[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 10, 2004)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 6223-6224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-2708]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[WV063-6032b; FRL-7613-1]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
West Virginia; MOBILE6-Based Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for 
Greenbrier County and the Charleston, Huntington, and Parkersburg 1-
Hour Ozone Maintenance Areas

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve revisions to the West Virginia State 
Implementation Plan (SIP). The revisions amend the 1-hour ozone 
maintenance plans for Greenbrier County and the Charleston, Huntington 
and Parkersburg areas. These revisions amend the maintenance plan's 
base year and 2005 highway mobile volatile organic compound (VOC) and 
nitrogen oxide (NOX) emission inventories and the 2005 motor 
vehicle emissions budgets (MVEBs) to reflect the use of MOBILE6. These 
revisions also reallocate a portion of each plans' safety margins which 
results in an increase in the MVEBs. The revised plans continue to 
demonstrate maintenance of the 1-hour national ambient air quality 
standard (NAAQS) for ozone. In the final rules section of this Federal 
Register, EPA is approving West Virginia's SIP submittal as a direct 
final rule without prior proposal because the Agency views this as a 
noncontroversial submittal and anticipates no adverse comments. A 
detailed rationale for the approval is set forth in the direct final 
rule. If no adverse comments are received in response to this action, 
no further activity is contemplated. If EPA receives adverse comments, 
the direct final rule will be withdrawn and public comments received 
will be addressed in a subsequent final rule based on this proposed 
rule. EPA will not institute a second comment period. Any parties 
interested in commenting on this action should do so at this time.

DATES: Comments must be received in writing by March 11, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted either by mail or electronically. 
Written comments should be mailed to Larry Budney, Energy, Radiation 
and Indoor Environment Branch, Mailcode 3AP23, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania 19103. Electronic comments should be sent either to 
[email protected] or to http://www.regulations.gov, which is an 
alternative method for submitting electronic comments to EPA. To submit 
comments, please follow the detailed instructions described in the 
Supplementary Information section. Copies of the documents relevant to 
this action are available for public inspection during normal business 
hours at the Air Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103; 
and at the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, 
Division of Air Quality, 7012 MacCorkle Avenue, SE., Charleston, WV 
25304-2943.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For further information, please see the 
information provided in the direct final action, with the same title, 
that is located in the ``Rules and Regulations'' section of this 
Federal Register publication.
    You may submit comments either electronically or by mail. To ensure 
proper receipt by EPA, identify the appropriate rulemaking 
identification number, WV063-6032, in the subject line on the first 
page of your comment. Please ensure that your comments are submitted 
within the specified comment period. Comments received after the

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close of the comment period will be marked ``late.'' EPA is not 
required to consider these late comments.
    1. Electronically. If you submit an electronic comment as 
prescribed below, EPA recommends that you include your name, mailing 
address, and an e-mail address or other contact information in the body 
of your comment. Also include this contact information on the outside 
of any disk or CD ROM you submit, and in any cover letter accompanying 
the disk or CD ROM. This ensures that you can be identified as the 
submitter of the comment and allows EPA to contact you in case EPA 
cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties or needs further 
information on the substance of your comment. EPA's policy is that EPA 
will not edit your comment, and any identifying or contact information 
provided in the body of a comment will be included as part of the 
comment that is placed in the official public docket. If EPA cannot 
read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you 
for clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
    i. E-mail. Comments may be sent by electronic mail (e-mail) to 
[email protected], attention WV063-6032. EPA's e-mail system is not 
an ``anonymous access'' system. If you send an e-mail comment directly 
without going through Regulations.gov, EPA's e-mail system 
automatically captures your e-mail address. E-mail addresses that are 
automatically captured by EPA's e-mail system are included as part of 
the comment that is placed in the official public docket.
    ii. Regulations.gov. Your use of Regulation.gov is an alternative 
method of submitting electronic comments to EPA. Go directly to http://www.regulations.gov, then select ``Environmental Protection Agency'' at 
the top of the page and use the ``go'' button. The list of current EPA 
actions available for comment will be listed. Please follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. The system is an ``anonymous 
access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity, e-mail 
address, or other contact information unless you provide it in the body 
of your comment.
    iii. Disk or CD ROM. You may submit comments on a disk or CD ROM 
that you mail to the mailing address identified in the ADDRESSES 
section of this document. These electronic submissions will be accepted 
in WordPerfect, Word or ASCII file format. Avoid the use of special 
characters and any form of encryption.
    2. By Mail. Written comments should be addressed to the EPA 
Regional office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this document.
    For public commenters, it is important to note that EPA's policy is 
that public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper, 
will be made available for public viewing at the EPA Regional Office, 
as EPA receives them and without change, unless the comment contains 
copyrighted material, confidential business information (CBI), or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. When EPA 
identifies a comment containing copyrighted material, EPA will provide 
a reference to that material in the version of the comment that is 
placed in the official public rulemaking file. The entire printed 
comment, including the copyrighted material, will be available at the 
Regional Office for public inspection.
    Submittal of CBI Comments--Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI electronically to EPA. You may claim information 
that you submit to EPA as CBI by marking any part or all of that 
information as CBI (if you submit CBI on disk or CD ROM, mark the 
outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI and then identify electronically 
within the disk or CD ROM the specific information that is CBI). 
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with 
procedures set forth in 40 CFR Part 2. In addition to one complete 
version of the comment that includes any information claimed as CBI, a 
copy of the comment that does not contain the information claimed as 
CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the official public regional 
rulemaking file. If you submit the copy that does not contain CBI on 
disk or CD ROM, mark the outside of the disk or CD ROM clearly that it 
does not contain CBI. Information not marked as CBI will be included in 
the public file and available for public inspection without prior 
notice. If you have any questions about CBI or the procedures for 
claiming CBI, please consult the person identified in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section.

Considerations When Preparing Comments to EPA

    You may find the following suggestions helpful for preparing your 
comments:
    1. Explain your views as clearly as possible.
    2. Describe any assumptions that you used.
    3. Provide any technical information and/or data you used that 
support your views.
    4. If you estimate potential burden or costs, explain how you 
arrived at your estimate.
    5. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns.
    6. Offer alternatives.
    7. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period deadline 
identified.
    8. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, identify the appropriate 
regional file/rulemaking identification number in the subject line on 
the first page of your response. It would also be helpful if you 
provided the name, date, and Federal Register citation related to your 
comments.
    Please note that if EPA receives adverse comment on an amendment, 
paragraph, or section of this rule and if that provision may be severed 
from the remainder of the rule, EPA may adopt as final those provisions 
of the rule that are not the subject of an adverse comment.

    Dated: January 14, 2004.
James W. Newsom,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
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