(B) COMPLETENESS FINDING.—Within 6
months after the Administrator’s receipt of a
plan or plan revision under this Act, the Ad-
ministrator shall determine whether the plan or
revision complies with this Act and approve or
reject the plan or plan revision. If the plan is
approved, the State shall begin implementation
immediately. If the plan is rejected, the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency will inform the
State why the plan was rejected. That State
then has 3 months to submit a new plan.
(C) EFFECT OF FINDING OF INCOMPLETE-
NESS.—Where the Administrator determines
that any part of a plan submission meets the
requirements of this Act and approves such
part and disapproves the plan in part, the State
shall immediately implement the approved part
or parts and submit a revised plan respecting
the remaining parts within 3 months after the
date of the Administrator’s disapproval.
(2) 
DEADLINE
FOR
ACTION.—Within 
months of a determination by the Administrator (or
a determination deemed by operation of law) under
paragraph (1) that a State has submitted a plan or
plan revision (or, in the Administrator’s discretion,
part thereof) that meets the minimum criteria estab-
lished pursuant to paragraph (1), if applicable (or,
if those criteria are not applicable, within 12 months
of submission of the plan or revision), the Adminis-
trator shall act on the submission in accordance with
paragraph (3).
(3) FULL AND PARTIAL APPROVAL AND DIS-
APPROVAL.—In the case of any submittal on which
the Administrator is required to act under para-
graph (2), the Administrator shall approve such sub-
mittal as a whole if it meets all of the applicable re-
quirements of this Act. If a portion of the plan revi-
sion meets all the applicable requirements of this
Act, the Administrator may approve the plan revi-
sion in part and disapprove the plan revision in part.
The plan revision shall not be treated as meeting the
requirements of this Act until the Administrator ap-
proves the entire plan revision as complying with the
applicable requirements of this Act.
(4) CONDITIONAL
APPROVAL.—The Adminis-
trator may approve a plan revision based on a com-
mitment of the State to adopt specific enforceable
measures by a date certain, but not later than 1
year after the date of approval of the plan revision.
Any such conditional approval shall be treated as a
disapproval if the State fails to comply with such
commitment.
(5) CALLS
FOR
PLAN
REVISIONS.—Whenever
the Administrator finds that the applicable imple-
mentation plan for any area is substantially inad-
equate to comply with any requirement of this Act,
the Administrator shall require the State to revise
the plan as necessary to correct such inadequacies.
The Administrator shall notify the State of the inad-
equacies, and may establish reasonable deadlines
(not to exceed 6 months after the date of such no-
tice) for the submission of such plan revisions. Such
findings and notice shall be public.
(6) CORRECTIONS.—Whenever the Adminis-
trator determines that the Administrator’s action
approving, disapproving, or promulgating any plan
or plan revision (or part thereof) was in error, the
Administrator may in the same manner as the ap-
proval, disapproval, or promulgation revise such ac-
tion as appropriate without requiring any further
submission from the State. Such determination and
the basis thereof shall be provided to the State and
public.
(d) PLAN REVISIONS.—Each revision to an imple-
mentation plan submitted by a State under this Act shall
be adopted by such State after reasonable notice and pub-
lic hearing. The Administrator shall not approve a revision
of a plan if the revision would not comply with any appli-
cable requirement of this Act.
(e) SANCTIONS.—The Administrator may apply any
of the sanctions listed in section 2 whenever the Adminis-
trator makes a finding, disapproval, or determination
under section 2(a) in relation to any plan.
(f) FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION PLANS.—The Ad-
ministrator shall promulgate a Federal implementation
plan at any time within 2 years after the Administrator—
(1) finds that a State has failed to make a re-
quired submission or finds that the plan or plan re-
vision submitted by the State does not satisfy the
minimum criteria established under this Act; or
(2) disapproves a State implementation plan
submission in whole or in part,
unless the State corrects the deficiency, and the Adminis-
trator approves the plan or plan revision, before the Ad-
ministrator promulgates such Federal implementation
plan.
SEC. 2. SANCTIONS.
(a) STATE FAILURE.—For any implementation plan
or plan revision required under this part or required in
response to a finding of substantial inadequacy as de-
scribed in section 1, if the Administrator—
(1) finds that a State has failed to submit a
plan, or to submit 1 or more of the elements (as de-
termined by the Administrator) required by the pro-
visions of this Act;
(2) disapproves in whole or in part a plan sub-
mission under section 1; and
(3) finds that any requirement of an approved
plan (or approved part of a plan) is not being imple-
mented,
unless such deficiency has been corrected within 18
months after the finding, disapproval, or determination re-
ferred to in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), the sanctions
referred to in subsection (b) shall apply until the Adminis-
trator determines that the State has come into compliance.
(b) SANCTIONS.—(1) The Administrator may impose
a prohibition, applicable to a State, on the approval by
the Secretary of Transportation of any projects or the
awarding by the Secretary of any grants, under title 23,
United States Code, other than projects or grants for safe-
ty where the Secretary determines, based on accident or
other appropriate data submitted by the State, that the
principal purpose of the project is an improvement in safe-
ty to resolve a demonstrated safety problem and likely will
result in a significant reduction in, or avoidance of, acci-
dents. Such prohibition shall become effective upon the se-
lection by the Administrator of this sanction.
(2) In addition to safety, projects or grants that may
be approved by the Secretary, notwithstanding the prohi-
bition in paragraph (1), are the following—
(A) capital programs for public transit;
(B) construction or restriction of certain roads
or lanes solely for the use of passenger buses or high
occupancy vehicles;
(C) highway ramp metering, traffic signaliza-
tion, and related programs that improve traffic flow;
(D) fringe and transportation corridor parking
facilities serving multiple occupancy vehicle pro-
grams or transit operations;
(E) programs to limit or restrict vehicle use in
downtown areas or other areas of emission con-
centration particularly during periods of peak use,
through road use charges, tolls, parking surcharges,
or other pricing mechanisms, vehicle restricted zones
or periods, or vehicle registration programs; and
(F) programs for breakdown and accident scene
management, nonrecurring congestion, and vehicle
information systems, to reduce congestion.