
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 168 (Tuesday, August 30, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 59593-59594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-20655]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R09-OAR-2016-0096; FRL-9951-47-Region 9]


Air Plan Approval; Reno, Nevada; Second 10-Year Carbon Monoxide 
Maintenance Plan

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing 
approval of a State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the 
State of Nevada (``State''). On July 3, 2008, the EPA redesignated the 
Truckee Meadows area, consisting largely of the cities of Reno and 
Sparks in Washoe County, Nevada, from nonattainment to attainment for 
the carbon monoxide National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and 
approved the State's plan addressing the area's maintenance of the 
NAAQS for ten years. On November 7, 2014, the State submitted to the 
EPA a second maintenance plan for the Truckee Meadows area that 
addressed maintenance of the NAAQS through 2030. The EPA is also 
proposing to find adequate and approve transportation conformity motor 
vehicle emissions budgets for the years 2015, 2020, 2025 and 2030. We 
are making this proposal under the Clean Air Act.

DATES: Any comments on this proposal must arrive by September 29, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R09-
OAR-2016-0096 at http://www.regulations.gov, or via email to John 
Kelly, Air Planning Office, at kelly.johnj@epa.gov. For comments

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submitted at Regulations.gov, follow the online instructions for 
submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be removed or 
edited from Regulations.gov. For either manner of submission, the EPA 
may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not submit 
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted 
by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 
accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the 
official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish 
to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment 
contents located outside of the primary submission (i.e. on the web, 
cloud, or other file sharing system). For additional submission 
methods, please contact the person identified in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section. For the full EPA public comment policy, 
information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance 
on making effective comments, please visit http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Kelly, EPA Region IX, (415) 947-
4151, kelly.johnj@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, ``we,'' ``us'' and 
``our'' refer to the EPA. This proposal addresses the following local 
plan, ``Second 10-Year Maintenance Plan for the Truckee Meadows 8-Hour 
Carbon Monoxide Attainment Area, August 28, 2014,'' and associated 
motor vehicle emissions budgets. In the Rules and Regulations section 
of this Federal Register, we are approving this local plan 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.
    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: August 15, 2016.
Alexis Strauss,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region IX.
[FR Doc. 2016-20655 Filed 8-29-16; 8:45 am]
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