Members 

Connecticut 

Delaware 

District of Columbia 

Maine 

Maryland 

Massachusetts 

New Hampshire 

New Jersey 

New York 

Pennsylvania 

Penobscot Indian Nation 

Rhode Island 

St. Regis Mohawk Tribe 

Vermont 

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U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency 

National Park Service 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service 

U.S. Forest Service 

MANE-VU Class I Areas 

ACADIA NATIONAL PARK 

ME 

BRIGANTINE WILDERNESS 

NJ 

GREAT GULF WILDERNESS 

NH 

LYE BROOK WILDERNESS 

VT 

MOOSEHORN WILDERNESS 

ME 

PRESIDENTIAL RANGE 

DRY RIVER WILDERNESS 

NH 

ROOSEVELT CAMPOBELLO 

INTERNATIONAL PARK 

ME/NB, CANADA 

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 REQUEST FOR A COURSE 

OF ACTION BY STATES OUTSIDE OF MANE-VU TOWARD 

ASSURING REASONABLE PROGRESS 

The federal Clean Air Act and the 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, air pollutant 

emission reductions required to meet the 2018 reasonable progress goal for 

regional haze should be achieved as soon as practicable. 

To address the impact on mandatory Class I Federal areas within the MANEVU region, the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast States request that States outside 

of the MANE-VU region that are identified as contributing to visibility 

impairment in the MANE-VU mandatory Class I Federal areas pursue a 

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 actions may provide for the protection of public health and the 

environment. This request for a course of action includes pursuing the 

adoption and implementation of the following control strategies, as 

appropriate and necessary: 

• timely implementation of BART requirements; 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 

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• the application of reasonable controls on non-EGU sources resulting in a 28% reduction 

in non-EGU S02 emissions, relative to on-the-books, on-the-way 2018 projections used 

in regional haze planning, by 2018, which is equivalent to the projected reductions 

MANE-VU will achieve through its low sulfur fuel oil strategy; and 

• continued evaluation of other measures including measures to reduce S02 and nitrogen 

oxide (NOx) emissions from all coal-burning facilities by 2018 and promulgation of new 

source performance standards for wood combustion. These measures and other measures 

identified will be evaluated during the consultation process to determine if they are 

reasonable. 

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 NOx and S02 control measures. 

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David Littell, Commissioner - Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection 

Chair