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process for directly emitted fine 

particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen 

oxides (NOX) emissions as contained in 

the 1997 PM2.5 attainment 

demonstration for the Alabama portion 

of the tri-state Chattanooga, Tennessee 

nonattainment area (hereafter referred to 

as the ‘‘Jackson County Area’’). On 

October 14, 2009, the State of Alabama, 

through the Alabama Department of 

Environmental Management (ADEM), 

submitted an attainment demonstration 

plan for the 1997 annual PM2.5 standard 

for Jackson County, Alabama as part of 

the tri-state Chattanooga 1997 PM2.5

nonattainment area. The tri-state 

Chattanooga 1997 annual PM2.5

nonattainment area is comprised of a 

portion of Jackson County, Alabama; 

Catoosa and Walker Counties, Georgia; 

and Hamilton County, Tennessee. As a 

result of EPA’s finding, the portion of 

Jackson County within the tri-state 

Chattanooga 1997 PM2.5 nonattainment 

area is no longer required to perform a 

regional emissions analysis for either 

directly emitted PM2.5 or NOX as part of 

future PM2.5 conformity determinations 

for the 1997 annual PM2.5 standard. This 

finding only relates to the Alabama 

portion of this Area, and does not 

relieve the Georgia or Tennessee 

portions of the tri-state 1997 PM2.5

nonattainment area from the 

requirement of performing the regional 

emissions analyses for direct PM2.5 and 

NOX. EPA will review the adequacy of 

the Georgia and Tennessee submittals 

with regard to the motor vehicle 

emission budgets or insignificance 

findings (if any and if appropriate) in 

separate actions. 

DATES: This insignificance finding for 

direct PM2.5 and NOX is effective July 6, 

2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dianna Smith, Environmental Scientist, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 4, Air Planning Branch, Air 

Quality Modeling and Transportation 

Section, 61 Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, 

Georgia 30303. Ms. Smith can also be 

reached by telephone at (404) 562–9207, 

or via electronic mail at 

smith.dianna@epa.gov. The finding is 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/ 

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is simply an announcement of a 

finding that EPA has already made. EPA 

Region 4 sent a letter to ADEM on 

March 25, 2010, stating that regional 

mobile source emissions of direct PM2.5

and NOX emissions are insignificant as 

provided in the Alabama portion of the 

1997 annual PM2.5 attainment 

demonstration for the Jackson County 

Area submitted on October 14, 2009. 

EPA posted the availability of the 

insignificance finding on EPA’s Web 

site on February 16, 2010, as part of the 

adequacy process, for the purpose of 

soliciting comments. The comment 

period ran from February 16, 2010, 

through March 18, 2010. During EPA’s 

adequacy comment period, no 

comments were received on the 

insignificance finding for the Jackson 

County Area. Through this notice, EPA 

is informing the public of the 

insignificance finding for direct PM2.5

and NOX for the purpose of 

implementing transportation conformity 

in the Jackson County Area for the 1997 

PM2.5 standard. EPA’s findings have also 

been announced on EPA’s conformity 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

Transportation conformity is required 

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

as amended in 1990. EPA’s conformity 

rule requires that transportation plans, 

programs and projects conform to state 

air quality implementation plans 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. On March 

2, 1999, the District of Columbia Circuit 

Court ruled that submitted State 

Implementation Plans (SIPs) cannot be 

used for transportation conformity 

determinations until EPA has 

affirmatively found them adequate. 

The criteria by which EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emissions 

budget is adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes are outlined in 40 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

93.118(e)(4). The Transportation 

Conformity Rule in 40 CFR 93.109(k) 

states that a regional emissions analysis 

is no longer necessary if EPA finds 

through the adequacy or approval 

process that a SIP demonstrates that 

regional motor vehicle emissions are an 

insignificant contributor to the air 

quality problem for that pollutant/ 

precursor. A finding of insignificance 

does not change the requirement for a 

regional analysis for other pollutants/ 

precursors and does not change the 

requirement for hot-spot analysis. (See 

73 FR 4419, January 24, 2008.) 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 

attainment demonstration plan for the 

Jackson County Area. Even if EPA finds 

the insignificance determination 

adequate, the attainment demonstration 

plan could later be disapproved. 

Transportation partners should note 

this insignificance finding in future 

transportation conformity 

determinations. Additionally, while this 

insignificance finding waives the 

requirements for regional emissions 

analyses for direct PM2.5 and NOX for 

the Jackson County Area for the 1997 

PM2.5 standard, as mentioned above, it 

does not waive other conformity 

requirements for the 1997 PM2.5

standard for the Jackson County Area, 

nor does it waive transportation 

conformity requirements for other 

pollutants/precursors for which the 

Area may be designated nonattainment 

or redesignated to attainment with a 

maintenance plan. 

EPA has described the process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets (which also applies to 

insignificance determinations) in a May 

14, 1999, memorandum entitled 

‘‘Conformity Guidance on 

Implementation of March 2, 1999, 

Conformity Court Decision.’’ EPA has 

followed this guidance in making this 

adequacy determination. This guidance 

is incorporated into EPA’s July 1, 2004, 

final rulemaking entitled 

‘‘Transportation Conformity Rule 

Amendments for the New 8-hour Ozone 

and PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards and Miscellaneous Revisions 

for Existing Areas; Transportation 

Conformity Rule Amendments: 

Response to Court Decision and 

Additional Rule Changes’’ (69 FR 

40004). 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. 

