[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 183 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 48896-48902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23472]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[IL98-2-6840; FRL-5299-3]


Approval and Promulgation of an Implementation Plan for Vehicle 
Miles Traveled; Illinois

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is 
approving a request from Illinois, for a State Implementation Plan 
(SIP) revision for the Chicago ozone nonattainment area, which 
demonstrates how mobile source emissions will continue to decline over 
the years and not increase. In addition, Illinois has implemented 127 
transportation control measures (TCMs) for a total reduction of more 
than two tons per day of volatile organic compounds. Two public comment 
letters were received which are addressed in this rulemaking. This 
rulemaking action approves, in final, the first two requirements of the 
vehicle miles traveled (VMT) Offset SIP revision request and the 
associated TCMs for Chicago, Illinois as requested by Illinois.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This final rule is effective on October 23, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the documents relevant to this action are 
available for inspection during normal business hours at the following 
location: Regulation Development Section, Regulation Development Branch 
(AR-18J), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West 
Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60604.
    Please contact Patricia Morris at (312) 353-8656 before visiting 
the Region 5 office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Morris, Regulation 
Development Section, Regulation Development Branch (AR-18J), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 
Chicago, Illinois 60604, (312) 353-8656.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    Section 182(d)(1)(A) of the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990 
(Act), requires States containing ozone nonattainment areas classified 
as ``severe'' pursuant to section 181(a) of the Act to adopt TCMs and 
transportation control strategies to offset any growth in emissions 
from growth in VMT or number of vehicle trips, and to attain reductions 
in motor vehicle emissions (in combination with other emission 
reduction requirements) as necessary to comply with the Act's RFP 
milestones and attainment requirements. The requirements for 
establishing a VMT Offset program are discussed in the April 16, 1992, 
General Preamble to Title I of the Act (57 FR 13498), in addition to 
section 182(d)(1)(A) of the Act.
    The VMT Offset provision requires that States submit by November 
15, 1992, specific enforceable TCMs and strategies to offset any growth 
in emissions from growth in VMT or number of vehicle trips sufficient 
to allow total area emissions to comply with the RFP and attainment 
requirements of the Act.
    As described in the November 2, 1994, proposed rule (see 59 FR 
54866, 54867), the USEPA has observed that these three elements (i.e., 
offsetting growth in mobile source emissions, attainment of the RFP 
reduction, and attainment of the ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
Standards (NAAQS)) can be divided into three separate submissions that 
could be submitted on different dates.
    Under this approach, the first element, the emissions offset 
element, was due on November 15, 1992. The USEPA believes this element 
is not necessarily dependent on the development of the other elements. 
The State could submit the emissions growth offset element independent 
of an analysis of that element's consistency with the periodic 
reduction and attainment requirements of the Act. Emissions trends from 
other sources need not be considered to show compliance with this 
offset requirement. As submitting this element in isolation does not 
implicate the timing problem of advancing deadlines for RFP and 
attainment demonstrations, USEPA does not believe it is necessary to 
extend the statutory deadline for submittal of the emissions growth 
offset element.
    The second element, which requires the VMT Offset SIP to comply 
with the 15 percent RFP requirement of the Act, was due on November 15, 
1993, which is the same date on which the 15 percent RFP SIP itself was 
due under section 182(b)(1) of the Act. The USEPA believes it is 
reasonable to extend the deadline for this element to the date on which 
the entire 15 percent SIP was due, as this allows States to develop the 
comprehensive strategy to address the 15 percent reduction requirement 
and assure that the TCM elements required under section 182(d)(1)(A) 
are consistent with the remainder of the 15 percent demonstration. 
Indeed, USEPA believes that only upon submittal of the broader 15 
percent plan can a State have had the necessary opportunity to 
coordinate its VMT strategy with its 15 percent plan.
    The third element, which requires the VMT Offset SIP to comply with 
the post-1996 RFP and attainment requirements of the Act, was due on 
November 15, 1994, the statutory deadline for those broader 
submissions. The USEPA believes it is reasonable to extend the deadline 
for this element to the date on which the post-1996 RFP and attainment 
SIPs are due for the same reasons it is reasonable to extend the 
deadline for the second element. First, it is arguably impossible for a 
State to make the showing required by Section 182(d)(1)(A) for the 
third element until the broader demonstrations have been developed by 
the State. Moreover, allowing States to develop the comprehensive 
strategy to address post-1996 RFP and attainment by providing a fuller 
opportunity to assure that the TCM elements comply with the broader RFP 
and attainment demonstrations, will result in a better program for 
reducing emissions in the long term.
    On July 14, 1994, Illinois submitted to USEPA documentation to 
fulfill the VMT-Offset SIP. A public hearing was held on June 22, 1994, 
and documentation on the public hearing was submitted to complete the 
SIP revision request. The SIP revision was found to be complete by the 
USEPA in a letter dated August 4, 1994. The USEPA proposed to approve 
the first and second element on December 4, 

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1994. The public comment period ended on January 5, 1995, and two 
public comment letters were received.

