[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 9, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 26895-26910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-4287]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[Docket No. EPA-R02-OAR-2006-0342; FRL-8167-8]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Carbon 
Monoxide Maintenance Plan, Conformity Budgets, Emissions Inventories; 
State of New Jersey

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the 
State of New Jersey. This revision will establish an updated ten-year 
carbon monoxide (CO) maintenance plan for the Nine Not-Classified Areas 
in the State (the City of Atlantic City, the City of Burlington, the 
Borough of Freehold, the Town of Morristown, the Borough of Penns 
Grove, the City of Perth Amboy, the Borough of Somerville, the Toms 
River Area, and the City of Trenton) and Camden County. In addition, 
this document proposes to approve revisions to the CO, NOX, 
VOC, and PM2.5 motor vehicle emissions budgets for Northern 
New Jersey. Finally, this document also proposes to approve revisions 
to the general conformity budget for McGuire Air Force Base and the 
2002 base year emissions inventory.
    The Nine Not Classified Areas and Camden County were redesignated 
to attainment of the CO National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) 
on February 5, 1996 and maintenance plans were also approved at that 
time. By this action, EPA is proposing to approve the New Jersey 
Department of Environmental Protection's (New Jersey) second 
maintenance plans for these areas because they provide for continued 
attainment for an additional ten years of the CO NAAQS.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 8, 2006.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R02-
OAR-2006-0342, by one of the following methods:
     http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line 
instructions for submitting comments.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: 212-637-3901.
     Mail: Raymond Werner, Chief, Air Programs Branch, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, 25th 
Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866.
     Hand Delivery: Raymond Werner, Chief, Air Programs Branch, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 Office, 290 Broadway, 25th 
Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866. Such deliveries are only accepted 
during the Regional Office's normal hours of operation. The Regional 
Office's official hours of business are Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 
4:30 excluding Federal holidays.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-R02-OAR-
2006-0342. 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.regulations.gov, 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 http://www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site 
is 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 http://www.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. For additional information about EPA's public 
docket visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henry Feingersh 
[email protected] for general questions, Raymond Forde 
[email protected] for emissions inventory questions, or Matthew 
Laurita [email protected] for mobile source related questions at 
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Programs Branch, 290 
Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10007-1866, telephone number (212) 
637-4249, fax number (212) 637-3901.
    Copies of the State submittals are available at the following 
addresses for inspection during normal business hours:
    Environmental Protection Agency, Region II Office, Air Programs 
Branch, 290 Broadway, 25th Floor, New York, New York 10007-1866.
    New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of 
Energy, Bureau of Air Quality Planning, 401 East State Street, CN027, 
Trenton, New Jersey 08625.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This action is being proposed under a 
procedure called parallel processing. Under parallel processing, EPA 
proposes action on a state submission before it has been formally 
adopted and submitted to EPA, and then EPA will take final action on 
its proposal if: (1) The state's final submission is substantially 
unchanged from the submission on which this proposal is based, or (2) 
if significant changes in the state's final submission are anticipated 
and adequately described in EPA's proposal as a basis for EPA's 
proposed action.
    EPA views the SIP revisions proposed in today's proposal as 
separable actions. This means that if EPA receives adverse comments on 
particular portions of this notice and not on other portions, EPA may 
choose not to take final action at the same time in a single notice on 
all of these SIP revisions. Instead, EPA may choose to take final 
action on these SIP revisions in separate notices.
    For detailed information on New Jersey's SIP revisions see the 
Technical Support Document, prepared in support of today's proposed 
action. A copy of the TSD is available upon request from the EPA 
Regional Office listed in the ADDRESSES section or it can be viewed at 
http://www.regulations.gov.
    The following table of contents describes the format for this 
section:

I. What Is the Nature of EPA's Action?
II. CO Limited Maintenance Plan for Camden County and Nine Not-
Classified Areas
    A. What Is a Limited Maintenance Plan?
    B. What Is included in a Maintenance Plan?
    1. Attainment Inventory
    2. Maintenance Demonstration
    3. Monitoring Network
    4. Verification of Continued Attainment
    5. Contingency Plan
    a. Control Measures
    b. Contingency Measures
    6. Conformity
III. Revisions To the CO Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for 
Northern New Jersey
    A. Are these budgets approvable?
IV. Revisions To the NOX and VOC Motor Vehicle Emissions 
Budgets for Northern New Jersey

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    A. Are the Revised Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets Consistent 
With New Jersey's 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration?
    B. Are these budgets approvable?
V. PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern New 
Jersey
    A. Are These Budgets Approvable?
VI. Revisions to the General Conformity Budget for McGuire Air Force 
Base
    A. Are these budgets approvable?
VII. New Jersey Emissions Inventory
    A. 2002 Base Year Inventory
    B. 2009 Projection Year Inventory
VIII. Conclusions
IX. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

I. What Is the Nature of EPA's Action?

    EPA is proposing to approve an updated ten-year CO maintenance plan 
for the Nine Not-Classified Areas (the City of Atlantic City, the City 
of Burlington, the Borough of Freehold, the Town of Morristown, the 
Borough of Penns Grove, the City of Perth Amboy, the Borough of 
Somerville, the Toms River Area, and the City of Trenton) and Camden 
County in New Jersey. On June 28, 1996, the EPA approved a request from 
New Jersey to redesignate the Nine Not-Classified Areas and Camden 
County to attainment of the CO NAAQS (61 FR 33678). In addition, the 
EPA also approved at that time a ten-year CO maintenance plan for each 
of those areas. The Clean Air Act (the Act) requires that an area 
redesignated to attainment of the CO NAAQS must submit a second ten-
year CO maintenance Plan to show how the area will continue to attain 
the CO standard for an additional ten years. On February 21, 2006, New 
Jersey submitted a second ten-year CO maintenance plan for the Nine 
Not-Classified Areas and Camden County and requested that EPA approve 
the plan. The following sections describe how the EPA made its 
determination proposing to approve the second ten-year maintenance 
plan. EPA is also proposing to approve revisions to the CO, 
NOX, VOC, and PM2.5 motor vehicle emissions 
budgets for Northern New Jersey. Finally, EPA also proposes to approve 
revisions to the general conformity budget for McGuire Air Force Base 
and the 2002 base year emissions inventory. These additional SIP 
revisions are discussed in sections III through VII.

II. CO Limited Maintenance Plan for Camden County and Nine Not-
Classified Areas

A. What is a Limited Maintenance Plan?

    A maintenance plan is a SIP revision that must demonstrate 
continued attainment of the applicable NAAQS in the maintenance area 
for at least ten years. The Act requires that a second ten-year plan be 
submitted in order to assure that the area will continue to stay in 
compliance with the relevant NAAQS. For the Nine Not Classified Areas 
and Camden County, New Jersey is proposing to utilize EPA's limited 
maintenance plan approach, as detailed in the EPA guidance memorandum, 
``Limited Maintenance Plan Option for Nonclassifiable CO Nonattainment 
Areas'' from Joseph Paisie, Group Leader, Integrated Policy and 
Strategies Group, Office of Air Quality and Planning Standards OAQPS, 
dated October 6, 1995. Pursuant to this approach, EPA will consider the 
maintenance demonstration satisfied for ``not classified'' areas if the 
monitoring data show the design value is at or below 7.65 parts per 
million (ppm), or 85 percent of the level of the 8-hour CO NAAQS. The 
design value must be based on eight consecutive quarters of data. For 
such areas, there is no requirement to project emissions of air quality 
over the maintenance period. EPA believes if the area begins the 
maintenance period at, or below, 85 percent of the CO 8 hour NAAQS, the 
applicability of PSD requirements, the control measures already in the 
SIP, and Federal measures, should provide adequate assurance of 
maintenance over the initial 10-year maintenance period. In addition, 
the design value for the area must continue to be at or below 7.65 ppm 
until the time of final EPA action on the redesignation.

