[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 197 (Friday, October 12, 2007)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 58031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-20058]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2007-0657; FRL-8479-5]


Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Revisions to 
the California State Implementation Plan; San Francisco Bay Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to approve under the Clean Air Act a revision 
to the San Francisco Bay Area portion of the California State 
Implementation Plan (SIP). This revision consists of transportation 
conformity criteria and procedures related to interagency consultation 
and enforceability of certain transportation-related control measures 
and mitigation measures. We are proposing to approve local procedures 
to update the transportation conformity criteria and procedures in the 
applicable SIP.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by November 13, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments, identified by docket number EPA-R09-OAR-
2007-0657, by one of the following methods:
    1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-
line instructions.
    2. E-mail: [email protected].
    3. Mail or deliver: Ginger Vagenas (AIR-2) U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 
94105-3901.
    Instructions: All comments will be included in the public docket 
without change and may be made available online at www.regulations.gov, 
including any personal information provided, unless the comment 
includes Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information 
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Information that you 
consider CBI or otherwise protected should be clearly identified as 
such and should not be submitted through www.regulations.gov or e-mail. 
The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, and 
EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you 
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send e-mail directly to 
EPA, your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as 
part of the public comment. If EPA cannot read your comment due to 
technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA 
may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid 
the use of special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of 
any defects or viruses.
    Docket: The index to the docket for this action is available 
electronically at www.regulations.gov and in hard copy at EPA Region 
IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California. While all documents 
in the docket are listed in the index, some information may be publicly 
available only at the hard copy location (e.g., copyrighted material), 
and some may not be publicly available in either location (e.g., CBI). 
To inspect the hard copy materials, please schedule an appointment 
during normal business hours with the contact listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ginger Vagenas, EPA Region IX, (415) 
972-3964, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This proposal addresses the San Francisco 
Bay Area Transportation Air Quality Conformity Protocol--Conformity 
Procedures and Interagency Consultation Procedures, which are together 
referred to as the San Francisco Bay Area conformity SIP. In the Rules 
and Regulations section of this Federal Register, we are approving 
these local procedures in a direct final action without prior proposal 
because we believe this SIP revision is not controversial. If we 
receive adverse comments, however, we will publish a timely withdrawal 
of the direct final rule and address the comments in subsequent action 
based on this proposed rule. Please note that if we receive adverse 
comment on an amendment, paragraph, or section of this rule and if that 
provision may be severed from the remainder of the rule, we may adopt 
as final those provisions of the rule that are not the subject of an 
adverse comment.
    We do not plan to open a second comment period, so anyone 
interested in commenting should do so at this time. If we do not 
receive adverse comments, no further activity is planned. For further 
information, please see the direct final action.

    Dated: September 20, 2007.
Wayne Nastri,
Regional Administrator, Region IX.
 [FR Doc. E7-20058 Filed 10-11-07; 8:45 am]
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