[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 73 (Friday, April 16, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 18815-18816]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9473]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[DE036-1018a; FRL-6325-2]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
State of Delaware; Withdrawal of Final Rule for Transportation 
Conformity

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Withdrawal of notice of final rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: EPA is hereby withdrawing a direct final rule approving 
Delaware's transportation conformity regulation as a revision to its 
State Implementation Plan (SIP). EPA published the direct final rule on 
February 23, 1999 (64 FR 8723). However, on March 2, 1999, the United 
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its 
opinion in Environmental Defense Fund v. Environmental Protection 
Agency, No. 97-1637. In that opinion, the Court vacated portions of the 
federal transportation conformity rule which had been incorporated into 
Delaware's transportation conformity regulation and which had served as 
the basis for EPA's evaluation and approval of that regulation. A 
revised federal transportation conformity rule must be promulgated, and 
Delaware's regulation amended, to reflect that revised federal rule.

DATES: This withdrawal is made on April 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Budney (215) 814-2184, or by e-
mail at: [email protected].

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Hydrocarbons, 
Nitrogen oxides, Ozone.


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    Dated: April 2, 1999.
Thomas Voltaggio,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
[FR Doc. 99-9473 Filed 4-15-99; 8:45 am]
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