lifts the CAA section 

179(b)(2) offset sanctions and terminates 

the CAA section 179(b)(1) highway 

funding sanction clock triggered by the 

EPA’s partial disapproval of the SJV SIP 

for attainment of the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS 

on November 9, 2011. 

DATES: This rule is effective on June 23, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may inspect the 

supporting information for this action, 

identified by docket number EPA–R09– 

OAR–2013–0534, by one of the 

following methods: Federal 

eRulemaking portal, http://

www.regulations.gov, please follow the 

online instructions; or, Visit our 

regional office at, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency Region 9, 75 

Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 

94105–3901. 

Docket: The index to the docket 

(docket number EPA–R09–OAR–2013– 

0534) for this action is available 

electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov and in hard copy 

at EPA Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, California. While 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the index, some information may be 

publicly available only at the hard copy 

location (e.g., voluminous records, large 

maps, copyrighted material), and some 

may not be publicly available in either 

location (e.g., Confidential Business 

Information). To inspect the hard copy 

materials, please schedule an 

appointment during normal business 

hours with the contact listed directly 

below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frances Wicher, EPA Region 9, (415) 

972–3957, wicher.frances@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Background Information 

II. Public Comments and the EPA’s 

Responses 

A. Comments Regarding Necessary Types 

and Quantities of Contingency Measure 

Emission Reductions 

B. Comments Regarding Emission 

Reductions From Waiver Measures and 

Incentive Grant Programs 

C. General Comments 

III. Final Actions 

IV. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Background Information 

On November 9, 2011, the EPA 

partially approved and partially 

disapproved the San Joaquin Valley 

PM2.5 State Implementation Plan (‘‘SJV 

PM2.5 SIP’’) (76 FR 69896). The SJV 

PM2.5 SIP is California’s plan for 

attaining the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS in the 

San Joaquin Valley.1 Our partial 

disapproval of the SJV PM2.5 SIP was 

based on our determination that its 

contingency measure provisions failed 

to meet the requirements of Clean Air 

Act (‘‘CAA’’ or ‘‘the Act’’) section 

172(c)(9), which require that the SIP for 

each PM2.5 nonattainment area contain 

contingency measures to be 

implemented if the area fails to make 

reasonable further progress (RFP) or to 

attain the NAAQS by the applicable 

attainment date. See 76 FR 41338, 41357 

to 41359 (July 13, 2011) (proposed 

partial approval and partial disapproval 

of SJV PM2.5 SIP) and 76 FR 69896, 

69918 to 69919 and 69924 (final partial 

approval and partial disapproval of SJV 

PM2.5 SIP). The disapproval became 

effective on January 9, 2012, starting a 

sanctions clock for imposition of new 

source review offset sanctions 18 

months after January 9, 2012, and 

highway sanctions 6 months after the 

imposition of offset sanctions, pursuant 

to CAA section 179 and our regulations 

at 40 CFR 52.31. 

On July 3, 2013, CARB submitted the 

Contingency Measure SIP as a revision 

to the California State Implementation 

Plan. The Contingency Measure SIP 

addresses the SIP deficiencies identified 

in the EPA’s 2011 partial disapproval of 

the SJV PM2.5 SIP by (1) confirming that 

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