82_FR_25312 82 FR 25208 - Air Plan Approvals, Idaho: Logan Utah/Idaho PM2.5

82 FR 25208 - Air Plan Approvals, Idaho: Logan Utah/Idaho PM2.5

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 104 (June 1, 2017)

Page Range25208-25211
FR Document2017-11226

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to Idaho's State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted in 2012 and 2014 to address Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements for the Idaho portion of the Logan, Utah-Idaho fine particulate matter (PM<INF>2.5</INF>) nonattainment area (Logan UT-ID area). Based on newly available air quality monitoring data, the EPA is proposing to approve Idaho's attainment demonstration and approve Idaho's 2014 Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEBs) as early progress budgets. Additionally, the EPA is proposing to conditionally approve Reasonable Further Progress (RFP), Quantitative Milestones (QMs), and revised MVEBs for the Idaho portion of the nonattainment area, based on Idaho's commitment to adopt and submit updates to these attainment plan elements within one year of the effective date of our final action.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[EPA-R10-OAR-2015-0067; FRL-9962-99-Region 10]


Air Plan Approvals, Idaho: Logan Utah/Idaho PM2.5 
Nonattainment Area

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule; supplemental.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to 
approve revisions to Idaho's State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted 
in 2012 and 2014 to address Clean Air Act (CAA) requirements for the 
Idaho portion of the Logan, Utah-Idaho fine particulate matter 
(PM2.5) nonattainment area (Logan UT-ID area). Based on 
newly available air quality monitoring data, the EPA is proposing to 
approve Idaho's attainment demonstration and approve Idaho's 2014 Motor 
Vehicle Emissions Budgets (MVEBs) as early progress budgets. 
Additionally, the EPA is proposing to conditionally approve Reasonable 
Further Progress (RFP), Quantitative Milestones (QMs), and revised 
MVEBs for the Idaho portion of the nonattainment area, based on Idaho's 
commitment to adopt and submit updates to these attainment plan 
elements within one year of the effective date of our final action.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 3, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-R10-
OAR-2015-0067 at https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 
instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot 
be edited or removed from Regulations.gov. 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, the disclosure of which 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, the full EPA 
public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, 
and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Hunt, Air Planning Unit, Office 
of Air and Waste (OAW-150), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 
1200 Sixth Ave, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101; telephone number: (206) 
553-0256; email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Throughout this document, wherever ``we,'' 
``us,'' or ``our'' is used, it is intended to refer to the EPA.

Table of Contents

I. Background
II. Proposed Action
III. Statutory and Executive Orders Review

I. Background

    On October 17, 2006, the EPA strengthened the 24-hour 
PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) by 
lowering the numerical level of the NAAQS to 35 [micro]g/m\3\ (71 FR 
61144). Following promulgation of a new or revised NAAQS, the EPA is 
required by the CAA to promulgate designations for areas throughout the 
United States in accordance with section 107(d) of the CAA. On November 
13, 2009, the EPA designated a portion of Franklin County, Idaho as 
part of the cross-boundary Logan UT-ID area for the 2006 24-hour 
PM2.5 NAAQS. This designation requires Idaho to prepare and 
submit an attainment plan for the Idaho portion of the nonattainment 
area meeting applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and 
providing for attainment of the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS in 
the Logan UT-ID area (74 FR 58688). On December 14, 2012, the Idaho 
Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) submitted an attainment plan 
SIP submission developed to address attainment planning requirements 
for the Idaho portion of the Logan UT-ID area for the 2006 24-hour 
PM2.5 NAAQS. On December 24, 2014, the IDEQ submitted a 
supplement to the 2012 SIP submission that included revised attainment 
demonstration modeling intended to show that the area would meet the 
December 31, 2015 attainment date specified in subpart 4, part D of 
title I of the CAA. The 2012 SIP submittal and 2014 amendment are 
hereinafter referred to as the Idaho attainment plan.
    In a proposed rulemaking published October 27, 2016, the EPA 
proposed a partial approval and partial disapproval of the Idaho 
attainment plan with regard to specific requirements for attainment 
plans for the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS. Specifically, the 
EPA proposed to approve Idaho's woodstove

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curtailment ordinances, burn bans, heating device restrictions, and 
woodstove change-out programs included in the Idaho attainment plan as 
meeting Reasonably Available Control Measures and Reasonably Available 
Control Technology (RACM/RACT) requirements for the Idaho portion of 
the Logan, UT-ID area (81 FR 74741). The EPA proposed to disapprove the 
attainment demonstration, contingency measures, RFP, QM, and MVEB 
elements of the Idaho attainment plan for the Idaho portion of the 
area. On January 4, 2017, the EPA finalized the approval of the RACM/
RACT measures, finalized the disapproval of the contingency measures, 
and deferred action on the SIP submissions with respect to the 
attainment demonstration, RFP, QM, and MVEB requirements (82 FR 732). 
These deferred attainment plan elements are addressed in this proposed 
action.
    In a separate proposed action published December 16, 2016, 
pertaining to whether the Logan, UT-ID area attained the 2006 24-hour 
PM2.5 NAAQS, the EPA stated that the Logan, Utah Federal 
Reference Method (FRM) monitor relied upon for determining compliance 
with the PM2.5 NAAQS did not have fully complete and valid 
2015 data in accordance with 40 CFR part 58 (81 FR 91088). Based upon 
that incomplete data, the EPA proposed to determine that the area had 
failed to attain the NAAQS by December 31, 2015. However, since that 
time, the State of Utah and the EPA have examined data from the co-
located Federal Equivalent Method (FEM) continuous PM2.5 
monitor in Logan, Utah, and the EPA has determined that data from this 
FEM monitor can be used to substitute for days without valid data at 
the FRM monitor in order to create a valid and complete data set for 
2015.\1\ This data, which is available in the docket, shows a 98th 
percentile value of 29 [micro]g/m\3\ for 2015, meeting the ``clean 
data'' criterion for a 1-year attainment date extension.\2\ IDEQ 
requested that the EPA use the discretion allowed under CAA section 
188(d) to grant a 1-year extension of the Moderate area attainment date 
for the Logan, UT-ID area, from December 31, 2015 to December 31, 2016, 
and requested a second 1-year extension based on 2016 monitoring 
data.\3\ The State of Utah also requested two 1-year extensions of the 
Moderate area attainment date based on the validated 2015 air quality 
monitoring data and the newly available 2016 data.\4\ The EPA will act 
separately on the 1-year extension requests.
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    \1\ See Memorandum from Joshua Rickard, ``Logan Utah 
PM2.5 2015 Design Value,'' May 8, 2017.
    \2\ See spreadsheet referred to in memorandum. This criterion is 
set forth in 40 CFR 51.1005(a)(ii).
    \3\ See letters dated December 15, 2015, February 26, 2016, and 
April 25, 2017.
    \4\ See letters dated May 1, 2017 and May 2, 2017.
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    The EPA's evaluation of the additional data now available for 
calendar year 2015 at the Logan, Utah monitors also affects the 
agency's prior evaluation of the Idaho attainment plan. Additionally, 
in a letter dated April 25, 2017, IDEQ committed to revising the Idaho 
attainment plan to address RFP, QM, and MVEB requirements by August 1, 
2018. Based upon our evaluation of these two factors, the EPA is 
issuing this supplemental proposal to explain and take comment upon its 
revised analysis of Idaho's SIP submissions.

