Source: https://www.arb.ca.gov/drdb/gbu/suphtml/r1303.htm
Timestamp: 2018-09-25 15:45:12
Document Index: 297746148

Matched Legal Cases: ['§173', '§1303', '§1303', '§1303', '§1301', '§1305', '§1301', '§1305']

DRDB: GBUAPCD 1303 APPLICABILITY GBUAPCD RULE 1303 APPLICABILITY
(a) Conformity determinations for Federal actions related to transportation plans, programs, and projects developed, funded, or approved under title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act (49 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) must meet the procedures and criteria of District Regulation XII - Conformity to State Implementation Plans of Transportation Plans, Programs and Projects Developed, Funded or Approved Under Title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Act, in lieu of the procedures set forth in this rule.
(b) For Federal actions not covered by paragraph (a) of this section, a conformity determination is required for each pollutant where the total of direct and indirect emissions in a nonattainment or maintenance area caused by a Federal action would equal or exceed any of the rates in paragraphs (b)(l) or (2) of this section.
(1)	For purposes of paragraph (b) of this section, the following rates apply in nonattainment areas (NAAs):
Serious NAAs	50
Severe NAAs	25
Extreme NAAs	10
Other ozone NAAs outside an
Ozone transport region	100
Marginal and moderate NAAs
inside an ozone transport region
VOC	50
NOx	100
All NAAs	100
Moderate NAAs	100
Serious NAAs	70
All NAAs	25
(2)	For purposes of paragraph (b) of this section, the following rates apply in maintenance areas:
All maintenance areas	100
Maintenance areas inside
an ozone transport region	50
Maintenance areas outside
an ozone transport region	100
All maintenance areas	25
(1)	Actions where the total of direct and indirect emissions are below the emissions levels specified in paragraph (b) of this section.
(2)	The following actions which would result in no emissions increase or an increase in emissions that is clearly de minimis:
(3)	The following actions where the emissions are not reasonably foreseeable, such as the following:
(4)	Individual actions which implement a decision to conduct or carry out a program that has been found to conform to the applicable implementation plan, such as prescribed burning actions which are consistent with a land management plan that has been found to conform to the applicable implementation plan. Such land management plan shall have been found to conform within the past five years.
(1)	The portion of an action that includes major new or modified stationary sources that require a permit under the new source review (NSR) program (§173 of the CAA) or the prevention of significant deterioration (PSD) program (title I, part C of the CAA).
(2)	Actions in response to emergencies or natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., which are commenced on the order of hours or days after the emergency or disaster and, if applicable, which meet the requirements of paragraph (e) of this section.
(3)	Research, investigations, studies, demonstrations, or training [other than those exempted under §1303(c)(2)], where no environmental detriment is incurred or the particular action furthers air quality research, as determined by the State agency primarily responsible for the applicable implementation plan.
(4)	Alteration and additions of existing structures as specifically required by new or existing applicable environmental legislation or environmental regulations (e.g., hush houses for aircraft engines and scrubbers for air emissions).
(5)	Direct emissions from remedial and removal actions carried out under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and associated regulations to the extent such emissions either comply with the substantive requirements of the PSD/NSR permitting program or are exempted from other environmental regulation under the provisions of CERCLA and applicable regulations issued under CERCLA.
(e) Federal actions which are part of a continuing response to an emergency or disaster under §1303(d)(2) and which are to be taken more than 6 months after the commencement of the response to the emergency or disaster under §1303(d)(2) are exempt from the requirements of this subpart only if:
(1)	The Federal agency taking the actions makes a written determination that, for a specified period not to exceed an additional 6 months, it is impractical to prepare the conformity analyses which would otherwise be required and the actions cannot be delayed due to overriding concerns for public health and welfare, national security interests and foreign policy commitments; or
(2)	For actions which are to be taken after those actions covered by paragraph (e)(l) of this section, the Federal agency makes a new determination as provided in paragraph (e)(l) of this section.
(f) Notwithstanding other requirements of this rule, individual actions or classes of actions specified by individual Federal agencies that have met the criteria set forth in either paragraph (g)(1) or (g)(2) and the procedures set forth in paragraph (h) of this section are presumed to conform, except as provided in paragraph (j) of this section.
(1)	The Federal agency must clearly demonstrate using methods consistent with this rule that the total of direct and indirect emissions from the type of activities which would be presumed to conform would not:
(2)	The Federal agency must provide documentation that the total of direct and indirect emissions from such future actions would be below the emission rates for a conformity determination that are established in paragraph (b) of this section, based, for example, on similar actions taken over recent years.
(1)	The Federal agency must identify through publication in the Federal Register its list of proposed activities that are presumed to conform and the analysis, assumptions, emissions factors, and criteria used as the basis for the presumptions;
(2)	The Federal agency must notify the appropriate EPA Regional Office(s), State and local air quality agencies and, where applicable, the agency designated under section 174 of the Act and the MPO and provide at least 30 days for the public to comment on the list of proposed activities presumed to conform;
(3)	The Federal agency must document its response to all the comments received and make the comments, response, and final list of activities available to the public upon request; and
(4)	The Federal agency must publish the final list of such activities in the Federal Register.
(i) Notwithstanding the other requirements of this rule, when the total of direct and indirect emissions of any pollutant from a Federal action does not equal or exceed the rates specified in paragraph (b) of this section, but represents 10 percent or more of a nonattainment or maintenance area's total emissions of that pollutant, as established by the applicable implementation plan, the action is defined as a regionally significant action and the requirements of §1301 and §§1305 through 1310 shall apply for the Federal action.
(j) Where an action presumed to be de minimis under paragraphs (c)(1) or (c)(2) of this section or otherwise presumed to conform under paragraph (f) of this section is a regionally significant action or where an action otherwise presumed to conform under paragraph (f) of this section does not in fact meet one of the criteria in paragraph (g)(l) of this section, that action shall not be considered de minimis or presumed to conform and the requirements of §1301 and §§1305 through 1310 shall apply for the Federal action.
(l) Any measures used to affect or determine applicability of this rule, as determined under this section, must result in projects that are in fact de minimis, must result in such de minimis levels prior to the time the applicability determination is made, and must be State or Federally enforceable. Any measures that are intended to reduce air quality impacts for this purpose must be identified (including the identification and quantification of all emission reductions claimed) and the process for implementation (including any necessary funding of such measures and tracking of such emission reductions) and enforcement of such measures must be described, including an implementation schedule containing explicit timelines for implementation. Prior to a determination of applicability, the Federal agency making the determination must obtain written commitments from the appropriate persons or agencies to implement any measures which are identified as conditions for making such determinations. Such written commitment shall describe such mitigation measures and the nature of the commitment, in a manner consistent with the previous sentence. After this implementation plan revision is approved by EPA, enforceability through the applicable implementation plan of any measures necessary for a determination of applicability will apply to all persons who agree to reduce direct and indirect emissions associated with a Federal action for a conformity applicability determination.