II. Evaluation of the State Submittal

    Section 182(d)(1)(A) of the Act requires the State to offset any 
growth in emissions from growth in VMT. As discussed in the General 
Preamble, the purpose is to prevent a growth in motor vehicle emissions 
from canceling out the emission reduction benefits of the federally 
mandated programs in the Act. The USEPA interprets this provision to 
require that sufficient measures be adopted so that projected motor 
vehicle volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions will never be higher 
during the ozone season in one year than during the ozone season in the 
year before. When growth in VMT and vehicle trips would otherwise cause 
a motor vehicle emissions upturn, this upturn must be prevented. The 
emissions level at the point of upturn becomes a ceiling on motor 
vehicle emissions. This requirement applies to projected emissions in 
the years between the submission of the SIP revision and the attainment 
deadline, and is above and beyond the separate requirements for the RFP 
and the attainment demonstrations. The ceiling level is defined, 
therefore, up to the point of upturn, as motor vehicle emissions that 
would occur in the ozone season of that year, with VMT growth, if all 
measures for that area in that year were implemented as required by the 
Act. When this curve begins to turn up due to growth in VMT or vehicle 
trips, the ceiling becomes a fixed value. The ceiling line would 
include the effects of Federal measures such as new motor vehicle 
standards, phase II RVP controls, and reformulated gasoline, as well as 
the Act-mandated SIP requirements.
    The State of Illinois has demonstrated in its submittal of July 14, 
1994, that the predicted growth in VMT in Chicago, Illinois, is not 
expected to result in a growth in motor vehicle emissions that will 
negate the effects of the reductions mandated by the Act. For this 
analysis, Illinois used an average summer weekday VMT growth rate of 
2.7 percent per year between 1990 and 1996. This growth rate is 
supported by the ground counts in the Illinois road file and confirmed 
by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Further, Illinois has 
projected motor vehicle emissions to the year 2007 using a 2.7 percent 
per year growth rate not withstanding that the most current 
socioeconomic data in combination with the transportation network model 
predicts a lower VMT growth rate. The 2.7 percent per year projection 
does not predict an upturn in motor vehicle emissions through the year 
2007. In the event that the projected socioeconomic data and associated 
VMT grow more rapidly than currently predicted, Illinois is required by 
Section 182(c)(5) to track actual VMT starting with 1996 and every 
three years thereafter to demonstrate that the actual VMT is equal to 
or less than the projected VMT. TCMs will be required to offset VMT 
that is above the projected levels (section 182(c)(5)).
    Illinois has evaluated the effectiveness and predicted impact of a 
number of TCMs. The TCM evaluation is documented in the December 9, 
1993, Chicago Area Transportation Study (CATS) document 
``Transportation Control Measures Contribution to the 15 percent Rate 
of Progress State Implementation Plan''. CATS is the metropolitan 
planning organization for the Chicago metropolitan area. The December 
9, 1993, document (which is part of the docket for this notice) lists 
the TCMs and the emission reduction calculation methodology. Illinois 
has implemented TCMs in the Chicago area and has included TCMs in the 
15 percent RFP SIP. Today's SIP revision approval incorporates these 
TCMs into the Illinois SIP and requires Illinois to construct and 
operate the specified TCMs that are identified and credited to meet the 
15 percent RFP and post 1996 RFP. These TCMs are listed in Table 1. On 
March 9, 1995 the Policy Committee of the Chicago Area Transportation 
Study, as metropolitan planning organization for northeastern Illinois, 
