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Description Actual 

FFY 17–18 

Actual 

FFY 18–19 Difference Actual FFY 18–19 

Actual 

FFY 19–20 Difference 

Non-Recurrent Expenses ............. $1,925,596 $1,986,234 $60,638 $1,986,234 $3,349,440 $1,363,206 

Total Program Cost .............. $9,200,143 $11,045,606 N/A $11,045,606 $11,759,083 N/A 

Amount Over/Under MOE Goal * $34,940 $1,774,481 .......................... $1,774,481 ¥$660,979 ..........................

The request for a reset of SBCAPCD’s 

MOE meets the requirements for a nonselective reduction determination. The 

SBCAPCD’s MOE reduction resulted 

from a loss of revenues due to a 

significant cut back on expenditures 

caused by the current COVID–19 

pandemic, the inability to fill vacant 

positions created by retirements, and 

the addition of State funding for grant 

pass-throughs, which increased the 

SBCAPCD’s grant non-recurring activity. 

The EPA proposes to determine that 

the SBCAPCD lower the FY2020 MOE 

level to $7,790,365 to meet the CAA 

section 105(c)(2) criteria as it resulted 

from a non-selective reduction of 

expenditures. 

This notice constitutes a request for 

public comment and an opportunity for 

public hearing as required by the CAA. 

All written comments received by 

August 30, 2021 on this proposal will be 

considered. The EPA will conduct a 

public hearing on this proposal only if 

a written request for such is received by 

the EPA by August 30, 2021. If no 

written request for a hearing is received, 

the EPA will proceed to the final 

determination. While notice of the final 

determination will not be published in 

the Federal Register, copies of the 

determination can be obtained by 

sending a written request to Angela 

Latigue at the above address. 

Dated: July 8, 2021. 

Elizabeth Adams, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 52 

[EPA–R07–OAR–2021–0360; FRL–8707–01– 

R7] 

Air Plan Approval; Approval of 

Missouri Air Quality Implementation 

Plans; Revisions to St. Louis 2008 8- 

Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a 

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

revision submitted by the State of 

Missouri on November 12, 2019, 

revising the 2008 8-hour ozone 

maintenance plan previously approved 

by EPA on September 20, 2018, 

demonstrating continued maintenance 

of the 2008 ozone National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard (NAAQS), the 1979 1- 

Hour and 1997 8-Hour ozone standards 

in the St. Louis area. This revision states 

that the St. Louis area no longer needs 

to rely on the Inspection and 

Maintenance (I/M) program, and 

Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) for 

continued maintenance throughout the 

maintenance period for the 2008 8-Hour 

ozone NAAQS, the 1979 1-Hour ozone 

NAAQS and 1997 8-Hour ozone 

NAAQS. EPA is proposing to determine 

that this revision meets the 

requirements of the Clean Air Act. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R07– 

OAR–2021–0360 to https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. for this 

rulemaking. Comments received will be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions on sending 

comments and additional information 

on the rulemaking process, see the 

‘‘Written Comments’’ heading of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Brown, Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 7 Office, Air 

Quality Planning Branch, 11201 Renner 

Boulevard, Lenexa, Kansas 66219; 

telephone number: (913) 551–7718; 

email address: brown.steven@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 

Table of Contents 

I. Written Comments 

II. What is being addressed in this document? 

III. Have the requirements for approval of a 

SIP revision been met? 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

V. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews 

I. Written Comments 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–R07–OAR–2021– 

0360, at https://www.regulations.gov. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 

The EPA may publish any comment 

received to its public docket. Do not 

submit electronically any information 

you consider to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. The EPA will generally not 

consider comments or comment 

contents located outside of the primary 

submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or 

other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit 

https://www.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

II. What is being addressed in this 

document? 

The EPA is proposing to approve SIP 

revisions submitted by the State of 

Missouri on November 12, 2019, 

revising the 2008 8-hour ozone 

maintenance plan previously approved 

on September 20, 2018 (83 FR 47572). 

This SIP revision demonstrates 

continued maintenance of the 2008 8- 

Hour ozone NAAQS, the 1979 1-Hour 

ozone NAAQS and 1997 8-Hour ozone 

NAAQS in the St. Louis area through 

the future year of 2030. Since the 2008 

ozone standard is more stringent than 

the 1979 and 1997 ozone standards, and 

the boundary area for all three 

designations are identical, Missouri is 

requesting through this SIP revision to 

also replace the previously approved 

maintenance plans under those older 

standards. The maintenance boundary 

for these three standards includes the 

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St. Charles, and St. Louis along with the 

City of St. Louis. 

