Federal Register - "Adequacy Status of the North Carolina Portion of the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill Bi-State Area Maintenance Plan 8-Hour Ozone Sub-Area Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes"

Title: Adequacy Status of the North Carolina Portion of the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill Bi-State Area Maintenance Plan 8-Hour Ozone Sub-Area Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes Source: Federal Register Data/Action: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (Notice) Date: 8/13/2013 Text Preview: ...ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-R04-OAR-2013-0129; FRL-9900-02--Region4] Adequacy Status of the North Carolina Portion of the Charlotte- Gastonia-Rock Hill Bi-State Area Maintenance Plan 8-Hour Ozone Sub-Area Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of adequacy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: EPA... ...EPA approved MVEBs for South Carolina's portion of York County in a separate action. As a result of EPA's finding, which is being announced in this notice, the North Carolina portion of the bi-state Charlotte Area must use the sub-area MVEBs for future conformity determinations for the 1997 8-hour ozone standard. DATES: These sub-area MVEBs are effective August 28, 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dianna Smith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency... ...EPA has already made. EPA Region 4 sent a letter to NC DENR on July 25, 2013, stating that the sub-area MVEBs identified for the North Carolina portion of the bi-state Charlotte area in the 1997 8-hour ozone maintenance plan, submitted on November 2, 2011, and later supplemented on February 8, 2013, are adequate and must be used for transportation conformity determinations in the North Carolina portion of the bi-state Charlotte Area. EPA...