approved these TCMs for submittal to the Illinois Environmental 
Protection Agency as part of the control strategy SIP for the Chicago 
ozone nonattainment area. There are 127 TCMs that are being 
incorporated into the Illinois SIP, for an estimated reduction in 
volatile organic compounds of 2.78 tons per day (tpd). Illinois is 
using 2.0 tpd to meet the required 15 percent, and the additional 0.78 
tpd will be credited toward the post 1996 RFP. Most of the TCMs (111) 
have already been completed and the remaining TCMs are scheduled to be 
completed by the end of 1996. The vanpool incentive program has been 
implemented and the Pace Board (the project implementor) has committed 
to this project for future years.
    Illinois has taken credit for conventional TCMs such as signal 
interconnects, additional commuter parking, vanpool programs and 
transit improvements which include station improvements and new rapid 
transit service to Midway Airport. The specific projects are listed in 
Table 1. In addition, Illinois has implemented a number of TCMs that 
are expected to benefit air quality such as bicycle and pedestrian 
projects that will help eliminate trips. At this time, however, 
Illinois is not taking a reduction credit for these projects since a 
methodology for determining the emission reduction credit is not firmly 
established and additional studies of the effectiveness of these 
projects are being conducted. Illinois may take credit for these 
projects at a later date. Because Illinois is not taking credit at this 
time, these projects are not currently being approved as part of this 
SIP revision request.
    Illinois submitted a 15 percent RFP SIP for the Chicago area to the 
USEPA in November 1993, but the submittal was found incomplete in a 
letter dated January 21, 1994. The RFP SIP lacked enforceable 
regulations.
    On May 23, 1995, Illinois submitted materials to supplement the 15 
percent RFP plan. This submittal finalized Illinois' 15 percent SIP. 
The USEPA found Illinois' submitted 15 percent SIP complete on June 15, 
1995. The SIP submission contains a menu of adopted emissions 
reductions measures that the State believes will achieve the 15 percent 
reduction requirement by November 15, 1996. In the submission, Illinois 
uses TCMs for a reduction credit of 2 tpd.
    For the attainment demonstration and post-1996 RFP SIPs, which 
Illinois submitted on November 22, 1994 and May 23, 1995, USEPA is 
still in the process of evaluating these SIP submission.
    Illinois has met the first and second elements of the VMT offset 
SIP requirements of section 182(d)(1)(A). Regarding the first element, 
Illinois has identified and evaluated TCMs to reduce VMT, and has shown 
that VMT growth will not result in a growth of motor vehicle emissions 
that will negate the effects of the reductions required under the Act 
and that there will not be an upturn of motor vehicle emissions. 
Regarding the second element, Illinois has submitted a complete 15 
percent SIP that relies upon TCMs for 2 tpd to make its proffered 
showing that the 15 percent reduction will be achieved. These TCMs will 
be approved into the Illinois SIP effective with this final rule. 
Consequently, USEPA does not believe it is necessary to delay taking 
action on this second element of the VMT SIP, and that the Agency can 
at this point rely upon Illinois's submitted 15 percent SIP to satisfy 
the second VMT SIP element. However, if in evaluating the 15 percent 
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determined that Illinois will in fact need to implement additional 
measures to meet the 15 percent RFP requirement, and a subsequent 
submission of a revised 15 percent SIP is required, EPA would have to 
reevaluate its approval of the second element of the VMT SIP.
    The third requirement is for Illinois to use TCMs as necessary to 
attain the standard. This third requirement will be applicable if 
Illinois incorporates TCMs into its attainment plan through any future 
SIP revisions.