B. What Is Included in a Maintenance Plan?

    Section 175A of the Act sets forth the elements of a maintenance 
plan for areas seeking redesignation from nonattainment to attainment. 
The initial and subsequent ten-year plans must each demonstrate 
continued attainment of the applicable NAAQS for at least ten years 
after approval. In this notice, EPA is proposing action on the second 
ten-year maintenance plan which covers the period from 2008 to 2017. 
The specific elements of a maintenance plan are:
1. Attainment Inventory
    Since New Jersey's first ten-year maintenance plan contained an 
attainment inventory, this second ten-year maintenance plan did not 
need to include another one. However, given the amount of time that has 
passed since that submittal, New Jersey thought it more appropriate to 
submit a 2002 inventory which is discussed later in this notice. Since 
this was a Limited Maintenance Plan submittal, no projected inventories 
were required.
    EPA's October 6, 1995 Limited Maintenance Plan guidance states that 
for inventory purposes the State is only required to submit an 
attainment inventory to EPA that is based on monitoring data which 
shows attainment. There is no requirement to project emissions over the 
maintenance period. This means if 2002 is a calendar year which has 
monitoring data which demonstrates attainment of the standard, the 2002 
base year inventory can be used as the attainment year inventory and no 
projection inventories are required over the years of the maintenance 
period. Only calendar year 2002 summary emissions data (based on winter 
season day) are required. In addition, the inventory should be 
consistent with EPA's most recent guidance on emission inventories for 
nonattainment areas available at the time and should include emissions 
during the time period associated with the monitoring data showing 
attainment.
    New Jersey submitted a limited maintenance plan which included a 
2002 base year emissions inventory. The 2002 inventory is also 
classified as the attainment year inventory for the limited maintenance 
plan. New Jersey has elected 2002 because it is the attainment year 
base year that will be used for the limited maintenance plan and 2002 
represents one of the years of violation free monitored data in the 
area. The inventory included peak winter season daily emissions from 
stationary point, stationary area, non-road mobile, and on-road mobile 
sources of CO. These emission estimates were prepared in accordance 
with EPA guidance.
    EPA is approving the CO inventory for the counties of Atlantic, 
Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Salem and 
Somerset (the 9 non-classified areas) and Camden County. Details of the 
inventory review are located in section VII.A. of this notice. A more 
detailed discussion of how the emission inventory was reviewed and the 
results are presented in the technical support document.
    Tables 1 and 2 present a summary of the 2002 CO peak winter season 
daily emissions estimates in tons per day for the nine not classified 
areas and Camden County:

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        Table 1.--2002 Attainment Inventory Nine Not Classified Areas Carbon Monoxide Emission Inventory
                                          [Tons/peak winter season day]
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                                                                      Nonroad
             County                    Point           Area           mobile       Onroad mobile       Total
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Atlantic........................            0.48           62.98           21.57          153.15          238.18
Burlington......................            1.42           59.62           54.00          308.90          423.94
Mercer..........................            1.46           14.32           43.01          224.90          283.69
Middlesex.......................            8.27            6.34          107.85          531.04          653.50
Monmouth........................            0.72           30.42           78.43          423.04          532.61
Morris..........................            1.23           46.59           97.30          393.14          538.26
Ocean...........................            1.11           47.69           40.31          257.31          346.42
Salem...........................            2.21           13.72            6.97           50.24           73.14
Somerset........................            1.17           11.65           47.55          211.93          272.30
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    Nine Not Classified Areas              18.07          293.33          496.99        2,553.65        3,362.04
     Total......................
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              Table 2.--2002 Attainment Inventory Camden County Carbon Monoxide Emission Inventory
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                                                                                      Nonroad
                     County                            Point           Area           mobile       Onroad mobile
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Camden..........................................            3.30           18.42           53.39          269.10
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2. Maintenance Demonstration
    New Jersey has met the Limited Maintenance Plan air quality 
criteria requirement by demonstrating that its highest monitored design 
value is less than 85 percent (7.65 parts per million) of the CO 
standard of 9.0 parts per million. The highest monitored design value 
for the 2002-2003 design year was 4.4 parts per million. In addition, 
New Jersey commits to continued implementation of all other federal and 
State measures already implemented as part of its CO SIP. Thus, 
according to the Limited Maintenance Guidance, emission projections are 
not required.
3. Monitoring Network
    New Jersey continues to operate its CO monitoring network and will 
continue to work with the USEPA through the air monitoring network 
review process as required by 40 CFR part 58 to determine the adequacy 
of its network. New Jersey will continue annual reviews of its data in 
order to verify continued attainment of the NAAQS. As mentioned 
earlier, all of New Jersey's 8-hour design values are well below the 
9.0 ppm 8-hour NAAQS for CO with the highest monitor reading 4.4 ppm. 
This can be seen in Table 3.

              Table 3.--Design Values for CO in New Jersey
                 [8-hour standard--9 parts per million]
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                                                       2002-2003  design
                 Monitoring location                   value  (parts per
                                                            million)
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Ancora S.H...........................................                0.8
Burlington...........................................                2.5
Camden Lab \1\.......................................                2.1
East Orange..........................................                4.2
Elizabeth............................................                4.4
Elizabeth Lab........................................                3.1
Fort Lee \2\.........................................                2.6
Freehold.............................................                2.2
Hackensack...........................................                3.4
Jersey City..........................................                2.9
Morristown...........................................                2.4
Newark Lab \3\.......................................                2.9
Perth Amboy..........................................                2.5
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Notes:
\1\ Data not available October-December 2003.
\2\ Data not available July-August 2002.
\3\ Data not available July-December 2003.

    In its SIP revision, New Jersey used the 2002-2003 design values 
since they coincide with the 2002 emissions inventory. EPA reviewed 
more recent data in addition to the 2002-2003 data and found the 
maximum 2004-2005 design value for New Jersey to be 3.4 ppm, which 
continues to show attainment of the NAAQS.
4. Verification of Continued Attainment
    New Jersey will verify that the Nine Not-Classified Areas and 
Camden County areas continue to attain the CO NAAQS through an annual 
review of its monitoring data. If any design value exceeds 7.65 ppm, 
New Jersey will coordinate with USEPA Region II to verify and evaluate 
the data and then, if warranted, develop a full maintenance plan for 
the affected maintenance area.
5. Contingency Plan
    Section 175A(d) of the Act requires that a maintenance plan include 
a contingency plan which includes contingency measures, as necessary, 
to promptly correct any violation of the NAAQS that occurs after 
redesignation of the area. Contingency measures do not have to be fully 
adopted at the time of redesignation. However, the contingency plan is 
considered to be an enforceable part of the SIP and should ensure that 
the contingency measures are adopted expeditiously once they are 
triggered by a specified event. In addition, the contingency plan 
includes a requirement that the State continue to implement all control 
measures used to bring the area into attainment.
    The triggers specified in New Jersey's previous maintenance plan 
are included in this Limited Maintenance Plan. If air quality 
monitoring data indicate that the CO NAAQS were exceeded, New Jersey 
will analyze the data to determine the cause of the violation. If it is 
determined that the violation was caused by a non-local motor vehicle 
usage event, then the State will institute the contingency measures 
described below.
a. Control Measures
    New Jersey has implemented a number of measures to control motor 
vehicle CO emissions. Emission reductions achieved through the

