ENCLOSURE2CERTIFICATIONOFPUBLICPARTICIPATIONACTIVITIESANDCOMPLIANCEWITHSTATEADMINISTRATIVEPROCEDURESAsrequiredby4OCFR51.102(f)andSection2.1(b)and(d)through(g)ofAppendixVof40CFRPart51,thefollowinginformationregardingpublicparticipationactivitiesandcompliancewithstateadministrativeproceduresisprovided.PUBLICPARTICIPATIONACTIVITIESAsrequiredby40CFR51.102(a),threehearingstoacceptpublictestimonyconcerningaproposedrevisiontotheCommonwealthofVirginiaStateImplementationPlanwereheld(I)attheNorthernVirginiaRegionalOfficeofVirginiaDEQ,13901CrownCourt,Woodbridge,Virginia,at1:30p.m.and6:30p.m.onApril24,2007,and(ii)atGeorgeMasonHighSchool,7124LeesburgPike,FallsChurch,Virginiaat6:30p.m.onApril26,2007.IntheNationalCapitalInterstateAirQualityControlRegion,thepublicwasgivennoticeofthehearingsintheWashingtonTimesonMarch23,2007(copyattached).AsrequiredbySection2.1(g)ofAppendixVof40CFRPart51,thehearingwasheldinaccordancewiththeinformationfoundinthepublicnotice,andaccordingtothestate’slaws.TheRegionalAdministratorfortheU.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgencywasnotifiedofthehearings,aswaseachlocalairpollutioncontrolagencywhichwillbesignificantlyimpactedbytherevisionandislocatedintheaffectedAirQualityControlRegion.Inaddition,theDistrictofColumbiaandMaryland,whichshareaffectedinterstateAirQualityControlRegionswithVirginia,werenotifiedofthehearing.Thesenotificationsfollowtherequirementsof40CFRPart51.102(d).Thecompleterecordofthehearings,alongwithanytestimonyreceivedandresponsesthereto,islocatedattheOfficeofAirRegulatoryDevelopmentoftheDepartmentofEnvironmentalQuality.ThedepartmentcontacttoaccessthisinformationistheDirector,OfficeofAirRegulatoryDevelopment.AsummaryofthetestimonyreceivedbyVirginiaandresponsestheretoisattachedasEnclosure3tothissubmittal.AsummaryofthetestimonyreceivedbyalloftheaffectedjurisdictionsandresponsestheretomaybefoundinAppendixJtoEnclosure1ofthissubmittal.TEMPLATES\SIP-PLAN\PLNO2SP\NONATTNPLANS\2007\NVA-SIP-2.DOCPUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE The Department

of Environmental

Quality

(DEQ)

will hold three

pub lic hearings

on

a proposed

revision

to the Comrnonweaith

of Vir ginia

State Implementation

Plan

(SIP).

Two hearings

will

be held

In the Conference

Room, Department

of Environmental

Quality,

North ern Virginia

Regional

Office,

13901

Crown

Court, Woodbridge,

Vir ginia,

on April

24, 2007.

The

first hearing

will

be held

at 1:30

p.m. and

the second

hearIng

wilt

be held

at 6:30

p.m.

The third hearing will

be held

at 6:30

p.m.

on April

26, 2007,

in the Mustang

Café

10- cated

in George

Mason

High School.

George

Mason

High School

Is located

at 7124 Leesburg

Pike,

Falls Church,

Virginia,

and

is within walking

distance

of the West

Falls Church

Metro Station.

The

pur pose

of these hearings

is

to accept testimony

concerning

the

pro posed revision.

Using

the procedures

explained

below,

the

DEQ

will &so accept written comments

until

500 p.m.,

April

27, 2007. The proposed

revision,

“State Implementation

Plan

(SIP)

for

the

8- Hour Ozono Standard Demonstrating

Reasonable

Further Progress for 2008

and

a Moderate

Area Attainment Demonstration

and

a 2002 Base

Year Inventory

for

the Washington

DC-MD-VA Nonattainment Area,” consists

of

(i)

a Reasonable

Further Progress

Plan

for 2002- 2008;

(ii)

an attainment

plan;

(lii)

an analysis

of reasonably

avail able control measures;

(Iv)

an attainment demonstration;

(v) con tingency

plans

for failure

to attain

RFP

and failure

to attain

the

air quality standard;

and

(vi) mobile

source budgets.

The revision

also consists

of the base

year

2002

air poiiutant

emissions

inventory, which

serves

as the basis

for

all planning

activities

related

to the

8- hour ozone standard

for

the metropolitan

Washington,

DC area.

