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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 58 / Friday, March 27, 2009 / Notices 13433 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anne Foster, 1445 Ross Avenue, Ste. 

1200 (RC–S) Dallas, Texas 75202–2733 

or call (214) 665–2169. 

Dated: March 13, 2009. 

Lawrence E. Starfield, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. E9–6881 Filed 3–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8787–3] 

Maryland; Adequacy Status of the 2008 

Reasonable Further Progress Plan for 

the Baltimore 8-Hour Ozone 

Nonattainment Area Motor Vehicle 

Emission Budgets 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 


Agency (EPA). 


ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 


SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have found 

that the Motor Vehicle Emissions 

Budgets (MVEBs) in the Reasonable 

Further Progress Plan (RFP) submitted 

as a State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision on June 4, 2007 by the 

Maryland Department of the 

Environment, (MDE) are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the State of 

Maryland must use the MVEBs from the 

June 4, 2007 RFP Plan for future 

conformity determinations for the 8-

hour ozone standard. 

DATES: These MVEBs are effective April 

13, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Martin Kotsch, U.S. EPA, Region III, 

1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 

19103 at (215) 814–3335 or by e-mail at: 

kotsch.martin@EPA.gov. The finding is 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

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

stateresources/transconf/currsips.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

or ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA. The word 

‘‘budgets’’ refers to the motor vehicle 

emission budgets for volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides 

(NOx). The word ‘‘SIP’’ in this 

document refers to the RFP Plans for the 

Baltimore 8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment 

Area submitted to EPA as SIP revisions 

on June 4, 2007. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region III sent a 

letter to MDE on January 15, 2009 

stating that the MVEBs in the RFP Plan 

are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. As a result of 

EPA’s finding, the State of Maryland 

must use the MVEBs from the June 4, 

2007 RFP Plan for future conformity 

determinations for the 8-hour ozone 

standard. This finding has also been 

announced on EPA’s conformity Web 

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

stateresources/transconf/pastsips.htm. 

The adequate MVEBs are provided in 

the following table: 

TABLE 1—MARYLAND MOTOR VEHICLE 

EMISSIONS BUDGETS 

Nonattainment area 

2008 Reasonable further 

progress 

VOC (tpd) NOX (tpd) 

Baltimore ... 41.2 106.8 

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 andprocedure 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 motor vehicle emission 

budgets are adequate for conformity 

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 

93.118(e)(4). 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 SIP. Even if we find a 

budget adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. We have described our 

process for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in 40 CFR 

93.118(f), and have followed this rule in 

making our adequacy determination. 

Dated: March 10, 2009. 

William T. Wisniewski, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region III. 

[FR Doc. E9–6883 Filed 3–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–8787–2] 

Maryland; Adequacy Status of the 2008 

Reasonable Further Progress Plan for 

the Maryland Portion of the 

Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City 

8-Hour Ozone Nonattainment Area 

Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 


Agency (EPA). 


ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 


SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that we have found 

that the Motor Vehicle Emissions 

Budgets (MVEBs) in the Reasonable 

Further Progress Plan (RFP) submitted 

as a State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision on June 4, 2007 by the 

Maryland Department of the 

Environment, (MDE) are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the State of 

Maryland must use the MVEBs from the 

June 4, 2007 RFP Plan for future 

conformity determinations for the 8-

hour ozone standard. 

DATES: These MVEBs are effective April 

13, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Martin Kotsch, U.S. EPA, Region III, 

1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 

19103 at (215) 814–3335 or by e-mail at: 

kotsch.martin@EPA.gov. The finding is 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

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

stateresources/transconf/currsips.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

or ‘‘our’’ refer to EPA. The word 

‘‘budgets’’ refers to the motor vehicle 

emission budgets for volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides 

(NOx). The word ‘‘SIP’’ in this 

document refers to the RFP Plans for the 

Maryland portion of the PhiladelphiaWilmington-Atlantic City Ozone 

Nonattainment Area submitted to EPA 

as SIP revisions on June 4, 2007. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region III sent a 

letter to MDE on January 15, 2009 

stating that the MVEBs in the RFP Plan 

are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. As a result of 

EPA’s finding, the State of Maryland 

must use the MVEBs from the June 4, 

2007 RFP Plan for future conformity 

determinations for the 8-hour ozone 

standard. This finding has also been 

announced on EPA’s conformity Web 

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

stateresources/transconf/pastsips.htm.