[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 16, 2005)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 7904-7905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2987]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[RME No. R03-OAR-2004-DC-0009; FRL-7874-2]


Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; 
District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia; Post 1996 and Post 1999 Rate-
of-Progress Plans, Contingency Measures, Transportation Control 
Measures, VMT Offset, and 1990 Base Year Inventory

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period.

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SUMMARY: EPA is reopening the comment period for a document published 
on January 12, 2005 (70 FR 2085). In the January 12, 2005 notice of 
proposed rulemaking, EPA proposed to approve State Implementation Plan 
(SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Maryland, Commonwealth of 
Virginia and the District of Columbia for the Metropolitan Washington, 
DC severe 1-hour ozone nonattainment area (the Washington area). These 
revisions include the post 1996-1999 and post 1999-2005 rate-of-
progress (ROP) plans, changes to the 1990 base year inventory, a 
contingency measures plan, certain transportation control measures 
(TCMs), and a demonstration that each SIP contains sufficient 
transportation control measures to offset growth in vehicle miles 
traveled (VMT) as necessary to demonstrate ROP and attainment of the 1-
hour national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone. EPA is 
reopening the comment period through February 25, 2005. All comments 
received on or before February 25, 2005 will be entered into the public 
record and considered by EPA before taking final action on the proposed 
rule.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 25, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Regional Material in 
EDocket (RME) ID Number R03-OAR-2004-DC-0009 by one of the following 
methods:
    A. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow 
the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
    B. Agency Web site: http://www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/ RME, EPA's 
electronic public docket and comment system, is EPA's preferred method 
for receiving comments. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting 
comments.

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    C. E-mail: [email protected].
    D. Mail: R03-OAR-2004-DC-0009, Makeba Morris, Chief, Air Quality 
Planning Branch, Mailcode 3AP21, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region III, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
    E. Hand Delivery: At the previously-listed EPA Region III address. 
Such deliveries are only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of 
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of 
boxed information.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to RME ID No. R03-OAR-2004-DC-
0009. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included in 
the public docket without change, and may be made available online at 
http://www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/, including any personal information 
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be 
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose 
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you 
consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through RME, regulations.gov 
or e-mail. The EPA RME and the Federal regulations.gov websites are an 
``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not know your 
identity or contact information unless you provide it in the body of 
your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without 
going through RME or regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be 
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is 
placed in the public docket and made available on the Internet. If you 
submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name 
and other contact information in the body of your comment and with any 
disk or CD-ROM you submit. 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. Electronic files should avoid 
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of 
any defects or viruses.
    Docket: All documents in the electronic docket are listed in the 
RME index at http://www.docket.epa.gov/rmepub/. Although listed in the 
index, some information is not publicly available, i.e., CBI or other 
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other 
material, such as copyrighted material, is not placed on the Internet 
and will be publicly available only in hard copy form. Publicly 
available docket materials are available either electronically in RME 
or in hard copy during normal business hours at the Air Protection 
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, 1650 Arch 
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. Copies of the State submittal 
are available at the District of Columbia Department of Public Health, 
Air Quality Division, 51 N Street, NE., Washington, DC 20002; Maryland 
Department of the Environment, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 705, 
Baltimore, Maryland, 21230, Baltimore, Maryland 21224; and the Virginia 
Department of Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street, Richmond, 
Virginia 23219.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Cripps, (215) 814-2179, or 
by e-mail at [email protected]. Please note that while 
questions may be posed via telephone and e-mail, formal comments must 
be submitted as indicated in the ADDRESSES section of this document.

    Dated: February 10, 2005.
Thomas Voltaggio,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region III.
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