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implementation of these control measures are enforceable. These 
measures include the Federal Motor Vehicle Control Program, Federal 
reformulated gasoline, New Jersey's pre-1990 modifications to its 
inspection and maintenance (I/M) program, and local transportation 
control measures.
    The State of New Jersey has demonstrated that actual enforceable 
emission reductions are responsible for the air quality improvement and 
that the CO emissions in the base year are not artificially low due to 
local economic downturn. EPA finds that the combination of existing 
EPA-approved SIP and Federal measures contribute to the permanence and 
enforceability of reduction in ambient CO levels that have allowed 
Camden County to attain the NAAQS since 1990 and the nine not-
classified areas to attain since 1986.
    New Jersey commits to continuing to implement all control measures 
used to bring the area into attainment.
b. Contingency Measure
    The State plans to continue to use the contingency measure from the 
original maintenance plan. The plan included implementation of an 
enhanced I/M program. This program is fully operational and the State 
commits to meet the performance standard for an enhanced I/M program in 
an effort to maintain the CO NAAQS. Although the plan is currently in 
place, EPA guidance allows for it to act as a contingency measure. In 
addition, since we had approved this measure in the previous 
maintenance plan, we are proposing to approve it in this notice.
6. Conformity
    Section 176(c) of the Act defines conformity as meeting the SIP's 
purpose of eliminating or reducing the severity and number of 
violations of the NAAQS and achieving expeditious attainment of such 
standards. The Act further defines transportation conformity to mean 
that no Federal transportation activity will: (1) Cause or contribute 
to any new violation of any standard in any area; (2) increase the 
frequency or severity of any existing violation of any standard in any 
area; or (3) delay timely attainment of any standard or any required 
interim emission reductions or other milestones in any area. The 
Federal transportation conformity rule, 40 CFR part 93 subpart A, sets 
forth the criteria and procedures for demonstrating and assuring 
conformity of transportation plans, programs and projects which are 
developed, funded or approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation, 
and by metropolitan planning organizations or other recipients of 
federal funds under Title 23 U.S.C. or the Federal Transit Laws (49 
U.S.C. chapter 53).
    The transportation conformity rule applies within all nonattainment 
and maintenance areas. As prescribed by the Rule, once an area has an 
applicable SIP with motor vehicle emissions budgets, the expected 
emissions from planned transportation activities must be consistent 
with (``conform to'') such established budgets for that area.
    In the case of the Nine Not Classified Areas and Camden County CO 
limited maintenance plan areas, however, the emissions budgets may be 
treated as essentially not constraining for the length of this second 
maintenance period as long as the area continues to meet the limited 
maintenance criteria, because there is no reason to expect that these 
areas will experience so much growth in that period that a violation of 
the CO NAAQS would result. In other words, emissions from on-road 
transportation sources need not be capped for the maintenance period 
because it is unreasonable to believe that emissions from such sources 
would increase to a level that would threaten the air quality in this 
area for the duration of this maintenance period. Therefore, for the 
limited maintenance plan CO maintenance area, all Federal actions that 
require conformity determinations under the transportation conformity 
rule are considered to satisfy the regional emissions analysis and 
``budget test'' requirements in 40 CFR 93.118 of the rule.
    Since limited maintenance plan areas are still maintenance areas, 
however, transportation conformity determinations are still required 
for transportation plans, programs and projects. Specifically, for such 
determinations, transportation plans, transportation improvement 
programs, and projects must still demonstrate that they are fiscally 
constrained (40 CFR part 108) and must meet the criteria for 
consultation and Transportation Control Measure (TCM) implementation in 
the conformity rule (40 CFR 93.112 and 40 CFR 93.113, respectively). In 
addition, projects in limited maintenance areas will still be required 
to meet the criteria for CO hot spot analyses to satisfy ``project 
level'' conformity determinations (40 CFR 93.116 and 40 CFR 93.123) 
which must incorporate the latest planning assumptions and models that 
are available. All aspects of transportation conformity (with the 
exception of satisfying the emission budget test) will still be 
required. Approval of the limited maintenance plan will not supersede 
the current 2007 motor vehicle emissions budget. Conformity 
determinations conducted prior to the end of 2007 would still have to 
include a budget test for 2007.
    If one of the CO attainment areas should monitor CO concentrations 
at or above the limited maintenance eligibility criteria or 7.65 parts 
per million then that maintenance area would no longer qualify for a 
limited maintenance plan and would revert to a full maintenance plan. 
In this event, the limited maintenance plan would remain applicable for 
conformity purposes only until the full maintenance plan is submitted 
and EPA has found its motor vehicle emissions budget adequate for 
conformity purposes or EPA approves the full maintenance plan SIP 
revision. At that time regional emissions analyses would resume as a 
transportation conformity criteria.

III. Revisions to the CO Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern 
New Jersey

A. Are These Budgets Approvable?

    The proposed maintenance plan revises the motor vehicle emissions 
budgets (budgets) for CO for the New Jersey portion of the New York-
Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT CO maintenance area for the 
years 2007 and 2014, previously approved by EPA in the August 30, 2004 
Federal Register (69 FR 52834). These revised budgets include an 
allocation of a portion of a ``safety margin'' established in the CO 
maintenance plan.
    A ``safety margin'' is the difference between the attainment level 
of emissions (from all sources) and the projected level of emissions 
(from all sources) in the maintenance plan. The attainment level of 
emissions is the level of emissions during one of the years in which 
the area met the air quality health standard. For example, 1996 is the 
base year of Northern New Jersey's first ten-year maintenance plan, and 
the safety margin is calculated using the differences between 1996 and 
future year total emissions.
    The total emissions in 1996 from mobile, stationary and area 
sources equaled 1365.31 tons per day of CO. New Jersey projected the CO 
emissions in Northern New Jersey from all sources for the years 2007 
and 2014 to be 997.71 tons per day and 1071.93 tons per day, 
respectively. The CO safety margin for Northern New Jersey in 2007 and 
2014 is calculated to be the difference between the total emissions in 
1996 and the total emissions for each of the projected years, 367.60 
tons per day for 2007 and 293.38 tons per day for 2014. The 2007 and 
2014 CO emission projections reflecting the total of point,

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area and mobile source reductions are illustrated in Table 4.

                  Table 4.--CO Emissions and Safety Margin Determinations, Northern New Jersey
                                                   [Tons/day]
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                                                                                   CO emissions
                         Source category                         -----------------------------------------------
                                                                       1996            2007            2014
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Total...........................................................         1365.31          997.71         1071.93
Safety Margin...................................................             N/A          367.60          293.38
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     In the submittal the State requested to allocate the entire safety 
margin to both the 2007 and 2014 budgets. This approach provides the 
transportation sector with an adequate budget increase for the two 
future scenario years to account for changes in transportation-related 
emissions due to updated planning assumptions, while still meeting the 
requirements of the maintenance plan. The CO motor vehicle emissions 
budgets that include the safety margin allocations are outlined below 
in Table 5.

                            Table 5.--Carbon Monoxide Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets
                                                   [Tons/day]
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                                                                                      Final motor
                                                                     Safety margin      vehicle
Year             Prior motor  vehicle emissions budgets               allocation       emissions
                                                                                        budgets
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2007  783.39......................................................          367.60            1150
2014  605.63......................................................          293.38             899
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    The planned allowable levels of CO emissions are projected to 
maintain the area's air quality consistent with the air quality health 
standard. The safety margin credit can be allocated to the 
transportation sector while maintaining air quality attainment. The 
total emission level, even with this allocation, will be below the 
attainment level, or safety level, and thus is acceptable.
    These revised CO budgets are consistent with the State's emission 
baseline, projected inventories for highway mobile sources and use of a 
margin of safety. EPA is proposing to approve the 2007 and 2014 budgets 
for CO.

IV. Revisions to the NOX and VOC Motor Vehicle Emissions 
Budgets for Northern New Jersey

A. Are the Revised Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets Consistent With New 
Jersey's 1-Hour Ozone Attainment Demonstration?