Dated: June 8, 2010. 

Beverly H. Banister, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

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AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability, request 

for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing 

the availability of the Draft FY 2011– 

2015 EPA Strategic Plan (Strategic Plan) 

for public review and comment, as part 

of the periodic update required by the 

Government Performance and Results 

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Strategic Plan will be submitted to 

Congress by September 30, 2010. The 

Strategic Plan provides the Agency’s 

long-term direction and strategies to 

improve environmental and human 

health over the next five years. For this 

notice, the EPA is seeking comment 

from individual citizens, states, tribes, 

local government, industry, the 

academic community, nongovernmental organizations, and all 

other interested parties. The Agency is 

particularly interested in feedback 

addressing the goal narratives, crosscutting fundamental strategies, and 

strategic measures, with a focus on new 

directions and strategies. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 30, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OA–2010–0486, by one of the following 

methods (electronic submission 

preferred): 

Electronic: Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the on-line instructions for 

submitting comments. 

Fax: ATTN: Vivian Daub, Director, 

Planning Staff, Fax number: (202) 564– 

1808. 

Mail: ATTN: Vivian Daub, Director, 

Planning Staff. 

Office of Planning, Analysis, and 

Accountability (Mail Code 2723A), 

Office of the Chief Financial Officer, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. 

Important: Please allow a minimum of 

two weeks from date postmarked to 

allow ample time for receipt. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Vivian Daub, Director, Planning Staff, 

Office of Planning, Analysis, and 

Accountability, Office of the Chief 

Financial Officer 

Strategic_Plan@epa.gov. 

Instructions: EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at 

http://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 http:// 

www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The 

http://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 e-mail comment directly 

to EPA without going through http:// 

www.regulations.gov your e-mail 

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. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The GPRA holds federal agencies 

accountable for using resources wisely 

and achieving program results. 

Specifically, GPRA requires agencies to 

develop: Strategic Plans, which include 

a mission statement and set out longterm goals, objectives, and strategic 

measures over a five-year time horizon; 

Annual Performance Plans, which 

provide annual performance measures 

toward achieving the goals and 

objectives set forth in the Strategic Plan; 

and, Performance and Accountability 

Reports, which evaluate an agency’s 

success in achieving the annual 

performance measures. 

The Draft FY 2011–2015 EPA 

Strategic Plan reflects the 

Administrator’s priorities for advancing 

environmental protection. The Plan 

presents five strategic goals to accelerate 

protection of the environment and 

human health and five cross-cutting 

fundamental strategies for changing the 

way the Agency works. The five 

strategic goals are: Taking Action on 

Climate Change and Improving Air 

Quality, Protecting America’s Waters, 

Cleaning Up Our Communities, 

Ensuring the Safety of Chemicals and 

Preventing Pollution, and Enforcing 

Environmental Laws. The five crosscutting fundamental strategies are: 

Expanding the conversation on 

environmentalism; working for 

environmental justice and children’s 

health; advancing science, research, and 

technological innovation; strengthening 

state, tribal, and international 

partnerships; and strengthening EPA’s 

workforce and capabilities. The Plan 

also identifies a suite of strategic 

measures by which the Agency will 

hold itself accountable. 

Dated: June 3, 2010. 

Maryann Froehlich, 

Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Office of the 

Chief Financial Officer. 

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Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–1399 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements. 

Filed 06/07/2010 Through 06/11/2010. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

In accordance with Section 309(a) of 

the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to 

make its comments on EISs issued by 

other Federal agencies public. 

Historically, EPA has met this mandate 

by publishing weekly notices of 

availability of EPA comments, which 

includes a brief summary of EPA’s 

comment letters, in the Federal 

Register. Since February 2008, EPA has 

been including its comment letters on 

EISs on its Web site at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. Including the entire EIS 

comment letters on the Web site 

satisfies the Section 309(a) requirement 

to make EPA’s comments on EISs 

available to the public. Accordingly, on 

March 31, 2010, EPA discontinued the 

publication of the notice of availability 

of EPA comments in the Federal 

Register. 

EIS No. 20100217, Draft Supplement, 

USFS, MT, Young Dodge Project, 

Proposed Timber Harvest and 

Associate Activities, Updated 

Information on the First 3 

Alternatives, Prescribed Burning, 

Road and Recreation Management, 

Kootenai National Forest, Rexford 

Ranger District, Lincoln County, MT, 

Comment Period Ends: 08/02/2010, 

Contact: Ron Komac 406–296–2536. 

EIS No. 20100218, Final EIS, BR, CA, 

North Bay Water Recycling Program 

(NBWRP), (Formerly North San Pablo 

Bay Restoration and Reuse Project), 

Proposed to Promote the Expanded 

Beneficial Use of Recycled Water, 

North Marin Water District, Napa 

County, CA, Wait Period Ends: 07/19/ 


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