Air Plan Approval; Michigan; Moderate Attainment Plan Elements for the Allegan County, Berrien County, and Muskegon County Areas for the 2015 Ozone Standard

What it does

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a revision to the Michigan State Implementation Plan (SIP) as meeting the reasonable further progress (RFP) requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for the Allegan County (partial county), Berrien County, and Muskegon County (partial county) Moderate nonattainment areas for the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). The EPA is also approving updated 2017 base year emissions inventories and is finding adequate and approving the 2023 motor vehicle emissions budgets (budgets) associated with the Allegan County, Berrien County, and Muskegon County Moderate ozone nonattainment RFP demonstrations. The EPA is approving these portions of the State's SIP submission pursuant to section 110 and part D of the CAA, and EPA's regulations. The EPA proposed to approve this action on December 11, 2025, and received no adverse comments.

The Environmental Protection Agency's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

40 CFR 52

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Environmental Protection Agency has published 248 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 263 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on March 30, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket EPA-R05-OAR-2023-0515 on Regulations.gov
• Title 40 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register