The State of New Jersey

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for 

the Attainment and Maintenance of the 

Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard

PM2.5 Attainment Demonstration

Final

Appendix F: Public Participation

March 24, 2009
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A public hearing on this proposed SIP revision was held on Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. 

at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 401 E. State St., 1

st Floor, Public 

Hearing Room, Trenton, New Jersey. This hearing was held in accordance with the provisions of 

Section 110(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §7410; 40 C.F.R. §51.102(a)(1), the Air 

Pollution Control Act (1954), N.J.S.A. 26:2C-1 et seq., and the Administrative Procedure Act, 

N.J.S.A. 52:14 B-1 et seq. Written comments relevant to the proposal were accepted until the 

close of business, Friday, August 15, 2008. Timely notice of the hearing was published in six

newspapers circulated in New Jersey at least 30 days prior to the hearing. In addition, notice of 

the hearing appeared in the August 4, 2008 edition of the New Jersey Register (40 N.J.R. 

4630(b)). Notices of the hearing and of the availability of the SIP revision were also emailed or 

mailed to over 1,000 interested parties. Additional notification consisted of posting a copy of the 

proposal on NJDEP’s website and using online resources to help the public access NJDEP’s 

website; providing a copy to the USEPA Region 2 and several northeastern states; and mailing 

the proposal to nineteen public libraries throughout the State, NJDEP’s four regional offices, and 

its public access center.

Attachment 1 contains the notice announcing the availability of the proposed SIP revision and 

the hearing.

Attachment 2 contains the documentation of the notices that appeared in the newspapers and the 

New Jersey Register.

Attachment 3 contains the response to comment document.
The State of New Jersey

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for 

the Attainment and Maintenance of the 

Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard

PM2.5 Attainment Demonstration

Final

Appendix F: Public Participation

Attachment 1: Notice of Availability

March 24, 2009
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND AVAILABILITY:

State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for the Attainment and Maintenance of the Fine 

Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard, PM2.5 Attainment 

Demonstration Proposal

Take notice that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (Department) is proposing 

a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) to meet the 1997 Annual Fine Particulate Matter 

(PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). A copy of the proposal was forwarded to 

the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) by July 8, 2008.

The purpose of this proposed SIP is to demonstrate that New Jersey’s two (2) 

associated multi-state nonattainment areas will attain the 1997 PM2.5 annual NAAQS by 

the attainment date, April 5, 2010. The proposal also addresses the other mandatory 

SIP elements associated with the 1997 annual PM2.5 NAAQS. Specifically, the primary

components of the SIP revision proposal are:

1) A demonstration that the two multi-state nonattainment areas (associated with the New 

York City and Philadelphia Metropolitan areas) associated with New Jersey will attain the 

1997 health-based annual PM2.5 NAAQS by their mandatory attainment date of April 5, 

2010. This demonstration is based on the Ozone Transport Commission-wide regional 

2009 air quality modeling used in the State’s recent 8-hour ozone attainment 

demonstration submittal. The demonstration relies upon New Jersey and the rest of the 

OTC states honoring their commitments to implement the “beyond on the way” control 

measures contained in the regional 2009 attainment modeling.

2) A Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) analysis which demonstrates the 

need for additional reductions from source categories including refineries, fugitive dust 

emissions at major stationary sources, #6 fuel oil from boilers, and stationary diesel 

engines.

3) A Reasonably Available Control Measures (RACM) analysis which demonstrates that 

there are no other reasonable control measures available that would advance the 

nonattainment areas’ attainment date by one year.
4) Contingency measures that provide additional emission reductions should New Jersey 

fail to attain the annual PM2.5 standard by April 5, 2010. 

5) Proposed onroad vehicle emission budgets for use by the Metropolitan Planning 

Organizations to ensure their plans and programs are in conformance with the SIP. 

6) A request that the USEPA, in reviewing the attainment demonstrations and all other SIP 

revisions from other states, take into consideration their impact on New Jersey’s 

attainment obligations, and insure that other states are doing all they can to help the 

multi-state nonattainment areas attain as soon as practicable.

A copy of the proposal is now available for inspection, as described more fully below. A public 

hearing concerning the Department’s proposal/proposed SIP revision is scheduled as follows:

Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.

The NJ Department of Environmental Protection Building, Public Hearing Room (1st Floor)

401 East State Street

Trenton, New Jersey

This hearing is being held in accordance with the provisions of Section 110(a)(2) of the Clean Air 

Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7410. Written comments may be submitted by close of business August 15, 2008, 

to:

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

Alice A. Previte, Esq.

