On January 16, 1998, the EPA published a direct final rule to identify ozone areas where the 1-hour standard is no longer applicable. The 60-day comment period concluded on March 17, 1998. A total of ten adverse comment letters were received in response to this direct final rule. Therefore, on March 16, 1998, the Agency published a withdrawal of the direct final rule, thus converting the direct final rule to a proposal. Independent of the comments received, the EPA identified typographical errors of certain areas listed in its regulations on designation of areas for air quality planning purposes. This final rule summarizes all of the comments and EPA's responses, corrects the typographical errors of certain areas, and finalizes the determination that the 1-hour standard no longer applies for specific areas identified in this final action.