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6 PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO COMAR 26.11.19.06

7 CONCERNING CTG REQUIREMENTS FOR LARGE APPLIANCE COATING8

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13 The hearing in the above matter commenced on

14 Tuesday, August 4, 2010, at the MDE Headquarters,

15 Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore,

16 Maryland.

1718 BEFORE: DEBORAH RABIN, Hearing Officer

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20 Reported by: Robin Burgess

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3 ON BEHALF OF THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT:4 DEBORAH RABIN

5 Regulation Development Coordinator

6 Regulation Development Division - ARMA

7 Maryland Department of the Environment8 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 730

9 Baltimore, Maryland 21230

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11 HUSAIN WAHEED12 Public Health Engineer

13 Regulation Development Division

14 Air and Radiation Management15 Maryland Department of the Environment

.16 1800 Washington Boulevard

17 Baltimore, Maryland 2123018

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3 MS. RABIN: Good morning. On behalf of the

4 Department of the Environment and the Air and Radiation5 Management Administration, I would like to welcome you to

6 this public hearing.

7 My name is Deborah Rabin and I am the

8 Regulations Coordinator for the Air and Radiation

9 Management Administration. I will serve as hearing

10 officer for today’s hearing.

11 I would like to ask all of you in attendance

12 today to please sign in, if you haven’t already done so.

13 This will help us to keep an accurate record of the

14 people who participate in the hearing. Also, copies of

15 our regulation proposal, support documents, and the

16 Department’s statement are available on the table for

17 your information.

18 This hearing concerns Air Quality Regulations

19 found in the Code of Maryland Regulations, Title 26,

20 Subtitle 11, Air Quality. The Secretary of the

21 Department proposes to amend Regulation .06 under COMAR

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3 The purpose of this hearing is to give you the

4 opportunity to comment on this action.

5 The Opportunity for Public Comment for this

6 proposed action appeared in the Maryland Register, Volume

7 37, Issue 14, Page 965 on July 2, 2010.

8 The hearing will proceed in the following

9 order. First, Mr. Husain Waheed will make a statement on

10 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management11 Administration. After Mr. Waheed is finished, I will

12 call on any elected official or government official who

13 wishes to make a statement. Then, I will call upon

14 anyone else who indicated on the sign—in sheet that he or

15 she would like to make a statement.

16 When giving your statement, please identify

17 yourself and your affiliation, and give your statement

18 loudly and clearly. Are there any questions?

19 (No response)

20 MS. RABIN: I will now call on Mr. Waheed.

21 MR. WAHEED: My name is Husain Waheed. I am an

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statement as

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6 Statement of the Air and Radiation

7 Management Administration8 Department of the Environment9 for the Public Hearing Relating to

10 Proposed mendments to Regulation .06

11 Control of VOC from Large Appliance Coating under

12 COMAR 26.11.19 Control of Volatile Organic Compounds

13 from Specific Processes14 held on August 4, 2010 Baltimore, MD

15 My name ±s Husain Waheed. I am a Senior

16 Regulatory and Compliance Engineer with the Regulation

17 Development Division of the Air and Radiation Management

18 Administration, Department of the Environment.

19 This public hearing is being held pursuant to

20 the requirements of 40 CFR Section 51.102 and Sections 2—

21 301 et. seq. of the Environment Article, Annotated Code

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4 Notice of this hearing appeared in the:

5 Maryland Register on July 2, 2010; MDE’s website on June

6 22 — August 4, 2010; Baltimore Sun on July 2, 2010;

7 Saint Mary’s Enterprise on July 2, 2010; Cumberland

8 Times—News on July 2, 2010; Frederick News—Post on July

9 2, 2010; Salisbury Daily Times on July 2, 2010; and the

10 Washington Post on July 1, 2010.

11 Copies of these notices were submitted for the

12 record.

13 Copies of the proposed action and supporting

14 documents were submitted for review to the State

15 Clearinghouse and are also submitted at this time into

16 the hearing record. Copies were also made available for

17 public inspection at the Air and Radiation Management

18 Administration offices in Baltimore, Cumberland, and

19 Salisbury, and at all local health departments or local

20 air quality control offices.

21 The purpose of today’s hearing is to give the

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4 These amendments are necessary to incorporate5 the standards and requirements of Control Techniques

6 Guidelines (CTG) for large appliance coating operations

7 and the economic impact analysis has been conducted in8 the development of the CTG.

9 COMAR 26.11.19.06 is amended to set the VOC

10 coating standard of 2.3 pounds per gallon of coating

11 applied (minus water) /0.275 kilogram/liter of coating12 applied (minus water). Application of coatings on large

13 appliances can only be conducted using one of the

14 following methods: 1. Electrostatic application; 2. HVLP

15 spray; 3. Flow coat; 4. Roller coat; 5. Dip coat

16 including electrodeposition; 6. Brush coat; or 7. Other

17 coating application method capable of achieving a18 transfer efficiency equivalent or better than that

19 achieved by HVLP spraying.

20 The requirements of the regulation can be met

21 by complying with the standard for VOC content of coating

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3 from the large appliance coating installation through the

4 use of control equipment which achieves an overall VOC5 emissions reduction of at least 90 percent.

6 Maryland’s State Implementation Plan (SIP)

7 This regulation will be submitted to the EPA

8 for approval as part of the SIP.

9 Consideration of Comments

10 The Department will consider all comments before making a

11 decision to adopt the proposed amendments.

1213 MS. RABIN: Please let the record show that no

14 one has come to attend this public hearing.

15 This will conclude the public hearing regarding16 proposed amendments to Regulation .06 under COMAR

17 26.11.19, Volatile Organic Compounds from Specific

18 Processes.

19 Let the record reflect that it is now 10:30,

20 and this hearing is officially concluded.21 (Whereupon, the hearing was concluded)

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45 I, Robin Burgess, do hereby certify that the6 foregoing transcription was reduced to typewriting via7 audiotapes recorded by me; that I am neither counsel for,

8 nor related to, nor employed by any of the parties to the9 case in which these proceedings were transcribed; that I

10 am not a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel11 employed by the parties hereto, nor financially or

12 otherwise interested in the outcome of the action.13

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