Document ID: EPA-R10-OAR-2013-0420-0002
Agency: epa
Document Type: Rule
Title: State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Alaska; Fairbanks Carbon Monoxide Limited Maintenance Plan and State Implementation Plan Revision
Posted Date: 2013-08-09T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 154 (Friday, August 9, 2013)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 48611-48615]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19203]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R10-OAR-2013-0420; FRL-9844-8]

Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plans: Alaska; 
Fairbanks Carbon Monoxide Limited Maintenance Plan and State 
Implementation Plan Revision

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: The EPA is taking direct final action to approve a carbon 
monoxide (CO) Limited Maintenance Plan (LMP) for the Fairbanks Area, 
and associated revisions to sections of the Fairbanks Transportation 
Control Program, submitted by the State of Alaska (the State) as a 
revision to its State Implementation Plan (SIP) dated April 22, 2013. 
In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act (the 
Act), the EPA is approving this SIP revision because it demonstrates 
that the Fairbanks Area will maintain the CO National Ambient Air 
Quality Standards (NAAQS) through the second 10-year maintenance 
period.

DATES: This rule is effective on October 8, 2013, without further 
notice, unless the EPA receives adverse comment by September 9, 2013. 
If the EPA receives adverse comment, we will publish a timely 
withdrawal in the Federal Register informing the public that the rule 
will not take effect.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R10-
OAR-2013-0420, by any of the following methods:
     www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for 
submitting comments.
     Email: R10-Public_Comments@epa.gov.
     Mail: Keith Rose, U.S. EPA Region 10, Office of Air, Waste 
and Toxics (AWT-107), 1200 Sixth Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101.
     Hand Delivery/Courier: U.S. EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth 
Avenue, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101. Attention: Keith Rose, Office of 
Air, Waste and Toxics, AWT-107. Such deliveries are only accepted 
during normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be 
made for deliveries of boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R10-OAR-
2013-0420. The EPA's policy is that all comments received will be 
included in the public docket without change and may be made available 
online at www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be 
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through www.regulations.gov 
or email. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' 
system, which means the EPA will not know your identity or contact 
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you 
send an email comment directly to the EPA without going through 
www.regulations.gov your email address will be automatically captured 
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public

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docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic 
comment, the EPA recommends that you include your name and other 
contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk or 
CD-ROM you submit. If the EPA cannot read your comment due to technical 
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, the EPA may not 
be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use 
of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any 
defects or viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the 
www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some 
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such 
as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet and will be 
publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available docket 
materials are available either electronically in www.regulations.gov or 
in hard copy during normal business hours at the Office of Air, Waste 
and Toxics, U.S. EPA Region 10, 1200 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith Rose at telephone number: (206) 
553-1949, email address: rose.keith@epa.gov, fax number: (206) 553-
0110, or the above EPA, Region 10 address.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document wherever ``we'', 
``us'' or ``our'' are used, we mean the EPA. Information is organized 
as follows:

Table of Contents

I. What is the purpose of this action?
II. What is the background for this action?
III. Evaluation of Alaska's Submittal
IV. Transportation and General Conformity
V. Final Action
VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

I. What is the purpose of this action?

    The EPA is taking direct final action to approve the CO LMP for the 
Fairbanks Area, and associated revisions to sections of the Fairbanks 
Transportation Control Program, submitted by Alaska as a SIP revision 
dated April 22, 2013. The CO LMP submitted by the State of Alaska is 
designed to keep the Fairbanks Area in attainment with the CO standard 
for a second 10-year period beyond redesignation.
    The EPA is taking no action on 18 AAC 50.030, State Air Quality 
Control Plan, which adopts by reference Volumes II and III of the State 
Air Quality Control Plan and other documents (as a matter of state 
law), whether or not they have yet been submitted to or approved by the 
EPA.

