Document ID: EPA-R01-OAR-2016-0168-0026
Agency: epa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Connecticut; Plan Submittals for the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; Correction
Posted Date: 2022-11-18T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 222 (Friday, November 18, 2022)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 69177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24792]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R01-OAR-2016-0166; FRL-10414-01-R1]

Air Plan Approval; Connecticut; Plan Submittals for the 2008 
Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard; Correction

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is correcting a 
final rule that was published in the Federal Register on October 1, 
2018, which became effective on October 31, 2018. The final rule 
approved State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the 
State of Connecticut to address SIP revisions submitted to meet 
moderate area nonattainment requirements for the 2008 ozone standard. 
The SIP revisions are for the Greater Connecticut and the Connecticut 
portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT 
moderate ozone nonattainment areas, and include these areas 2011 base 
year emissions inventories, an emissions statement certification, 
reasonable further progress (RFP) demonstrations, reasonably available 
control measures (RACM) analyses, motor vehicle emissions budgets, and 
contingency measures. This correction does not change any final action 
taken by EPA on October 1, 2018; today's action merely corrects the 
Clean Air Act (CAA) citation for moderate area contingency measures. We 
have determined that there is good cause for making today's rule final 
without prior proposal and opportunity for comment because we are 
merely correcting an incorrect citation in a previous action. Thus, 
notice and public procedure are unnecessary.

DATES: This rule became effective on October 31, 2018.

ADDRESSES: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket 
Identification No. EPA-R01-OAR-2016-0166. All documents in the docket 
are listed on the https://www.regulations.gov website. Although listed 
in the index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., 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 form. 
Publicly available docket materials are available at https://www.regulations.gov or at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 
Region 1 Regional Office, Air and Radiation Division, 5 Post Office 
Square--Suite 100, Boston, MA. EPA requests that if at all possible, 
you contact the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section to schedule your inspection. The Regional Office's official 
hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 
excluding legal holidays and facility closures due to COVID-19.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob McConnell, Environmental Engineer, 
Air Quality Planning Unit, Air Programs Branch (Mail Code OEP05-02), 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, 5 Post Office Square, 
Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109-3912; (617) 918-1046; 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We find that this constitutes good cause 
under 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B).
    In FR doc. 2018-21150 appearing on page 49297 at 83 FR 49297 in the 
Federal Register of October 1, 2018, the following correction to the 
regulatory text is made:

Sec.  52.377  [Corrected]

    On page 49298, in the second column, in Sec.  52.377, in amendment 
2, correct paragraph (t) Approval, to read as follows:
    (t) Approval. Revisions to the State Implementation Plan submitted 
by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection on 
January 17, 2017, September 5, 2017, and August 8, 2017, to meet, in 
part, requirements of the 2008 ozone NAAQS. These revisions satisfy the 
rate of progress requirement of section 182(b) through 2017, the 
contingency measure requirements of section 172(c)(9), the emission 
statement requirements of section 182(a)(3)(B), and the reasonably 
available control measure requirement of section 172(c)(1) for the 
Connecticut portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, 
NY-NJ-CT area, and the Greater Connecticut moderate ozone nonattainment 
areas. The January 17, 2017 revision establishes motor vehicle 
emissions budgets for 2017 of 15.9 tons per day of VOC and 22.2 tons 
per day of NOX to be used in transportation conformity in 
the Greater Connecticut moderate ozone nonattainment area. The August 
8, 2017 revision establishes motor vehicle emissions budgets for 2017 
of 17.6 tons per day of VOC and 24.6 tons per day of NOX to 
be used in transportation conformity in the Connecticut portion of the 
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NYNJ-CT moderate ozone 
nonattainment area.

    Dated: November 4, 2022.
David Cash,
Regional Administrator, EPA Region 1.
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