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24594 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 87 / Monday, May 5, 2008 / Notices 

Regulatory Procedure Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.); the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508); and DOE NEPA 

implementing regulations (10 CFR part 

1021), Western completed an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

on its Energy Planning and Management 

Program. The Record of Decision was 

published in the Federal Register (60 

FR 53181, October 12, 1995). Western 

also completed the 2004 Power 

Marketing Program EIS (2004 EIS), and 

the Record of Decision was published in 

the Federal Register (62 FR 22934, April 

28, 1997). The Marketing Plan falls 

within the range of alternatives 

considered in the 2004 EIS. This NEPA 

review identified and analyzed 

environmental effects related to the 

Marketing Plan. This action falls within 

the Marketing Plan and, thus, is covered 

by the 2004 EIS. 

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

Western has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no 

clearance of this notice by the Office of 

Management and Budget is required. 

Dated: April 22, 2008. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E8–9816 Filed 5–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2008–0324; FRL–8561–8] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early 

Progress Plan Imperial County 8-Hour 

Ozone for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes; California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 


Agency (EPA). 


ACTION: Notice of Adequacy. 


SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that the Agency has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for 8-hour ozone in the Imperial 

County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress 

Plan are adequate for transportation 

conformity purposes. The Imperial 

County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress 

Plan was submitted to EPA on March 

24, 2008 by the California Air Resources 

Board as a revision to the California 

MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS 

State Implementation Plan (SIP). As a 

result of our adequacy findings, the 

Southern California Association of 

Governments and the U.S. Department 

of Transportation must use these 

budgets in future conformity analyses 

once the finding becomes effective. 

DATES: This finding is effective May 20, 

2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adrienne Priselac, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 

Air Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105–3901; 

(415) 972–3285 or 

priselac.adrienne@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 the California Air Resources 

Board on April 16, 2008 stating that the 

motor vehicle emissions budgets in the 

submitted Imperial County 8-hour 

Ozone Early Progress Plan for 2009 are 

adequate. The finding is available at 

EPA’s conformity Web site: http:// 

www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/ 

transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequate 

motor vehicle emissions budgets are 

provided in the following table: 

Volatile organic Nitrogen oxides Budget year compounds 1 

(tons per day) (tons per day) 

2009 .................................................................................................................................................................
 7 17 

1 The plan uses a comparable State term, reactive organic gases (ROG). 

Transportation conformity is required 

by Clean Air Act section 176(c). EPA’s 

conformity rule requires that 

transportation plans, transportation 

improvement programs, and projects 

conform to state air quality 

implementation plans (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 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). We have described our 

process for determining the adequacy of 

submitted SIP budgets in our July 1, 

2004 preamble starting at 69 FR 40038 

and we used the information in these 

resources in making our adequacy 

determination. Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and should not be 

used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval action for the SIP. Even if we 

find a budget adequate, the SIP could 

later be disapproved. 

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

Dated: April 16, 2008. 

Laura Yoshii, 

Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

[FR Doc. E8–9821 Filed 5–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2008–0326; FRL–8561–7] 

Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle 

Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early 

Progress Plan Western Mojave Desert 

8-Hour Ozone for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes; California 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 


Agency (EPA). 


ACTION: Notice of Adequacy. 


SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that the Agency has 

found that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets for 8-hour ozone in the Western 

Mojave Desert 8-hour Ozone Early 

Progress Plan are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. The 

Western Mojave Desert 8-hour Ozone 

Early Progress Plan was submitted to 

EPA on March 24, 2008 by the