III. Public Comments

    On December 6, 1994, the USEPA proposed to approve the first and 
second elements of the Illinois VMT Offset SIP and requested public 
comment. The public comment period closed on January 5, 1995, and 2 
sets of comments were received. The Natural Resources Defense Council 
(NRDC) submitted comments and the Environmental Law and Policy Center 
submitted comments for themselves and the following groups: the 
American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago; Business and 
Professional People for the Public Interest; the Center for 
Neighborhood Technology; the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation; and the 
Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter. The following summarizes the comments 
and USEPA's response to these comments:
    Comment: Commenters argue that the Act requires TCMs to offset 
emissions resulting from all growth in VMT above 1990 levels, and USEPA 
is required by the Act to ensure emission reductions despite an 
increase in VMT. The legislative history states that ``[t]he baseline 
for determining whether there has been a growth in emissions due to 
increased VMT is the level of vehicle emissions that would occur if VMT 
held constant in the year.'' See H. Rep. No. 101-490 Part I, 101st 
Cong., 2nd session at 242, and S. Rep. No. 101-228, 101st Cong., 1st 
Sess. at 44.
    Response: As discussed in the General Preamble, USEPA believes that 
section 182(d)(1)(A) of the Act requires the State to ``offset any 
growth in emissions'' from growth in VMT but not, as suggested by the 
comment, all emissions resulting from VMT growth (see 57 FR 13498, 
13522-13523, April 16, 1992). The purpose is to prevent a growth in 
motor vehicle emissions from canceling out the emission reduction 
benefits of the federally mandated programs in the Act. The baseline 
for emissions is the 1990 level of vehicle emissions and the subsequent 
reductions in emission levels required to reach attainment. Thus, the 
anticipated benefits from the mandated measures such as the Federal 
motor vehicle pollution control program, lower reid vapor pressure, 
enhanced inspection and maintenance and all other motor vehicle 
emission control programs are included in the ceiling line calculation 
used by Illinois in the VMT Offset SIP. Table 2 in the Illinois 
submittal shows how emissions will decline substantially from 491.2 
tons per day (tpd) in 1990 to 151.4 tpd in 2007 (assuming a 2.7 percent 
per year VMT growth rate) and will not begin to turn up. Emission 
reductions are expected every year through the year 2007.
    The ceiling line approach does not ``tolerate increases in traffic 
of a magnitude that would wipe out the air quality gains'' as suggested 
by the comment. In fact, the ceiling line level decreases from year to 
year as the State implements various control measures and the 
decreasing ceiling line prevents an upturn in mobile source emissions. 
Dramatic increases in VMT that could wipe out the benefits of motor 
vehicle emission reduction measures will not be allowed and will 
trigger the implementation of TCMs. This prevents mere preservation of 
the status quo, and ensures emissions reductions despite an increase in 
VMT such that the rate of emissions decline is not slowed by increases 
in VMT or number of trips. To prevent future growth changes from 
adversely impacting emissions from motor vehicles, Illinois is required 
by section 182(c)(5) to track actual VMT starting with 1996 and every 
three years thereafter to demonstrate that the actual VMT is equal to 
or less than the projected VMT. TCMs will be required to offset VMT 
that is above the projected levels (section 182(c)(5)).
    Under the commenter's approach to section 182(d)(1)(A), Illinois 
would have to offset VMT growth even while vehicle emissions are 
declining. Although the statutory language could be read to require 
offsetting any VMT growth, USEPA believes that the language can also be 
read so that only actual emissions increases resulting from VMT growth 
need to be offset. The statute by its own terms requires offsetting of 
``any growth in emissions from growth in VMT.'' It is reasonable to 
interpret this language as requiring that VMT growth must be offset 
only where such growth results in emissions increases from the motor 
vehicle fleet in the area.
    While it is true that the language of the legislative history 
appears to support the commenter's interpretation of the statutory 
language, such an interpretation would have drastic implications for 
Illinois if the State were forced to ignore the beneficial impacts of 
all vehicle tailpipe and alternative fuel controls. Although the 
original authors of the provision and the legislative history may in 
fact have intended this result, USEPA does not believe that the 
Congress as a whole, or even the full House of Representatives, 
believed at the time it voted to pass the 1990 Amendments to the Act 
that the words of this provision would impose such severe restrictions.
    Given the susceptibility of the statutory language to these two 
alternative interpretations, USEPA believes it is the Agency's role in 
administering the statute to take the interpretation most reasonable in 
light of the practical implications of such interpretation and the 
purposes and intent of the statutory scheme as a whole. In the context 
of the intricate planning requirements Congress established in title I 
to bring areas towards attainment of the ozone NAAQS, and in light of 
the absence of any discussion of this aspect of the VMT offset 
provision by the Congress as a whole (either in floor debate or in the 
Conference Report), USEPA concludes that the appropriate interpretation 
of section 182(d)(1)(A) requires offsetting VMT growth only when such 
growth would result in actual emissions increases.
    Comment: Section 182(d)(1)(A) of the Act requires that emissions of 
oxides of nitrogen (NOX) as well as VOCs resulting from VMT growth 
must be offset.
    Response: USEPA disagrees with the commenter's interpretation that 
section 182(d)(1)(A) requires NOX emissions from VMT growth to be 
offset. While that section provides that ``any growth in emissions'' 
from growth in VMT must be offset, USEPA believes that Congress clearly 
intended that the offset requirement be limited to VOC emissions. 
First, section 182(d)(1)(A)'s requirement that a State's VMT TCMs 
comply with the ``periodic emissions reduction requirements'' of 
sections 182(b) and (c) the Act indicates that the VMT offset SIP 
requirement is VOC-specific. Section 182(c)(2)(B), which requires 
reasonable further progress demonstrations for serious ozone 
nonattainment areas, provides that such demonstrations will result in 
VOC emissions reductions; thus, the only ``periodic emissions reduction 
requirement'' of section 182(c)(2)(B) is VOC-specific. In fact, it is 
only in section 182(c)(2)(C)--a provision not referenced in section 
182(d)(1)(A)--that Congress provided States the authority to submit 
demonstrations providing for reductions of emissions of VOCs and 

