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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

JUN 15 1999 

JUN 15 IQOC, 

Ronald W. Gore, Chief 

Air Division 

Alabama Department of Environmental Management 

Post Office Box 301463 

Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1463 

Dear Mr. Gore: 

This is in response to your letter of May 24,1999, which expressed your thoughts on the 

New Source Review (NSR) Reform project. As you know, the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) has exerted a substantial effort, since the July 23,1996 proposal, to ensure that 

the revised NSR regulations retain appropriate environmental protection while reducing 

regulatory burden and costs through streamlining the requirements. 

Thank you for recognizing my staff's difficult position of having to process the myriad of 

opinions from stakeholders in developing the NSR Reform rule. There are many NSR issues that 

have a significant and broad impact on the rule, and many other smaller, yet important and 

contentious issues that have the attention ofa much smaller audience but still require time to 

analyze.' We have made, and will continue to make, every effort to understand the concerns of all 

affected parties prior to reaching a final decision. 

I appreciate the time you and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management 

have invested in participating in the NSR Reform rulemaking. Our understanding of the views of 

the State agencies is vital to the success of the final rule, and how well it is implemented. 

Sincerely, 

John S. Seitz 

Director 

Office of Air Quality Planning 

and Standards 

USEPA:OAQPS:ITPID:IIG:DSvendsgaard:ythorpe:919-541-2380:NCMU:MD-12:6/ll/99 

Control # AQPS-99-0476 Due: 6/14/99 

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMEN 

POST OFFICE Box 301463 • 1400 COLISEUM BLVD. 36110-2059 

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36130-1463 

JAMES W.WARR WWW.ADEM.STATE.AL.US DONSIEGELMAN 

DIRECTOR (334) 271-7700 GOVERNOR 

May 24, 1999 Facsimiles: (334) 

Administration: 271-7950 

Air: 279-3044 

Land: 279-3050 

Water' 279*3051 

Mr. John SeitZ Groundwater: 270-5631 

_ . . Field Operations: 272-8131 

UireCtOr Laboratory: 277-6716 

Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards **»anio*mc*i 213-4399 

US EPA Mailroom 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711/MD10 

Dear Mr. Seitz: 

ADEM has been monitoring the activities transpiring in the area of New 

Source Review reform. In fact, because of our interest, we sent a 

representative to the February meeting in Washington, DC. 

We are aware of the efforts by some groups to draft far-reaching changes to 

the NSR rules, but we have also heard that EPA is finding it difficult to 

achieve consensus among various industry groups, states, and the 

environmental community. We sympathize with the frustration EPA may feel 

at this point, but we hope that patience will not be lost to the point that the 

draft rules from several years ago will be resurrected. We urge you to let 

those attributes of certain proposals (degrandfathering, simplification, 

PALS's) be debated further before EPA proceeds with formal rulemaking. 

Thank you for your consideration. 

Ronald W. Gore, Chief 

Air Division 

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