§ 52.1023 Control strategy: Ozone.

(a) Determination. EPA is determining that, as of July 21, 1995, the Lewiston-Auburn ozone nonattainment area has attained the ozone standard and that the reasonable further progress and attainment demonstration requirements of section 182(b)(1) and related requirements of section 172(c)(9) of the Clean Air Act do not apply to the area for so long as the area does not monitor any violations of the ozone standard. If a violation of the ozone NAAQS is monitored in the Lewiston-Auburn ozone nonattainment area, these determinations shall no longer apply.

(b) Determination. EPA is determining that, as of July 21, 1995, the Knox and Lincoln Counties ozone nonattainment area has attained the ozone standard and that the reasonable further progress and attainment demonstration requirements of section 182(b)(1) and related requirements of section 172(c)(9) of the Clean Air Act do not apply to the area for so long as the area does not monitor any violations of the ozone standard. If a violation of the ozone NAAQS is monitored in the Knox and Lincoln Counties ozone nonattainment area, these determinations shall no longer apply.

(c) Approval. EPA is approving an exemption request submitted by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection on September 7, 1995, for the Northern Maine area from the NO_X requirements contained in Section 182(f) of the Clean Air Act. This approval exempts Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Piscataquis, Penobscot, Washington, Aroostook, Hancock and Waldo Counties from the requirements to implement controls beyond those approved in § 52.1020(c)(41) for major sources of nitrogen oxides (NO_X), nonattainment area new source review (NSR) for new sources and modifications that are major for NO_X, and the applicable NO_X-related requirements of the general and transportation conformity provisions.