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Accession Number: 20160617–5075. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/29/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP16–1036–000. 

Applicants: Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: Update 

Non-Conforming and Negotiated Rate 

Agreements to be effective 7/18/2016. 

Filed Date: 6/17/16. 

Accession Number: 20160617–5087. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/29/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP16–1037–000. 

Applicants: SWN Energy Services 

Company, LLC, Antero Resources 

Corporation. 

Description: Joint Petition of SWN 

Energy Services Company, LLC and 

Antero Resources Corporation for 

Temporary Waiver of Capacity Release 

Regulations and Policies and Related 

Pipeline Tariff Provisions, and Request 

for Shortened Comment Period and 

Expedited Treatment. 

Filed Date: 6/17/16. 

Accession Number: 20160617–5123. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP16–1038–000. 

Applicants: Dominion Carolina Gas 

Transmission, LLC. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

DCGT—System Map URL to be effective 

7/17/2016. 

Filed Date: 6/17/16. 

Accession Number: 20160617–5148. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/29/16. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified date(s). Protests 

may be considered, but intervention is 

necessary to become a party to the 

proceeding. 

Filings in Existing Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP16–131–003. 

Applicants: Gulf South Pipeline 

Company, LP. 

Description: Compliance filing 2nd 

Compliance Filing in RP16–131–000 to 

be effective 4/1/2016. 

Filed Date: 5/20/16. 

Accession Number: 20160520–5034. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/23/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP16–1026–001. 

Applicants: Transcontinental Gas 

Pipe Line Company. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Virtual Measurement Points— 

CORRECTION to be effective 7/16/2016. 

Filed Date: 6/15/16. 

Accession Number: 20160615–5105. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/27/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP16–292–002. 

Applicants: Alliance Pipeline L.P. 

Description: Compliance filing 

Reinstate AOS Revised to be effective 

12/1/2015. 

Filed Date: 6/17/16. 

Accession Number: 20160617–5091. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/29/16. 

Docket Numbers: RP16–981–001. 

Applicants: Portland Natural Gas 

Transmission System. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Amendment to RP16–981–000 to be 

effective 6/27/2016. 

Filed Date: 6/17/16. 

Accession Number: 20160617–5130. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/29/16. 

Any person desiring to protest in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the 

Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR 

385.211) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the links or querying the 

docket number. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated June 20, 2016. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9948–52–Region 6] 

Adequacy Status of the Baton Rouge, 

Louisiana Maintenance Plan 8-Hour 

Ozone Motor Vehicle Emission 

Budgets for Transportation Conformity 

Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is notifying the public 

that it has found that the motor vehicle 

emissions budgets (MVEBs) in the Baton 

Rouge, Louisiana 2008 8-hour Ozone 

National Ambient Air Quality Standard 

(NAAQS) Maintenance Plan State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) revision, 

submitted on May 2, 2016 by the 

Louisiana Department of Environmental 

Quality (LDEQ) are adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes. As 

a result of EPA’s finding, the Baton 

Rouge area must use these budgets for 

future conformity determinations. 

DATES: These budgets are effective July 

14, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

essential information in this notice will 

be available at EPA’s conformity Web 

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

stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. 

You may also contact Mr. Jeffrey Riley, 

Air Planning Section (6MM–AA), U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, 

Texas 75202–2733, telephone (214) 

665–8542, Email address: Riley.Jeffrey@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refers to EPA. The word 

‘‘budget(s)’’ refers to the mobile source 

emissions budget for volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs) and the mobile 

source emissions budget for nitrogen 

oxides (NOX). 

On May 2, 2016, we received a SIP 

revision from the LDEQ. This revision 

consisted of a 2008 8-hour ozone 

NAAQS redesignation request and 

maintenance plan SIP for the Baton 

Rouge area. This submission established 

MVEBs for the Baton Rouge area for the 

years 2022 and 2027. The MVEB is the 

amount of emissions allowed in the 

state implementation plan for on-road 

motor vehicles; it establishes an 

emissions ceiling for the regional 

transportation network. The MVEBs are 

provided in Table 1: 

TABLE 1—BATON ROUGE MAINTENANCE PLAN NOX AND VOC 

MVEBS 

[Summer season tons per day] 

2022 2027 

NOX ................... 14.37 10.95 

VOC .................. 13.19 11.55 

On May 6, 2016, EPA posted the 

availability of the Baton Rouge area 

MVEBs on EPA’s Web site for the 

purpose of soliciting public comments, 

as part of the adequacy process pursuant 

to 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). The comment 

period closed on June 6, 2016, and we 

received no comments. 

Today’s notice is simply an 

announcement of a finding that EPA has 

already made. EPA Region 6 sent a letter 

to LDEQ on June 13, 2016, finding that 

the MVEBs in the Baton Rouge 

Maintenance Plan SIP, submitted on 

May 2, 2016 are adequate and must be 

used for transportation conformity 

determinations in the Baton Rouge area. 

This finding has 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. 

EPA’s conformity rule, 40 Code of 

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Federal Regulations (CFR) part 93, 

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 

so. 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 EPA determines 

whether a SIP’s MVEB is adequate for 

transportation conformity purposes are 

outlined in 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4). We 

have also described the process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in our 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). Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and it should not 

be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval of the Baton Rouge 

Maintenance Plan SIP revision 

submittal. Even if EPA finds the budgets 

adequate, the Baton Rouge Maintenance 

Plan SIP revision submittal could later 

be disapproved. 