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NOX in lieu of the SIP otherwise required by section 182(c)(2)(B).
    Moreover, the 15 percent periodic reduction requirement of section 
182(b)(1)(A)(i) applies only to VOC emissions, while only the separate 
``annual'' reduction requirement applies to both VOC and NOX 
emissions. USEPA believes that Congress did not intend the terms 
``periodic emissions reductions'' and ``annual emissions reductions'' 
to be synonymous, and that the former does not include the latter. In 
section 176(c)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act, Congress required that conformity 
SIPs ``contribute to annual emissions reductions'' consistent with 
section 182(b)(1) (and thus achieve NOX emissions reductions), but 
does not refer to the 15 percent periodic reduction requirement. 
Conversely, section 182(d)(1)(A) refers to the periodic emissions 
reduction requirements of the Act, but does not refer to annual 
emissions reduction requirements that require NOX reductions. 
Consequently, USEPA interprets the requirement that VMT SIPs comply 
with periodic emissions reduction requirements of the Act to mean that 
only VOC emissions are subject to section 182(d)(1)(A) in severe ozone 
nonattainment areas.
    Finally, USEPA notes that where Congress intended section 182 ozone 
SIP requirements to apply to NOX as well as VOC emissions, it 
specifically extended applicability to NOX. Thus, references to 
ozone or emissions in general in section 182 do not on their own 
implicate NOX. For example, in section 182(a)(2)(C), the Act 
requires States to require preconstruction permits for new or modified 
stationary sources ``with respect to ozone''; Congress clearly did not 
believe this reference to ozone alone was sufficient to subject 
NOX emissions to the permitting requirement, since it was 
necessary to enact section 182(f)(1) of the Act, which specifically 
extends the permitting requirement to major stationary sources of 
NOX. Since section 182(d)(1)(A) does not specifically identify 
NOX emissions requirements in addition to the VOC emissions 
requirements identified in the provision, USEPA does not believe States 
are required to offset NOX emissions from VMT growth in their 
section 182(d)(1)(A) SIPs.

IV. Final Rulemaking Action

    Based on the State's submittal request and in consideration of the 
public comments received in response to the proposed rule, USEPA is 
approving the SIP revision submitted by the State of Illinois as 
satisfying the first two of the three VMT offset plan requirements. The 
USEPA is also approving into the Illinois SIP 127 TCMs creditable to 
the 15 percent and post 1996 RFP.
    This action has been classified as a Table 3 action by the Regional 
Administrator under the procedures published in the Federal Register on 
January 19, 1989 (54 FR 2214-2225), as revised by a July 10, 1995 
memorandum from Mary Nichols, Assistant Administrator for Air and 
Radiation. The Office of Management and Budget has exempted this 
regulatory action from Executive Order 12866 review.
    Nothing in this action should be construed as permitting or 
allowing or establishing a precedent for any future request for 
revision to any SIP. Each request for revision to any SIP shall be 
considered separately in light of specific technical, economic, and 
environmental factors and in relation to relevant statutory and 
regulatory requirements.
    Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 600 et seq., USEPA 
must prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis assessing the impact of 
any proposed or final rule on small entities. 5 U.S.C. 603 and 604. 
Alternatively, USEPA may certify that the rule will not have a 
significant impact on a substantial number of small entities. Small 
entities include small businesses, small not-for-profit enterprises, 
and government entities with jurisdiction over populations of less than 
50,000.
    SIP approvals under section 110 and subchapter I, part D of the Act 
do not create any new requirements, but simply approve requirements 
that the State is already imposing. Therefore, because the Federal SIP-
approval does not impose any new requirements, I certify that it does 
not have a significant impact on small entities affected. Moreover, due 
to the nature of the Federal-state relationship under the Act, 
preparation of a regulatory flexibility analysis would constitute 
Federal inquiry into the economic reasonableness of state action. The 
Act forbids USEPA to base its actions concerning SIPs on such grounds. 
See Union Electric Co. v. U.S. E.P.A., 427 U.S. 246, 256-66 (S. Ct. 
1976); 42 U.S.C. 7410(a)(2).
    Under Section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
(``Unfunded Mandates Act''), signed into law on March 22, 1995, the 
USEPA must prepare a budgetary impact statement to accompany any 
proposed or final rule that includes a Federal mandate that may result 
in estimated costs to State, local, or tribal governments in the 
aggregate; or to the private sector, of $100 million or more. Under 
Section 205, the USEPA must select the most cost-effective and least 
burdensome alternative that achieves the objectives of the rule and is 
consistent with statutory requirements. Section 203 requires the USEPA 
to establish a plan for informing and advising any small governments 
that may be significantly or uniquely impacted by the rule.
    The USEPA has determined that the approval action promulgated today 
does not include a Federal mandate that may result in estimated costs 
of $100 million or more to either State, local, or tribal governments 
in the aggregate, or to the private sector.
    This Federal action approves pre-existing requirements under State 
or local law, and imposes no new Federal requirements. Accordingly, no 
additional costs to State, local, or tribal governments, or the private 
sector, result from this action.
    Under Section 307(b)(1) of the Act, petitions for judicial review 
of this action must be filed in the United States Court of Appeals for 
the appropriate circuit by November 20, 1995. Filing a petition for 
reconsideration by the Administrator of this final rule does not affect 
the finality of this rule for the purposes of judicial review nor does 
it extend the time within which a petition for judicial review may be 
filed, and shall not postpone the effectiveness of such rule or action. 
This action may not be challenged later in proceedings to enforce its 
requirements. (see Section 307(b)(2)).