A. Attainment Demonstration

    A key factor in our October 27, 2016 proposed disapproval of 
Idaho's attainment demonstration was that the 2013-2015 design value 
exceeded the level of the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS and air 
quality data available at that time was not available to establish that 
the 2015 98th percentile was below the standard, as necessary to 
qualify for a potential 1-year attainment date extension. Therefore, 
the EPA proposed to disapprove the modeled attainment demonstration 
portion of the Idaho attainment plan which indicated that the Logan, 
UT-ID area would attain the NAAQS by the December 31, 2015 attainment 
date (81 FR 74741, at page 74744).
    The EPA's subsequent evaluation of the monitoring data indicates 
that the Logan, UT-ID area did meet the numerical level of the 24-hour 
PM2.5 NAAQS in 2015, as projected in the modeled attainment 
demonstration portion of the Idaho attainment plan. The fact that the 
monitoring data confirms the State's projections in the attainment 
demonstration affects the EPA's evaluation of the attainment 
demonstration and supports a proposed approval rather than prior 
proposed disapproval.
    In particular, the EPA's August 24, 2016, Fine Particulate Matter 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards: State Implementation Plan 
Requirements, Final Rule (PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule) 
provides that a state's modeled attainment demonstration needs to 
establish that an area will attain the NAAQS by the projected 
attainment date, but for purposes of modeling a state may elect to 
demonstrate that the area will meet the numerical level of the NAAQS 
the final year (81 FR 58010, at page 58054). The EPA authorizes this 
approach because of the potential availability of extensions of the 
attainment date under relevant provisions of the CAA. In other words, 
if ambient data show attainment-level concentrations in the final 
statutory attainment year, a state may be eligible for up to two 1-year 
extensions of the attainment date. See 40 CFR 51.1005. Using this 
provision, a state may be able to attain the NAAQS by the extended 
attainment date, even if the measured design value for an area does not 
meet the NAAQS by the end of the 6th calendar year after designation. 
For this reason, the EPA's PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule 
indicates that it is acceptable for a state to model air quality levels 
for the final statutory attainment year in which the area is required 
to attain the standard (in this case 2015).
    In the Logan UT-ID area, both measured and modeled PM2.5 
concentrations in 2015 were consistent with meeting the numerical level 
of the NAAQS in both Utah and Idaho.\5\ The EPA is therefore proposing 
to approve the attainment demonstration portion of the Idaho attainment 
plan on the basis that the attainment-level concentrations modeled for 
this area (based on the Idaho, Utah, and federal control measures 
already in place) are consistent with the updated 2015 monitoring data 
for the nonattainment area. We also note that the joint Idaho and Utah 
modeling included in Appendix D of the Idaho attainment plan followed 
applicable EPA modeling guidance in predicting that existing state and 
federal control measures to address motor vehicle, wood stove, and 
other emission sources would bring PM2.5 concentrations 
below 35 [micro]g/m\3\ by 2015 in the Logan, UT-ID area. Because there 
is now valid and complete 2015 data confirming the projected modeling 
concentrations in Idaho's modeled attainment demonstration, the EPA is 
proposing to approve IDEQ's attainment demonstration.
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    \5\ The Franklin County, Idaho monitor recorded a valid 2015 
98th percentile of 18.8 [micro]g/m\3\. See https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/air-quality-design-values#report.
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 B. RFP, QMs, and MVEBs

    In our October 27, 2016 action, the EPA proposed to disapprove the 
Idaho attainment plan with respect to the RFP and QM requirements for 
the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS. The Idaho attainment plan did 
not address these attainment plan elements consistent with current 
requirements because it did not include QMs and did not