II. What is the background for this action?

    Under Section 107(d)(1)(c) of the CAA, each CO area designated 
nonattainment prior to enactment of the 1990 Amendments, such as the 
Fairbanks Area, was designated nonattainment by operation of law upon 
enactment of the 1990 Amendments. Under section 186(a) of the Act, each 
CO area designated nonattainment under section 107(d) was also 
classified by operation of law as either ``moderate'' or ``serious'' 
depending on the severity of the area's air quality problem. CO areas 
with design values between 9.1 and 16.4 parts per million (ppm), such 
as the Fairbanks Area, were classified as moderate. These nonattainment 
designations and classifications were codified in 40 CFR part 81. See 
56 FR 56712 (November 6, 1991).
    On February 27, 1998, the EPA made a final finding that the 
Fairbanks CO nonattainment area did not attain the CO NAAQS under the 
CAA mandated attainment date of December 31, 1995 for moderate 
nonattainment areas. As a result of that finding, which went into 
effect on March 30, 1998, the Fairbanks CO nonattainment area was 
reclassified as serious (63 FR 9945). Alaska had 18 months or until 
October 1, 1999, to submit a new SIP demonstrating attainment of the CO 
NAAQS as expeditiously as practicable, but no later than December 31, 
2000, the CAA attainment date for serious areas.
    Notwithstanding significant efforts by Alaska to complete the CO 
SIP for the Fairbanks Area, the State failed to meet the October 1, 
1999 deadline for the required SIP submission. On April 3, 2000, the 
EPA published a notice in the Federal Register stating that initial, 
mandatory sanctions would be triggered if a new attainment plan was not 
submitted by October 2, 2001 (65 FR 17444). In March 2001, Alaska 
submitted a request to the EPA for an extension of the attainment date 
to December 31, 2001, and the EPA approved this request on May 25, 2001 
(66 FR 28836). Alaska submitted an attainment plan on August 30, 2001 
and the EPA approved the plan on February 4, 2002 (67 FR 5064). On July 
5, 2002, the EPA determined that the Fairbanks Area attained the CO 
NAAQS by the December 31, 2001 attainment date (67 FR 44769).
    The State of Alaska submitted a 10-year maintenance plan and 
redesignation request for the Fairbanks Area on June 21, 2004. The EPA 
approved this maintenance plan and redesignated the Fairbanks Area to 
attainment on July 27, 2004 (69 FR 44601). The State subsequently 
submitted three revisions to the Alaska SIP relating to the motor 
vehicle inspection and maintenance (I/M) program in Fairbanks: a March 
29, 2002 submittal containing minor revisions to the statewide I/M 
program; a December 11, 2006 submittal containing more substantial 
revisions to the statewide I/M program; and a June 5, 2008 submittal 
containing major revisions to the statewide I/M program discontinuing 
the I/M program in Fairbanks as an active control measure in the SIP 
and shifting it to a contingency measure. The EPA approved these 
revisions on March 22, 2010 (75 FR 13436).
    Per CAA section 175A(b), Alaska's current SIP submittal provides a 
second 10-year CO maintenance plan for the Fairbanks Area. In addition, 
the plan is consistent with the elements of a LMP as outlined in an EPA 
October 6, 1995 memorandum from Joseph Paisie, the Group Leader of the 
Integrated Policy and Strategies Group, titled, ``Limited Maintenance 
Plan Option for Nonclassifiable CO Nonattainment Areas''. To qualify 
for the LMP Option, the CO design value for an area, based on the eight 
consecutive quarters (2 years of data) used to demonstrate attainment, 
must be at or below 7.65 ppm (85 percent of the 8-hour CO NAAQS). The 
EPA has determined that the LMP Option for CO is also available to all 
states as part of the CAA 175A(b) update to the maintenance plans, 
regardless of the original nonattainment classification, or lack 
thereof. Thus, the EPA observes that although the Fairbanks Area was 
designated as a serious nonattainment area for the CO NAAQS, 
redesignation to attainment status in conjunction with meeting all 
requirements of the October 6, 1995, memorandum, allows the State to be 
eligible to submit a LMP as the update to its original maintenance plan 
per section 175A(b) of the CAA.

III. Evaluation of Alaska's Submittal

    The EPA has reviewed Alaska's SIP submittal for the Fairbanks Area. 
The following is a summary of the requirements for a LMP and the EPA's 
evaluation of how each requirement has been met by the SIP submittal.