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Ozone, 
Transportation control measures, Vehicle miles traveled offset.

    Dated: August 31, 1995.
Valdas V. Adamkus,
Regional Administrator.

    Part 52, chapter I, title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations is 
amended as follows:

PART 52--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for part 52 continues to read as follows:

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

Subpart O--Illinois

    2. Section 52.726 is amended by adding paragraph (j) to read as 
follows:


Sec. 52.726  Control Strategy: Ozone

* * * * *
    (j) Approval--On July 14, 1994, Illinois submitted two of three 
elements required by section 182(d)(1)(A) of the Clean Air Amendments 
of 1990 to be incorporated as part of the vehicle miles 

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traveled (VMT) State Implementation Plan intended to offset any growth 
in emissions from a growth in vehicle miles traveled. These elements 
are the offsetting of growth in emissions attributable to growth in VMT 
which was due November 15, 1992, and, transportation control measures 
(TCMs) required as part of Illinois' 15 percent reasonable further 
progress (RFP) plan which was due November 15, 1993. Illinois satisfied 
the first requirement by projecting emissions from mobile sources and 
demonstrating that no increase in emissions would take place. Illinois 
satisfied the second requirement by submitting the TCMs listed in Table 
1 which are now approved into the Illinois SIP.

                                                     Table 1                                                    
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                                                                                                          SIP   
             Project type                           Location description                 Completion      credit 
                                                                                           status       VOC tpd 
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RS/SIG MOD...........................  Madison Street (Western Ave. to Halsted         Done..........   0.015400
                                        Street).                                                                
SIG COORD............................  Willow Road (Landwer Road to Shermer).........  Awarded.......   0.052000
SIG COORD............................  Rand Road (Baldwin Road to Kennicott).........  Awarded.......   0.052000
SIG COORD............................  Northwest Hwy (Potter Road to Cumberland        Awarded.......   0.030000
                                        Avenue).                                                                
SIGS/SIG COORD.......................  159th Street (US 45 to 76th Ave & at 91st       Awarded.......   0.030000
                                        Avenue).                                                                
SIG COORD............................  Harlem Ave. (71st St. to 92nd)................  Awarded.......   0.052000
SIG COORD............................  Harlem Ave. (99th Street to 135th St.)........  Awarded.......   0.052000
RECONST/SIGS/LTS.....................  Archer Ave. (88th Ave to 65th St.)............  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Ogden Ave. (N. Aurora Road to Naper Boulevard)  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  North Ave. (Tyler to Kautz)...................  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Higgens Road (Il 72 at Il 31).................  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Sheridan Road (Il 173 to Wadsworth)...........  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Lagrange Road (Belmont to Lake St.)...........  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Dundee Road (Sanders Road to Skokie Valley      Awarded.......   0.052000
                                        Road).                                                                  
SIG COORD............................  Dundee Road (Buffalo Grove Road to Il 21).....  Awarded.......   0.030000
INT IMP/SIG COORD....................  Golf Road (E. River Road to Washington Ave.)..  Awarded.......   0.052000
SIG COORD............................  Golf Road (Barrington to Roselle Road)........  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Higgins Road (Barrington to Roselle Road).....  Awarded.......   0.030000
SIG COORD............................  Joe Orr Road (Vincennes Ave. to Il 1).........  Awarded.......   0.030000
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                                                     Table 1                                                    
