Shandruk, Irene 

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Cristina: 

Roger Thuneii-MDE- <roger.thunell@maryland.gov> 

Friday, March 04, 2016 1:31 PM 

Fernandez, Cristina 

George Aburn -MOE-; Michael Woodman -MOE-; Diane Nelson -MOE-; Singelis, Nikos; 

Mastro, Donna; Shandruk, Irene 

Re: Modeling Protocol 

Follow up 

Flagged 

Here are the participants I identified on the call 

MDE: Tad Aburn, Duane King, Jeetendra Upadhyay, Michael Woodman, Roger Thunell, and John Artes 

Raven Power: Tom Weissinger (via phone) 

Talen Energy: Megan Toomey (via phone) 

AECOM: Bob Paine and Mary Kaplan via phone 

EPA Region 3: Cristina Fernandez, Dave Arnold, Nikos Singelis, Alice Chow, Donna Mastro, Irene Shandruk, 

Jessica Fry and Tim Leon-Guerrero, all via phone 

EPA OAQPS: Chet Wayland, George Bridgers and James Thurman via phone 

Roger Thunell 

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:57AM, Fernandez, Cristina <Fernandez.Cristina@epa.gov> wrote: 

Hi Tad, 

1 I hope our meeting yesterday was helpful. We will continue to work with you and your staff. 

As I mentioned yesterday during the call we are currently in a rulemaking process for designations and need 

to be putting any written or oral communications in the docket. I was not able to catch all the names from 

everyone participating on your side, specifically the AE COM people. Could you please ask someone from 

your staff to send me the names of the people that were on the call yesterday? 

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Thanks, Cristina 

Cristina Fernandez, Associate Director 

Office of Air Program Planning (3AP30) 

Air Protection Division 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region Ill 

1650 Arch Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19103-2023 

Work: {2.15) 814-2178 

Cell: (215) 375-0847 

From: George Aburn -MDE- [mailto:george.aburn@maryland.gov] 

Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 11:40 AM 

To: Leon-Guerrero, Tim <Leon-Guerrero.Tim@epa.gov> 

Cc: Wayland, Richard <Wayland.Richard@epa.gov>; Arnold, David <arnold.david@epa.gov>; Fernandez, Cristina 

<Fernandez.Cristina@epa.gov>; Fox, Tyler <Fox.Tyler@epa.gov>; Roger Thuneii-MDE- <roger.thunell@marvland.gov>; 

Michael Woodman -MDE- <michael.woodman@marvland.gov>; George Aburn -MDE- <george.aburn@maryland.gov>; 

Diane Nelson -MDE- <diane.nelson@maryland.gov> 

Subject: Modeling Protocol 

Tim 

Thanks for your continued effort on helping us get the modeling protocol for the S02 standard and Wagner 

approved. 

This is an extremely important issue for Maryland and is one of the few air quality issues that our Governors 

Office is directly involved in. 

This is why I'm pushing so hard. I apologize ifl've been too pushy, but there is a lot of pressure on MDE to 

get this right. As you know, my boss has asked us to set up a series of calls with Shawn Garvin to make sure 

all of our efforts are successful. 

We are trying to use extremely sophisticated modeling to support our Governors recommendation of 

attainment. 

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We need help from EPA to move this quickly and don't have the time to let weeks pass while the Region works 

to get approvals from the HQ folks. 

I've cc'd Chet and Tyler Fox on this note-- In the past MD has benefited from significant help from Chet and 

his folks - and we appreciate that - so I wanted to keep them in the loop. 

As we discussed last week, If we need George Bon our weekly calls, I'm sure OAQPS would try and make 

that happen. 

Again, thanks for all of your help. Look forward to our call later this week on the schedule and how the EPA 

guidance works for issues like new MATS controls and actual versus allowable emissions for an area with 

multiple sources contributing and our call next Monday or Tuesday to hopefully get an agreement on the 

protocol. . 

Tad 

George (Tad) S. Aburn, Jr., Director 

MDE-Air & Radiation Management Administration 

1800 Washington Boulevard 

Baltimore MD 21230 

410-537-3255 (phone) 

410-537-3391 (fax) 

george.aburn@maryland .gov (email) 

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Roger E. Thunell 

Chief, Planning and Policy Division 

Air & Radiation Management Administration 

410 537-3273 

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