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Text: 49 Tucson also cites California ex rel. California Air Resources Bd. v. E.P.A., 774 F.2d 1437 (9th Cir.1985). There the state of Nevada contended that California's SIP did not provide for attainment as expeditiously as possible because it did not include some measures that were included in an earlier implementation plan but that had since been deleted. 774 F.2d at 1442. The court held that the California SIP would reach attainment quickly enough and that California was not bound by deleted measures. Id. Tucson argues that because the 1982 Conditional Approvals made no plan provision applicable and the 1988 approval and 1991 Documents did not include the Mass Transit Provisions, the Mass Transit Provisions are no more effective than were the deleted provisions in the plan at issue in California Air Resources Bd. Tucson makes a similar argument based on CCO v. MTA, in which the Second Circuit also held that deleted provisions were unenforceable. 683 F.2d at 668-69. 50 Our ruling that the 1982 Conditional Approvals made the Mass Transit Provisions part of Arizona's SIP undercuts Tucson's reliance on these cases, however. The Mass Transit Provisions became part of the SIP in 1982 and have not been deleted from it. Moreover, the failure of the 1988 approval and the 1991 Documents specifically to incorporate the Mass Transit Provisions is irrelevant. Nothing in the 1988 approval or the 1991 Documents purported to replace previously existing provisions of the SIP as the EPA had recorded them in the C.F.R. Rather, each only amended or added to the plans set forth in the C.F.R. Accordingly, the 1982 Conditional Approvals remained valid at least until Delaney and either remained valid or were restored after Delaney. 51