These new MVEBs are effective July 

14, 2016. Within 24 months from the 

effective date of this notice, the Baton 

Rouge area transportation partners, such 

as the Capital Region Planning 

Commission, will need to demonstrate 

conformity to the new MVEBs if the 

demonstration has not already been 

made, pursuant to 40 CFR 93.104(e). See 

73 FR 4419 (January 24, 2008). 

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

Dated: June 17, 2016. 

Ron Curry, 

Regional Administrator, Region 6. 

[FR Doc. 2016–15408 Filed 6–28–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OGC–2016–0364; FRL 9948–50– 

OGC] 

Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air 

Act Citizen Suit 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed consent 

decree; request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended 

(‘‘CAA’’ or the ‘‘Act’’), notice is hereby 

given of a proposed consent decree to 

address a lawsuit filed by the Sierra 

Club (‘‘Plaintiff’’) in the United States 

District Court for the Northern District 

of California: Sierra Club v. Gina 

McCarthy, No. 3:15–cv–04328–JD (N.D. 

Cal.). On September 22, 2015, Plaintiffs 

filed this matter against Gina McCarthy, 

in her official capacity as Administrator 

of the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’). On 

February 9, 2016, Plaintiff filed a first 

amended complaint alleging that, with 

respect to the 2008 ozone national 

ambient air quality standards 

(‘‘NAAQS’’), EPA has failed to perform 

non-discretionary duties (1) to take final 

action on portions of state 

implementation plan (‘‘SIP’’) 

submissions from Louisiana, Montana, 

New Jersey, New York, South Dakota, 

Wisconsin, and Wyoming intended to 

address various interstate transport 

requirements, and (2) to promulgate a 

federal implementation plan (‘‘FIP’’) for 

certain SIP elements for California and 

Kentucky. The proposed consent decree 

would establish a deadline for EPA to 

take certain specified actions. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

proposed consent decree must be 

received by July 29, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID number EPA– 

HQ–OGC–2016–0364, online at 

www.regulations.gov (EPA’s preferred 

method); by email to oei.docket@

epa.gov; by mail to EPA Docket Center, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

or by hand delivery or courier to EPA 

Docket Center, EPA West, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 

excluding legal holidays. Comments on 

a disk or CD–ROM should be formatted 

in Word or ASCII file, avoiding the use 

of special characters and any form of 

encryption, and may be mailed to the 

mailing address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zachary Pilchen, Air and Radiation Law 

Office (2344A), Office of General 

Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460; telephone: (202) 

564–2812; fax number (202) 564–5603; 

email address: pilchen.zach@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Additional Information About the 

Proposed Consent Decree 

This proposed consent decree would 

resolve a lawsuit filed by Plaintiffs 

seeking to compel the Administrator to 

take action under CAA section 

110(k)(2)–(4). Plaintiffs allege that the 

Administrator has failed to perform a 

non-discretionary duty to take final 

action on the portion of Louisiana’s SIP 

submission intended to address the 

requirements of 42 U.S.C. 

7410(a)(2)(D)(i) for the 2008 ozone 

NAAQS. Under the terms of the 

proposed consent decree, EPA would 

agree to take certain specified actions by 

August 1, 2016, by October 3, 2016, and 

by December 15, 2017 to resolve those 

claims. See the proposed consent decree 

for more details. 

Plaintiffs also allege that the 

Administrator has failed to perform a 

non-discretionary duty to take final 

action on the portion of New Jersey’s 

SIP submission intended to address 

requirements of 42 U.S.C. 

7410(a)(2)(D)(i)(II) for the 2008 ozone 

NAAQS. Under the terms of the 

proposed consent decree, EPA would 

agree to take certain specified actions by 

September 30, 2016 to resolve those 

claims. See the proposed consent decree 

for more details. 

Plaintiffs also allege that the 

Administrator has failed to perform a 

non-discretionary duty to take final 

action on the portion of New York’s SIP 

submission intended to address 

requirements of 42 U.S.C. 

7410(a)(2)(D)(i) for the 2008 ozone 

NAAQS. Under the terms of the 

proposed consent decree, EPA would 

agree to take certain specified actions by 

August 15, 2016 and by November 1, 

2016 to resolve those claims. See the 

proposed consent decree for more 

details. 

Plaintiffs also allege that the 

Administrator has failed to perform a 

non-discretionary duty to take final 

action on the portion of Wisconsin’s SIP 

submission intended to address certain 

requirements of 42 U.S.C. 

7410(a)(2)(D)(i) for the 2008 ozone 

NAAQS. Under the terms of the 

proposed consent decree, EPA would 

agree to take certain specified actions by 

August 1, 2016 and by December 16, 

2016 to resolve those claims. See the 

proposed consent decree for more 

details. 

Plaintiffs also allege that the 

Administrator has failed to perform a 

non-discretionary duty to take final 

action on the portion of Wisconsin’s SIP 

submission intended to address certain 

requirements of 42 U.S.C. 

7410(a)(2)(D)(i) for the 2008 ozone 

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