    New Jersey is proposing to revise the 2005 and 2007 VOC and 
NOX motor vehicle emissions budgets (budgets) for the 
Northern New Jersey nonattainment area by setting new budgets based on 
updated planning assumptions. These updated budgets apply to the North 
Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. In its proposal, New Jersey 
included a relative reduction comparison to show that its 1-Hour Ozone 
Attainment Demonstration SIP continues to demonstrate attainment using 
revised inventories for the Northern New Jersey nonattainment area. New 
Jersey's attainment demonstration used photochemical grid modeling 
supplemented with weight of evidence. As such, the State's methodology 
for the relative reduction comparison consists of comparing the updated 
on-road mobile inventories with the previously approved (67 FR 5152) 
inventories for the Northern New Jersey nonattainment area to determine 
if attainment will still be predicted by the established attainment 
dates. Specifically, the State calculated the relative reductions 
(expressed as percent reductions) in ozone precursors between the 
previous 1996 base year and attainment year inventories. These percent 
reductions were then compared to the percent reductions between the 
revised 1996 base year and attainment year inventories.
    New Jersey's relative reduction comparison shows that for the 
Northern New Jersey nonattainment area the percent reduction of VOC 
emissions achieved in the revised inventories is higher than the 
percent reduction previously calculated, however the percent reduction 
of NOX emissions achieved in the revised inventories is 
lower than the percent reduction previously calculated, and thus a 
slight NOX shortfall is indicated. New Jersey has previously 
demonstrated in its Rate of Progress SIP, approved by EPA on February 
4, 2002 (67 FR 5152), that VOC or NOX emission reductions 
are equally valuable towards attaining the 1-hour ozone standard. 
Therefore, New Jersey substituted excess VOC emission reductions for 
NOX emission reductions, as allowed for under Section 
182(c)(2)(C) of the Clean Air Act. To make such an equivalency 
demonstration, the State converted the percentage changes for VOC and 
NOX to +14.01 and -6.09 tons per day, respectively. Based on 
the emission inventories, New Jersey has determined for the Northern 
New Jersey nonattainment area that approximately 1.29 tons of VOC 
emissions equals 1 ton of NOX emissions, as the emissions 
relate to their potential to form ozone. Consistent with EPA's policy 
on substitution of ozone precursor emission reductions, New Jersey 
increased the NOX reductions and decreased VOC reductions by 
their equivalent amounts, resulting in offsetting effects with respect 
to ozone formation. Thus, the required emission reductions needed to 
attain the 1-hour ozone NAAQS are achieved for the Northern New Jersey 
nonattainment area, and the SIP continues to demonstrate attainment.
    New Jersey's proposed SIP revision demonstrates that the new levels 
of motor vehicle emissions calculated using updated planning 
assumptions continue to support achievement of the projected attainment 
of the 1-Hour

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Ozone NAAQS by the attainment date of 2007 for the Northern New Jersey 
nonattainment area.

B. Are These Budgets Approvable?

    Table 6 below summarizes New Jersey's revised budgets contained in 
the proposed SIP revision. These budgets were developed using the 
latest planning assumptions, including 2005 vehicle registration data, 
vehicle miles traveled (VMT), speeds, fleet mix, and SIP control 
measures and are for the North Jersey Transportation Planning 
Authority. The 2005 budgets are revised budgets based on the Reasonable 
Further Progress plan and the 2007 budgets are revised attainment year 
budgets. The increase in the NOX budget is attributed to the 
updated planning assumptions and does not necessarily indicate an 
actual increase in emissions. As described above, New Jersey, in its 
proposal, has demonstrated that attainment is not impacted by this 
revision.

    Table 6.--Revised Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority
                                                   [Tons/day]
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                                                                VOC                             NOX
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                                                       2005            2007            2005            2007
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Previous........................................          148.27          125.82          253.05          198.34
Updated.........................................          146.33          122.53          327.83          256.58
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    EPA is proposing to approve the revisions to the 2005 and 2007 
budgets for VOC and NOX for the North Jersey Transportation 
Planning Authority.

V. PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Northern New 
Jersey

A. Are these budgets approvable?

    The proposed early progress PM2.5 SIP establishes motor 
vehicle emission budgets for 2009 for the New Jersey portion of the New 
York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 
nonattainment area. The NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area 
and the Northern New Jersey portion thereof is violating the annual 
PM2.5 standard, and therefore these budgets are being 
established for annual emissions of direct PM2.5 and 
NOX, a PM2.5 precursor. Northern New Jersey and 
the larger nonattainment area are not violating and are significantly 
below the 24-hour PM2.5 standard, and EPA believes that the 
State has deemed that by attaining the annual standard they will 
continue to meet the 24-hour standard. Therefore, New Jersey did not 
address or establish budgets for the 24-hour PM2.5 standard 
in this SIP revision. These budgets are established for annual 
emissions of direct PM2.5 and NOX, a 
PM2.5 precursor. Other PM2.5 precursors (VOC, 
SOX, and NH3) were not found to be significant by 
either New Jersey or EPA prior to this submittal and were not included 
in the motor vehicle emissions budgets. Additionally, fugitive dust 
emissions, which include re-entrained road dust and transportation-
related construction dust, were not found to be significant by either 
New Jersey or EPA and were not included in the budgets. However, 
approval of these budgets does not preclude New Jersey or EPA from 
finding any of the above precursors or fugitive dust to be significant 
contributors to nonattainment of the PM2.5 standard in the 
future. New Jersey may choose to include any or all precursors and 
fugitive dust in future SIP submittals.
    EPA allows for the establishment of motor vehicle emission budgets 
for PM2.5 prior to the state submitting its first required 
PM2.5 SIP (69 FR 40028). These budgets are set through the 
establishment of an early SIP that meets all the requirements of a SIP 
submittal, and in which emissions from all sources, when projected from 
the base to a future year, show some progress toward attainment. EPA 
has interpreted the phrase ``some progress toward attainment'' to mean 
a 5% to 10% reduction in emissions from all sources (69 FR 40019). For 
this SIP submittal emissions were projected from the 2002 base year to 
2009, the attainment year.
    Submittal of this early progress SIP does not satisfy the 
requirement to submit a full PM2.5 attainment SIP. New 
Jersey may revise the 2009 budgets in the PM2.5 attainment 
SIP with appropriate supporting documentation.
    The total annual emissions in 2002 from mobile, stationary and area 
sources for Northern New Jersey equaled 13,952 tons per year of direct 
PM2.5 and 236,251 tons per year of NOX. New 
Jersey projected the PM2.5 and NOX emissions from 
all sources for 2009 to be 13,049 tons per year of direct 
PM2.5 and 159,990 tons per year of NOX. This 
represents a 6.5% reduction in direct PM2.5 and a 32.3% 
reduction in NOX emissions from 2002 to 2009, thereby 
meeting EPA's 5% to 10% minimum reduction guideline. The 2002 and 2009 
emission projections reflecting the point, area and mobile source 
reductions are illustrated in Tables 7 and 8.

                 Table 7.--Direct PM2.5 Emissions, NJ Portion of the NY-NJ-CT Nonattainment Area
                                                   [Tons/year]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                              Direct PM2.5 emissions
                         Source category                         -----------------------------------------------
                                                                       2002            2009       Percent change
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On-Road.........................................................           2,220           1,296             -42
Nonroad.........................................................           3,206           2,788             -13
Stationary......................................................           2,790           3,035               9
Area............................................................           5,736           5,930               3
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................................          13,952          13,049            -6.5
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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                     Table 8.--NOX Emissions, NJ Portion of the NY-NJ-CT Nonattainment Area
                                                   [Tons/year]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                   NOX emissions
                         Source category                         -----------------------------------------------
                                                                       2002            2009       Percent change
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On-Road.........................................................         137,701          66,004             -52
Nonroad.........................................................          45,957          37,694             -18
Stationary......................................................          34,420          36,804               7
Area............................................................          18,173          19,488               7
                                                                 -----------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................................         236,251         159,990           -32.3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    A detailed review of the 2002 PM2.5 and NOX 
annual emission inventories are covered in section VII. A. of this 
notice. Tables 11 and 12 present a summary of 2002 PM2.5 and 
NOX annual emission estimates by source sector and by county 
for the New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long 
Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area.
    In the submittal, the State has established ``sub-area budgets'' 
for the two metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) within the New 
Jersey portion of the larger PM2.5 nonattainment area, the 
North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) and the Delaware 
Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). These sub-area budgets 
allow each MPO to work independently to demonstrate conformity by 
meeting its own PM2.5 and NOX budgets. Each MPO 
must still verify, however, that the other MPO currently has a 
conforming long range transportation plan and transportation 
improvement program (TIP) prior to making a new plan/TIP conformity 
determination. The sub-area budgets are listed in Table 9.