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          Project type                       Location description                Completion status    SIP credit
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SIG COORD/RS....................  Crawford Ave. (93rd Street to 127th         Awarded                   0.052000
                                   Street).                                                                     
SIG COORD.......................  IL 53 (Briarcliff to South of I-55).......  Done                      0.030000
SIG COORD.......................  Ogden Ave. (Oakwood Avenue to Fairview      Awarded                   0.019000
                                   Avenue).                                                                     
SIG COORD.......................  US 14 (Rohlwing Road to Wilke Road).......  Awarded                   0.030000
SIG COORD.......................  US 30 (At Cottage Grove, Ellis St)........  Awarded                   0.030000
SIG COORD.......................  IL 53 (Modonough to Mills)................  Done                      0.030000
SIG CONN........................  Ogden Ave. (IL 43 to 31st Street).........  Awarded                   0.013000
SIG CONN........................  US 12 (Long Grove--Hicks Road)............  Awarded                   0.055200
SIG CONN........................  North Ave. (Oak Park to Ridgeland)........  Awarded                   0.007000
SIG CONN........................  Roosevelt Road (Westchester Bl--IL 43)....  Awarded                   0.137000
SIG CONN........................  Depster St (Keeler to Crawford Ave.)......  Awarded                   0.010000
SIG CONN........................  Arlington Hgts Rd. (Thomas to Central)....  Awarded                   0.044000
SIG CONN........................  Palatine Rd. (Shoenbeck to Wolf Roads)....  Awarded                   0.042500
SIG CONN........................  Western Ave. (US 30--Lakewood)............  Awarded                   0.018900
RS/INT IMP......................  North Ave. (I-290 to IL 43)...............  Awarded                   0.056100
INT IMP.........................  Plum Grove Rd. (At Higgins Road)..........  Awarded                   0.010700
INT IMP.........................  St Street (At Illinois)...................  Awarded                   0.002700
RS/SIG MOD/INT IMP..............  Illinois/Grand (Kingsbury to Lake Shore     Done                      0.004200
                                   Drive).                                                                      
ADD TURN LANES..................  York Rd. (Industrial to Grand Ave.).......  Done                      0.003800
SERVICE IMP.....................  SW Route Lane Service.....................  Scheduled                 0.005516
SIG INTCONN.....................  Washington Street.........................  Scheduled                 0.030370
SIG INTCONN.....................  IL 59.....................................  Scheduled                 0.068650
ENGR............................  Citywide--Naperville......................  ......................    0.086230
SIG INTCONN.....................  Washington Street.........................  Scheduled                 0.008230
SIG INTCONN.....................  Lewis Ave. (Yorkhousse to ILL 173)........  Scheduled                 0.034600
SIG INTCONN.....................  Schaumberg Rd. (Barrington to Martingale).  Scheduled                 0.078080
Vanpool Program (94 vehicles)...  Region-Wide Suburban......................  Done                      0.134000
Transp. Center..................  North West Cook County....................  Done                      0.032835
Transp. Center..................  Sears T.F.................................  Done                      0.005805
Station.........................  Clark/Lake................................  Done                      0.010000
Station Recon...................  18 Th Douglas Line........................  Done                      0.001500
Station Recon...................  Linden....................................  Done                      0.001500
Station Recon...................  Cottage Grove.............................  Done                      0.001300
Com. Pkg........................  Lisle.....................................  Done                      0.010177
Com. Pkg........................  Jefferson Park............................  Done                      0.000110
Com. Pkg........................  Edison Park...............................  Done                      0.003614
Com. Pkg........................  Palatine..................................  Done                      0.004336