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include any RFP analysis or plan, other than the modeling demonstration 
showing attainment by 2015 due to the control measures already in 
place. We noted, however, that, ``[i]f properly accounted for and 
specified in the SIP submittal, such reductions might be sufficient to 
provide the necessary demonstration of RFP for use in a quantitative 
milestones report.'' See 81 FR 74741, at page 74748. In addition, the 
EPA proposed to disapprove the MVEBs because at the time that notice 
was issued, air quality data indicated the area was not attaining the 
standard, and therefore MVEBs could not be considered consistent with 
the applicable requirements for reasonable further progress and 
attainment. See 40 CFR 93.118(e).
    Following the October 27, 2016 proposed disapproval of the Idaho 
attainment plan, there have been two significant developments. First, 
the EPA has now evaluated additional monitoring data indicating that 
the Logan, UT-ID area met the numerical level of the 2006 24-hour 
PM2.5 NAAQS in 2015. This fact affects the EPA's evaluation 
of the RFP, QM, and MVEB elements of the SIP submissions. Second, based 
on further evaluation of the issues, in an April 25, 2017 letter, the 
State of Idaho committed to make a SIP submission that will further 
address the RFP, QM, and MVEB requirements. Because the State has 
committed to address these requirements within one year in specific 
ways that the EPA considers appropriate, the EPA is now proposing a 
conditional approval of the Idaho attainment plan with respect to these 
requirements. Under section 110(k)(4) of the CAA, the EPA has authority 
to approve a SIP submission conditionally when a state commits to 
revise the submission to adopt specific enforceable measures by a date 
certain, but not later than one year after approval of the plan.
    As discussed in the 2016 PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule, a 
state's attainment plan SIP submission must include an RFP plan or 
analysis that includes three components: (1) An implementation schedule 
for control measures on sources in the nonattainment area, (2) RFP 
projected emissions for each applicable quantitative milestone year, 
including emissions reductions, based on the anticipated control 
measure implementation schedule; and (3) an analysis that demonstrates 
that this schedule of aggregate emissions reductions achieves 
sufficient progress toward attainment between the applicable baseline 
year to the attainment year. In a letter dated April 25, 2017, Idaho 
committed to address the required elements discussed above. 
Specifically, the April 25, 2017 commitment letter contains an 
implementation schedule for control measures on sources in the 
nonattainment area and projected emissions reductions resulting from 
that implementation schedule. Accordingly, Idaho committed in the April 
25, 2017 letter to make a SIP submission that will include an RFP plan 
or analysis that will explain how the existing measures meet the annual 
RFP requirement and include appropriate QMs for the purposes of 
establishing that the RFP requirement is met, consistent with subpart 4 
requirements.
    In our October 27, 2016 proposal, the EPA noted that Idaho relied 
on the control measures included in the Idaho attainment plan and 
already approved into the SIP, in addition to the Utah control measures 
and ongoing motor vehicle fleet turnover with cleaner cars, to provide 
the emissions reductions projected to bring the area into attainment by 
2015. In particular, IDEQ's modeling used the EPA's Motor Vehicle 
Emission Simulator (MOVES2010a) model to project emissions reductions 
of 43% NOX and 37% VOC between a baseline year of 2008 and 
the end of 2014. Idaho indicated that these projected reductions, 
primarily from ongoing motor vehicle fleet turnover of Idaho vehicles, 
would be expected to provide large and generally linear emissions 
reductions.\6\ Idaho regulates both NOX and VOC as 
precursors for purposes of the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS in 
the Logan, UT-ID area, so these reductions are appropriate for purposes 
of the RFP requirement.
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    \6\ See section 5.5.2 of Idaho's 2012 SIP revision.
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    We noted in the proposal that, ``[i]f properly accounted for and 
specified in the SIP submittal, such reductions might be sufficient to 
provide the necessary demonstration of RFP for use in a quantitative 
milestones report.'' See 81 FR 74741, at page 74748. In response, Idaho 
included the following information in the April 25, 2017 commitment 
letter: The woodstove curtailment and burn ban ordinances were adopted 
and in place during the summer and fall of 2012, with estimated 
emission reductions of 0.06 tons per winter day (tpwd) direct 
PM2.5, 0.009 tpwd nitrogen oxides (NOX), and 
0.078 tpwd volatile organic compounds (VOC). The woodstove change-out 
programs conducted in 2006-2007, 2011-2012, and 2013-2014 had already 
commenced and achieved sustained and quantifiable emission reductions 
of 8.04 tons per year (tpy) PM2.5, 0.47 tpy NOX, 
and 18.57 tpy VOC. In addition, the IDEQ negotiated road sanding 
