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1Letter dated February 1, 2022, from Matthew 

Lakin, Acting Director, Air and Radiation Division, 

EPA Region IX, to Richard Corey, Executive Officer, 

CARB. 

2https://www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation/conformity-adequacy-review-region9. 

Justice (DOJ) and parties to certain 

litigation. This transfer of data is in 

accordance with the CBI regulations 

governing the disclosure of potential 

CBI in litigation. 

DATES: Access to this information by 

DOJ and the parties to certain litigation 

is ongoing and expected to continue 

during the litigation as discussed in this 

Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ana 

Pinto, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division 

(7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460; telephone number: (202) 566– 

2268; email address: pinto.ana@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is being provided pursuant to 40 

CFR 2.209(d) to inform affected 

businesses that EPA, via DOJ, will 

provide certain information to the 

parties and the Court in the matter of 

California Rural Legal Assistance 

Foundation, et al. v. U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, et al. (Case No. 21– 

71287) (9th Cir.) (‘‘Paraquat Litigation’’). 

The information is contained in 

documents that have been submitted to 

EPA pursuant to FIFRA and FFDCA by 

pesticide registrants or other datasubmitters, including information that 

has been claimed to be, or determined 

to potentially contain, CBI. In the 

Paraquat Litigation, Petitioners seek 

judicial review of EPA’s July 13, 2021, 

order titled Paraquat Dichloride, Interim 

Registration Review Decision: Case 

Number 0262 under FIFRA. 

The documents are being produced as 

part of the Administrative Record of the 

decision at issue and include 

documents that registrants or other datasubmitters may have submitted to EPA 

regarding the pesticide paraquat and 

that may be subject to various release 

restrictions under federal law. The 

information includes documents 

submitted with pesticide registration 

applications and registration review 

actions and may include CBI as well as 

scientific studies subject to the 

disclosure restrictions of FIFRA section 

10(g), 7 U.S.C. 136h(g). 

All documents that may be subject to 

release restrictions under federal law 

will be designated as ‘‘Protected 

Information’’ in the certified list of 

record materials that EPA will file in 

this case. Further, EPA intends to seek 

a Protective Order that would preclude 

public disclosure of any such 

documents by the parties in this action 

who have received the information from 

EPA and that would limit the use of 

such documents to litigation purposes 

only. EPA would only produce such 

documents in accordance with the 

Protective Order. The anticipated 

Protective Order would require that 

such documents would be filed under 

seal and would not be available for 

public review, unless the information 

contained in the document has been 

determined to not be subject to FIFRA 

section 10(g) and all CBI has been 

redacted. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; 21 

U.S.C. 301 et seq. 

Dated: February 2, 2022. 

Mary Reaves, 

Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation Division, 

Office of Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2022–0135; FRL–9524–01– 

R9] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in 1997 Annual 

PM2.5 Serious Area and Section 189(d) 

Attainment Plan Revision for San 

Joaquin Valley; California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA or ‘‘Agency’’) is notifying 

the public that the Agency has found 

motor vehicle emissions budgets 

(‘‘budgets’’) adequate in a California 

state implementation plan (SIP) 

submittal for the San Joaquin Valley. 

Specifically, our finding relates to 

budgets in the area’s ‘‘Attainment Plan 

Revision for the 1997 Annual PM2.5

Standard’’ (‘‘15 mg/m3 SIP Revision’’), 

submitted by the California Air 

Resources Board (CARB) on November 

8, 2021. We find that these budgets are 

adequate for transportation conformity 

purposes for the 1997 annual fine 

particulate matter (PM2.5) national 

ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). 

Upon the effective date of this notice of 

adequacy, the San Joaquin Valley 

metropolitan planning organizations 

(MPOs) and the U.S. Department of 

Transportation must use these adequate 

budgets in future transportation 

conformity determinations. 

Furthermore, once the San Joaquin 

Valley MPOs have used the adequate 

budgets to demonstrate conformity of 

their transportation plans to the 15 mg/ 

m3 SIP Revision, the conformity freeze 

put in place as of December 27, 2021, 

will be lifted. 

DATES: This finding is effective February 

25, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ashley Graham, Air Planning Office 

(ARD–2), EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; (415) 

972–3877 or graham.ashleyr@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

or ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

This notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. By letter dated February 

1, 2022, EPA Region IX notified CARB 

that the budgets in the 15 mg/m3 SIP 

Revision for the reasonable further 

progress (RFP) year of 2020 and the 

attainment year of 2023 are adequate.1

The finding is available at the EPA’s 

conformity website.2 We announced the 

availability of the 15 mg/m3 SIP Revision 

and related motor vehicle emissions 

budgets on the EPA’s transportation 

conformity website on November 15, 

2021, and requested comments by 

December 15, 2021. We received no 

comments in response to the adequacy 

review posting. The adequate motor 

vehicle emissions budgets are provided 

in the following table: 

ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSION BUDGETS FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY FOR THE 1997 ANNUAL PM2.5 NAAQS 

[Annual average, tpd] 

County 

2020 

(RFP year) 

2023 

(attainment year) 

PM2.5 NOX PM2.5 NOX

Fresno .............................................................................................................. 0.9 25.3 0.8 15.1 


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3 62 FR 43780, 43781–43783. 

4 69 FR 40004, 40038–40047. 

