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### Hunt, Jeff

From: Patricia Davis <tapestry4@gmail.com>

Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:43 PM

To: Hunt, Jeff Subject: Docket ID No. EPA-R10-OAR-20140744 public comment

To: EPA via Jeff Hunt, EPA

From: Patricia Davis, Seattle, WA

RE: Docket ID No. EPA-R10-OAR-2014-0744

I wish to publically, and with identity (above) com ment with regard to subject Docket

First, I thank the EPA for its diligence and scruti ny of Washington State's problem with regard to woo d smoke.

Secondly, I wish to bring to your attention that an obstacle exists within the Washington State Legisl ature itself with regard to taking serious ly the toxicity and multiple health hazards of wood smoke on our health, our hearts, our children and our breathing air. Regretfully, some Legislat ors burn wood themselves and that certainly contami nated getting strong legislation accomplished that protects the p ublic. Additional wood stove manufacturers/ wood b urning interests lobby our Legislature to the deterrent o f public health.

Thirdly: Although residential wood burning is spe cifically mentioned in subject report - it is impor tant to recognize that there is a growing COMMERCIAL RESTAURANT and FOO D TRUCK realm that is burning wood - unabated and unfiltered and with no intervention possible.

For example: I have photos of thick, dense smoke c oming from wood being burned to make BBQ (Jones BBQ to be specific) I tried every method possible to get an intervention: 1) The Fire Dept advised me that BBQ smoke is specifically - written specifically - to be without intervention. Commercial wood burning businesses can burn wood hour after hour, 'endlessly' every day of the week. It seems odd that homeowners (who are unlikely to eve r burn at that opacity and duration) need a certified wood burning stove (which I support) but that businesses pollut e our breathing air at huge, suffering levels with no recourse. 2) I t ried a complaint to the Seattle DPD (Dept. of Planning and Development)
and was told there are no laws on the book to inter vene from DPD 3) I tried the Seattle Health Dept . and was given the same message - they have a permit (issued by DP D) nothing we can do 4) Went, in person, to Puget Sound Clean

Air with photos and was told they do not have jurisdic tion, per se, to do anything. That a permit was issued to do 'that'. I asked DPD, Health Dept and PSCA : what about filtration? why would a restaurant with a fl at grill be required to have a diffuser? and yet a stupendously air pol luting restaurant (wood burning pizza, BBQ places, now I even see ads for wood burning chicken! Geezz!)

These commercial wood burning restaurants/ BBQ and food trucks send billows of smoke long long distanc es. I can be travelling down a main street blocks away and smell the stench of smoke from them. I would expect to able to complain to 'someone' and get it stopped. Or at a minimum g et it filtered to the same emission standards as a residential wood burning stove would required.

CAN THE EPA GET THIS ON THEIR RADAR AND GET FILTRATION DEVICES REQUIRED FOR COMMERCIAL WO OD BURNING? (I read on Burning Issues that others pla ces in the USA even use coal - unfiltered - in back yards to fuel boilers. Huh? really? Why is that allowed? We h ave known for years the impact of cigarette smoke o n health and these types of smoke are profoundly more toxic - as you know with regard to EPA 1991 research on wood smoke. ) This need a national intervention with State legislative changes as well. The EPA must be the leader of th at journey (based2 on nothing is getting done in that realm and that 'special interests' like the BBQ industry and wood stove mfg. will harm the general public's health in order to make money. Disgusting !

Fourth: There are numerous apartment buildings her e that were allowed to install wood burning 'stove' in manufactured fireplaces. There is ZERO FILTRATION from those chimneys (mostly metal ). It seems reasonable to set a date for those to be updated to either have a certi fied wood burning stove, or removal of existing non -compliant stoves.

I write this public comment to encourage the EPA to legislate FILTRATION OF ALL
WOOD AND COAL BURNING DEVICES: PERIOD !

Please email this email letter to any and everyone that can help.

Meanwhile, I am endlessly grateful for the hard wor k that the EPA does. Many lives have been, and wil l be, saved from your impact. It is a literally thankless job with huge big money pressures. So: as a private citize n let me THANK YOU dearly for your intelligence, your research an d your determination to fight for the environment. Those are lives
well lived.

THANK YOU

Patricia Davis, Seattle, WA