    Table 9.--2009 Sub-Area Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets NY-NJ-CT
                           Nonattainment Area
                               [Tons/year]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                   MPO                     Direct PM2.5         NOX
------------------------------------------------------------------------
NJTPA \1\...............................           1,207          61,676
DVRPC \2\...............................              89           4,328
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Covers Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic,
  Somerset, and Union Counties.
\2\ Covers Mercer County only.

    The proposed 2009 PM2.5 budgets are consistent with the 
State's 2002 emission baseline and 2009 projected inventories for 
highway mobile sources, as described in Sections VII.A. and B. of this 
notice. EPA is therefore proposing to approve the 2009 sub-area budgets 
for direct PM2.5 and NOX, because these budgets 
meet all applicable requirements.
    These budgets are currently undergoing a process to find if they 
are adequate for transportation conformity purposes prior to EPA's 
final SIP action. Once budgets are deemed adequate, they may be used in 
making conformity determinations. EPA believes that the proposed 2009 
budgets meet EPA's adequacy criteria (40 CFR 93.118(e)(4)) and, through 
a separate process, is taking comments through April 24, 2006 prior to 
making an adequacy determination. For more information on the adequacy 
process please see EPA's adequacy Web site: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequacy process is separate 
from the SIP approval process; therefore, these budgets may be found 
adequate prior to EPA finalizing any approval action for this SIP. The 
result of EPA's adequacy finding will be published in the Federal 
Register.

VI. Revisions to the General Conformity Budget for McGuire Air Force 
Base

A. Are These Budgets Approvable?

    New Jersey is proposing to update the 1-hour ozone general 
conformity emissions budgets for the McGuire Air Force Base previously 
approved by EPA in the July 23, 2003 Federal Register (68 FR 43462). 
Due to McGuire Air Force Base's vital role in the national defense and 
need to have operational flexibility in order to meet its present and 
future emissions, New Jersey is proposing a change to the 2005 
emissions budgets. The year 2005 NOX budget is being 
increased by 450 tons per year and the VOC budget is being decreased by 
468 tons per year. This budget will be used in preparation for a new 
budget to be determined by the 8-hour ozone attainment demonstration. 
New Jersey is proposing this change consistent with EPA's policy on 
substitution of ozone precursor emission reductions. Based on the 
emission inventories, New Jersey has determined for the Trenton 
nonattainment area that approximately 1 ton per year of NOX 
emissions equals 1.04 tons per year of VOC emissions, as the emissions 
relate to their potential to form ozone. Thus, increasing 
NOX and decreasing VOC by their equivalent amounts results 
in offsetting effects with respect to ozone formation. The VOC emission 
reduction has been achieved through the implementation of pollution 
prevention measures. Table 10 below summarizes the revised general 
conformity budgets. The revised 2005 budgets would apply to 2005 and 
all future years until new budgets are established based on the 8-hour 
ozone attainment demonstration. EPA is proposing to approve the revised 
2005 general conformity emissions budgets.

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                     Table 10.--McGuire Air Force Base General Conformity Emissions Budgets
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                    Previously approved budgets             New budgets
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
                                                    VOC  (tons/     NOX  (tons/     VOC  (tons/     NOX  (tons/
                                                       year)           year)           year)           year)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2005 \1\........................................           1,198           1,084             730           1,534
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ 2005 budgets updated such that the increase in NOX is offset by a decrease in VOC, resulting in no expected
  net increase in ozone formation.

VII. New Jersey Emissions Inventory

A. 2002 Base Year Inventory

    On November 18, 2002, EPA designated the 2002 base year inventory 
as the inventory for SIP planning process to address the pollutants for 
the eight hour-ozone, PM2.5 and CO national ambient air 
quality standards. Identifying the base year gives certainty to States, 
and the selection of 2002 harmonizes the date for EPA's Consolidated 
Emissions Reporting rule (See 67 FR 39602 dated June 10, 2002), which 
requires submission of the ozone, PM2.5 and CO emission 
inventories every three years; 2002 is one of the required years for 
such updates. These requirements allow the EPA, based on the state's 
progress in reducing emissions, to periodically reassess its policies 
and air quality standards and revise them as necessary. Most important, 
the 2002 ozone, PM2.5 and CO inventories will be used to 
develop and assess new control strategies that the states will need to 
submit in their attainment demonstration SIPs for the national ambient 
air quality standards for ozone, PM2.5 and CO. The base year 
inventory plays an important role in modeling demonstrations for areas 
classified as nonattainment and transport regions. The base year 
inventory may also serve as part of statewide inventories for purposes 
of regional modeling in transport areas. For the reasons stated above, 
EPA would therefore emphasize the importance and benefits of developing 
comprehensive, current, and accurate 2002 ozone, PM2.5 and 
CO emission inventories.
    There are specific components of an acceptable emission inventory. 
The emission inventory must meet certain minimum requirements for 
reporting each source category. Specifically, the source requirements 
are detailed below.
    The review process, which is described in supporting documentation, 
is used to determine that all components of the base year inventory are 
present. This review also evaluates the level of supporting 
documentation provided by the state, assesses whether the emissions 
were developed according to current EPA guidance, and evaluates the 
quality of the data.
    The review process is outlined here and consists of 9 points that 
the inventory must include. For a base year emission inventory to be 
acceptable, it must pass all of the following acceptance criteria:
    1. Evidence that the inventory was quality assured by the state and 
its implementation documented.
    2. The point source inventory was complete.
    3. Point source emissions were prepared or calculated according to 
the current EPA guidance.
    4. The area source inventory was complete.
    5. The area source emissions were prepared or calculated according 
to the current EPA guidance.
    6. Biogenic emissions were prepared according to current EPA 
guidance or another approved technique.
    7. Non-road mobile emissions were prepared according to current EPA 
guidance for all of the source categories.
    8. The method (e.g., HPMS or a network transportation planning 
model) used to develop VMT estimates followed EPA guidance.
    9. The MOBILE model was correctly used to produce emission factors 
for each of the vehicle classes.
    Based on EPA's review, New Jersey satisfied all of EPA's 
requirements for purposes of providing a comprehensive, accurate, and 
current inventory of actual emissions for ozone, PM2.5 and 
CO nonattainment areas. Where applicable, annual emissions are provided 
for VOC, NOX, CO, PM2.5, PM10, 
NH3 and SO2 emissions; VOC, NOX and CO 
peak summer season daily emissions are provided for ozone nonattainment 
areas and CO peak winter season daily emissions are provided for CO 
nonattainment areas. The inventory was developed in accordance with 
Emission Inventory Guidance for Implementation of ozone and Particulate 
Matter NAAQS and Regional Haze Regulation, dated August 2005. A summary 
of EPA's review is given below:
    1. The Quality Assurance (QA) plan was implemented for all portions 
of the inventory. The QA plan included a QA/Quality control (QC) 
program for assessing data completeness and standard range checking. 
Critical data elements relative to the inventory sources were assessed 
for completeness. QA checks were performed relative to data collection 
and analysis, and double counting of emissions from point, area and 
mobile sources. QA/QC checks were conducted to ensure accuracy of 
units, unit conversions, transposition of figures, and calculations.
    2. The inventory is well documented. New Jersey provided 
documentation detailing the methods used to develop emissions estimates 
for each category. In addition, New Jersey identified the sources of 
data used in developing the inventory.
    3. The point source emissions are complete in accordance with EPA 
guidance.
    4. The point source emissions were prepared/calculated in 
accordance with EPA guidance.
    5. The area source emissions are complete and were prepared/
calculated in accordance with EPA guidance.
    6. Biogenic emissions were prepared/calculated using the EPA's 
Biogenic Emission Inventory System Model version 3.12 in accordance 
with EPA guidance.
    7. Emission estimates for the non-road mobile source categories 
were correctly based on the latest nonroad mobile model and prepared in 
accordance with EPA guidance.
    8. The method used to develop VMT estimates was in accordance with 
EPA guidance and was adequately described and documented in the 
inventory report.
    9. Mobile model 6.2.03 was used correctly for each of the vehicle 
classes.
    The 2002 base year inventory has been developed in accordance with 
EPA guidance. Therefore, EPA is proposing to approve the 2002 base year 
VOC, NOX, CO, PM2.5, PM10, 
NH3 and SO2 emission inventories.
    A more detailed discussion of how the emission inventory was 
reviewed and the results of the review are presented in the technical 
support document. Detailed emission inventory development procedures 
can be found in the following document: Emission Inventory Guidance for 
Implementation