This inventory

has been prepared

in response

to the emissions

inventory requirements

under

§ 172(c)

of the federal

Clean

Air

Act

in accor dance

with

40 CFR 51.915. The proposed

plan

was prepared

by the Metropolitan

Washington Air Quality Committee

(MWAQC),

which consists

of elected

officials from

the affected

localities

and representatives

of state transporta tion

and

air quality planning

agencies.

The

plan

is intended

to show tOe progress

being

made

to improve

air quality

in the Washington nonattainment

area

and

the efforts underway

to assure

that

all nec essary

steps

are taken

to reach

the federal

health standard

for ground-level

ozone

by 2009. MWAQC prepared

the

plan

to comply with

the Clean

Air

Act Amendments

of 1990;

with federal reclassifi cation requirements;

and

with federal

Phase

I and Phase

2 imple mentatlori

guidance. Comments

are Invited

on the entire

plan, including

the proposed control measures, contingency

measures,

mobile

source budgets, and inventory.

Comments

must

be submitted

according

to the

pro. cedures specified

in the next paragraph

to

be considered

in the

for mation

of the final

plan; however,

questions

may

be directed

to the contact

listed below. All comments

must

be received

by DEQ

by 5:00 p.m.,

AprIl

27, 2007, to

be considered.

It

is preferred

that

all comments

be provided

in writing,

along

with

any supporting

documents

or exhibits;

however, oral comments

will

be accepted

at the hearings. Comments

may

be submitted

by mail, facsimile transmission,

e-mail,

or personal

ap pearance

at the hearings,

and must

be submitted

to Doris McLeod, Air Quality

Planner,

Office

of

Air Data Analysis

and Planning,

De partment

of Environmental

Quality,

P.O.

Box

1105, Richmond,

Vir ginia

23218 (phone 804-698-4197.

email dan1cieod’deo.vlrginia.cJQv. fax 804-698-4510).

Comments

by facsimile transmission

will

be

ac cepted

only

if followed

by receipt

of the signed original

within

one week. Comments

by e-mail

will

be accepted

only

if the name,

ad dress,

and phone number

of the commenter

are included.

All testi mony, exhibits

and documents

received

are matters

of public record. • The proposal

an

ãhy supporting

documents

subject

to this public hearing

may

be examined

by the public

at

(1)

the

DEQ

Main Street Office,

8th Floor,

629

E. Main Street, Richmond.

Virginia,

(804)

698- 4070

and

(2)

the DEQ Northern

Regional

Office.

13901 Crown

Court, • Woodbridge,

Virginia

(phone 703-583-3800)

between

8:30

a.m.

and ‘4:30p.m.

of each business

day

until

the close

of the public comment period. The proposed

plan

is available

for review

online

at the following web address: http:/,hareoolnt.niwcop.prQjlrpupIltv,kiefauft.aspx

