From: owner-airrules@listserv.state.nj.us on behalf of DEP NJDEP-BAQP

To: "airrules@listserv.state.nj.us"

Subject: New Jersey Proposed SIP Revision for PM2.5 Redesignation to Attainment Request

Date: Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:39:55 AM

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

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

Particulate Matter (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). A copy of the proposed

SIP revision was forwarded to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) on July 19,

2012.

The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) is proposing a revision to the SIP to request

that the USEPA redesignate both of the multi-state fine particulate matter (PM2.5) nonattainment areas

associated with New Jersey to attainment in accordance with the Clean Air Act. This SIP revision

presents the data and information that the USEPA requires in order to redesignate the areas to

attainment. Specifically, the document contains: (1) air quality monitoring data that shows compliance

with the NAAQS and a decreasing trend in PM2.5 concentrations over time; (2) a summary of control

measures that New Jersey has implemented to bring the State into attainment; (3) a maintenance plan

that demonstrates a projected continuing downward trend in emissions through 2025; (4) a contingency

plan that would be implemented should the air quality violate NAAQS in the future; (5) transportation

conformity budgets; and (6) other information that supports the request for redesignation.

Copies of the Department’s proposed SIP revision are available from the Department’s web site at

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/baqp/sip/siprevs.htm and the Department’s Public Information Center at 401

E. State Street in Trenton.

A public hearing concerning the proposed SIP revision will be conducted during the written comment

period. The public hearing is scheduled as follows:

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.

The NJDEP Building, Large Conference Room (6th Floor)

401 East State Street

Trenton, New Jersey

Comments may be submitted by close of business, Thursday, September 12, 2012. Please email

comment(s) as a document attachment to: NJDEP-BAQP@dep.state.nj.us. Please include a subject line

as follows: “PM2.5 SIP Comments.”

The Department encourages electronic submittal of comments. In the alternative, comments may be

submitted on paper to:

 

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Attn: PM2.5 SIP Comments

Air Quality Planning

401 East State Street, 7th Floor

Mail Code 401-07H

P.O. Box 420

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0420

Written comments may also be submitted at the public hearing. It is requested (but not required) that

anyone providing oral testimony at the public hearing provide a copy of any prepared text to the

stenographer at the hearing.

For more information about the Department’s SIP proposal, please call the Bureau of Air Quality

Planning at (609) 292-6722 or you can email your questions to NJDEP-BAQP@dep.state.nj.us.
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