agreements effective July 16, 2012 and October 25, 2012, with 
quantified emissions reductions of 0.10 tpwd direct PM2.5 in 
reentrained road dust emissions.\7\ Again, each of these measures are 
projected to attain quantifiable reductions of emissions of the 
relevant pollutants in the Idaho portion of the Logan, UT-ID area that 
Idaho could thus use to show reasonable progress towards attainment by 
2015, and Idaho could use documentation of the implementation of these 
measures to meet the QM requirement, e.g., the QM for the first 3-year 
quantitative milestone period from 2014 to 2017.
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    \7\ See 2012 SIP submission, Appendix C, Road Dust 
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    With respect to QMs, the 2016 PM2.5 SIP Requirements 
Rule requires that the attainment plan contain quantitative milestones 
to be achieved by the milestone dates that provide for objective 
evaluation of reasonable further progress toward timely attainment. For 
a Moderate area plan such as that at issue in this proposed action, 
quantitative milestones are required for years 4.5 (year 2014) and 7.5 
(year 2017) after the December 2009 effective date of designation. The 
2016 PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule states that the 
quantitative milestones contained in the attainment plan for a Moderate 
nonattainment area should be constructed such that they can be tracked, 
quantified and/or measured adequately in order for a state to meet its 
milestone reporting obligations, which are due 90 days after a given 
milestone date. The EPA suggested possible metrics that ``support and 
demonstrate how the overall quantitative milestones identified for an 
area may be met, such as percent implementation of control strategies, 
percent compliance with implemented control measures, and adherence to 
a compliance schedule.'' This list was not exclusive or exhaustive but 
reflected the EPA's view that the purpose of the quantitative milestone 
requirement is to provide an objective way to determine whether the 
area is making the necessary progress towards attainment by the 
applicable attainment date, i.e., to verify that the separate RFP 
requirement is met.
    Idaho's April 25, 2017 commitment letter describes Idaho's plan for 
making a SIP submission that will include QMs in the attainment plan 
for the Logan, UT-ID area. This commitment presents Idaho's approach 
for revising the attainment plan to include a detailed implementation 
schedule, estimated

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emissions reductions, and potential 2017 QM reporting metrics for the 
control measures discussed above, including wood stove and open burning 
curtailment days, wood stove change-outs, and road sanding agreements. 
Idaho's proposed QMs are consistent with EPA's suggested metrics and 
will provide an objective way to determine whether the area is making 
necessary progress towards attainment. Therefore, the commitment letter 
demonstrates that the State will, within one year of EPA's 
finalization, revise the Idaho attainment plan to satisfy the QM 
requirement.\8\
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    \8\ Our confidence in Idaho's ability to expeditiously revise 
the Idaho attainment plan to include valid QMs is bolstered by the 
information the State submitted in a February 26, 2016 letter. 
Specifically, the February 26, 2016 letter provides a list of all 
woodstove and open burning curtailment days that have occurred in 
the Idaho portion of the Logan, UT-ID area since the program was 
established, along with the public outreach materials and criteria 
used in forecasting curtailment days. The letter also gives a 
listing of all woodstove change-outs conducted in the area to date 
and quantifies the estimated emission reductions achieved through 
those change-outs since 2006. Lastly, the letter details compliance 
with the road sanding agreements documenting the amount of sand and 
salt used by Franklin County Road and Bridge verifying that the 
local agency has met its obligations since these agreements were put 
in place in 2012.
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    Lastly, with respect to MVEBs, Idaho calculated projected 2014 
emission budgets based on the former subpart 1 attainment deadline of 
December 2014. On April 25, 2017, Idaho requested that the EPA approve 
the submitted 2014 MVEBs as early progress budgets.\9\ We have 
concluded that the submitted budgets are consistent with making 
progress toward attaining the 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS by December 
31, 2015, because the budgets show reduced emissions from the motor 
vehicle sector over time. Therefore, we are proposing approval of the 
submitted 2014 MVEBs as early progress budgets. We are also proposing 
to conditionally approve Idaho's commitment to submit MVEBs for the 
2015 attainment year.
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    \9\ Early progress budgets for PM2.5 areas were 
discussed in the July 1, 2004 transportation conformity final rule. 
(See 69 FR 40030-1.)
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II. Proposed Action