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of ozone and Particulate Matter NAAQS and Regional Haze Regulation, 
dated August 2005.
    Tables 11 and 12 present a summary of 2002 PM2.5 and 
NOX annual emission estimates by source sector and by county 
for the New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long 
Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area. Tables 13, 14 and 
15 present a summary of VOC, NOX and CO peak summer season 
daily emissions by source sector by county in New Jersey. Tables 16 
through 22 present a summary of the 2002 VOC, NOX, CO, 
PM2.5, NH3, PM10, and SO2 
annual emissions by source sector by county in New Jersey. Section 
II.B.1, Tables 1 and 2 present CO peak winter season daily emissions.

  Table 11.--2002 Annual PM2.5 Base Year Inventory, the New Jersey Portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-
                                 Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 Nonattainment Area
                                                 [In tons/year]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                      Nonroad
                     County                            Point           Area           mobile       Onroad mobile
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bergen..........................................             149             537             478             376
Essex...........................................             185             411             393             291
Hudson..........................................           1,077             269             345             134
Mercer..........................................             188             530             203             141
Middlesex.......................................             483             467             346             347
Monmouth........................................              55             981             501             244
Morris..........................................              39           1,284             280             209
Passaic.........................................              19             543             178             141
Somerset........................................              55             441             149             152
Union...........................................             540             272             333             185
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................           2,790           5,736           2,788           2,200
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


 Table 12.--2002 Annual NOX Base Year Inventory, the New Jersey Portion of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long
                                    Island, NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 Nonattainment Area
                                                 [In tons/year]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                      Nonroad
                     County                            Point           Area           mobile       Onroad mobile
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bergen..........................................             988           2,815           6,707          23,917
Essex...........................................           2,441           2,436           8,137          16,537
Hudson..........................................           9,674           1,735           5,976           7,853
Mercer..........................................          13,034           1,257           2,427           8,505
Middlesex.......................................           3,567           2,343           4,849          22,147
Monmouth........................................             240           1,806           4,316          14,860
Morris..........................................             284           1,752           3,151          13,758
Passaic.........................................             122           1,361           2,413           8,748
Somerset........................................             313           1,048           2,097           9,090
Union...........................................           3,757           1,621           5,883          12,294
                                                 ---------------------------------------------------------------
    Total.......................................          34,420          18,173          45,957         137,701
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                      Table 13.--2002 Statewide VOC Summer Season Daily Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 VOC  tons per day
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       source      mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................            0.15           11.04           12.85           10.25           40.38
Bergen..........................            5.72           36.86           36.09           22.05            4.60
Burlington......................            4.02           17.54           15.80           10.01           39.84
Camden..........................            1.23           22.68           13.80            7.23           20.06
Cape May........................            0.20            5.26            4.72           22.61           19.55
Cumberland......................            0.46            8.93            5.37           11.03           28.41
Essex...........................            2.95           31.53           18.26           11.92            3.40
Gloucester......................           32.01           20.39            9.10            5.91           16.83
Hudson..........................            7.33           21.09            9.10            5.22            3.27
Hunterdon.......................            0.64            5.49            5.99            3.66           12.44
Mercer..........................            2.13           13.06           11.60            7.01           12.65
Middlesex.......................           16.08           34.87           26.00           14.58           12.78
Monmouth........................            1.37           24.65           22.26           21.26           22.00
Morris..........................            1.27           20.81           18.87           15.09           13.75
Ocean...........................            0.26           24.01           14.30           21.54           43.80

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Passaic.........................            1.99           19.84           10.22            6.62           11.04
Salem...........................            4.92            3.47            4.23            3.37           18.64
Somerset........................            0.73           12.29           10.65            6.87           12.20
Sussex..........................            0.25            5.69            4.62            3.86           20.48
Union...........................           26.56           25.26           15.92            7.75            2.31
Warren..........................            2.88            5.07            4.99            2.78           13.50
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............          113.15          369.83          274.74          220.60          371.95
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                      Table 14.--2002 Statewide NOX Summer Season Daily Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 NOX  tons per day
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................            1.67            1.17           24.50            6.26            0.21
Bergen..........................            3.64            3.83           63.24           23.38            0.07
Burlington......................           12.35            1.77           31.10           12.88            0.26
Camden..........................            2.69            2.10           27.00            9.44            0.21
Cape May........................           19.15            0.42            8.82            5.92            0.19
Cumberland......................           10.50            0.65           10.61            7.94            0.34
Essex...........................           16.18            3.31           44.06           25.70            0.07
Gloucester......................           14.48            1.01           18.50            8.01            0.19
Hudson..........................           51.61            2.24           21.05           20.71            0.07
Hunterdon.......................            9.47            0.54           17.17            4.70            0.19
Mercer..........................           47.87            1.72           22.70            9.32            0.20
Middlesex.......................           44.47            3.33           58.00           17.54            0.16
Monmouth........................            0.86            2.23           38.15           15.74            0.22
Morris..........................            1.18            2.40           35.06           11.58            0.12
Ocean...........................            3.68            2.39           24.65            7.57            0.27
Passaic.........................            0.68            1.79           23.01            8.88            0.10
Salem...........................           15.26            0.31           11.91            3.21            0.32
Somerset........................            3.60            1.44           23.85            7.57            0.15
Sussex..........................            0.21            0.57            7.47            2.46            0.15
Union...........................           18.88            2.26           32.22           20.25            0.08
Warren..........................            1.93            0.47           15.60            2.48            0.22
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............          280.36           35.92          558.66          231.56            3.78
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                       Table 15.--2002 Statewide CO Summer Season Daily Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                  CO tons per day
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................            0.36            2.66          155.53           70.26            2.96
Bergen..........................            2.36            2.07          324.50          358.25            0.54
Burlington......................            1.48            1.97          168.90          121.35            3.33
Camden..........................            3.28            6.89          145.90          112.44            1.57
Cape May........................            2.18            0.66           53.58           80.06            1.54
Cumberland......................            1.56            1.13           56.91           50.35            2.28
Essex...........................            3.61            2.40          187.93          182.98            0.45
Gloucester......................            3.27            1.54           99.80           77.69            1.41
Hudson..........................            9.42            1.22           87.49           68.72            0.44
Hunterdon.......................            6.43            1.03           64.94           48.31            1.60
Mercer..........................            1.51            1.37          122.70          104.18            1.42
Middlesex.......................           34.20            2.54          287.54          228.84            1.16

