Adequacy Status of the Submitted 2009, 2017 and 2025 PM2.5 Motor Vehicle Emission Budgets for Transportation Conformity Purposes for New York

摘要

In this action, EPA is notifying the public that we have found the motor vehicle emissions budgets for PM 2.5 and NO X in the submitted maintenance plan for the New York portions of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT PM 2.5 nonattainment areas to be adequate for transportation conformity purposes. The transportation conformity rule requires that the EPA conduct a public process and make an affirmative decision on the adequacy of budgets before they can be used by metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in conformity determinations. As a result of our finding, the new 2009, 2017 and 2025 PM 2.5 budgets are applicable to nine of the ten counties in the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council planning area (excluding Putnam County) and Orange County in the Orange County Transportation Council planning area and must be used for all future transportation conformity determinations.