    For the reasons discussed above, the EPA is proposing to approve 
the attainment demonstration in the Idaho attainment plan for the Idaho 
portion of the Logan UT-ID area. The EPA is also proposing to approve 
the 2014 MVEBs as early progress budgets, in that they are consistent 
with making progress toward attainment of the 2006 PM2.5 
NAAQS by December 31, 2015. Lastly, the EPA is proposing to 
conditionally approve RFP, QMs, and revised MVEBs in the Idaho 
attainment plan, based on IDEQ's April 25, 2017 commitment to adopt and 
submit updated plan elements to meet these requirements. Under a 
conditional approval, the State must adopt and submit the specific 
revisions it has committed to by a date certain but not later than 
within one year of the EPA's finalization.\10\ If the EPA fully 
approves the submittal of the revisions specified in the commitment 
letter, the conditional nature of the approval would be removed and the 
submittal would become fully approved. If the State does not submit 
these revisions by a date certain within one year of final action, or 
if the EPA finds the State's revisions to be incomplete, or EPA 
disapproves the State's revisions, a conditional approval will convert 
to a disapproval. If any of these occur and the EPA's conditional 
approval converts to a disapproval, that will constitute a disapproval 
of a required plan element under part D of title I of the Act, which 
starts an 18-month clock for sanctions, see section 179(a)(2), and the 
two-year clock for a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP), see CAA section 
110(c)(1)(B).
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    \10\ In IDEQ's April 25, 2017 commitment letter, IDEQ committed 
to a date certain to submit revisions by August 1, 2018, which we 
anticipate will be within one year of the effective date of final 
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III. Statutory and Executive Orders Review

    Under the CAA, the Administrator is required to approve a SIP 
submission that complies with the provisions of the Act and applicable 
Federal regulations. 42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a). Thus, in 
reviewing SIP submissions, the EPA's role is to approve state choices, 
provided that they meet the criteria of the CAA. Accordingly, this 
action merely proposes to approve state law as meeting Federal 
requirements and does not impose additional requirements beyond those 
imposed by state law. For that reason, this action:
     Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' subject to 
review by the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Orders 
12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821, January 21, 
2011);
     Does not impose an information collection burden under the 
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
     Is certified as not having a significant economic impact 
on a substantial number of small entities under the Regulatory 
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
     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);
     Does not have Federalism implications as specified in 
Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10, 1999);
     Is not an economically significant regulatory action based 
on health or safety risks subject to Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 
19885, April 23, 1997);
     Is not a significant regulatory action subject to 
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355, May 22, 2001);
     Is not subject to requirements of section 12(d) of the 
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 
note) because this action does not involve technical standards; and
     Does not provide the EPA with the discretionary authority 
to address, as appropriate, disproportionate human health or 
environmental effects, using practicable and legally permissible 
methods, under Executive Order 12898 (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
    The SIP is not approved to apply on any Indian reservation land or 
in any other area where the EPA or an Indian tribe has demonstrated 
that a tribe has jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian country, the 
rule does not have tribal implications as specified by Executive Order 
13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9, 2000).

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52

    Environmental protection, Air pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 
Incorporation by reference, Intergovernmental relations, Lead, Nitrogen 
dioxide, Ozone, Particulate matter, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile organic compounds.

    Dated: May 15, 2017.
Michelle L. Pirzadeh,
Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
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                                                                                                            revisions to Idaho’s State
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                                                    Tribal Government to Government                         portion of the Logan, Utah-Idaho fine                    On October 17, 2006, the EPA
                                                    Consultation                                            particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment              strengthened the 24-hour PM2.5 National
                                                                                                            area (Logan UT-ID area). Based on                     Ambient Air Quality Standards
                                                       The Coast Guard will hold a formal                   newly available air quality monitoring                (NAAQS) by lowering the numerical
                                                    tribal government to government                         data, the EPA is proposing to approve                 level of the NAAQS to 35 mg/m3 (71 FR
                                                    consultation regarding its proposed rule                Idaho’s attainment demonstration and                  61144). Following promulgation of a
                                                    on Thursday, July 13, 2017 from 9 a.m.                  approve Idaho’s 2014 Motor Vehicle                    new or revised NAAQS, the EPA is
                                                    to 3 p.m. at the location to be published               Emissions Budgets (MVEBs) as early                    required by the CAA to promulgate
                                                    shortly. We request that tribes intending               progress budgets. Additionally, the EPA               designations for areas throughout the
                                                    to participate in this consultation                     is proposing to conditionally approve                 United States in accordance with
                                                    submit the following information to the                 Reasonable Further Progress (RFP),                    section 107(d) of the CAA. On
                                                                                                            Quantitative Milestones (QMs), and                    November 13, 2009, the EPA designated
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                                                    June 30, 2017: (1) Whether the tribe will               Idaho’s commitment to adopt and
                                                    attend the face-to-face tribal                                                                                area for the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS.
                                                                                                            submit updates to these attainment plan               This designation requires Idaho to
                                                    consultation, (2) the name and contact                  elements within one year of the effective
                                                    information of anyone other than the                                                                          prepare and submit an attainment plan
                                                                                                            date of our final action.                             for the Idaho portion of the
                                                    Chief Executive of the tribe that is                    DATES: Written comments must be
                                                    authorized to engage in government to                                                                         nonattainment area meeting applicable
                                                                                                            received on or before July 3, 2017.                   statutory and regulatory requirements
                                                    government consultation with the Coast                  ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,                      and providing for attainment of the 2006
                                                    Guard for this tribal consultation, and                 identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R10–                  24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS in the Logan UT-
                                                    (3) any proposed agenda items and                       OAR–2015–0067 at https://                             ID area (74 FR 58688). On December 14,
                                                    written materials it intends to present.                www.regulations.gov. Follow the online                2012, the Idaho Department of
                                                    We will also provide a written summary                  instructions for submitting comments.                 Environmental Quality (IDEQ)
                                                    of the government to government tribal                  Once submitted, comments cannot be                    submitted an attainment plan SIP
                                                    consultation and comments and will                      edited or removed from Regulations.gov.               submission developed to address
                                                    place that summary in the docket.                       The EPA may publish any comment                       attainment planning requirements for
                                                    Members of the public will have time to                 received to its public docket. Do not                 the Idaho portion of the Logan UT-ID
                                                    submit further comments between the                     submit electronically any information                 area for the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS.
                                                    posting of the summary of the tribal                    you consider to be Confidential                       On December 24, 2014, the IDEQ
                                                    consultation and the closing of the                     Business Information (CBI) or other                   submitted a supplement to the 2012 SIP
                                                    comment period.                                         information, the disclosure of which is               submission that included revised
                                                                                                            restricted by statute. Multimedia                     attainment demonstration modeling
                                                      Dated: May 26, 2017.
                                                                                                            submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be              intended to show that the area would
                                                    D.G. Throop,                                            accompanied by a written comment.                     meet the December 31, 2015 attainment
                                                    Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander,              The written comment is considered the                 date specified in subpart 4, part D of
                                                    Thirteenth Coast Guard District.                        official comment and should include                   title I of the CAA. The 2012 SIP
                                                    [FR Doc. 2017–11456 Filed 5–30–17; 4:15 pm]             discussion of all points you wish to                  submittal and 2014 amendment are
                                                    BILLING CODE 9110–04–P                                  make. The EPA will generally not                      hereinafter referred to as the Idaho
                                                                                                            consider comments or comment                          attainment plan.
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                                                                                                            contents located outside of the primary                  In a proposed rulemaking published
                                                                                                            submission (i.e., on the web, cloud, or               October 27, 2016, the EPA proposed a
                                                                                                            other file sharing system). For                       partial approval and partial disapproval
                                                                                                            additional submission methods, the full               of the Idaho attainment plan with regard
                                                                                                            EPA public comment policy,                            to specific requirements for attainment
                                                                                                            information about CBI or multimedia                   plans for the 2006 24-hour PM2.5
                                                                                                            submissions, and general guidance on                  NAAQS. Specifically, the EPA proposed
                                                                                                            making effective comments, please visit               to approve Idaho’s woodstove


