Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; Redesignation of the Charleston West Virginia Ozone Nonattainment Area to Attainment and Approval of the Area's Maintenance Plan

Résumé

On November 13, 1992, the West Virginia Department of Commerce, Labor & Environmental Resources; Division of Environmental Protection; Office of Air Quality (WVOAQ) submitted a request to EPA to redesignate the Charleston moderate ozone nonattainment area (Kanawha and Putnam Counties) from nonattainment to attainment. On November 13, 1992, the WVOAQ also submitted a maintenance plan for the Charleston area as a revision to the West Virginia State Implementation Plan (SIP). On February 28, 1994, West Virginia submitted an update to its November 13, 1994 submittal. The EPA is proposing to redesignate the Charleston ozone nonattainment area from nonattainment to attainment and proposing to approve the maintenance plan submitted by the WVOAQ as a revision to the West Virginia SIP because the relevant requirements set forth in the Clean Air Act, as amended in 1990, have been met. This proposal to approve the redesignation is contingent upon West Virginia's submittal of a revision to its maintenance plan's provisions for implementation of contingency measures. These actions are being taken in accordance with the Act. The approved maintenance plan will become a federally enforceable part