On May 12, 2003 EPA published a 

final rule stating the St. Louis area 

attained the 1979 1-hour ozone 

standard, redesignated the area to 

attainment, and approved the state’s 

plan for maintaining the 1-hour ozone 

NAAQS (68 FR 25413). On June 15, 

2005 the 1-Hour Ozone NAAQS was 

revoked for all areas except the 8-Hour 

Ozone nonattainment Early Action 

Compact (EAC) areas. (70 FR 44470). 

Due to the revocation of the 1-Hour 

Ozone standard 1-Hour Ozone 

designations and classifications were 

removed for all areas except EAC areas 

that had deferred effective dates for 

their designations under the 8-Hour 

Ozone 1997 standard. The St. Louis area 

did not participate in the EAC and 

therefore, the 1-hour ozone standard 

was revoked effective June 15, 2005 for 

all areas in Missouri (70 FR 44470). 

On February 20, 2015, EPA issued a 

final rulemaking approving the State of 

Missouri’s request to redesignate the 

Missouri portion of the St. Louis 

nonattainment area to attainment and 

their demonstration for maintaining the 

1997 8-hour ozone NAAQS through the 

ten-year maintenance period (2025). (80 

FR 9207). 

This SIP revision we are acting on in 

this proposal, removes the reliance on 

the St. Louis Inspection and 

Maintenance (I/M) program, and 

Reformulated Gasoline (RFG) for 

continued maintenance of the 2008, 

1979 and 1997 standard. To support this 

revision, Missouri utilized EPA’s 2014 

Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator 

(MOVES2014b) emission modeling 

system to project revised mobile source 

emissions by removing emissions 

reductions related to I/M and RFG 

throughout the maintenance period to 

the future year of 2030. 

Tables 1 and 2 below compare ozone 

season day (OSD) precursor pollutants 

of nitrogen oxide (NOX) and volatile 

organic compound (VOC) emissions for 

the attainment year 2014 to the 

projection year 2030 for point, area, 

onroad and nonroad source categories of 

the five counties in the St. Louis area. 

Missouri’s emissions analysis show 

decreases in mobile source emissions 

and a decrease in total source category 

NOX and VOC emissions through the 

maintenance period of 2030. The 

projections show that NOX emissions 

will decrease by a total of 135.68 tons 

per OSD (43.1%), while VOC emissions 

will be reduced by 41.36 tons per OSD 

(20.5%) between 2014 and 2030. These 

decreases in precursor pollutants 

demonstrate the area will continue to 

meet the 2008, 1979 and 1997 ozone 

standard throughout the maintenance 

period without relying on the I/M 

program or RFG requirements in the 

Missouri portion of the maintenance 

area. 

TABLE 1—2014 TOTAL EMISSIONS

Source Category NOX VOC 

St. Louis Area NOX & VOC Emissions in Tons Per Ozone Season Day (OSD): 

Point Source ..................................................................................................................................................... 81.70 13.86 

Area Source ...................................................................................................................................................... 6.47 69.81 

Onroad Source ................................................................................................................................................. 111.76 38.21 

Nonroad Source ............................................................................................................................................... 38.44 33.42 

Total Emissions Tons/OSD ....................................................................................................................... 238.37 155.30 

Illinois Area: 

Point Source ..................................................................................................................................................... 23.29 9.38 

Area Source ...................................................................................................................................................... 1.53 19.06 

Onroad Source ................................................................................................................................................. 26.94 10.11 

Nonroad Source ............................................................................................................................................... 24.62 7.47 

Total Emissions Tons/OSD ....................................................................................................................... 76.38 46.02 

Grand Total Emmissions .................................................................................................................... 314.75 201.32 

TABLE 2—2030 TOTAL EMISSIONS

Source Category NOX VOC 

St. Louis Area NOX & VOC Emissions in Tons Per Ozone Season Day (OSD): 

Point Source ..................................................................................................................................................... 93.08 14.31 

Area Source ...................................................................................................................................................... 6.58 68.60 

Onroad Source ................................................................................................................................................. 26.01 16.12 

Nonroad Source ............................................................................................................................................... 16.79 22.45 

Total Emissions Tons/OSD ....................................................................................................................... 142.61 121.48 

Illinois Area: 

Point Source ..................................................................................................................................................... 16.93 8.53 

Area Source ...................................................................................................................................................... 1.51ENT≤ 

18.05 

Onroad Source ................................................................................................................................................. 6.71 3.76 

Nonroad Source ............................................................................................................................................... 11.31 5.09 

Total Emissions Tons/OSD ....................................................................................................................... 36.46 35.43 


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1 83 FR 47572, Sept. 20, 2018. 

TABLE 2—2030 TOTAL EMISSIONS—Continued 

Source Category NOX VOC 

Grand Total Emissions ....................................................................................................................... 179.07 156.91 

It is important to note approval of this 

maintenance plan revision does not 

remove the I/M program or the RFG 

program requirements from the SIP. 