Attn: DEP Docket # 08-08-06

Office of Legal Affairs

P.O. Box 402

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0402

The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) requests that commenters submit 

comments on disk or CD as well as on paper. Submittals on disk or CD must not be accessrestricted (locked or read-only) in order to facilitate use by the Department of the electronically 

submitted comments.

The following are options for obtaining a copy of the proposed SIP revision:

1. Visit the Department's website at: http://www.nj.gov/dep/, where Air Quality 

Management rules, proposals, adoptions and SIP revisions are available. The 

Department’s proposed SIP revision can be viewed or downloaded from the following url: 

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/baqp/sip/siprevs.htm

2. Go and inspect the proposal/proposed SIP revision during normal office hours at any 

of these locations:

DEP Public Information Center DEP Bureau of Enforcement

401 E. State Street, 1st Floor Northern Region

Trenton, New Jersey 08625 7 Ridgedale Avenue
Cedar Knolls, N.J. 07927

DEP Bureau of Enforcement

Central Region DEP Bureau of Enforcement

Horizon Center, P.O. Box 407 Southern Region

Robbinsville, N.J. 08625-0407 2 Riverside Drive, Suite 201

Camden, N.J. 08103

Trenton Public Library Penns Grove/Carney’s Point Public Library 

Association

120 Academy Street 222 South Broad Street

Trenton, N.J. 08608 Penns Grove, N.J. 08069

Newark Public Library New Brunswick Free Public Library

5 Washington Street 60 Livingston Avenue

P.O. Box 630 New Brunswick, N.J. 08901

Newark, N.J. 07102-0630

Ms. Ellen Calhoun

Burlington County Library Library of Science and Medicine, Rutgers University

3 Pioneer Blvd. and Woodlane Rd. P.O. Box 1029

Mt. Holly, N.J. 08060 Piscataway, N.J. 08855-1029

Joint Free Public Library Freehold Public Library

Morristown & Morris County 281⁄2 East Main Street

1 Miller Road Freehold, N.J. 07728

Morristown, N.J. 07960

Camden Free Public Library

Burlington City Library 418 Fredericks Street

23 West Union Street Camden, N.J. 08103

Burlington, N.J. 08016

Somerville Public Library

Perth Amboy Public Library 35 W. End Avenue

193 Jefferson Street Somerville, N.J. 08876

Perth Amboy, N.J. 08861

Toms River Public Library Atlantic City Public Library

101 Washington Street 1 North Tennessee Avenue

Toms River, N.J. 08753-7625 Atlantic City, N.J. 08401

4. Request a copy of the proposal/proposed SIP revision by calling Willa Williams at (609) 

292-6722, by e-mailing her at willa.williams@dep.state.nj.us, or by mailing or faxing the 

attached form to her as indicated on the form.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS: For more information about the Department’s SIP proposal, 

please call our Bureau of Air Quality Planning at (609) 292-6722.
MAIL OR FAX THIS SIP PROPOSAL REQUEST FORM TO:

Ms. Willa Williams

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Air Quality Planning

401 E. State Street, 7th Floor

P.O. Box 418

Trenton, N.J. 08625-0418

phone: (609) 292-6722

fax: (609) 633-6198

willa.williams@dep.state.nj.us

 Please send me a copy of the Department's Proposed State Implementation Plan 

(SIP) Revision for the Attainment Maintenance of the Fine Particulate Matter 

(PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard, PM2.5 Attainment Demonstration

Name:

Organization:

Address:

Telephone:

 Please remove my name from the Air Quality SIP and rulemaking mailing list.

Please consider subscribing to our Air Rules Listserv to receive e-mail updates of all 

proposed Department rulemaking relating to air pollution control and revisions to New 

Jersey's State Implementation Plan. Signing up is easy through our AIRRULES LISTSERV

Info Page at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/baqp/airrules.html. 
The State of New Jersey

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for 

the Attainment and Maintenance of the 

Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard

PM2.5 Attainment Demonstration

Final

Appendix F: Public Participation

Attachment 2: Documentation of the Notices that Appeared 

in the Newspapers and the New Jersey Register

March 24, 2009
This attachment includes the documentation of the notices that appeared in the newspapers 

and the New Jersey Register. The documentation from the newspapers is only available in 

hardcopy format.
The State of New Jersey

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for 

the Attainment and Maintenance of the 

Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard

PM2.5 Attainment Demonstration

Final

Appendix F: Public Participation

Attachment 3: Response to Comment Document

March 24, 2009