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Exempt off-the-record 

communications are included in the 

decisional record of the proceeding, 

unless the communication was with a 

cooperating agency as described by 40 

CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR 

385.2201(e)(1)(v). 

The following is a list of off-therecord communications recently 

received by the Secretary of the 

Commission. The communications 

listed are grouped by docket numbers in 

ascending order. These filings are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary 

link. Enter the docket number, 

excluding the last three digits, in the 

docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, please contact 

FERC, Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

Docket No. Filed date Presenter or requester 

Prohibited: 

1. ER14–1050–000, ER14–1050–001 4–7–14 ClearView Energy Partners, LLC. 

2. P–2114 .......................................... 4–7–14 Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. 

3. RD14–6–000, RM14–1–000 .......... 4–7–14 Foundation for Resilient Societies. 

Exempt: 

1. ER13–1380–000 ............................ 4–2–14 Putnam County Executive, NY. 

2. CP12–507–000 .............................. 4–2–14 TX Senator Juan Chuy Hinojosa. 

3. CP13–25–000 ................................ 4–2–14 Hon. Mary L. Landrieu. 

4. CP13–113–000 .............................. 4–4–14 Prince George’s County Government, MD. 

5. P–12790–000 ................................ 4–4–14 Hon. Elizabeth Esty. 

6. CP13–113–000 .............................. 4–4–14 Montgomery County Council, MD. 

7. P–2210–000 .................................. 4–7–14 Hon. Mark R. Warner. 

8. ER13–1380–000 ............................ 4–7–14 City of Kingston Common Council, NY.1

9. ER13–1380–000 ............................ 4–7–14 Ulster County Executive, NY. 

10. P–2114–000 ................................ 4–7–14 Public Utility District No. 2 of Grant County, WA and Public Utility District No. 1 of 

Chelan County, WA. 

11. CP14–125–000 ............................ 4–9–14 Members of Congress.2

12. P–349–173 .................................. 4–10–14 FERC Staff.3

13. CP14–125–000 ............................ 4–11–14 Hon. Bill Cassidy, M.D. 

14. CP14–125–000 ............................ 4–11–14 Hon. Mary L. Landrieu. 

15. CP12–507–000 ............................ 4–15–14 Members of Congress.4

16. ER14–1145–000, AD14–8–000 .. 4–15–14 State of New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. 

17. P–1267–000 ................................ 4–15–14 Hon. Lindsey O. Graham. 

18. CP13–113–000 ............................ 4–15–14 Town of Myersville, MD.5

19. CP14–125–000 ............................ 4–15–14 Hon. Gregg Harper. 

20. CP12–30–000 .............................. 4–15–14 Hon. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen. 

21. ER13–1380–000 .......................... 4–18–14 Hon. Charles Schumer.6

1Alderman Brad Will. 

2 Hons. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker. 

3Summary of Video Conference between FERC and Alabama Power Company. 

4 Hons. Blake Farenthold, Gene Green, Joe Barton, Kevin P. Brady, Mike Conaway, John R. Carter, John A. Culberson, Bill H. Flores, Kay 

Granger, Ralph M. Hall, Joaquin Castro, Henry Cuellar, Pete Gallego, Al Green, Ruben E. Hinojosa, Sheila Jackson Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Marc A. Veasey, Jeb Hensarling, Sam Johnson, Michael T. McCaul, Pete Olson, Pete Sessions, Steve Stockman, Randy Weber, Filemon 

Vela, Kenny Marchant, Randy R. Neugebauer, Ted Poe, Lamar S. Smith, Mac Thornberry, Roger Williams. 5 Mayor Wayne Creadick. 

6Summary of 4–15–14 conversation with Acting Chairman LaFleur. 

Dated: April 22, 2014. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09591 Filed 4–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9910–08–Region 3] 

Adequacy Status of the Submitted 

Maintenance Plan for the Maryland 

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 Maryland 

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 Maryland Department of the 

Environment (MDE), are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. 

DATE: 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 MDE 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 July 10, 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 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%) 


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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] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

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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