In addition, the motor vehicle 

emissions budgets (MVEBs) from the 

previously SIP approved Maintenance 

Plan for the 2008 ozone NAAQS 1 and 

this SIP submittal remain the same. 

Therefore, there are no new MVEBs 

being created for this SIP revision. EPA 

found the previously approved MVEBs 

adequate for use with transportation 

conformity on June 22, 2018 (83 FR 

26598). Therefore, the State of Missouri 

is required to use the MVEBs from the 

February 16, 2018, Redesignation 

Request and Maintenance Plan for 

future transportation conformity 

determinations for the St. Louis area 

until new budgets are created and 

formally found adequate or approved. 

The finding is available at EPA’s 

conformity website: https://

www.epa.gov/state-and-localtransportation. 

EPA is proposing approval of the 

revised maintenance plan based on 

information provided in the emissions 

projections, modeling results and an 

evaluation of quality assured air 

monitoring data submitted as part of 

this revision and in a previously 

reviewed analysis as part of the St. 

Louis Nonattainment Area 2008 8-hour 

Ozone NAAQS Redesignation 

rulemaking on September 20, 2018 (83 

FR 47572). Current and future 

projections of air quality and emissions 

data for this revision demonstrates 

maintenance for the 2008, 1979 and 

1997 ozone NAAQS. 

This revision only affects 

maintenance for the 2008, 1979 and 

1997 ozone standards, only removes the 

reliance upon the I/M program and RFG 

programs and meets the requirements of 

the Clean Air Act. 

The full text of the plan revisions 

including Missouri’s technical 

demonstration can be found in the 

State’s submission, which is included in 

the docket for this action. 

III. Have the requirements for approval 

of a SIP revision been met? 

The State submission has met the 

public notice requirements for SIP 

submissions in accordance with 40 CFR 

51.102. The submission also satisfied 

the completeness criteria of 40 CFR part 

51, appendix V. The State provided 

public notice on this SIP revision from 

July 29, 2019 to September 5, 2019 and 

received one comment from the 

Missouri Petroleum Marketers and 

Convenience Store Association, one 

comment from Abel Realty, and twelve 

comments from EPA. After receiving 

comments, the state revised the 

submittal language prior to submitting 

the plan to EPA. In addition, as 

explained above and in more detail in 

the Missouri submittal document, 

which is part of the docket, the revision 

meets the substantive SIP requirements 

of the CAA, including section 110 and 

implementing regulations. 

IV. What action is the EPA taking? 

We are proposing to approve a SIP 

revision submitted by the State of 

Missouri on November 12, 2019, 

revising the 2008 8-hour ozone 

maintenance plan. EPA is proposing to 

determine that this revision would not 

interfere with attainment or 

maintenance of the NAAQS or with any 

other CAA requirement. We are 

processing this as a proposed action 

because we are soliciting comments on 

this proposed action. Final rulemaking 

will occur after consideration of any 

comments. 

V. Statutory and Executive Order 

Reviews 

Under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the 

Administrator is required to approve a 

SIP submission that complies with the 

provisions of the Act and applicable 

Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 

40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in reviewing SIP 

submissions, the EPA’s role is to 

approve state choices, provided that 

they meet the criteria of the CAA. 

Accordingly, this action merely 

approves state law as meeting Federal 

requirements and does not impose 

additional requirements beyond those 

imposed by state law. For that reason, 

this action: 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to review by the Office of 

Management and Budget under 

Executive Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735, 

October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, 

January 21, 2011); 

• Does not impose an information 

collection burden under the provisions 

of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.); 

• Is certified as not having a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.); 

• Does not contain any unfunded 

mandate or significantly or uniquely 

affect small governments, as described 

in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4); 

• Does not have federalism 

implications as specified in Executive 

Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 

1999); 

• Is not an economically significant 

regulatory action based on health or 

safety risks subject to Executive Order 

13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997); 

• Is not a significant regulatory action 

subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 

28355, May 22, 2001); 

• Is not subject to requirements of the 

National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act (NTTA) because this 

proposed rulemaking does not involve 

technical standards; and 

• Does not provide EPA with the 

discretionary authority to address, as 

appropriate, disproportionate human 

health or environmental effects, using 

practicable and legally permissible 

methods, under Executive Order 12898 

(59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994). 

The SIP is not approved to apply on 

any Indian reservation land or in any 

other area where EPA or an Indian tribe 

has demonstrated that a tribe has 

jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian 

country, the proposed rule does not 

have tribal implications and will not 

impose substantial direct costs on tribal 

governments or preempt tribal law as 

specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 

FR 67249, November 9, 2000). 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Incorporation by 

reference, Ozone. 

Dated: July 19, 2021. 