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Monmouth........................            1.28            1.79          227.22          212.60            1.98
Morris..........................            2.24            2.35          209.14          227.91            1.42
Ocean...........................            1.21           29.78          135.96          143.85            3.89
Passaic.........................            0.40            1.23          105.86           98.09            1.13
Salem...........................            2.28            0.57           49.04           21.42            1.63
Somerset........................            5.96            1.16          112.52          107.75            1.40
Sussex..........................            0.33            1.80           42.35           37.57            2.00
Union...........................            3.87            1.11          162.44          118.31            0.36
Warren..........................            2.12            1.19           56.12           26.89            1.58
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............           89.35           66.45        2,856.37        2,497.80           34.09
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                             Table 16.--2002 Statewide VOC Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 VOC tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................              52           5,492           3,613           3,521          14,748
Bergen..........................             773          11,243          14,048           6,361           1,681
Burlington......................             927           7,057           6,278           3,000          14,552
Camden..........................             453           7,228           5,512           2,110           7,326
Cape May........................              39           2,474           1,348           8,480           7,140
Cumberland......................             102           3,208           1,492           4,196          10,377
Essex...........................             791           9,568           7,238           3,739           1,244
Gloucester......................          11,560           7,032           3,650           1,686           6,148
Hudson..........................           2,104           6,628           3,567           1,617           1,195
Hunterdon.......................             144           2,468           2,441           1,038           4,545
Mercer..........................             446           4,445           4,636           1,922           4,619
Middlesex.......................           4,366          10,594          10,478           4,115           4,669
Monmouth........................             287           8,477           8,973           6,996           8,036
Morris..........................             309           7,947           7,662           4,211           5,024
Ocean...........................              76           7,746           5,792           7,714          15,998
Passaic.........................             253           6,537           4,109           2,081           4,034
Salem...........................           1,034           1,516           1,205           1,162           6,809
Somerset........................             224           4,075           4,311           1,898           4,455
Sussex..........................              38           3,656           1,881           1,490           7,479
Union...........................           5,382           7,652           6,354           2,237             843
Warren..........................             809           2,631           2,001             832           4,931
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............          30,169         127,673         106,589          70,407         135,851
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                             Table 17.--2002 Statewide NOX Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 NOX tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
              County                                               Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................             129             964           6,764           1,771              78
Bergen..........................             988           2,815          23,917           6,707              25
Burlington......................           1,273           1,424          11,644           3,776              97
Camden..........................             776           1,523          10,074           2,669              77
Cape May........................           3,819             357           2,433           1,959              68
Cumberland......................           1,778             469           2,883           2,574             125
Essex...........................           2,441           2,436          16,537           8,137              27
Gloucester......................           4,645             800           6,899           2,200              71
Hudson..........................           9,776           1,735           7,853           5,976              27

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Hunterdon.......................             491             424           6,444           1,223              69
Mercer..........................          13,034           1,257           8,505           2,427              72
Middlesex.......................           3,651           2,343          22,147           4,849              58
Monmouth........................             240           1,806          14,860           4,316              79
Morris..........................             284           1,752          13,748           3,151              43
Ocean...........................             395           1,507           9,538           2,138              98
Passaic.........................             122           1,361           8,748           2,413              38
Salem...........................           3,267             227           3,185             932             116
Somerset........................             313           1,048           9,090           2,097              54
Sussex..........................              39             495           2,936             615              55
Union...........................           4,080           1,621          12,294           5,883              28
Warren..........................             580             379           5,782             631              79
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............          52,121          26,742         206,280          66,443           1,382
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


                             Table 18.--2002 Statewide CO Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                 CO tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................              66          10,726          53,885          19,798           1,080
Bergen..........................             619           1,453         166,589          93,002             199
Burlington......................             413           9,709          83,768          31,350           1,216
Camden..........................           1,154           3,789          72,489          29,402             574
Cape May........................             311           4,145          18,758          26,265             562
Cumberland......................             126           3,196          19,994          15,941             831
Essex...........................             624           1,306          96,967          53,407             164
Gloucester......................           1,029           4,513          49,458          19,203             516
Hudson..........................           2,058             896          44,767          20,015             161
Hunterdon.......................             259           3,973          34,283          11,896             585
Mercer..........................             323           2,567          61,101          25,685             518
Middlesex.......................           3,034           1,309         149,288          57,965             424
Monmouth........................             381           5,252         118,952          55,614             722
Morris..........................             266           8,121         109,947          56,136             519
Ocean...........................             271          10,563          72,072          40,914           1,420
Passaic.........................              68           2,985          55,414          26,769             412
Salem...........................             487           2,389          17,071           5,991             595
Somerset........................             226           2,079          59,270          26,731             511
Sussex..........................              83           8,995          23,055          10,883             731
Union...........................           1,012             794          84,178          31,780             133
Warren..........................             444           5,306          29,700           7,198             578
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............          13,254          94,067       1,421,004         665,944          12,451
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                            Table 19.--2002 Statewide PM2.5 Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
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                                                               PM2.5  tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................              19           1,541             104             225              NA
Bergen..........................             149             537             376             478              NA
Burlington......................             308           1,448             193             413              NA
Camden..........................             233             754             167             228              NA
Cape May........................             109             637              40             468              NA
Cumberland......................             280             495              52             374              NA

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Essex...........................             185             411             291             393              NA
Gloucester......................             426             754             112             222              NA
Hudson..........................           1,077             269             134             345              NA
Hunterdon.......................              50             644             111             103              NA
Mercer..........................             188             530             141             203              NA
Middlesex.......................             483             467             347             346              NA
Monmouth........................              55             981             244             501              NA
Morris..........................              39           1,284             209             280              NA
Ocean...........................              38           1,734             160             409              NA
Passaic.........................              19             543             141             178              NA
Salem...........................             371             377              57             122              NA
Somerset........................              55             441             152             149              NA
Sussex..........................               5           1,301              54              89              NA
Union...........................             540             272             185             333              NA
Warren..........................             240             809              92              64              NA
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............           4,868          16,230           3,361           5,922              NA
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                             Table 20.--2002 Statewide NH3 Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                               PM2.5  tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................               0             184             297              13             329
Bergen..........................               0             543             821             163             863
Burlington......................               0             522             454              39             520
Camden..........................               0             281             393              46             518
Cape May........................               5              86             107               6             130
Cumberland......................               1             310             118              20             203
Essex...........................               0             598             492              82             762
Gloucester......................               0             445             265              22             274
Hudson..........................              14             461             222              56             572
Hunterdon.......................               0             569             187              14             164
Mercer..........................               3             310             331              41             347
Middlesex.......................              11             492             765             108             746
Monmouth........................               0             399             628              47             651
Morris..........................               0             273             572              75             544
Ocean...........................               0             258             396              21             616
Passaic.........................               0             264             292              65             505
Salem...........................               1             463              97               7              89
Somerset........................               0             423             317              43             309
Sussex..........................               0             296             135               8             235
Union...........................               3             456             425              82             501
Warren..........................               0             371             152              12             153
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............              38           8,005           7,469             970           9,032
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                            Table 21.--2002 Statewide PM10 Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                PM10  tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................              17           1,863             154             248              NA
Bergen..........................             135             981             524             524              NA
Burlington......................             318           2,145             275             471              NA

