# C

C UNITED

STATES ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

AGENCY REGION

HI 1650

Arch

Street Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania

19103

November

14, 2008 SUBJECT:

Technical

Support Document- 

# Adequacy

Findings

for

the Motor Vehicle Emissions

Budgets

in the 2008 Reasonable

Further Progress

Plan

for

the Pennsylvania

Portion

of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic

City 8-Hour

Ozone Nonattainment

Area FROM:

Martin

T. Kotsch Environmental

Engineer

(3AP23) TO: Administrative

Record

for

the Adequacy

Findings

for

the Motor Vehicle Emissions

Budgets

in the 2008 Reasonable

Further Progress

Plan

for

the Pennsylvania

Portion

of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic

City 8-Hour

Ozone Nonattainment

Area THRU:

Carol Febbo, Chief Energy, Radiation

and Indoor Environment

Branch (3AP23) I. Administrative

Requirements

for Making Adequacy

Findings We have followed

the process

for determining

the adequacy

of the submitted

State Implementation

Plan

(SIP) Motor Vehicle Emissions

Budgets (MVEBs)

in accordance

with

the procedures

listed

in the January

2008 Conformity

Regulations

contained

in

40 CFR

Part

93, § 118(f) “Adequacy

review

process

for implementation

pian submissions”. On August

29, 2007,

the Pennsylvania

Department

of Environmental

Protection

(PADEP) formally submitted

a combined

2008 Reasonable

Further Progress

Plan (hereafter

the 2008

RFP Plan)

and 2009 8-Hour

Ozone Attainment Demonstration

Plan (hereafter

the 2009 attainment demonstration)

for

the Pennsylvania

Portion

of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic

City

8- Hour Ozone Nonattainment

Area

as State Implementation

Plan

(SIP) revision. This

TSD

is only addressing

the MVEBs contained

in the 2008 Reasonable

Further Progress Plan.C.COnMarch21,2008,anoticewaspostedonEPA’swebsiteentitled,“AdequacyReviewofSIPSubmissionsforConformity,”locatedat:http://www.epa.gov/otaQ/stateresourceS/transconf/adequacy.htm(Referredtoas“EPA’swebsite”.),forthepurposeofopeningEPA’s30-daypubliccommentperiodontheproposedMVEBsbudgetsinthePennsylvaniaPortionofPhiladelphia-Wilmington-AtlanticCity8-hourhourozoneattainmentdemonstrationplan.EPA’spubliccommentperiodclosedonApril21,2008.EPAreceivednocommentsontheproposedMVEBs.ThisTSDwillbeanenclosuretotheletterfromEPAtothePADEPinformingtheStateofourfindingsonMVEBsofthe2008RFPPlanfortheareasubmittedonAugust29,2007.WewillpublishaFederalRegisternoticeannouncingouradequacyfindings.Theeffectivedateoftheadequacyfindingswillbe15daysafterthepublicationdateofthatnotice.OnceEPAhaspublishedtheFederalRegisternotice,theletterwesenttoPADEPanditsenclosure,thisTSDwillalsobepostedattheEPAwebsite.ShownbelowinTable1isthe2MVEBsfromtheSIPsubmittal.Table1TheBudgetsofthePennsylvaniaPortionofPhiladelphia-Wilmington-AtlanticCity8-HourOzoneNonattainmentArea2008RFPPlanPlanMilestoneMobileMobileSubmittalsYearVehicleVehicleEmissionsEmissionsBudgetforBudgetforVOC-TonsPerNOx-Tons.DayPerDayReasonableFurther200861.09108.78ProgressPlanILEvaluationoftheAdequacyoftheMVEBsBudgetsinthe2008RFPPlanforthePennsylvaniaPortionofthePhiladelphia-Wilmington-AtlanticCIty8-HourOzoneNonattainmentArea8-HourOzoneNon-attainmentAreaSubmittedBythePADEPonAugust29,2007InthisTSD,weareevaluatingtheMVEBsassociatedwiththe2008RFPPlancontainedintheJune4,2007SIPsubmittal,forconformitypurposesonly.WeareusingtheevaluationcriteriadetailedintheTransportationConformityRule,40CFRPart93,§93.118(e)(4)through§93.118(e)(5).TheevaluationispresentedinTable2,below.CCTable2AdequacyoftheMVEBsContainedinthe2008RFPPlanforthePennsylvaniaPortionofPhiladelphia-Wilmington-AtlanticCity8-HourOzoneNon-attainmentAreaTransportationConformityReviewCriteriaWastheCriterionSatisfied?RuleIf“YesHowwasthis40CFRPart93,§93.118CriteriaSatisfied?Sec.93.118(e)(4)(i)WasthesubmittedrevisedYes.ThesubmittedRFPplanendorsedbythePlanwasendorsedandGovernor(orhisorhersubmittedasaSIPrevisiondesignee)andsubjecttoabytheGovernor’sdesignee,Statepublichearing?theSecretaryofthePADEP,andapublichearingwasheld.Sec.93.118(e)(4)(ii)BeforetheattainmentYes.ConsultationhasdemonstrationwassubmittedoccurredamongallrequiredtoEPA,didconsultationfederal,stateandlocalbetweenfederal,Stateandagencies.localagenciesoccur;wasfullimplementationplandocumentationprovidedtoEPA,andwasEPA’sstatedconcerns,ifany,addressed?Sec.93.118(e)(4)(iii)WasthemotorvehicleYes,thebudgetsareclearlyemissionsbudget(s)clearlyidentifiedonpage48oftheidentifiedandpreciselyAugust29,2007submittalquantified?containingthe,2008RFPPlan.Sec.93.118(e)(4)(iv)IsthemotorvehicleEPAbelievesthebudgetscanemissionsbudget(s),whenbedeclaredadequatebecauseconsideredtogetherwithallinconjunctionwiththeotherotheremissionreductions,emissionreductions,theyconsistentwithapplicabledemonstratereasonablerequirementsforattainmentfurtherprogressfor2008.demonstrations?ThesebudgetsservetostrengthentheSIPthroughcontinuedprogresstowardsattainmentandensurethat(N



