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1See 40 CFR 93.101 (defining ‘‘control strategy 

implementation plan revision’’). 

2See 40 CFR 93.101 (defining ‘‘motor vehicle 

emissions budget’’), 93.102(b)(2)(iv) and (v) 

(establishing applicability of part 93 requirements 

to PM2.5 precursor pollutants) and 93.118(a) 

(requiring that each transportation plan, TIP, or 

project not from a conforming transportation plan 

and TIP be consistent with the motor vehicle 

emissions budget(s) in the applicable 

implementation plan (or implementation plan 

submission)). 

Corporation, 7475 W. Main St., 

Milwaukee, WI 53214). Product name: 

Romeo®. Active ingredient: Systemic 

resistance inducer (SRI)—Cerevisane 

(cell walls of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 

strain LAS117) at 94.1%. Proposed use: 

End-use product that is a systemic 

resistance inducer. Contact: BPPD. 

4. File Symbol: 91810–R. Docket ID 

number: EPA–HQ–OPP–2017–0316. 

Applicant: Technology Sciences Group 

Inc., 712 Fifth St., Suite A, Davis, CA 

95616 (on behalf of Lesaffre Yeast 

Corporation, 7475 W. Main St., 

Milwaukee, WI 53214). Product name: 

Cerevisane Technical. Active ingredient: 

Systemic resistance inducer (SRI)— 

Cerevisane (cell walls of Saccharomyces 

cerevisiae strain LAS117) at 94.1%. 

Proposed use: For manufacturing use. 

Contact: BPPD. 

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

Dated: December 4, 2017. 

Delores Barber, 

Director, Information Technology and 

Resources Management Division,Office of 

Pesticide Programs. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2017–0490; FRL–9972–80– 

Region 9] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in Submitted PM2.5

Serious Area Plan for South Coast; 

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 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets (MVEBs or ‘‘budgets’’) for the 

years 2017 and 2019 in the 2016 South 

Coast Serious Area Plan for the 2006 24- 

hour fine particulate matter (PM2.5) 

National Ambient Air Quality Standards 

(NAAQS) (‘‘2016 PM2.5 Plan’’ or ‘‘Plan’’) 

are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. The California Air 

Resources Board (CARB) submitted the 

2016 PM2.5 Plan to the EPA on April 27, 

2017, as a revision to the California 

State Implementation Plan (SIP). Upon 

the effective date of this notice of 

adequacy, the Southern California 

Association of Governments (SCAG) and 

the U.S. Department of Transportation 

must use the adequate budgets in future 

transportation conformity analyses. 

DATES: This finding is effective January 

22, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wienke Tax, EPA, Region IX, Air 

Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne Street, 

San Francisco, CA 94105–3901; (415) 

947–4192 or tax.wienke@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean 

EPA. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that we have 

already made. EPA Region IX sent a 

letter to CARB on December 19, 2017, 

stating that the MVEBs in the 2016 

PM2.5 Plan for the reasonable further 

progress (RFP) milestone year of 2017 

and attainment year of 2019 are 

adequate. The finding is available at the 

EPA’s conformity website: https://

www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation/adequacy-review-stateimplementation-plan-sip-submissionsconformity. We announced the 

availability of the Plan and related 

budgets on the EPA’s conformity 

website on October 18, 2017. We 

received no comments in response to 

this announcement. The adequate 

budgets are provided in the following 

table: 

ADEQUATE MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS IN SOUTH COAST 2006 PM2.5 SERIOUS AREA PLAN

[Annual average tons per day] 

Budget Year 

Volatile 

organic 

compounds 

Nitrogen 

oxides 

Directly 

emitted 

PM2.5

2017 ............................................................................................................................................. 99 200 21 

2019 ............................................................................................................................................. 83 169 20 

Transportation conformity is required 

by CAA section 176(c). The EPA’s 

Transportation Conformity Rule at 40 

CFR part 93, subpart A 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 NAAQS. 

The criteria we use to determine 

whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission 

budgets are adequate for conformity 

purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 

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

1997 (62 FR 43780, 43781–43783). We 

further described our process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in our July 1, 2004 final rule 

(69 FR 40004, 40038), and we used the 

information in these resources in 

making our adequacy determination. 

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. Even if we find a budget 

adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. 

Consistent with the requirements set 

forth in the Fine Particulate Matter 

National Ambient Air Quality 

Standards: State Implementation Plan 

Requirements, Final Rule (81 FR 58010, 

August 24, 2016) (‘‘PM2.5 SIP 

Requirements Rule’’), the 2016 PM2.5

Plan contains RFP budgets for 2020, 

which is the year following the 

attainment year. As explained below, 

we are not taking action on the 2020 

budgets at this time. 

The Transportation Conformity Rule 

requires that control strategy SIPs, 

including the RFP plans and attainment 

plans required for Serious PM2.5

nonattainment areas,1 contain MVEBs 

for direct PM2.5 and PM2.5 precursors 

subject to transportation conformity 

analyses for each milestone year 

addressed in the control strategy.2


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3See also 81 FR 58010, 58058 and 58063–58064 

(August 24, 2016). 

4Under CAA section 188(c)(2), a Serious PM2.5

nonattainment area must attain the PM2.5 NAAQS 

as expeditiously as practicable but no later than the 

end of the tenth calendar year after the area is 

designated as nonattainment. Because the South 

Coast area was designated as nonattainment for the 

2006 PM2.5 NAAQS effective December 14, 2009 (74 

FR 58688, November 13, 2009), the latest 

permissible attainment date for the area is 

December 31, 2019. 

5SCAG is the Metropolitan Planning 

Organization for the South Coast 2006 PM2.5

nonattainment area. 

