Area Designations for 1997 Ground-level Ozone Standards
Region 1: Recommendations and EPA Response
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EPA originally asked the states and tribes to recommend whether or not areas
were in attainment in 2000. Many states and tribes complied, but because of continuing
litigation, the Agency deferred designation action. EPA asked the states and tribes to, by July 15, 2003, either reaffirm or revise their 2000 recommendations or submit new recommendations. EPA will make its final designations based upon these reaffirmed, revised, or new recommendations. State recommendations and EPA response letters are presented here. EPA will make final designations by April 15, 2004. Tribal information for both 2000 and 2003 is available on the Tribal Recommendations page. Correspondence from persons outside the agency is catalogued on the outside correspondence page. |
2003 EPA Intended Designations (Not Final)
The EPA intends to designate counties shaded red as nonattainment. The remaining unclassifiable/attainment areas are shaded beige. EPA may intend to designate some counties as partial nonattainment; that intention is reflected in the EPA response letters. Any partial counties are shown as whole counties on this map. EPA will make official designations in 2004. A map showing 2000 recommendations by the states is available below the recommendation and response documents.
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Recommendation and Response Documents
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The documents listed below are states' submittals to EPA's request for recommendations on the designations of areas for the 8-hour ozone standard and EPA's responses to those submittals. EPA will make final designations by April 15, 2004.The quality of these PDF files are quite variable, and are the result of the quality of the documents provided to Ozone Policy and Strategies Group (OPSG) at this time. OPSG will update the quality and completeness of these files as the documents become available.
Region 1: State Recommendations and EPA Response Letters
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Region 1 tribal information
2003 State Recommendations
Counties shaded red on the map below were recommended by states to be designated nonattainment in the recommendation process in 2003.
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