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                                                    curtailment ordinances, burn bans,                      requested two 1-year extensions of the                page 58054). The EPA authorizes this
                                                    heating device restrictions, and                        Moderate area attainment date based on                approach because of the potential
                                                    woodstove change-out programs                           the validated 2015 air quality                        availability of extensions of the
                                                    included in the Idaho attainment plan                   monitoring data and the newly available               attainment date under relevant
                                                    as meeting Reasonably Available                         2016 data.4 The EPA will act separately               provisions of the CAA. In other words,
                                                    Control Measures and Reasonably                         on the 1-year extension requests.                     if ambient data show attainment-level
                                                    Available Control Technology (RACM/                        The EPA’s evaluation of the                        concentrations in the final statutory
                                                    RACT) requirements for the Idaho                        additional data now available for                     attainment year, a state may be eligible
                                                    portion of the Logan, UT-ID area (81 FR                 calendar year 2015 at the Logan, Utah                 for up to two 1-year extensions of the
                                                    74741). The EPA proposed to                             monitors also affects the agency’s prior              attainment date. See 40 CFR 51.1005.
                                                    disapprove the attainment                               evaluation of the Idaho attainment plan.              Using this provision, a state may be able
                                                    demonstration, contingency measures,                    Additionally, in a letter dated April 25,             to attain the NAAQS by the extended
                                                    RFP, QM, and MVEB elements of the                       2017, IDEQ committed to revising the                  attainment date, even if the measured
                                                    Idaho attainment plan for the Idaho                     Idaho attainment plan to address RFP,                 design value for an area does not meet
                                                    portion of the area. On January 4, 2017,                QM, and MVEB requirements by August                   the NAAQS by the end of the 6th
                                                    the EPA finalized the approval of the                   1, 2018. Based upon our evaluation of                 calendar year after designation. For this
                                                    RACM/RACT measures, finalized the                       these two factors, the EPA is issuing this            reason, the EPA’s PM2.5 SIP
                                                    disapproval of the contingency                          supplemental proposal to explain and                  Requirements Rule indicates that it is
                                                    measures, and deferred action on the                    take comment upon its revised analysis                acceptable for a state to model air
                                                    SIP submissions with respect to the                     of Idaho’s SIP submissions.                           quality levels for the final statutory
                                                    attainment demonstration, RFP, QM,                      A. Attainment Demonstration                           attainment year in which the area is
                                                    and MVEB requirements (82 FR 732).                                                                            required to attain the standard (in this
                                                                                                               A key factor in our October 27, 2016
                                                    These deferred attainment plan                                                                                case 2015).
                                                                                                            proposed disapproval of Idaho’s
                                                    elements are addressed in this proposed                                                                          In the Logan UT-ID area, both
                                                                                                            attainment demonstration was that the
                                                    action.                                                                                                       measured and modeled PM2.5
                                                                                                            2013–2015 design value exceeded the
                                                       In a separate proposed action                                                                              concentrations in 2015 were consistent
                                                                                                            level of the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS
                                                    published December 16, 2016,                                                                                  with meeting the numerical level of the
                                                                                                            and air quality data available at that
                                                    pertaining to whether the Logan, UT-ID                                                                        NAAQS in both Utah and Idaho.5 The
                                                                                                            time was not available to establish that
                                                    area attained the 2006 24-hour PM2.5                                                                          EPA is therefore proposing to approve
                                                                                                            the 2015 98th percentile was below the
                                                    NAAQS, the EPA stated that the Logan,                                                                         the attainment demonstration portion of
                                                                                                            standard, as necessary to qualify for a
                                                    Utah Federal Reference Method (FRM)                                                                           the Idaho attainment plan on the basis
                                                                                                            potential 1-year attainment date
                                                    monitor relied upon for determining                     extension. Therefore, the EPA proposed                that the attainment-level concentrations
                                                    compliance with the PM2.5 NAAQS did                     to disapprove the modeled attainment                  modeled for this area (based on the
                                                    not have fully complete and valid 2015                  demonstration portion of the Idaho                    Idaho, Utah, and federal control
                                                    data in accordance with 40 CFR part 58                  attainment plan which indicated that                  measures already in place) are
                                                    (81 FR 91088). Based upon that                          the Logan, UT-ID area would attain the                consistent with the updated 2015
                                                    incomplete data, the EPA proposed to                    NAAQS by the December 31, 2015                        monitoring data for the nonattainment
                                                    determine that the area had failed to                   attainment date (81 FR 74741, at page                 area. We also note that the joint Idaho
                                                    attain the NAAQS by December 31,                        74744).                                               and Utah modeling included in
                                                    2015. However, since that time, the                        The EPA’s subsequent evaluation of                 Appendix D of the Idaho attainment
                                                    State of Utah and the EPA have                          the monitoring data indicates that the                plan followed applicable EPA modeling
                                                    examined data from the co-located                       Logan, UT-ID area did meet the                        guidance in predicting that existing
                                                    Federal Equivalent Method (FEM)                         numerical level of the 24-hour PM2.5                  state and federal control measures to
                                                    continuous PM2.5 monitor in Logan,                      NAAQS in 2015, as projected in the                    address motor vehicle, wood stove, and
                                                    Utah, and the EPA has determined that                   modeled attainment demonstration                      other emission sources would bring
                                                    data from this FEM monitor can be used                  portion of the Idaho attainment plan.                 PM2.5 concentrations below 35 mg/m3 by
                                                    to substitute for days without valid data               The fact that the monitoring data                     2015 in the Logan, UT-ID area. Because
                                                    at the FRM monitor in order to create a                 confirms the State’s projections in the               there is now valid and complete 2015
                                                    valid and complete data set for 2015.1                  attainment demonstration affects the                  data confirming the projected modeling
                                                    This data, which is available in the                    EPA’s evaluation of the attainment                    concentrations in Idaho’s modeled
                                                    docket, shows a 98th percentile value of                demonstration and supports a proposed                 attainment demonstration, the EPA is
                                                    29 mg/m3 for 2015, meeting the ‘‘clean                  approval rather than prior proposed                   proposing to approve IDEQ’s attainment
                                                    data’’ criterion for a 1-year attainment                disapproval.                                          demonstration.
                                                    date extension.2 IDEQ requested that the                   In particular, the EPA’s August 24,                B. RFP, QMs, and MVEBs
                                                    EPA use the discretion allowed under                    2016, Fine Particulate Matter National
                                                    CAA section 188(d) to grant a 1-year                    Ambient Air Quality Standards: State                     In our October 27, 2016 action, the
                                                    extension of the Moderate area                          Implementation Plan Requirements,                     EPA proposed to disapprove the Idaho
                                                    attainment date for the Logan, UT-ID                    Final Rule (PM2.5 SIP Requirements                    attainment plan with respect to the RFP
                                                    area, from December 31, 2015 to                         Rule) provides that a state’s modeled                 and QM requirements for the 2006 24-
                                                    December 31, 2016, and requested a                      attainment demonstration needs to                     hour PM2.5 NAAQS. The Idaho
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                                                    second 1-year extension based on 2016                   establish that an area will attain the                attainment plan did not address these
                                                    monitoring data.3 The State of Utah also                NAAQS by the projected attainment                     attainment plan elements consistent
                                                                                                            date, but for purposes of modeling a                  with current requirements because it
                                                      1 See Memorandum from Joshua Rickard, ‘‘Logan
                                                                                                            state may elect to demonstrate that the               did not include QMs and did not
                                                    Utah PM2.5 2015 Design Value,’’ May 8, 2017.
                                                      2 See spreadsheet referred to in memorandum.
                                                                                                            area will meet the numerical level of the               5 The Franklin County, Idaho monitor recorded a
                                                    This criterion is set forth in 40 CFR 51.1005(a)(ii).   NAAQS the final year (81 FR 58010, at                 valid 2015 98th percentile of 18.8 mg/m3. See
                                                      3 See letters dated December 15, 2015, February                                                             https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/air-quality-design-
                                                    26, 2016, and April 25, 2017.                            4 See   letters dated May 1, 2017 and May 2, 2017.   values#report.