Edward H. Chu, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 7. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the EPA proposes to amend 

40 CFR part 52 as set forth below: 

PART 52—APPROVAL AND 

PROMULGATION OF 

IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 52 

continues to read as follows: 


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

Subpart AA—Missouri 

■ 2. In § 52.1320, the table in paragraph 

(e) is amended by adding the entry 

‘‘(79)’’ in numerical order to read as 

follows: 

§ 52.1320 Identification of plan. 

* * * * * 

(e) * * * 

EPA-APPOVED MISSOURI NONREGULATORY SIP PROVISIONS

Name of nonregulatory SIP provision Applicable geographic or nonattainment area 

State 

submittal 

date 

EPA approval date Explanation 

*******

(79) Revisions to St. Louis 2008 8- 

Hour Ozone Maintenance Plan.

St. Louis Area: Missouri counties of 

Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles, 

and St. Louis along with the City 

of St. Louis.

11/12/2019 [Date of publication of the final rule 

in the Federal Register], 

[Federal Register citation of the 

final rule].

This action replaces Maintenance 

plans for the following ozone 

NAAQS: 1979 1-hour (68 FR 

25413),1997 8-hour (80 FR 

9207), 2008 8-hour (83 FR 

47572). 

*******

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

48 CFR Parts 1, 25, and 52 

[FAR Case 2021–008; Docket No. FAR– 

2021–0008, Sequence No. 1] 

RIN 9000–AO22 

Federal Acquisition Regulation: 

Amendments to the FAR Buy American 

Act Requirements 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: DoD, GSA, and NASA are 

proposing to amend the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to 

implement an Executive order (E.O.) 

addressing domestic preferences in 

Government procurement. 

DATES: Interested parties should submit 

comments to the Regulatory Secretariat 

Division at one of the addresses shown 

below on or before September 28, 2021 

to be considered in the formulation of 

a final rule. 

Public Meeting: A virtual public 

meeting will be held on August 26, 

2021, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Eastern 

Standard Time. The public meeting will 

end at the stated time, or when the 

discussion ends, whichever comes first. 

For more details, see section V of the 

preamble. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments in 

response to FAR Case 2021–008 to 

https://www.regulations.gov. Submit 

comments via the Federal eRulemaking 

portal by searching for ‘‘FAR Case 2021– 

008’’. Select the link ‘‘Comment Now’’ 

that corresponds with ‘‘FAR Case 2021– 

008.’’ Follow the instructions provided 

on the screen. Please include your 

name, company name (if any), and 

‘‘FAR Case 2021–008’’ on your attached 

document. If your comment cannot be 

submitted using https://

www.regulations.gov, call or email the 

points of contact in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document for alternate instructions. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite ‘‘FAR Case 2021–008’’ in 

all correspondence related to this case. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be made publicly 

available and are subject to disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act. 

For this reason, please do not include in 

your comments information of a 

confidential nature, such as sensitive 

personal information or proprietary 

information, or any information that you 

would not want publicly disclosed 

unless you follow the instructions 

below for confidential comments. 

Summary information of the public 

comments received, including any 

specific comments, will be posted on 

regulations.gov. 

All filers using the portal should use 

the name of the person or entity 

submitting comments as the name of 

their files, in accordance with the 

instructions below. Anyone submitting 

business confidential/proprietary 

information should clearly identify any 

business confidential/proprietary 

portion at the time of submission, file a 

statement justifying nondisclosure and 

referencing the specific legal authority 

claimed, and provide a nonconfidential/non-proprietary version of 

the submission. 

Any business confidential 

information should be in an uploaded 

file that has a file name beginning with 

the characters ‘‘BC.’’ Any page 

containing business confidential 

information must be clearly marked 

‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL/ 

PROPRIETARY’’ on the top of that page. 

The corresponding non-confidential/ 

non-proprietary version of those 

comments must be clearly marked 

‘‘PUBLIC.’’ The file name of the nonconfidential version should begin with 

the character ‘‘P.’’ The ‘‘BC’’ and ‘‘P’’ 

should be followed by the name of the 

person or entity submitting the 

comments or rebuttal comments. All 

filers should name their files using the 

name of the person or entity submitting 

the comments. Any submissions with 

file names that do not begin with a ‘‘BC’’ 

will be assumed to be public and will 

be made publicly available through 

https://www.regulations.gov. 

To confirm receipt of your 

comment(s), please check https://

www.regulations.gov, approximately 

two to three days after submission to 

verify posting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Mahruba Uddowla, Procurement 

Analyst, at 703–605–2868 or by email at 

mahruba.uddowla@gsa.gov, for 

clarification of content. For information 

pertaining to status or publication 

schedules, contact the Regulatory 

Secretariat Division at 202–501–4755 or 

GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite FAR 

Case 2021–008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On January 25, 2021, the President 

signed Executive Order (E.O.) 14005, 


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