A. Base Year Emissions Inventory

    The maintenance plan must contain an attainment year emission 
inventory to identify a level of CO emissions in the area that is 
sufficient to attain the CO NAAQS. The April 22, 2013 SIP

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submittal contains a summary of the CO emissions inventory for the 
Fairbanks Area for the base year 2005. This summary is based on the 
Fairbanks emission inventory adopted by the State on April 4, 2008 
(Volume III, Appendix IIIC.3) and includes updates made in 2012.\1\ The 
emission inventory includes an on-road vehicle emission inventory based 
on the EPA's MOVES 2010b \2\ vehicle emissions model, a more accurate 
estimate of residential wood burning emissions in the Fairbanks area, 
and an estimate of non-road emissions based on the most recent 
information on snowmobile use in the Fairbanks Area. The methods used 
to determine the Fairbanks CO emission inventory are consistent with 
the EPA's most recent guidance on developing emission inventories. 
Because violations of the CO NAAQS are most likely to occur on winter 
weekdays, the inventory prepared is for a ``typical winter day''. The 
table below shows the estimated tons of CO emitted per winter day by 
source category for the 2005 base year.
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    \1\ The memo dated November 20, 2012, to Cindy Heil of the State 
of Alaska from Sierra Research titled ``Summary of Inventory 
Revisions to the 2008 Fairbanks CO Maintenance Plan'', describing 
the emissions inventory update is included in the docket.
    \2\ MOVES is the EPA's state-of-the-art tool for estimating 
emissions from on-road mobile sources. MOVES 2012b is the latest 
version of MOVES and was released in April 2012. Details on MOVES 
can be found at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/moves.

         2005 Emission Inventory, Main Source Category Subtotals
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                                                           CO emissions
                  Main source category                       tons per
                                                            winter day
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Point Sources...........................................            3.09
Onroad Mobile Sources...................................           45.48
Non-road Mobile Sources.................................           14.80
Area Sources............................................           19.69
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  Total.................................................           83.06
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B. Demonstration of Maintenance

    The 8-hour CO NAAQS is attained when the annual second highest 8-
hour average CO concentration for an area does not exceed a 
concentration of 9.0 ppm. The last monitored violation of the CO NAAQS 
in Fairbanks occurred in 1999, and monitored CO levels have been 
steadily in decline ever since. The 2012 second highest 8-hour CO 
concentration for the Fairbanks Area is 3.6 ppm, which is in attainment 
with the CO NAAQS.
    For areas using the CO LMP Option, the maintenance plan 
demonstration requirement is considered to be satisfied when the second 
highest 8-hour CO concentration is at or below 7.65 ppm (85 percent of 
the CO NAAQS) for 8 consecutive quarters. The second highest 8-hour CO 
concentration for the Fairbanks Area for the most recent 8 quarters 
(2011-2012) was 3.6 ppm, which is significantly below the LMP Option 
requirement of 7.65 ppm. Therefore, the State has demonstrated that the 
Fairbanks Area qualifies for the LMP Option.
    With the LMP Option, there is no requirement to project emissions 
of air quality over the upcoming maintenance period. The EPA believes 
that if the area begins the maintenance period at, or below, 85 percent 
of the level of the CO 8-hour NAAQS, the applicability of prevention of 
significant deterioration requirements, the control measures already in 
the SIP, and Federal control measures already in place should provide 
adequate assurance of maintenance over the 10-year maintenance period.

C. Monitoring Network and Verification of Continued Attainment

    To comply with national ambient air monitoring requirements, and to 
better understand Fairbanks' air quality problems, the State of Alaska 
has operated a CO monitoring network in the Fairbanks Area since the 
1970s. In 1985, the Fairbanks monitoring network consisted of three 
sites, including a downtown site called the Old Post Office site, which 
recorded the highest concentrations of CO of all three monitors since 
2004. In recognition of declining CO concentrations in the Fairbanks 
Area, Alaska reduced the Fairbanks CO monitoring network to just the 
Old Post Office site in 2009 with approval from the EPA.
    To verify the attainment status of the area over the maintenance 
period, the LMP must contain provisions for continued operation of an 
appropriate, EPA-approved monitoring network in accordance with 40 CFR 
part 58. The State of Alaska has an approved monitoring network that 
includes CO monitoring in the Fairbanks Area that was most recently 
approved by the EPA on October 25, 2012. In the Fairbanks CO LMP, the 
State commits to maintaining a CO monitoring network to verify 
continued attainment of the NAAQS.