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                                                    include any RFP analysis or plan, other                 the required elements discussed above.                 and 18.57 tpy VOC. In addition, the
                                                    than the modeling demonstration                         Specifically, the April 25, 2017                       IDEQ negotiated road sanding
                                                    showing attainment by 2015 due to the                   commitment letter contains an                          agreements effective July 16, 2012 and
                                                    control measures already in place. We                   implementation schedule for control                    October 25, 2012, with quantified
                                                    noted, however, that, ‘‘[i]f properly                   measures on sources in the                             emissions reductions of 0.10 tpwd
                                                    accounted for and specified in the SIP                  nonattainment area and projected                       direct PM2.5 in reentrained road dust
                                                    submittal, such reductions might be                     emissions reductions resulting from that               emissions.7 Again, each of these
                                                    sufficient to provide the necessary                     implementation schedule. Accordingly,                  measures are projected to attain
                                                    demonstration of RFP for use in a                       Idaho committed in the April 25, 2017                  quantifiable reductions of emissions of
                                                    quantitative milestones report.’’ See 81                letter to make a SIP submission that will              the relevant pollutants in the Idaho
                                                    FR 74741, at page 74748. In addition,                   include an RFP plan or analysis that                   portion of the Logan, UT-ID area that
                                                    the EPA proposed to disapprove the                      will explain how the existing measures                 Idaho could thus use to show reasonable
                                                    MVEBs because at the time that notice                   meet the annual RFP requirement and                    progress towards attainment by 2015,
                                                    was issued, air quality data indicated                  include appropriate QMs for the                        and Idaho could use documentation of
                                                    the area was not attaining the standard,                purposes of establishing that the RFP                  the implementation of these measures to
                                                    and therefore MVEBs could not be                        requirement is met, consistent with                    meet the QM requirement, e.g., the QM
                                                    considered consistent with the                          subpart 4 requirements.                                for the first 3-year quantitative
                                                    applicable requirements for reasonable                     In our October 27, 2016 proposal, the               milestone period from 2014 to 2017.
                                                    further progress and attainment. See 40                 EPA noted that Idaho relied on the                        With respect to QMs, the 2016 PM2.5
                                                    CFR 93.118(e).                                          control measures included in the Idaho                 SIP Requirements Rule requires that the
                                                       Following the October 27, 2016                       attainment plan and already approved                   attainment plan contain quantitative
                                                    proposed disapproval of the Idaho                       into the SIP, in addition to the Utah                  milestones to be achieved by the
                                                    attainment plan, there have been two                    control measures and ongoing motor                     milestone dates that provide for
                                                    significant developments. First, the EPA                vehicle fleet turnover with cleaner cars,              objective evaluation of reasonable
                                                    has now evaluated additional                            to provide the emissions reductions                    further progress toward timely
                                                    monitoring data indicating that the                     projected to bring the area into                       attainment. For a Moderate area plan
                                                    Logan, UT-ID area met the numerical                     attainment by 2015. In particular,                     such as that at issue in this proposed
                                                    level of the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS                   IDEQ’s modeling used the EPA’s Motor                   action, quantitative milestones are
                                                    in 2015. This fact affects the EPA’s                    Vehicle Emission Simulator                             required for years 4.5 (year 2014) and
                                                    evaluation of the RFP, QM, and MVEB                     (MOVES2010a) model to project                          7.5 (year 2017) after the December 2009
                                                    elements of the SIP submissions.                        emissions reductions of 43% NOX and                    effective date of designation. The 2016
                                                    Second, based on further evaluation of                  37% VOC between a baseline year of                     PM2.5 SIP Requirements Rule states that
                                                    the issues, in an April 25, 2017 letter,                2008 and the end of 2014. Idaho                        the quantitative milestones contained in
                                                    the State of Idaho committed to make a                  indicated that these projected                         the attainment plan for a Moderate
                                                    SIP submission that will further address                reductions, primarily from ongoing                     nonattainment area should be
                                                    the RFP, QM, and MVEB requirements.                     motor vehicle fleet turnover of Idaho                  constructed such that they can be
                                                    Because the State has committed to                      vehicles, would be expected to provide                 tracked, quantified and/or measured
                                                    address these requirements within one                   large and generally linear emissions                   adequately in order for a state to meet
                                                    year in specific ways that the EPA                      reductions.6 Idaho regulates both NOX                  its milestone reporting obligations,
                                                    considers appropriate, the EPA is now                   and VOC as precursors for purposes of                  which are due 90 days after a given
                                                    proposing a conditional approval of the                 the 2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS in the                    milestone date. The EPA suggested
                                                    Idaho attainment plan with respect to                   Logan, UT-ID area, so these reductions                 possible metrics that ‘‘support and
                                                    these requirements. Under section                       are appropriate for purposes of the RFP                demonstrate how the overall
                                                    110(k)(4) of the CAA, the EPA has                       requirement.                                           quantitative milestones identified for an
                                                    authority to approve a SIP submission                      We noted in the proposal that, ‘‘[i]f               area may be met, such as percent
                                                    conditionally when a state commits to                   properly accounted for and specified in                implementation of control strategies,
                                                    revise the submission to adopt specific                 the SIP submittal, such reductions                     percent compliance with implemented
                                                    enforceable measures by a date certain,                 might be sufficient to provide the                     control measures, and adherence to a
                                                    but not later than one year after                       necessary demonstration of RFP for use                 compliance schedule.’’ This list was not
                                                    approval of the plan.                                   in a quantitative milestones report.’’ See             exclusive or exhaustive but reflected the
                                                       As discussed in the 2016 PM2.5 SIP                   81 FR 74741, at page 74748. In response,               EPA’s view that the purpose of the
                                                    Requirements Rule, a state’s attainment                 Idaho included the following                           quantitative milestone requirement is to
                                                    plan SIP submission must include an                     information in the April 25, 2017                      provide an objective way to determine
                                                    RFP plan or analysis that includes three                commitment letter: The woodstove                       whether the area is making the
                                                    components: (1) An implementation                       curtailment and burn ban ordinances                    necessary progress towards attainment
                                                    schedule for control measures on                        were adopted and in place during the                   by the applicable attainment date, i.e.,
                                                    sources in the nonattainment area, (2)                  summer and fall of 2012, with estimated                to verify that the separate RFP
                                                    RFP projected emissions for each                        emission reductions of 0.06 tons per                   requirement is met.
                                                    applicable quantitative milestone year,                 winter day (tpwd) direct PM2.5, 0.009                     Idaho’s April 25, 2017 commitment
                                                    including emissions reductions, based                   tpwd nitrogen oxides (NOX), and 0.078                  letter describes Idaho’s plan for making
                                                    on the anticipated control measure                      tpwd volatile organic compounds
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                                                                                                                                                                   a SIP submission that will include QMs
                                                    implementation schedule; and (3) an                     (VOC). The woodstove change-out                        in the attainment plan for the Logan,
                                                    analysis that demonstrates that this                    programs conducted in 2006–2007,                       UT-ID area. This commitment presents
                                                    schedule of aggregate emissions                         2011–2012, and 2013–2014 had already                   Idaho’s approach for revising the
                                                    reductions achieves sufficient progress                 commenced and achieved sustained and                   attainment plan to include a detailed
                                                    toward attainment between the                           quantifiable emission reductions of 8.04               implementation schedule, estimated
                                                    applicable baseline year to the                         tons per year (tpy) PM2.5, 0.47 tpy NOX,
                                                    attainment year. In a letter dated April                                                                        7 See 2012 SIP submission, Appendix C, Road

