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The Honorable Robert M. Summers February 6, 2013

Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment

1800 Washington Boulevard

Baltimore, Maryland 21230

Dear Secretary Summers:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received your November 15, 2012 request for 

a revision to the Maryland State Implementation Plan (SIP) to remove an obsolete Consent Decree for 

the Allegany County Board of Education, Beall Jr./Sr. High School since the school’s coal-fired boiler 

was demolished in 2007. 

EPA has determined that this minor SIP revision complies with all applicable requirements of the 

Clean Air Act and EPA regulations. Due to its administrative nature, this revision to the Maryland SIP 

is being approved by this letter.

Approval of this SIP revision is effective as of the date of this letter. Due to the minor nature of 

this SIP revision, EPA has concluded that conducting notice and comment rulemaking would be 

“unnecessary and contrary to the public interest,” and is not required by the Administrative Procedures 

Act, 5 U.S.C. 553(b). I am approving this revision consistent with EPA’s Notice of Procedural Changes 

on SIP Processing published on January 19, 1989 and with the procedures outlined in the April 6, 2011

memorandum signed by Janet McCabe, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and 

Radiation, entitled, “Regional Consistency for the Administrative Requirements of State Implementation 

Plan Submittals and the Use of “Letter Notices.” This Letter Notice approval is a final EPA action, and 

is subject to judicial review.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or have your staff contact 

Mrs. Linda Miller, EPA’s Maryland Liaison, at, 215-814-2068. The Project Officer for this SIP revision 

is Mrs. Sharon McCauley, who may be reached at 215-814-3376.

Sincerely,

/s/

 William C. Early

 Acting Regional Administrator
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The Honorable Robert M. Summers

Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment

1800 Washington Boulevard

Baltimore, Maryland 21230

Dear Secretary Summers:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received your November 15, 2012 request for 

a revision to the Maryland State Implementation Plan (SIP) to remove an obsolete Consent Decree for 

the Allegany County Board of Education, Beall Jr. /Sr. High School given the fact that the school’s coalfired boiler was demolished in 2007. EPA has determined that this minor SIP revision complies with all 

applicable requirements of the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations. Due to its administrative nature, this 

revision to the Maryland SIP is being approved by this letter. The Project Officer for this SIP revision is 

Mrs. Sharon McCauley, who may be reached at 215-814-3376.

Approval of this SIP revision is effective as of the date of this letter. Due to the minor nature of 

this SIP revision, EPA has concluded that conducting notice and comment rulemaking would be 

“unnecessary and contrary to the public interest,” and is not required by the Administrative Procedures 

Act, 5 U.S.C. 553(b). I am approving this revision consistent with EPA’s Notice of Procedural Changes 

on SIP Processing published on January 19, 1989 and with the procedures outlined in the April 6, 2011 

memorandum signed by Janet McCabe, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and 

Radiation, entitled, “Regional Consistency for the Administrative Requirements of State Implementation 

Plan Submittals and the Use of “Letter Notices.” This Letter Notice approval is a final EPA action, and 

is subject to judicial review.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or have your staff contact Mrs. 

Linda Miller, EPA’s Maryland Liaison at, 215-814-2068 or miller.linda@epa.gov.

Sincerely,

Shawn M. Garvin

Regional Administrator

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