Run Date: March

23rd,

2007 AD#10147161 -

•1 cAFFIDAVITOFPUBLICATIONAl)#10147161STATEOFVIRGINIA.COUNTIESOFFAIRFAX!ALEXANDR1A/ARLINGTON/PRINCEWILLIAM.towit:Iherebycertifythatonthe23rddayofMarch2007,beforeme,thesubscriber,FAITHF!.ALLBRITTON.anotarypublic,thatthemattersandfactssetfortharetrue.CARLS.JOHNSON,whobeingdulyswornaccordingtolaw,andoathsaysthatheisanAUTHORIZEDAGENTofTHEWASHINGTONTIMES.L.L.C..publisherof1jeWa1jitituiihi.cCirculateddaily,intheCountiesofFairfax,Alexandria,Arlington,PrinceWilliam,StateofVirginia.andthattheadvertisement,ofwhichtheannexedisatruecopywaspublishedinsaidnewspaperItime(s)onthefollowingdates:2007MARCH23attherateof$DISPLAYperline.TotalCost$1,126.17DollarsAswitness,myhandandnotarialseal.NotaryPublij1tJFaithH.AlibrittonNotaryPublic,DistrictofCoIumbiMyCommissionExpiresMyCommsionExpires6-14-201ENCLOSURE3RECORDOFHEARINGANDSUMMARYOFTESTIMONYAsrequiredby40CFR51.102(e),thecompleterecordofthehearing,alongwithalistofwitnessesandthetextofthewrittenpresentationsorsummaryoftheoralpresentations,islocatedattheOfficeofAirRegulatoryDevelopmentoftheDepartmentofEnvironmentalQuality.ThedepartmentcontacttoaccessthisinformationistheDirector,OfficeofAirRegulatoryDevelopment.AsrequiredbySection2.1(h)ofAppendixVof40CFRPart51,belowisasummaryofthetestimonyreceivedandresponsesthereto.Includedisabriefstatementofthesubject,theidentificationofthecommenter,thesummaryofthecommentandtheresponse(analysisandactiontaken).Eachissueisdiscussedinlightofallofthecommentsreceivedthataffectthatissue.Allcommentshavebeenreviewedandresponsesdevelopedbasedonanevaluationoftheissuesraisedinconsiderationoftheoverallgoalsandobjectivesoftheairqualityprogramandtheintendedpurposeofthedocumentunderreview.1.SUBJECT:Coal-firedpowerplants.COMMENTER:JulieCrenshawVanFleetTEXT:Old,coal-firedpowerplantscausehealthconcernsfortheregionaswellasforlocalresidentsaffectedbytheemissions.Largecorporationsshouldtakeadditionalactionstomitigatetheriskposedbyoperatingsuchfacilities.RESPONSE:Virginiaagreesthatemissionsfromcoal-firedpowerplantsneedtobeaddressedtoimproveairqualityintheWashington,DCregion.TheSIPcontainsprovisionsforsignificantreductionsfromthefacilitieslocatedintheregion.Virginia’sCAIRrulecontainsprovisionsthatdonotallowtradingofNOxandSO2withinthenonattainmentareas,therebyrequiringfacilitieswithinthenonattainmentareatoreducetheiremissions.TheMarylandHealthyAirActsetsstrictcapsoncoal-firedpowerplantsandalsorestrictstrading.ModelinghasshownthattheNOemissionreductionsassociatedwiththeselocalrequirements,whicharestricterthanfederalrequirements,willimproveairquality.MWAQCandthestatescontinuetoworkthroughtheOzoneTransportCommissionprocesstoseekadditionalemissionreductions,eithervoluntarilyorwithinaregulatoryframework,fromcoal-firedpowerplantswithinourregionandnationally.2.SUBJECT:Non-roademissions,constructionequipment.COMMENTER:MetropolitanWashingtonAirportsAuthorityTEXT:Thepresentationofnon-roademissionsinAppendixDofthedraftSIPdoesnotseemtoallowastraightforwarddeterminationofconstructionequipmentemissionsfromareaslessthanentirecounties.ForactionssuchasairportimprovementprojectsthataresubjecttotheNationalEnvironmentalPolicyActandtogeneralconformityrequirements,itisparticularlyimportanttobeabletodocumentwhethertheSIPincludesconstructionequipmentemissionsfortheseactions.ItisnotclearfromthepresentdraftSIPhowthismightbeaccomplished.RESPONSE:Constructionequipmentemissionsareprovidedbythenonroadmodelonlyatthecountylevelandnotforareaslessthanentirecounties.Thenonroadmodelprojectstheseemissionsfordifferentyearsbasedonassumptionsofgrowthprojectionsforconstructionequipmenttypesforthoseyearsandapplyingappropriatecontrolsthereafter.However,thenonroadmodelguidedoesnotprovideinformationonwhetheritsassumptionsincludespecificactionssuchasairportimprovementprojectsinaparticularcounty.3.SUBJECT:VOCemissionsfromasphaltpaving.COMMENTER:MetropolitanWashingtonAirportsAuthorityTEXT:AppendixDoftheSIPdoesnotappeartoaccountforVOCemissionsfromasphaltpavinginVirginia.IftheSIPotherwiseincludessuchemissions,theSIPshouldincludemoreexplicitinformationonhowthisisaddressed.RESPONSE:TherearetwodifferenttypesofasphaltpavingemissionsincludedinVirginiainventoriesforfutureyears.Sincetheseemissionsareverylow(seeVirginia2008emissionsbelow)andAppendixDonlyshowsemissionsusingtwodecimalplacesduetospacelimitations,theseemissionsshowuponlyas0.00.AsphaltPavingCutback(2461021000):0.0004tpdofVOCEmulsifiedAsphalt(2461022000):0.0019tpdofVOCDetailsonthemethodologytocalculatethebaseyear2002emissionsareprovidedintheAppendixB(BaseYear2002EmissionsInventoryDocument)onpages3-26and3-27andfutureyearinventoriesinChapter4onpage4-4oftheproposal.TEMPLATES\SIP-PLAN\PLNO3SIP\NONATTNPLANS\2007\NVA-SIP-3.DOC