                                                    25, 2017, Idaho committed to address                     6 See   section 5.5.2 of Idaho’s 2012 SIP revision.   Dust Documentation.



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                                                    emissions reductions, and potential                     IDEQ’s April 25, 2017 commitment to                      in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
                                                    2017 QM reporting metrics for the                       adopt and submit updated plan                            of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–4);
                                                    control measures discussed above,                       elements to meet these requirements.                        • Does not have Federalism
                                                    including wood stove and open burning                   Under a conditional approval, the State                  implications as specified in Executive
                                                    curtailment days, wood stove change-                    must adopt and submit the specific                       Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, August 10,
                                                    outs, and road sanding agreements.                      revisions it has committed to by a date                  1999);
                                                    Idaho’s proposed QMs are consistent                     certain but not later than within one                       • Is not an economically significant
                                                    with EPA’s suggested metrics and will                   year of the EPA’s finalization.10 If the                 regulatory action based on health or
                                                    provide an objective way to determine                   EPA fully approves the submittal of the                  safety risks subject to Executive Order
                                                    whether the area is making necessary                    revisions specified in the commitment                    13045 (62 FR 19885, April 23, 1997);
                                                    progress towards attainment. Therefore,                 letter, the conditional nature of the                       • Is not a significant regulatory action
                                                    the commitment letter demonstrates that                 approval would be removed and the                        subject to Executive Order 13211 (66 FR
                                                    the State will, within one year of EPA’s                submittal would become fully approved.                   28355, May 22, 2001);
                                                    finalization, revise the Idaho attainment               If the State does not submit these                          • Is not subject to requirements of
                                                    plan to satisfy the QM requirement.8                    revisions by a date certain within one                   section 12(d) of the National
                                                       Lastly, with respect to MVEBs, Idaho                 year of final action, or if the EPA finds                Technology Transfer and Advancement
                                                    calculated projected 2014 emission                      the State’s revisions to be incomplete, or               Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) because
                                                    budgets based on the former subpart 1                   EPA disapproves the State’s revisions, a                 this action does not involve technical
                                                    attainment deadline of December 2014.                   conditional approval will convert to a                   standards; and
                                                    On April 25, 2017, Idaho requested that                 disapproval. If any of these occur and                      • Does not provide the EPA with the
                                                    the EPA approve the submitted 2014                      the EPA’s conditional approval converts                  discretionary authority to address, as
                                                    MVEBs as early progress budgets.9 We                    to a disapproval, that will constitute a                 appropriate, disproportionate human
                                                    have concluded that the submitted                       disapproval of a required plan element                   health or environmental effects, using
                                                    budgets are consistent with making                      under part D of title I of the Act, which                practicable and legally permissible
                                                    progress toward attaining the 2006 PM2.5                starts an 18-month clock for sanctions,                  methods, under Executive Order 12898
                                                    NAAQS by December 31, 2015, because                     see section 179(a)(2), and the two-year                  (59 FR 7629, February 16, 1994).
                                                    the budgets show reduced emissions                      clock for a Federal Implementation Plan                     The SIP is not approved to apply on
                                                    from the motor vehicle sector over time.                (FIP), see CAA section 110(c)(1)(B).                     any Indian reservation land or in any
                                                    Therefore, we are proposing approval of                                                                          other area where the EPA or an Indian
                                                    the submitted 2014 MVEBs as early                       III. Statutory and Executive Orders                      tribe has demonstrated that a tribe has
                                                    progress budgets. We are also proposing                 Review                                                   jurisdiction. In those areas of Indian
                                                    to conditionally approve Idaho’s                           Under the CAA, the Administrator is                   country, the rule does not have tribal
                                                    commitment to submit MVEBs for the                      required to approve a SIP submission                     implications as specified by Executive
                                                    2015 attainment year.                                   that complies with the provisions of the                 Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, November 9,
                                                                                                            Act and applicable Federal regulations.                  2000).
                                                    II. Proposed Action
                                                                                                            42 U.S.C. 7410(k); 40 CFR 52.02(a).                      List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52
                                                       For the reasons discussed above, the                 Thus, in reviewing SIP submissions, the
                                                    EPA is proposing to approve the                                                                                    Environmental protection, Air
                                                                                                            EPA’s role is to approve state choices,
                                                    attainment demonstration in the Idaho                                                                            pollution control, Carbon monoxide,
                                                                                                            provided that they meet the criteria of
                                                    attainment plan for the Idaho portion of                                                                         Incorporation by reference,
                                                                                                            the CAA. Accordingly, this action
                                                    the Logan UT-ID area. The EPA is also                                                                            Intergovernmental relations, Lead,
                                                                                                            merely proposes to approve state law as
                                                    proposing to approve the 2014 MVEBs                                                                              Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Particulate
                                                                                                            meeting Federal requirements and does
                                                    as early progress budgets, in that they                                                                          matter, Reporting and recordkeeping
                                                                                                            not impose additional requirements
                                                    are consistent with making progress                                                                              requirements, Sulfur oxides, Volatile
                                                                                                            beyond those imposed by state law. For
                                                    toward attainment of the 2006 PM2.5                                                                              organic compounds.
                                                                                                            that reason, this action:
                                                    NAAQS by December 31, 2015. Lastly,                        • Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory                    Dated: May 15, 2017.
                                                    the EPA is proposing to conditionally                   action’’ subject to review by the Office                 Michelle L. Pirzadeh,
                                                    approve RFP, QMs, and revised MVEBs                     of Management and Budget under                           Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.
                                                    in the Idaho attainment plan, based on                  Executive Orders 12866 (58 FR 51735,                     [FR Doc. 2017–11226 Filed 5–31–17; 8:45 am]
                                                       8 Our confidence in Idaho’s ability to
                                                                                                            October 4, 1993) and 13563 (76 FR 3821,                  BILLING CODE 6560–50–P
                                                    expeditiously revise the Idaho attainment plan to
                                                                                                            January 21, 2011);
                                                    include valid QMs is bolstered by the information          • Does not impose an information
                                                    the State submitted in a February 26, 2016 letter.      collection burden under the provisions                   ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
                                                    Specifically, the February 26, 2016 letter provides     of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44                       AGENCY
                                                    a list of all woodstove and open burning
                                                    curtailment days that have occurred in the Idaho
                                                                                                            U.S.C. 3501 et seq.);
                                                    portion of the Logan, UT-ID area since the program         • Is certified as not having a                        40 CFR Part 52
                                                    was established, along with the public outreach         significant economic impact on a                         [EPA–R03–OAR–2017–0152; FRL–9962–45–
                                                    materials and criteria used in forecasting              substantial number of small entities                     Region 3]
                                                    curtailment days. The letter also gives a listing of
                                                    all woodstove change-outs conducted in the area to
                                                                                                            under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5
                                                    date and quantifies the estimated emission              U.S.C. 601 et seq.);                                     Air Plan Approval; Delaware;
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                                                    reductions achieved through those change-outs              • Does not contain any unfunded                       Infrastructure Requirements for the
                                                    since 2006. Lastly, the letter details compliance       mandate or significantly or uniquely                     2012 Fine Particulate Matter Standard
                                                    with the road sanding agreements documenting the
                                                                                                            affect small governments, as described
                                                    amount of sand and salt used by Franklin County                                                                  AGENCY:  Environmental Protection
                                                    Road and Bridge verifying that the local agency has                                                              Agency (EPA).
                                                    met its obligations since these agreements were put       10 In IDEQ’s April 25, 2017 commitment letter,
                                                    in place in 2012.                                       IDEQ committed to a date certain to submit               ACTION: Proposed rule.
                                                       9 Early progress budgets for PM
                                                                                        2.5 areas were      revisions by August 1, 2018, which we anticipate
                                                    discussed in the July 1, 2004 transportation            will be within one year of the effective date of final   SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection
                                                    conformity final rule. (See 69 FR 40030–1.)             action.                                                  Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve


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ActionProposed rule; supplemental.
DatesWritten comments must be received on or before July 3, 2017.
ContactJeff Hunt, Air Planning Unit, Office of Air and Waste (OAW-150), Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, 1200 Sixth Ave, Suite 900, Seattle, WA 98101; telephone number: (206)
FR Citation82 FR 25208 
CFR AssociatedEnvironmental Protection; Air Pollution Control; Carbon Monoxide; Incorporation by Reference; Intergovernmental Relations; Lead; Nitrogen Dioxide; Ozone; Particulate Matter; Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements; Sulfur Oxides and Volatile Organic Compounds

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