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Camden..........................             126           1,210             238             249              NA
Cape May........................             102             799              58             509              NA
Cumberland......................             266             721              73             407              NA
Essex...........................             203             646             389             444              NA
Gloucester......................             531           1,169             161             242              NA
Hudson..........................           1,705             431             179             375              NA
Hunterdon.......................              50           1,115             148             113              NA
Mercer..........................             221             967             201             224              NA
Middlesex.......................             537           1,162             486             376              NA
Monmouth........................              48           1,575             352             545              NA
Morris..........................              46           1,813             305             309              NA
Ocean...........................              39           2,377             229             446              NA
Passaic.........................              18             835             195             194              NA
Salem...........................             435             590              77             132              NA
Somerset........................              76             984             211             164              NA
Sussex..........................               6           1,667              77              99              NA
Union...........................             434             512             261             362              NA
Warren..........................             240           1,195             123              71              NA
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............           5,555          24,760           4,718           6,505              NA
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                             Table 22.--2002 Statewide SO2 Annual Emission Inventory
                                          [By county and source sector]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                SO2  tons per year
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             County                                                Onroad mobile      Nonroad
                                   Point sources   Area sources       sources     mobile sources     Biogenic
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atlantic........................              10             498             202             176              NA
Bergen..........................              82             819             634             620              NA
Burlington......................             286             459             361           2,462              NA
Camden..........................             162             506             313           1,057              NA
Cape May........................          12,178             163              75             993              NA
Cumberland......................             665             412              89           2,115              NA
Essex...........................           2,110           1,078             429             980              NA
Gloucester......................           5,431             390             211           1,243              NA
Hudson..........................          19,250             625             196           1,582              NA
Hunterdon.......................              18             391             163             123              NA
Mercer..........................          14,379             450             264             501              NA
Middlesex.......................             504             689             590             612              NA
Monmouth........................              55             510             453             929              NA
Morris..........................              52             798             403             276              NA
Ocean...........................              38             652             290             216              NA
Passaic.........................              26             494             231             223              NA
Salem...........................           4,590             156              85             673              NA
Somerset........................              41             273             250             180              NA
Sussex..........................               0             566              98              69              NA
Union...........................           1,253             602             321           1,680              NA
Warren..........................             101             345             134              63              NA
                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total in State..............          61,231          10,876           5,793          16,772              NA
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

B. 2009 Projection Year Inventory

    New Jersey included in its submittal 2009 projection year 
inventories with post-2002 controls showing that future emissions will 
be less than 5 percent of those contained in the 2002 base year 
emissions inventory. Annual PM2.5 and NOX point, 
area, nonroad mobile and onroad mobile emissions were projected from 
2002 base year to 2009. New Jersey did so using the appropriate growth 
factors and methodologies, in a manner acceptable to EPA.
    The development of the projection year inventory involved several 
methodologies depending on the source category in question. This 
depended heavily upon what type of indicator was considered to have a 
significant impact on emissions. In all cases mentioned

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below, the 2002 emissions were grown to the 2009 projection year:
    1. Major point sources were grown using growth factors from EPA 
EGAS model version 4.0 for all point sources except those that combust 
fuel. For combustion sources, projection data were obtained from the 
Annual Energy Outlook report produced by the U.S. Department of 
Energy's (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA).
    2. Area sources were grown using growth factors from EPA EGAS model 
version 4.0 for all area sources except those that combust fuel. For 
combustion sources, projection data were obtained from the Annual 
Energy Outlook report produced by the DOE-EIA.
    3. Nonroad mobile source emissions were developed by conducting 
independent runs for 2009 emission inventories by using the NONROAD 
2004 emissions model.
    4. Aircraft emissions were developed for 2002 using landings and 
take offs (LTO) operation numbers for each aircraft type into the 
Emissions and Dispersion Modeling Systems for NOX emissions, 
and PM2.5 emission factors were used with LTO data to 
estimate PM2.5 annual emissions. Growth factors from FAA 
database based on future flight operations were used to project 
emissions from 2002 to 2009.
    5. Commercial Marine Vessels (CMV) emissions were grown from 2002-
2009 based on an extensive review of historical trends in the different 
types of CMV calling in on the Northern New Jersey ports to project CMV 
growth. This information was obtained from the Maritime Association of 
the Port of New York and New Jersey.
    6. Calendar year 2009 onroad mobile source emission factor data 
were generated from the Mobile 6.2.03 model. Emission factors from the 
model were then applied to actual and projected VMT and fleet 
distribution data based on annual or projection measurements of VMT 
taken from the Transportation Demand Model and Highway Performance 
Monitoring System from the North Jersey Transportation Planning 
Authority and Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
    EPA finds the methodologies for all sources to be acceptable in 
accordance with EPA guidance for inventory budget planning purposes.
    A summary of the 2009 annual PM2.5 and NOX 
emissions in the New Jersey portion of the New York-Northern New 
Jersey-Long Island NY-NJ-CT PM2.5 nonattainment area is 
found in section V. of this notice. A more detailed discussion of how 
the 2009 emission inventory was reviewed and the results are presented 
in the technical support document.

VIII. Conclusions

    EPA has evaluated New Jersey's submittals for consistency with the 
Act and Agency regulations and policy. EPA is proposing to approve New 
Jersey's CO limited maintenance plan because it meets the requirements 
set forth in section 175A of the Act and continues to demonstrate that 
the NAAQS for CO will continue to be met for the next ten years. EPA is 
proposing to approve the revisions to the CO, NOX, VOC, and 
PM2.5 motor vehicle emissions budgets for Northern New 
Jersey. Finally, this notice also proposes to approve revisions to the 
general conformity budget for McGuire Air Force Base and the 2002 base 
year emission inventories.
    Note that New Jersey will be submitting additional information on 
the emission inventories. EPA will consider all information submitted 
prior to any final rulemaking action as a supplement or amendment to 
the February 21, 2006 submittal.
    EPA views the SIP revisions proposed in today's proposal as 
separable actions. This means that if EPA receives adverse comments on 
particular portions of this notice and not on other portions, EPA may 
choose not to take final action at the same time in a single notice on 
all of these SIP revisions. Instead, EPA may choose to take final 
action on these SIP revisions in separate notices.
    Interested parties may participate in the Federal rulemaking 
procedure by submitting written comments to the EPA Region 2 Office by 
one of the methods discussed in the ADDRESSES section of this action.

IX. Statutory and Executive Order Reviews

    Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), this 
proposed action is not a ``significant regulatory action'' and 
therefore is not subject to review by the Office of Management and 
Budget. For this reason, this action is also not subject to Executive 
Order 13211, ``Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect 
Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use'' (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001). This 
proposed action merely proposes to approve state law as meeting Federal 
requirements and imposes no additional requirements beyond those 
imposed by state law. Accordingly, the Administrator certifies that 
this proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory Flexibility 
Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Because this rule proposes to approve pre-
existing requirements under state law and does not impose any 
additional enforceable duty beyond that required by state law, it does 
not contain any unfunded mandate or significantly or uniquely affect 
small governments, as described in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 
1995 (Pub. L. 104-4).
    This proposed rule also does not have tribal implications because 
it will not have a substantial direct effect on one or more Indian 
tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian 
tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between 
the Federal Government and Indian tribes, as specified by Executive 
Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000). This action also does not 
have Federalism implications because it does not have substantial 
direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national 
government and the States, or on the distribution of power and 
responsibilities among the various levels of government, as specified 
in Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999). This action 
merely proposes to approve a state rule implementing a Federal 
standard, and does not alter the relationship or the distribution of 
power and responsibilities established in the Clean Air Act. This 
proposed rule also is not subject to Executive Order 13045 ``Protection 
of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks'' (62 FR 
19885, April 23, 1997), because it is not economically significant.
    In reviewing SIP submissions, EPA's role is to approve state 
choices, provided that they meet the criteria of the Clean Air Act. In 
this context, in the absence of a prior existing requirement for the 
State to use voluntary consensus standards (VCS), EPA has no authority 
to disapprove a SIP submission for failure to use VCS. It would thus be 
inconsistent with applicable law for EPA, when it reviews a SIP 
submission, to use VCS in place of a SIP submission that otherwise 
satisfies the provisions of the Clean Air Act. Thus, the requirements 
of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement 
Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) do not apply. This proposed rule does 
not impose an information collection burden under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 
Intergovernmental relations, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and

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recordkeeping requirements, Volatile organic compounds.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

    Dated: April 28, 2006.
Alan J. Steinberg,
Regional Administrator, Region 2.
[FR Doc. 06-4287 Filed 5-8-06; 8:45 am]
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