1 1 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 2 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 3 4 5 6 PUBLIC HEARING 7 RELATING TO 26.11.26 8 TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY 9 10 11 12 13 The in the above matter commenced on 14 Tuesday, August 31, 2010, at the MDE Headquarters, 15 Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington evard, Baltimore, 16 Maryland. 17 18 BEFORE: DEBORAH RABIN, Hearing 19 20 Reported by: Metcalf 21 

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### 4 DEBORAH RABIN 5 Regulation Development or 6 Regulation Development sion

- ARMA 7 Maryland Department of 8 1800 Washington Boulevard, te 730 9 Baltimore, Maryland 21230 10 11 JIMWILKINSON 12 Natural Resources Planner 13 Air Quality Planning Program ARMA 14 Maryland Department of ronment 15 1800 Washington Boulevard 16 Baltimore, Maryland 21230 17 18 19 20 21 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.Hrinc.net-(800)921-55553 1 I N D E X 2 3 Speaker: 4 Deborah Rabin, MDE 4 5 JimWilkinson, MDE 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 

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### PROC E E0 I N GS 2 3 MS. RABIN: Good morning. On behalf of 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 I am the Regulat 8 Coordinator for the Air and Radiation Management 9 Administration. I will serve as ing officer for 10 today's 11 I would like to ask all of you in attendance 12 today to se 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 Also, copies of 15 our regulations, related documents, and the Department's 16 statement are available on for your 17 information. 18 purpose of this is to give you 19 opportuni to comment on: 20 (1) Maryland's Conformity regulations under 21 COMAR 26.11.26; 

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### Record,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55555 1 (2) submission of these regulations to 2 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for approval as 3 part of Maryland's State Implementation Plan (SIP), 4 (3) a Maryland document "Revision to 5 Maryland's ion Conformity State Implementation 6 Plan" that conta commitments required by federal law 7 and that will also be submitted to EPA approval as 8 part of the Maryland State Implementation Plan. 9 Not this hearing in the Maryland 10 Register on July 30, 2010; on MOE's website from July 11 2010 to August 31, 2010; The BaIt Sun on July 30, 12 2010; and The Washington Post on July 29, 2010. 13 This ing will proceed the following 14 order. First, Mr. Jim Wilkinson wi make a statement on 

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### 16 Administration. er Mr. Wilkinson is finished, I will 17 calIon any e official or government official who 18 wants to make a statement. Then, I will call upon anyone 19 else who indi on the sign-in that he or she 20 would like to rna a statement. 21 When giving your statement, ease identify 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025 www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55556 1 yourself and your 1 , and give your statement 2 loudly and clearly. Are any questions? 3 (No response.) 4 MS. RABIN: I 11 now on Mr. Wilkinson. 5 MR. WILKINSON: My name is JimWilkinson. I am 6 a Natural Resources Planner the r Quality Planning 7 Program of the and at Management 8 Administration of and Department of Environment, 9 MOE. I am submitting is ring statement into the 10 record. 11 12 Statement of theAir andRadiation 13 ManagementAdministration 14 Department of the Environment 15 for the Public Hearing 16 Relating to COMAR 26.11.26 Transportation Conformity 17 heldonAugust 31, 2010 18 Baltimore, MD 19 My name is JimWil am a Natural 20 Resources Planner in r ng Program of 21 the Air and Radiation Management stration, Maryland 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55557 1 Department of Environment (MOE). 2 s public hearing is ing held pursuant to 3 the requirements of 40 CFR Sect 51.102 and Sections 2- 4 301 et. of the Environment Article, Annotated 5 of Maryland. It is also being in conformance with 6 the State strative Procedures Act under the State 7 Government Art e, beginning at Section 10-101. 8 Notice of this hearing red in the: 9 Maryland Register on July 30, 2010; MOE's website from 10 July 22, 2010 toAugust 31, 2010; Baltimore Sun on July 11 30, 2010; and Washington Post on July 29, 2010. 12 of these notices were submitted for 13 record. 14 1 text of the Conformity regulations 15 been avai for public review at: 16 (1) Maryland Department of the 17 Environment's at the following s: 18 http://www.mde.state.md.us/AboutMDE/regcomments.asp 19 (2) Division of State Documents website at 20 the following ss: 21 http://www.dsd.state.md.us!comar!subtitle chapters!26 Cha 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55558 1 pters.aspx#Subtit1e11 2 The regulations have been available public 3 review at the following ions: the Air and ion 4 Management Administrat ; regional offices of 5 Department in Cumberland and Salisbury; all local a 6 quality control offices; and local health departments in 7 those counties not having rate air quality cont 8 of ces. 9 The document t led "Revision to Maryland's 10 Transportation Conformity State Implementation an" 11 been available for public ew at: 12 http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/AirPrograms/air 13 ing/index.asp 14 Summary 15 The purpose of today's hearing is to give 16 public an opportunity to comment on: 17 (1) Maryland's Conformity regulations 18 COMAR 26.11.26; 19 (2) MOE's submis of these regulations to 20 the Environmental Prot on Agency (EPA) for approval as 21 part of Maryland's State Implementation Plan (SIP), and 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025 www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55559 1 (3) a Maryland document titled "Revis to 2 Maryland's Transportation Conformity State Implementation 3 

### " contains commitments requiredby federal law. 4 This document will be submi to EPA for approval as 5 part of Maryland's SIP. 6 The following ations under COMAR 26.11.26 7 will be submitted to the ronmental Protection Agency 8 (EPA) approval as part Maryland's State 9 on Plan (SIP): 10 COMAR 26.11.26.01

- Purpose and Scope 11 COMAR 26.11.26.02

- Def tions 12 COMAR 26.11.26.03

- Transportation Conformity 13 COMAR 26.11.26.04

- Transportation Conformity 14 ion in General 15 COMAR 26.11.26.05

- Transportation Conformi 16 Interagency Consultation rements 17 COMAR 26.11.26.06

- Transportation Conformity ict 18 Resolution Associated with Conformity Determinations. 19 COMAR 26.11.26.07

- Transportation Conformity 

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- Transportation Conformity 

### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-555510 1 Interagency Consultation Procedures 2 COMAR 26.11.26.09 General Conformity 3 Consideration of Comments 4 The Department 11 consider all comments 5 before making a decis to submit all of these 6 Conformity documents to EPA for approval as part 7 Maryland's State Implementation Plan (SIP). 8 9 MS. RABIN: ease let the record show t no 10 one has come to attend s public hearing; 

## , 11 s will conclude the public hearing regarding: 12 (1) Maryland's Conformity regulations under 13 COMAR 26.11.26; 14 (2) submission of these regulations to 15 ronmental Protection (EPA) for approval as 16 of Maryland's State Implementation Plan (SIP), 17 (3) a Maryland titled "Revision to 18 and's Transportation ty State Implementation 19 Plan" that will also be submitted to EPA for approval as 20 rt of Maryland's SIP. 21 Let the record reflect that it is now 10:36, 

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### 11 1 this hearing is lly concluded. 2 (Whereupon, was concluded). 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

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### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-555512 1 CERTIFICATE OF COURT REPORTER 2 3 I, Linda f, do hereby certify that 4 foregoing transcr ion was reduced to typewriting via 5 otapes recorded by me; that I am neither counsel 6 nor ated to, nor employed by any of parties to 7 case in which these proceedings were transcribed; that I 8 am not a relative or loyee of any attorney or couns 9 oyed by the parties hereto, nor financially or 10 rwise interested in the outcome t action. 11 12 13 14 15 16 LINDA METCALF 17 Court Reporter 18 19 20 21 

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