Under the PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule, 

Serious area PM2.5 attainment plans 

must define appropriate quantitative 

milestones and include projected RFP 

emission levels for direct PM2.5 and all 

PM2.5 plan precursors in each milestone 

year. For an area designated 

nonattainment for the 2006 PM2.5

NAAQS before January 15, 2015, the 

attainment plan must contain 

quantitative milestones to be achieved 

no later than 3 years after December 31, 

2014, and every 3 years thereafter until 

the milestone date that falls within 3 

years after the applicable attainment 

date (40 CFR 51.1013(a)(4)).3 As the 

EPA explained in the preamble to the 

PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule, it is 

important to include a post-attainment 

year quantitative milestone to ensure 

that, if the area fails to attain by the 

attainment date, the EPA can continue 

to monitor the area’s progress toward 

attainment while the state develops a 

new attainment plan (see 81 FR 58010, 

58063–58064, August 24, 2016). 

Consistent with the requirements of 

40 CFR 51.1013(a)(4), the 2016 PM2.5

Plan identifies December 31, 2017, as 

the first quantitative milestone date (i.e., 

the date 3 years after December 31, 

2014). The second quantitative 

milestone date is December 31, 2020, 

and is also the last milestone date 

identified in the Plan because it falls 

within 3 years after the December 31, 

2019 attainment date for the area.4

Although this post-attainment year 

quantitative milestone is a required 

element of the Serious area plan, it is 

not necessary to demonstrate 

transportation conformity for 2020 in 

the submitted SIP or to use the 2020 

budgets in transportation conformity 

determinations until such time as the 

area fails to attain the 2006 PM2.5

NAAQS. Therefore, the EPA is not 

taking action at this time on the 

submitted MVEBs for 2020 in the 2016 

PM2.5 Plan. Additionally, the EPA has 

not yet started the adequacy process for 

the 2020 budgets. 

If the EPA were to either find 

adequate or approve the post-attainment 

milestone year MVEBs now, those 

budgets would have to be used in 

transportation conformity 

determinations that are made after the 

effective date of the adequacy finding or 

approval even if the South Coast area 

ultimately attains the PM2.5 NAAQS by 

the Serious area attainment date. This 

would mean that SCAG 5 would be 

required to demonstrate conformity for 

the post-attainment date milestone year 

and all later years addressed in the 

conformity determination (e.g., the last 

year of the metropolitan transportation 

plan) to the post-attainment date RFP 

budgets rather than the budgets 

associated with the attainment year for 

the area (i.e., the budgets for 2019). The 

EPA does not believe that it is necessary 

to demonstrate conformity using these 

post-attainment year budgets in areas 

that either the EPA anticipates will 

attain by the attainment date or in areas 

that attain by the attainment date. As 

discussed elsewhere in this notice, the 

EPA is announcing that it has found 

adequate the MVEBs for the first 

milestone year (2017) and the 

attainment year (2019) for the South 

Coast PM2.5 nonattainment area. 

If and when the EPA determines that 

the South Coast area has failed to attain 

the 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS by the 

applicable attainment date, the EPA will 

begin the MVEB adequacy and approval 

processes for the post-attainment year 

(2020) budgets. If the EPA finds the 

2020 budgets adequate or approves 

them, those budgets will have to be used 

in subsequent transportation conformity 

determinations. The EPA believes that 

initiating the process to act on the 

submitted post-attainment year MVEBs 

following a determination that the area 

has failed to attain by the Serious area 

attainment date ensures that 

transportation activities will not cause 

or contribute to new violations, increase 

the frequency or severity of any existing 

violations, or delay timely attainment or 

any required interim emission 

reductions or milestones in the South 

Coast PM2.5 nonattainment area, 

consistent with the requirements of 

CAA section 176(c)(1)(B). 

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

Dated: December 20, 2017. 

Alexis Strauss, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice–MG–2017–04; Docket No. 2017– 

0002; Sequence No. 27] 

Office of Federal High-Performance 

Buildings; Green Building Advisory 

Committee; Notification of Upcoming 

Teleconference 

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide 

Policy (OGP), General Services 

Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice of this teleconference 

is being provided according to the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. This notice provides the 

schedule for a teleconference/web 

meeting of the Advisory Committee, 

which is open for the public to listen to 

and observe. Interested individuals 

must register to attend as instructed 

below under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

DATES: The Committee will hold a 

teleconference/web meeting on Monday, 

February 5, 2018, from 2:00 p.m., 

Eastern Standard Time (EST), to 4:00 

p.m., EST. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ken Sandler, Designated Federal 

Officer, Office of Federal HighPerformance Buildings, OGP, GSA, 1800 

F Street NW, Washington, DC, 20405, 

telephone 202–219–1121 (note: this is 

not a toll-free number). Additional 

information about the Committee is 

available on-line at http://www.gsa.gov/ 

gbac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Procedures for Attendance: Contact Mr. 

Ken Sandler at ken.sandler@gsa.gov to 

register to listen in to the 

teleconference. To attend the 

teleconference, submit your full name, 

organization, email address, and phone 

number. Requests to listen in to the calls 

must be received by Monday, January 

29, 2018, by 5:00 p.m., EST (GSA will 

be unable to provide technical 

assistance to any listener experiencing 

technical difficulties. Testing access to 

the web meeting site in advance of calls 

is recommended). 

Background: The Administrator of 

GSA established the Committee on June 

20, 2011 (Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 

118) pursuant to Section 494 of the 

Energy Independence and Security Act 

of 2007 (EISA, 42 U.S.C. 17123). Under 

this authority, the Committee provides 

independent policy advice and 

recommendations to GSA to improve 

federal buildings (assets, operations, 

use, and resilience) to enhance human 

health and performance, and safeguard 


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