Adequacy Status of the Kenosha County, Wisconsin Area for Submitted 8-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for Transportation Conformity Purposes

Robert A. Kaplan
Environmental Protection Agency
31 October 2017

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 31, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 50418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-23685]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-R05-OAR-2017-0212; FRL-9970-15-Region 5]


Adequacy Status of the Kenosha County, Wisconsin Area for 
Submitted 8-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration for Transportation 
Conformity Purposes

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of adequacy.

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SUMMARY: In this notice, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is 
notifying the public that we find that the motor vehicle emissions 
budgets (MVEBs) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and oxides of 
nitrogen (NOX) in the Kenosha County, Wisconsin ozone 
nonattainment area are adequate for use in transportation conformity 
determinations. Wisconsin submitted an Attainment Demonstration for 
Kenosha County on April 17, 2017. As a result of our finding, this area 
must use these MVEBs from the submitted Attainment Demonstration for 
future transportation conformity determinations.

DATES: This finding is effective November 15, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Leslie, Environmental 
Engineer, Control Strategies Section (AR-18J), Air Programs Branch, Air 
and Radiation Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 
353-6680, leslie.michael@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, whenever ``we'', 
``us'' or ``our'' is used, we mean EPA.

Background

    Today's notice is an announcement of a finding that we have already 
made. On September 6, 2017, EPA sent a letter to the Wisconsin 
Department of Natural Resources stating that the 2017 and 2018 MVEBs 
contained in the Attainment Demonstration for Kenosha County in 
Wisconsin are adequate for transportation conformity purposes. Receipt 
of these MVEBs was announced on EPA's transportation conformity Web 
site, and no comments were submitted. The finding is available at EPA's 
conformity Web site: https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/adequacy-review-state-implementation-plan-sip-submissions-conformity.
    The 2017 and 2018 MVEBs, in tons per day (tpd), for VOCs and 
NOX for the Kenosha County, Wisconsin area are as follows:

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             Kenosha County                  NOX (tpd)      VOCs (tpd)
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2017....................................            3.05            1.56
2018....................................            2.75            1.44
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    Transportation conformity is required by section 176(c) of the 
Clean Air Act. EPA's conformity rule requires that transportation 
plans, programs, and projects conform to state air quality 
implementation plans and establishes the criteria and procedures for 
determining whether or not they do conform. Conformity to a State 
Implementation Plan (SIP) means that transportation activities will not 
produce new air quality violations, worsen existing violations, or 
delay timely attainment of the national ambient air quality standards.
    The criteria by which we determine whether a SIP's MVEBs are 
adequate for transportation conformity purposes are outlined in 40 CFR 
93.118(e)(4). Please note that an adequacy review is separate from 
EPA's completeness review, and it also should not be used to prejudge 
EPA's ultimate approval of the SIP. Even if we find a budget adequate, 
the SIP could later be disapproved.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401-7671 q.

    Dated: October 17, 2017.
Robert A. Kaplan,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5.
[FR Doc. 2017-23685 Filed 10-30-17; 8:45 am]
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