61128 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 202 / Thursday, October 20, 2005 / Notices 

Respondents/affected entities: 

Companies that manufacture, import, 

process, or distribute in commerce a 

chemical substance or mixture and 

which obtain information that 

reasonably supports the conclusion that 

such substance or mixture presents a 

substantial risk of injury to health or the 

environment. 

Estimated total number of potential 

respondents: 230. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total/average number of 

responses for each respondent: 1.5. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

6,750 hours. 

Estimated total annual burden costs: 

$364,500. 

IV. Are There Changes in the Estimates 

from the Last Approval? 

There is an increase of 319 hours 

(from 6,431 hours to 6,750 hours) in the 

total estimated respondent burden 

compared with that identified in the ICR 

most recently approved by OMB. This 

increase can be accounted for by a small 

increase in TSCA section 8(e) reporting 

compared to that estimated in the 

previous ICR. This increase is an 

adjustment. 

V. What is the Next Step in the Process 

for this ICR? 

EPA will consider the comments 

received and amend the ICR as 

appropriate. The final ICR package will 

then be submitted to OMB for review 

and approval pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.12. EPA will issue another Federal 

Register notice pursuant to 5 CFR 

1320.5(a)(1)(iv) to announce the 

submission of the ICR to OMB and the 

opportunity to submit additional 

comments to OMB. If you have any 

questions about this ICR or the approval 

process, please contact the technical 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements. 

Dated: October 5, 2005. 

Susan B. Hazen, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. 

[FR Doc. 05–20981 Filed 10–19–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[IN–164–1; FRL–7986–4] 

Adequacy Status of Jackson County, 

IN, 8-Hour Ozone Redesignation and 

Maintenance Plan for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that EPA has found 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets in the Jackson County, Indiana 

8-hour ozone redesignation request and 

maintenance plan are adequate for 

conformity purposes. On March 2, 1999, 

the DC Circuit Court ruled that 

submitted State Implementation Plans 

(SIPs) cannot be used for conformity 

determinations until EPA has 

affirmatively found them adequate. As a 

result of our finding, Jackson County 

can use the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets from the submitted 8-hour 

ozone redesignation request and 

maintenance plan for future conformity 

determinations. These budgets are 

effective November 4, 2005. The finding 

and the response to comments will be 

available at EPA’s conformity Web site: 

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/transp.htm, 

(once there, click on the ‘‘Conformity’’

button, then look for ‘‘Adequacy Review 

of SIP Submissions for Conformity’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen D’Agostino, Environmental 

Engineer, Criteria Pollutant Section 

(AR–18J), Air Programs Branch, Air and 

Radiation Division, United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 886–1767, 

dagostino.kathleen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, whenever 

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

EPA. 

Background: Today’s notice is simply 

an announcement of a finding that we 

have already made. EPA Region 5 sent 

a letter to the Indiana Department of 

Environmental Management on 

September 29, 2005, stating that the 

motor vehicle emissions budgets for the 

year 2015, submitted in the Jackson 

County, Indiana 8-hour ozone 

redesignation request and maintenance 

plan, are adequate. This finding has 

been announced on EPA’s conformity 

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

transp.htm, (once there, click on the 

‘‘Conformity’’ button, then look for 

‘‘Adequacy Review of SIP Submissions 

for Conformity’’). 

Transportation conformity is required 

by section 176(c) of the Clean Air Act. 

EPA’s conformity rule 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. 

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). Please note that an 

adequacy review is separate from EPA’s 

completeness review, and it also should 

not be used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate 

approval of the SIP. Even if we find a 

budget adequate, the SIP could later be 

disapproved. 

We’ve described our process for 

determining the adequacy of submitted 

SIP budgets in guidance (May 14, 1999 

memo titled ‘‘Conformity Guidance on 

Implementation of March 2, 1999 

Conformity Court Decision’’). We 

followed this guidance in making our 

adequacy determination. 

Dated: October 11, 2005. 

Richard C. Karl, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

[FR Doc. 05–20978 Filed 10–19–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[IN–163–1; FRL–7986–3] 

Adequacy Status of Greene County, IN, 

8-Hour Ozone Redesignation and 

Maintenance Plan for Transportation 

Conformity Purposes 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of adequacy. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is 

notifying the public that EPA has found 

that the motor vehicle emissions 

budgets in the Greene County, Indiana 

8-hour ozone redesignation request and 

maintenance plan are adequate for 

conformity purposes. On March 2, 1999, 

the DC Circuit Court ruled that 

submitted State Implementation Plans 

(SIPs) cannot be used for conformity 

determinations until EPA has 

affirmatively found them adequate. As a 

result of our finding, Greene County can 

use the motor vehicle emissions budgets 

from the submitted 8-hour ozone