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Com. Pkg........................  Central Street............................  Done                      0.000519
Com. Pkg........................  Palatine..................................  Done                      0.004890
Com. Pkg........................  Crystal Lake..............................  Done                      0.034948
Com. Pkg........................  137Th/Riverdale...........................  Done                      0.004565
Com. Pkg........................  River Forest..............................  Done                      0.000289
Com. Pkg........................  115Th/Kensington..........................  Done                      0.002795
Com. Pkg........................  119Th St..................................  Done                      0.004483
Com. Pkg........................  Wilmette..................................  Done                      0.001587
Com. Pkg........................  111Th St..................................  Done                      0.000507
Com. Pkg........................  Edison Park...............................  Done                      0.002371
Com. Pkg........................  Joliet....................................  Done                      0.003967
Com. Pkg........................  Hanover Park..............................  Done                      0.021799
Com. Pkg........................  Bartlett..................................  Done                      0.008911
Com. Pkg........................  Chicago Ridge.............................  Done                      0.002159
Com. Pkg........................  103 Rd St.................................  Done                      0.000675
Com. Pkg........................  Elmhurst..................................  Done                      0.003857
Com. Pkg........................  Bartlett..................................  Done                      0.009326
Com. Pkg........................  Morton Grove..............................  Done                      0.001444
Com. Pkg........................  Palatine..................................  Done                      0.003598
Com. Pkg........................  Harvard...................................  Done                      0.006299
Com. Pkg........................  Willow Springs............................  Done                      0.001200
Com. Pkg........................  Edgebrook.................................  Done                      0.002240
Com. Pkg........................  Bensenville...............................  Done                      0.002010
Com. Pkg........................  Hanover Park..............................  Done                      0.015020
Com. Pkg........................  Midlothian................................  Done                      0.002570
Com. Pkg........................  Route 59..................................  Done                      0.025020
Com. Pkg........................  Lake Forest (West)........................  Done                      0.013780
Com. Pkg........................  Lombard...................................  Done                    ..........
Com. Pkg........................  Elmhurst..................................  Done                      0.001010
Com. Pkg........................  Woodstock.................................  Done                      0.019000
Com. Pkg........................  University Park...........................  Done                      0.019950
Com. Pkg........................  Grayslake.................................  Done                      0.006210
Com. Pkg........................  Oak Forest................................  Done                      0.004260
Com. Pkg........................  91 St St..................................  Done                      0.003380
Com. Pkg........................  Lockport..................................  Done                      0.007360
Com. Pkg........................  Ravenswood................................  Done                      0.000130
Com. Pkg........................  Hickory Creek.............................  Done                      0.060140
Com. Pkg........................  Cary......................................  Done                      0.005980
Com. Pkg........................  Blue Island...............................  Done                      0.019430
Com. Pkg........................  Lemont....................................  Done                      0.016200
Com. Pkg........................  Itasca....................................  Done                      0.003860
Com. Pkg........................  Maywood...................................  Done                      0.000600
Com. Pkg........................  Ivanhoe...................................  Done                      0.001960
Com. Pkg........................  Ravinia...................................  Done                      0.003210
Com. Pkg........................  Fox River Grove...........................  Done                      0.025170
Com. Pkg........................  Medinah...................................  Done                      0.012250
Com. Pkg........................  Hanover Park..............................  Done                      0.011840
Com. Pkg........................  Worth.....................................  Done                      0.003530
Com. Pkg........................  Roselle...................................  Done                      0.007710
Com. Pkg........................  Crystal Lake..............................  Done                      0.015050
Com. Pkg........................  Gresham...................................  Done                      0.000300
Com. Pkg........................  Barrington................................  Done                      0.002420
Rideshare Prog..................  Regionwide................................  Scheduled                 0.040000
Rapid Transit Service...........  Midway Airport............................  Done                      0.220000
Transp. Center..................  Deerfield Lake-Cook.......................  Done                      0.004160
Station Recon...................  Davis St..................................  Done                      0.004000
Station Recon...................  Addison...................................  Done                      0.004000
Station Recon...................  King Drive................................  Done                      0.003000
Station Recon...................  Washington/Wells..........................  Done                      0.003000
Com. Pkg........................  Cary......................................  Done                      0.027910
Com. Pkg........................  Morton Grove..............................  Done                      0.002460
Com. Pkg........................  80th Ave..................................  Scheduled                 0.043200
Com. Pkg........................  Round Lake................................  Done                      0.015150
Com. Pkg........................  Grayslake.................................  Done                      0.009170
Com. Pkg........................  Ingleside.................................  Scheduled                 0.005430
Com. Pkg........................  Schamburg.................................  Scheduled                 0.042090
Com. Pkg........................  Oak Forest................................  Scheduled                 0.004680
Com. Pkg........................  Lake Cook.................................  Scheduled                 0.026390
Com. Pkg........................  Grayslake.................................  Scheduled                 0.035290
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[FR Doc. 95-23472 Filed 9-20-95; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P