5 73 FR 4420 (January 24, 2008). 

6On November 26, 2021 (86 FR 67329), the EPA 

disapproved the RFP and attainment 

demonstrations and associated budgets in the ‘‘2018 

Plan for the 1997, 2006, and 2012 PM2.5 Standards’’ 

for the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS. Upon the 

effective date of that final action (i.e., December 27, 

2021), the San Joaquin Valley area became subject 

to a conformity freeze under 40 CFR 93.120 of the 

transportation conformity rule. 

ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSION BUDGETS FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY FOR THE 1997 ANNUAL PM2.5 NAAQS— 

Continued 

[Annual average, tpd] 

County 

2020 

(RFP year) 

2023 

(attainment year) 

PM2.5 NOX PM2.5 NOX

Kern (San Joaquin Valley portion) .................................................................. 0.8 23.3 0.7 13.3 

Kings ................................................................................................................ 0.2 4.8 0.2 2.8 

Madera ............................................................................................................. 0.2 4.2 0.2 2.5 

Merced ............................................................................................................. 0.3 8.9 0.3 5.3 

San Joaquin ..................................................................................................... 0.6 11.9 0.6 7.6 

Stanislaus ........................................................................................................ 0.4 9.6 0.4 6.1 

Tulare ............................................................................................................... 0.4 8.5 0.4 5.2 

Transportation conformity is required 

by Clean Air Act section 176(c). The 

EPA’s conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs, and 

transportation projects conform to a 

state’s SIP and establishes the criteria 

and procedures for determining whether 

or not they conform. Conformity to a SIP 

means that transportation activities will 

not produce new air quality violations, 

worsen existing violations, or delay 

timely attainment of the NAAQS. 

The criteria we use to determine 

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emissions 

budgets are adequate for conformity 

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 

93.118(e)(4), promulgated on August 15, 

1997.3 We further described our process 

for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in our final rule 

dated July 1, 2004, and we used the 

information in these resources in 

making our adequacy determination.4

Please note that an adequacy review is 

separate from the EPA’s completeness 

review and should not be used to 

prejudge the EPA’s ultimate action on 

the SIP submittal. Even if we find a 

budget adequate, the SIP submittal 

could later be disapproved. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e), within 

two years of the effective date of this 

notice, San Joaquin Valley MPOs and 

the U.S. Department of Transportation 

will need to demonstrate conformity to 

the new budgets if the demonstration 

has not already been made.5 Once the 

San Joaquin Valley MPOs have used the 

adequate budgets to demonstrate 

conformity of their transportation plans 

to the 15 mg/m3 SIP Revision, the 

conformity freeze put in place as of 

December 27, 2021, under 40 CFR 

93.120(a)(2) 6 will be lifted. For 

demonstrating conformity to the budgets 

in this plan, the on-road motor vehicle 

emissions from implementation of the 

transportation plan or program should 

be projected consistently with the 

budgets in this plan, i.e., by taking the 

emissions results derived from CARB’s 

EMFAC model (short for EMission 

FACtor) and then rounding the 

emissions up to the nearest tenth of a 

ton per day. The trading mechanism for 

the budgets in the 15 mg/m3 SIP 

Revision for the 1997 annual PM2.5

NAAQS is not yet approved. The EPA 

will consider approval of the trading 

mechanism as part of the action on the 

submittal. 

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

Dated: February 3, 2022. 

Martha Guzman Aceves, 

Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS 

ADVISORY BOARD 

Notice of 2022 FASAB Meetings 

AGENCY: Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Federal Accounting Standards 

Advisory Board (FASAB) will hold its 

meetings on the following dates 

throughout 2022, unless otherwise 

noted. 

February 23–24, 2022 

April 26–27, 2022 

June 22–23, 2022 

August 23–24, 2022 

October 25–26, 2022 

December 13–14, 2022 

The purpose of the meetings is to 

discuss issues related to the following 

topics: 

Accounting and Reporting of 

Government Land 

Climate-Related Financial Reporting 

Intangible Assets 

Leases 

Omnibus 

Public-Private Partnerships 

Reexamination of Existing Standards 

Budgetary Information 

Concepts Omnibus 

Management’s Discussion and Analysis 

Software Technology 

Any other topics as needed 

Unless otherwise noted, FASAB 

meetings begin at 9:00 a.m. and 

conclude before 5 p.m. and are held at 

the U.S. Government Accountability 

Office (GAO) Building at 441 G St. NW 

in Room 7C13. The February meeting 

will be held virtually. 

ADDRESSES: Agendas, briefing materials, 

and teleconference information for 

virtual meetings will be available at 

https://www.fasab.gov/briefingmaterials/ approximately one week 

before each meeting. If FASAB decides 

to hold its April, June, August, October, 

and/or December meetings virtually, 

this decision will be posted no later 

than one week before each meeting on 

the briefing materials website as well. 

Any interested person may attend the 

meetings as an observer. Board 

discussion and reviews are open to the 

public. GAO Building security requires 

advance notice of your attendance. If 

you wish to attend a FASAB meeting, 

please register on our website at https:// 

www.fasab.gov/pre-registration/ no later 

than 5 p.m. the Friday before the 

meeting to be observed. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Monica R. Valentine, Executive 

Director, 441 G Street NW, Suite 1155, 

Washington, DC 20548, or call (202) 

512–7350. 


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