State of New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

For Regional Haze 

Final 

Appendix O: Public Participation 

July 2009 
A public hearing on this proposed SIP revision was held on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 10:00 

a.m. at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 401 E. State St., 1st 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, November 28, 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 October 20, 2008 edition of the New Jersey Register (40 NJR 

6233(c). 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, the United States Fish and Wild life Service 

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. 

Appendix O-1 contains the notice announcing the availability of the proposed SIP revision and 

the hearing. 

Appendix O-2 contains the documentation of the notices that appeared in the newspapers and the 

New Jersey Register. 

Appendix O-3 contains the response to comment document 
State of New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

For Regional Haze 

Final 

Appendix O-1: Notice of Availability 

July 2009 
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND AVAILABILITY:

Proposed Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for the New Jersey 

Long-Term Plan to Protect and Enhance Visibility Levels in New Jersey’s Federally 

Designated Class I Area, the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. Forsythe 

National Wildlife Refuge 

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

proposing a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) to protect and enhance visibility 

levels in the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, a 

federally designated Class I area. A copy of the proposed SIP revision was forwarded to the 

United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) on September 15, 2008. 

 The purpose of this proposed SIP revision is to establish the first Reasonable Progress 

Goal within the Class I area to help achieve the Congressionally mandated goal of reaching 

natural background visibility levels by the year 2064. The proposal demonstrates that New 

Jersey will meet the 2018 Uniform Rate of Progress set for Brigantine Wilderness Area by the 

deadline established in the USEPA regulations. The proposal also addresses other mandatory 

SIP elements for regional haze by: 

1) Establishing the baseline and natural visibility conditions at the Brigantine Wilderness 

Area; 

2) Identifying states that contribute to visibility impairment at the Brigantine Wilderness 

Area; 

3) Establishing the 2018 Reasonable Progress Goal for the Brigantine Wilderness Area; 

4) Addressing New Jersey’s contribution to visibility impairment at Mid-Atlantic 

Northeast Visibility Union (MANE-VU) designated Class I areas; 

5) Addressing sources that require Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART); and 

6) Requesting that while reviewing other states’ SIP revisions, the USEPA take into 

consideration those states’ impact on New Jersey’s obligations to meet the 2018 

Reasonable Progress Goal, and compel the emission reduction necessary to 

achieve this goal. 
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: 

Monday, October 27, 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 on Friday, 

October 31, 2008, to: 

NJ Department of Environmental Protection 

Alice A. Previte, Esq. 

Attn: DEP Docket # 09-08-06

Office of Legal Affairs 

401 East State Street, 4th Floor 

P.O. Box 402 

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0402 

The Department requests that commenters submit comments on disk or CD as well as on 

paper. Submittals on disk or CD must not be access-restricted (locked or read-only) in order to 

facilitate use by the Department of the electronically submitted comments. The Department 

prefers Microsoft Word 6.0 or above. Macintosh formats should not be used. 

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 Regional Haze State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for the New Jersey Long-Term Plan to 

Protect and Enhance Visibility Levels in New Jersey’s Federally Designated 

Class I Area, the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. Forsythe National 

Wildlife Refuge

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. 
NJ DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION 

DIVISION OF AIR QUALITY 

BUREAU OF AIR QUALITY PLANNING 

Public Notice 

Proposed Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision for the New Jersey LongTerm Plan to Protect and Enhance Visibility Levels in New Jersey’s Federally Designated Class 

I Area, the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. 

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

extending the public comment period for the proposal to revise the State Implementation Plan 

(SIP) to protect and enhance visibility levels in the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. 

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, a federally designated Class I area. The notice of the public 

hearing and availability of the proposed SIP revision will be published in the New Jersey 

Register on October 20, 2008. The comment period, which was scheduled to close on October 

31, 2008, is extended to November 28, 2008. 

Written comments may be submitted by close of business, Friday, November 28, 2008, to: 

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 

Alice A. Previte, Esq. 

Attn: DEP Docket # 09-08-06 

Office of Legal Affairs 

401 East State Street, 4th Floor 

P.O. Box 402 

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0402 

Please refer to the original notice for detailed information regarding the proposed State 

Implementation Plan.
State of New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

For Regional Haze 

Final 

Appendix O-2: Documentation of the Notices 

that Appeared in the Newspapers and the 

New Jersey Register 

July 2009 
Appendix O-2 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. 
State of New Jersey 

Department of Environmental Protection

State Implementation Plan (SIP) 

For Regional Haze 

Final 

Appendix O-3: Response to Comment 

Document 

July 2009