D. Contingency Plan

    Section 175A(d) of the CAA requires that a maintenance plan include 
contingency provisions. In its April 22, 2013 submittal, the State of 
Alaska continued with the contingency plan that is currently in place. 
The contingency plan includes six possible contingency measures that 
could be implemented if the Fairbanks Area fails to attain the CO 
NAAQS. These measures are:
    1. Increased public awareness;
    2. Enhanced public transit;
    3. Expansion of the supply of plug-ins;
    4. Altered signal timing;
    5. Roadway improvements; and
    6. Reintroduction of the Inspection and Maintenance program.
    In the event that monitoring data indicate that a violation of the 
CO NAAQS has occurred, the Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB) would 
examine the data to assess the spatial extent and severity of the 
episode, as well as trends over time. Based on this assessment, the 
FNSB in consultation with the Alaska Department of Environmental 
Conservation (ADEC) would determine which of the above measures to 
implement.

IV. Transportation and General Conformity

    Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the CAA. 
The EPA's conformity rule requires that transportation plans, programs, 
and projects that are funded under 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act 
conform to SIPs. 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 transportation conformity rule (40 CFR parts 51 and 93) and the 
general conformity rule (40 CFR parts 51 and 93) apply to nonattainment 
areas and maintenance areas covered by an approved maintenance plan. 
Under either conformity rule, an acceptable method of demonstrating 
that a Federal action conforms to the applicable SIP is to demonstrate 
that expected emissions from the planned action are consistent with the 
emissions budget for the area.
    While the EPA's LMP Option does not exempt an area from the need to 
affirm conformity, it explains that the area may demonstrate conformity 
without submitting an emissions budget. Under the LMP Option, emissions 
budgets are treated as essentially not constraining for the length of 
the maintenance period because it is unreasonable to expect that the 
qualifying areas would experience so much growth in that period that a 
violation of the CO NAAQS would result. Similarly, Federal actions 
subject to the general conformity rule could be considered to satisfy 
the ``budget test'' specified in section 93.158(a)(5)(i)(A) for the 
same reasons that the budgets are essentially considered to be 
unlimited.

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    While areas with maintenance plans approved under the LMP Option 
are not subject to the budget test, the areas remain subject to other 
transportation conformity requirements of 40 CFR part 93, subpart A. 
Thus, the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) in the area or the 
State must document and ensure that:
    a. Transportation plans and projects provide for timely 
implementation of SIP transportation control measures in accordance 
with 40 CFR 93.113;
    b. Transportation plans and projects comply with the fiscal 
constraint element per 40 CFR 93.108;
    c. The MPO's interagency consultation procedures meet applicable 
requirements of 40 CFR 93.105;
    d. Conformity of transportation plans is determined no less 
frequently than every four years, and conformity of plan amendments and 
transportation projects is demonstrated in accordance with the timing 
requirements specified in 40 CFR 93.104;
    e. The latest planning assumptions and emissions model are used as 
set forth in 40 CFR 93.110 and 40 CFR 93.111;
    f. Projects do not cause or contribute to any new localized carbon 
monoxide or particulate matter violations, in accordance with 
procedures specified in 40 CFR 93.123; and
    g. Project sponsors and/or operators provide written commitments as 
specified in 40 CFR 93.125.
    The EPA confers regularly with the Fairbanks Metropolitan Area 
Transportation System technical and policy committees, ADEC, the Alaska 
Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, the Federal Highway 
Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration to review the 
Transportation Improvement Plan for the Fairbanks Area to determine if 
the area is meeting the transportation conformity requirements under 40 
CFR part 93, subpart A. The Fairbanks Area is currently meeting the 
requirements of 40 CFR part 93, subpart A.

