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### MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 2 

### AIRAND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 3 4 5 

### PUBLIC HEARING 6 7 

### PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO COMAR 26.11.19.07 8 

### AND NEW REGULATION .07-2 UNDER COMAR 26.11.19 9 

### REGARDING CTG REQUIREMENTS FOR 10 BUSINESS MACHINES AND PLASTIC PARTS 11 

### 12 13 The hearing in the above matter commenced on 14 Tuesday, February 15, 2011, at the MOE Headquarters, 15 Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore, 16 Maryland. 17 18 BEFORE: DEBORAH RABIN, Hearing Officer 19 20 Reported by: Linda Metcalf 21 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55552 1 A P PEA RAN C E S 2 3 ON BEHALF OF THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT: 4 5 

### DEBORAH RABIN 6 Regulation Development Coordinator 7 Regulation Development Division

- ARMA 8 Maryland Department of the Environment 9 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 730 10 Baltimore, Maryland 21230 11 12 

### HUSAIN WAHEED 13 Senior Regulatory and Compliance Engineer 14 Regulation Development Division 15 Air and Radiation Management 16 Maryland Department of the Environment 17 1800 Washington Boulevard 18 Baltimore, Maryland 21230 

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### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55553 1 I N D E X 2 3 Speaker: Page: 4 Deborah Rabin, MDE 4 5 Husain Waheed, MDE 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 

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### PROC E EDINGS 2 3 MS. RABIN: Good morning. On behalf of the 4 Department of the Environment and the Air and Radiation 5 Management Administration, I would like to welcome you to 6 this public hearing. 7 My name is Deborah Rabin and I am the 8 Regulations Coordinator for the Air and Radiation 9 Management Administration. I will serve as hearing 10 officer for today's hearing. 11 I would like to ask all of you in attendance 12 today to please sign in, if you haven't already done so. 13 This will help us to keep an accurate record of the 14 people who participate in the hearing. Also, copies of 15 our regulation proposal, support documents, and the 16 Department's statement are available on the table for 17 your information. 18 This hearing concerns Air Quality Regulations 19 found in the Code of Maryland Regulations, Title 26, 20 Subtitle 11, Air Quality. The Secretary of the 21 Department proposes to amend Regulation .07 and adopt new 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55555 1 Regulation .07-2 under COMAR 26.11.19, Volatile Organic 2 Compounds from Specific Processes. 3 The purpose of this hearing is to give you an 4 opportunity to comment on this action. 5 The Opportunity for Public Comment for this 6 proposed action appeared in the Maryland Register, Volume 7 38, Issue 2, Page 115 on January 14, 2011. 8 The hearing will proceed in the following 9 order. First, Mr. Husain Waheed will make a statement on 10 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management 11 Administration. After Mr. Waheed is finished, I will 12 call on any elected official or government official who 

### 13 wants to make a statement. Then, I will call upon anyone 14 else who indicated on the sign-in sheet that he or she 15 would like to make a statement. 16 When giving your statement, please identify 17 yourself and your affiliation, and give your statement 18 loudly and clearly. Are there any questions? 19 I will now call on Mr. Waheed. 20 MR. WAHEED: My name is Husain Waheed. I am a 21 Senior Regulatory and Compliance Engineer with the 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55556 1 Regulation Development Division of the Air and Radiation 2 Management Administration, Department of the Environment, 3 and I'm submitting the hearing statement for record. 4 5 Statement of the 6 Air andRadiationManagementAdministration 7 Department of the Environment 8 for the Public Hearing Relating to ProposedAmendments 9 to Regulation .07 Paper, Fabric, FilmandFoil Coating 10 andNew Regulation .07-2 11 Plastic Parts andBusinessMachines Coatingunder 12 COMAR 26.11.19 Control ofVolatile Organic Compounds 13 from Specific Processes 14 heldon February 15, 2011 Baltimore, MD 15 My name is Husain Waheed. I am a Senior 16 Regulatory and Compliance Engineer with the Regulation 

### 17 Development Division of the Air and Radiation Management 18 Administration, Department of the Environment. 19 This public hearing is being held pursuant to 20 the requirements of 40 CFR Section 51.102 and Sections 2- 21 301 et. seq. of the Environment Article, Annotated Code 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55557 1 of Maryland. It is also being held in conformance with 2 the State Administrative Procedures Act under the State 3 Government Article, beginning at Section 10-101. 4 Notice of this hearing appeared in the: 5 Maryland Register on January 14, 2011; MOE's website from 6 January 11, 2011 through February 16, 2011; Baltimore Sun 7 on January 14, 2011; Washington Post on January 13, 2011; 8 and the St. Mary's Enterprise on January 14, 2011. 9 Copies of these notices were submitted for the record. 10 Copies of the proposed action and supporting 11 documents were submitted for review to the State 12 Clearinghouse and are also submitted at this time into 13 the hearing record. Copies were also made available for 14 public inspection at the Air and Radiation Management 15 Administration offices in Baltimore, Cumberland, and 16 Salisbury, and at all local health departments or local 17 air quality control offices. 18 The purpose of today's hearing is to give the 19 public an opportunity to comment on the proposed 20 amendments to Regulation .07 and new Regulation .07-2 21 under COMAR 26.11.19. 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55558 1 Summary 2 COMAR 26.11.19.07-2 is proposed to set VOC 3 coating standards for a variety of plastic parts coating 4 and business machine coating applications and includes 5 plastic parts and vinyl coating standards and printing 6 standards from the existing COMAR 26.11.19.07. Regulation 7 .07-2 also requires the use of higher efficiency coating 8 methods. 9 Maryland's State Implementation Plan (SIP) 10 These amendments will be submitted to the EPA 11 for approval as part of the SIP. 12 Consideration of Comments 13 The Department will consider all comments 14 before making a decision to adopt these amendments and 15 new regulation. 16 17 MS. RABIN: Thank you very much, Mr. Waheed. 18 Would anyone like to comment on this proposed action? 19 (No response.) 20 MS. RABIN: Please let the record reflect that 21 no one has come to comment on this proposed action. This 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55559 1 will conclude the public hearing regarding proposed 2 amendments to Regulation .07 and new Regulation .07-2 3 under COMAR 26.11.19, Volatile Organic Compounds from 4 Specific Processes. 5 Let the record reflect that it is now 11:16 and 6 this hearing is officially concluded. 7 (Whereupon, the hearingwas concluded.) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-555510 1 CERTIFICATE OF COURT REPORTER 2 3 I, Linda Metcalf, do hereby certify that the 4 foregoing transcription was reduced to typewriting via 5 audiotapes recorded byme; that I am neither counsel for, 6 nor related to, nor employed by any of the parties to the 7 case in which these proceedings were transcribed; that I 8 am not a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel 9 employed by the parties hereto, nor financially or 10 otherwise interested in the outcome of the action. 11 12 13 14 15 16 LINDA METCALF 17 Court Reporter 18 19 20 21 

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