# CmotorvehicleemissionsremainconsistentwiththeemissionslevelsprovidedforintheSIP.Sec.93.118(e)(4)(v)IsthemotorvehicleEPAbelievesthattheemissionsbudget(s)budgetsareclearlyrelatedtoconsistentwithandclearlytheemissionsinventoryandrelatedtotheemissionsthecontrolmeasuresintheinventoryandthecontrolSIPsubmittal.measuresinthePlan?Sec.93.118(e)(4)(vi)RevisionstopreviouslyYes.TheSIPsubmissionsubmittedattainmentexplainsthatthereviseddemonstrations:explainandMVEBsareinresponsetodocumentanychangestoEPA’s1997revisiontothepreviouslysubmittedbudgetspreviousozonestandard.andcontrolmeasures;Thisrevisionrevokedtheimpactsonpointandareaprevious1-hourozonesourceemissions;anystandardandreplacedwithachangestoestablishedsafetymorestringent8hourozonemargins(seeSec.93.101forstandard.definition);andreasonsforthechanges(includingthebasisforanychangesrelatedtoemissionfactorsorestimatesofvehiclemilestraveled).Sec.93.118(e)(5)DidtheyprovideandweTherewasonecommentonreviewpubliccommentsandtheproposedmobiletheState’sresponsestothoseemissionsbudgetsintheSIP.commentswiththesubmittedThePAIJEPrespondedinancontrolstrategySIP?adequatemannertotheone.comment.III.Findings-BaseduponourreviewandevaluationoftheMVEBscontainedinPADEP’sAugust29,2007submittalofthe2008REPPlanforthePennsylvaniaPortionofPhiladelphiaWilmington-AtlanticCity8-HourOzonenonattainmentarea,wefindthesaidMVEBsadequateforconformitypurposes.ThesebudgetsservetostrengthentheSIPthroughcontinuedprogresstowardsattainmentandensurethatmotorvehicleemissionsremainconsistentwiththeemissionslevelsprovidedforintheSIP.CIV.TheApplicableMotorVehicleEmissionsBudgetsforPurposesofDemonstratingConformityfor2008inthePhiladelphiaArea-Theapplicablemotorvehicleemissionsbudgetsforpurposesofdemonstratingconformityare61.09tons/dayofVOCand108.78tons/dayNOx.

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