V. Final Action

    In accordance with the requirements of the Federal CAA, the EPA is 
approving the CO LMP for the Fairbanks Area (Volume II, Section 
III.C.12 of the State Air Quality Control Plan, adopted February 22, 
2013) submitted by Alaska on April 22, 2013 as a revision to the Alaska 
SIP because the State adequately demonstrates that the Fairbanks Area 
will maintain the CO NAAQS and meet all the requirements of a LMP 
through the second 10-year maintenance period. In this action, the EPA 
is also approving the following revised sections of the Fairbanks 
Transportation Control Program (Volume II, Section III.C): Air Quality 
Emissions Data (Section III.C.3), Carbon Monoxide Network Monitoring 
Program (Section III.C.4), Modeling and Projections (Section III.C.6), 
and Air Quality Conformity Procedures (Section III.C.10); and the 
following revised sections of the Appendices to Volume II of the 
Fairbanks Transportation Control Program (Volume III): Section III.C.1 
and Section III.C.10, all of which were included in the April 22, 2013 
SIP submittal.
    The EPA is taking no action on any section related to 18 AAC 
50.030, State Air Quality Control Plan, because the EPA takes action 
directly, as appropriate, on the specific provisions in the State Air 
Quality Control Plan that have been submitted by the State, so it is 
unnecessary for the EPA to approve 18 AAC 50.030. The federally-
approved SIP consists only of regulations and other requirements that 
have been submitted by the State and approved by the EPA.
    The EPA is publishing this action without prior proposal because 
the Agency views this as a noncontroversial amendment and anticipates 
no adverse comments. However, in the proposed rules section of this 
Federal Register publication, the EPA is publishing a separate document 
that will serve as the proposal to approve the SIP revision should 
adverse comments be filed. This rule will be effective October 8, 2013 
without further notice unless the Agency receives adverse comments by 
September 9, 2013. If the EPA receives such comments, then the EPA will 
publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule informing the 
public that the rule will not take effect. All public comments received 
will then be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on the proposed 
rule. The EPA will not institute a second comment period on this rule. 
Any parties interested in commenting on this rule should do so at this 
time. If no such comments are received, the public is advised that this 
rule will be effective on October 8, 2013 and no further action will be 
taken on the proposed rule.

VI. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP 
submission that complies with the provisions of the CAA 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 Order 
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993);
     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 Section 12(d) of the 
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 
note) because application of those requirements would be inconsistent 
with the CAA; and
     Does not provide the 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).
    In addition, this rule does not have tribal implications as 
specified by Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000), 
because the SIP is not approved to apply in Indian country located in 
the state, and the EPA notes that it will not impose substantial direct 
costs on tribal governments or preempt tribal law.
    The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the 
Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally 
provides that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating 
the rule must submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, 
to each House of the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the 
United States. The EPA will submit a report containing this action and 
other required information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of

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Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the United States prior 
to publication of the rule in the Federal Register. A major rule cannot 
take effect until 60 days after it is published in the Federal 
Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5 U.S.C. 
804(2).
    Under section 307(b)(1) of the CAA, petitions for judicial review 
of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for 
the appropriate circuit by October 8, 2013. Filing a petition for 
reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect 
the finality of this action for the purposes of judicial review nor 
does it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may 
be filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or 
action. Parties with objections to this direct final rule are 
encouraged to file a comment in response to the parallel notice of 
proposed rulemaking for this action published in the proposed rules 
section of today's Federal Register, rather than file an immediate 
petition for judicial review of this direct final rule, so that the EPA 
can withdraw this direct final rule and address the comment in the 
proposed rulemaking. This action may not be challenged later in 
proceedings to enforce its requirements. (See section 307(b)(2)).

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 
Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: July 23, 2013.
Michelle L. Pirzadeh,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
    For the reasons set out in the preamble, title 40, chapter I of the 
Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:

PART 52--APPROVAL AND PROMULGATION OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANS

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1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:

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

Subpart C--Alaska

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2. Section 52.73 is amended by adding paragraph (a)(2)(ii) to read as 
follows:

Sec.  52.73  Approval of plans.

    (a) * * *
    (2) * * *
    (ii) The EPA approves as a revision to the Alaska State 
Implementation Plan, the Fairbanks Carbon Monoxide Limited Maintenance 
Plan (Volume II, Section III.C.12 of the State Air Quality Control 
Plan, adopted February 22, 2013) submitted by the Alaska Department of 
Environmental Conservation on April 22, 2013. In this action, the EPA 
is also approving the following revised sections of the Fairbanks 
Transportation Control Program (Volume II, Section III.C): Air Quality 
Emissions Data (Section III.C.3), Carbon Monoxide Network Monitoring 
Program (Section III.C.4), Modeling and Projections (Section III.C.6), 
and Air Quality Conformity Procedures (Section III.C.10); and the 
following revised sections of the Appendices to Volume II of the 
Fairbanks Transportation Control Program (Volume III): Section III.C.1 
and Section III.C.10, all of which were included in the April 22, 2013 
SIP submittal.
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