ENCLOSURE 2 

CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES 

AND COMPLIANCE WITH 

STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES 

As required by 40 CFR 51.102 and Section 2.1 of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 51, the 

following information regarding public participation activities and compliance with state 

administrative procedures is provided. 

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES

As required by 40 CFR Part 51.102(a), the public was given notice of the opportunity to 

submit written comments concerning a proposed revision to the Commonwealth of 

Virginia State Implementation Plan. The notice was provided in the Washington 

Examiner (for the National Capital Interstate Air Quality Control Region), along with the 

location of the proposal for public inspection, on September 22, 2010. 

As required by 40 CFR Part 51.102(a) and (d)(1) and (2), the public was given notice of 

a hearing concerning the proposed revision in the Washington Examiner (for the 

National Capital Interstate Air Quality Control Region), along with the location of the 

proposal for public inspection, on September 22, 2010. The attached copy of the notice 

provides the evidence required by Section 2.1(f) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 51. 

Similar notices were placed in at least one paper of general circulation in each of 

Virginia's other Air Quality Control Regions. 

As required by 40 CFR 51.102(a), a hearing to accept public testimony concerning the 

proposed revision was held in second floor conference room A, Virginia Department of 

Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, at 9:00 a.m. on 

October 22, 2010. As required by 40 CFR 51.102(f) and Section 2.1(g) of Appendix V 

of 40 CFR Part 51, the hearing was held in accordance with the information found in the 

public notice, and according to the state's laws and the requirements of 40 CFR 51.102. 

The Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was notified 

of the hearing, as was each local air pollution control agency which will be significantly 

affected by the revision and is located in the affected Air Quality Control Regions. In 

addition, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Tennessee, which share affected 

interstate Air Quality Control Regions with Virginia, were notified of the hearing. These 

notifications follow the requirements of 40 CFR Part 51.102(d)(3), (4) and (5). 

COMPLIANCE WITH STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES

As required by Section 2.1(b) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 51, the regulation was 

published in the Virginia Register of Regulations on October 11, 2010 after being duly 
adopted by the State Air Pollution Control Board on September 10, 2010, certified by 

the Office of the Attorney General as within the board’s statutory authority on 

September 17, 2010 and thus fully enforceable under Virginia law, and submitted to the 

Virginia Registrar on behalf of the Board by the Department of Environmental Quality as 

a true and accurate copy of the duly adopted regulation on September 22, 2010, 

providing the evidence required by Section 2.1(b) and (e) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 

51. As required by Section 2.1(d) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 51, a copy of the actual 

regulation submitted for approval and incorporation by reference into the 

Commonwealth of Virginia State Implementation Plan is attached, along with the 

effective date of January 2, 2011. 

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