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District of Columbia 

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Maryland 

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New Hampshire 

New Jersey 

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Penobscot Indian Nation 

Rhode Island 

St. Regis Mohawk Tribe 

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U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency 

National Park Service 

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Service 

U.S. Forest Service 

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ACADIA NATIONAL PARK 

ME , 

BRIGANTINE WILDERNESS 

NJ 

GREAT GULF WILDERNESS 

NH 

LYE BROOK WILDERNESS 

VT 

MOOSEHORN WILDERNESS 

ME 

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DRY RIVER WILDERNESS 

NH 

ROOSEVELT CAMPOBELLO 

INTERNATIONAL PARK' 

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Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Visibility Union 

MANE-VU 

Reducing Regional Haze for 

Improved Visibility and Health 

STATEMENT OF THE MID-ATLANTICINORTHEAST VISIBILITY 

UNION (MANE-VU) CONCERNING A COURSE OF ACTION WITHIN 

MANE-VU TOWARD ASSURING REASONABLE PROGRESS 

The federal Clean Air Act and Regional Haze rule require States that are 

reasonably anticipated to cause or contribute to impairment of visibility in 

mandatory Class I Federal areas to implement reasonable measures to reduce 

visibility impairment within the national parks and wilderness areas designated 

as mandatory Class I Federal areas. Most pollutants that affect visibility also 

cause unhealthy concentrations of ozone and fine particles. In order to assure 

protection of public health and the environment, any additional air pollutant 

emission reduction measures necessary to meet the 2018 reasonable progress 

goal for regional haze should be implemented as soon as practicable . 

To address the impact on mandatory Class I Federal areas within the MANEVU region, the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast States will pursue a coordinated 

course of action designed to assure reasonable progress toward preventing any 

future, and remedying any existing impairment of visibility in mandatory Class 

I Federal areas and to leverage the multi-pollutant benefits that such measures 

may provide for the protection of public health and the environment. This 

course of action includes pursuing the adoption and implementation of the 

following "emission management" strategies, as appropriate and necessary: 

• timely implementation of BART requirements; and 

• a low sulfur fuel oil strategy in the inner zone States (New Jersey, New 

York, Delaware and Pennsylvania, or portions thereof) to reduce the 

sulfur content of: distillate oil to 0.05% sulfur by weight (500 ppm) by 

no later than 2012, of#4 residual oil to 0.25% sulfur by weight by no 

later than 2012, of#6 residual oil to 0.3 - 0.5% sulfur by weight by no 

later than 2012, and to further reduce the sulfur content of distillate oil 

to 15 ppm by 2016; and 

• a low sulfur fuel oil strategy in the outer zone States (the remainder of 

the MANE-VU region) to reduce the sulfur content of distillate oil to 

0.05% sulfur by weight (500 ppm) by no later than 2014, of#4 residual 

oil to 0.25 - 0.5% sulfur by weight by no later than 2018, and of#6 

residual oil to no greater than 0.5 % sulfur by weight by no later than 

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2018, and to further reduce the sulfur content of distillate oil to 15 ppm by 2018, 

depending on supply availability; and 

• A 90% or greater reduction in sulfur dioxide (S02) emissions from each of the electric 

generating unit (EGU) stacks identified by MANE-VU (Attachment 1- comprising a total 

of 167 stacks - dated June 20, 2007) as reasonably anticipated to cause or contribute to 

impairment of visibility in each mandatory Class I Federal area in the MANE-VU region. 

If it is infeasible to achieve that level of reduction from a unit, alternative measures will 

be pursued in such State; and 

• continued evaluation of other control measures including energy efficiency, alternative 

clean fuels, and other measures to reduce S02 and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from 

all coal-burning facilities by 2018 and new source perform::lnce standards for wood 

combustion. These measures and other measures identified will be evaluated during the 

consultation process to determine if they are reasonable and cost-effective. 

This long-term strategy to reduce and prevent regional haze will allow each state up to 10 years 

to pursue adoption and implementation of reasonable and cost-effective NOx and S02 control 

measures. 

Adopted by the MANE-VU States and Tribes on ~fJ k.....t" ~ 

aine Dept. of Environmental Protection