Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 16/11/1999

Adequacy Status of New Jersey State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Attainment and Maintenance of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Transportation Conformity Purposes

In this document, EPA is notifying the public that we have found that the motor vehicle emissions budgets for the New Jersey counties in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton nonattainment area, and the New Jersey counties in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island nonattainment area submitted in the New Jersey State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Attainment and Maintenance of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Transportation Conformity Purposes inadequate for conformity purposes. On March 2, 1999, the DC Circuit Court ruled that submitted SIPs cannot be used for conformity determinations until EPA has affirmatively found them adequate. As a result of our finding, the New Jersey counties in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton nonattainment area, and the New Jersey counties in the New York- Northern New Jersey-Long Island nonattainment area cannot use the motor vehicle emissions budgets from the submitted State of New Jersey State Implementation Plan (SIP) for Attainment and Maintenance of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Transportation Conformity Purposes for future conformity determinations.