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1 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

2 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION

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4 Public Hearing Concerning the Implementation,

5 Maintenance and Enforcement of the 8-hour Ozone

6 National Ambient Air Quality Standard

7 State Implementation Plan

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12 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION

13 JULY 10, 2007

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16 HEARING OFFICER: Deborah Rabin, Regulation Development

17 Coordinator

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19 The above-entitled public hearing was

20 conducted at Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington

21 Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21230 and commenced at

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2 ATTENDEES

3 Deborah Rabin, MDE, Hearing officer

4 Carl York, MDE, Special Projects Manager

5 Elizabeth Klein, Interested citizen

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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

6 to this public hearing. My name is Deborah Rabin. I

7 am the Regulation Development Coordinator for the Air

8 and Radiation Management Administration. I will serve

9 as hearing officer for today’s hearing.

10 I would like to ask all of you in attendance

11 today please sign in if you haven’t already done so. 

12 This will help us to keep an accurate record of the

13 people who participate in the hearing. Also, copies of

14 the proposed State Implementation Plan and the

15 Department’s statement are available on the table for

16 your information.

17 This hearing concerns the implementation,

18 maintenance and enforcement of the 8-hour ozone

19 National Ambient Air Quality Standard, State

20 Implementation Plan or SIP, as we call it. The purpose

21 of this hearing is to give you the opportunity to

22 comment on this proposed plan which outlines Maryland’s
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1 authority regarding the implementation, maintenance and

2 enforcement of the 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air

3 Quality Standard.

4 Notice of this public hearing appeared in the

5 Baltimore Sun on June 1st, 2007, the Washington Post on

6 June 7th, 2007 and the Maryland Department of the

7 Environment’s website on May 30th, 2007 and remained on

8 the website until today’s hearing.

9 The hearing will proceed in the following

10 order. First, Mr. Carl York will make a statement on

11 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management

12 Administration. After Mr. York is finished, I will

13 call on any elected official or government official who

14 wants to make a statement. And then I will call upon

15 anyone else who indicated on the sign-in sheet if he or

16 she would like to make a statement. When giving your

17 statement, please come up front and identify yourself

18 and your affiliation and give your statement, loudly

19 and clearly. Are there any questions?

20 A summary of all comments received will be

21 answered in writing and published with the final SIP

22 document. I will now call Mr. York.
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1 MR. YORK: Good morning. My name is Carl

2 York. I am the Special Projects Manager of the

3 Planning Program, Air and Radiation Management

4 Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment.

5 This public hearing concerns Maryland’s

6 implementation, maintenance and enforcement of the 8-

7 hour ozone national ambient air quality standard State

8 Implementation Plan. 

9 This public hearing is being held pursuant to

10 federal law found at 42 U.S.C. § 7410(a) and 40 CFR

11 Parts 51.102 and 251. It is also being held in

12 conformance with the State Administrative Procedures

13 Act, under the State Government Article, beginning at

14 Section 10-101.

15 Notice of this public hearing appeared in the

16 Baltimore Sun on June 1st, 2007, the Washington Post on

17 June 7th, 2007 and the Maryland Department of the

18 Environment’s website and remained on the website until

19 today’s hearing.

20 Copies of these notices will be submitted

21 with the formal SIP submission package to the U.S. EPA.

22 Copies of the proposed SIP were submitted for
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1 review to the State Clearinghouse and are also

2 submitted at this time into the hearing record. Copies

3 were also made available for public inspection on the

4 Maryland Department of the Environment’s website, at

5 the Air and Radiation Management Administration offices

6 in Baltimore, Cumberland and Salisbury, and at all

7 local health departments or local air quality control

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9 The purpose of this hearing is to provide

10 the public with an opportunity to formally comment on

11 the proposed SIP document.

12 The purpose of this document was to examine

13 Maryland’s State Implementation Plan and determine if

14 all necessary implementation, maintenance and

15 enforcement measures for the 8-hour ozone National

16 Ambient Air Quality Standard are in place. § 110(a)(2)

17 of the Clean Air Act provides a detailed listing of

18 various requirements for state implementation plans

19 regarding the national ambient air quality standards.

20 In this SIP document, each subparagraph from (A)

21 through (M) is broken down, with various provisions

22 supporting the requirements.
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1 The MDE has verified its authority, through

2 this document, to implement the National Ambient Air

3 Quality Standards.

4 The Department will consider all pertinent

5 comments and revise the proposed plan if necessary

6 before making a final decision to adopt the plan and

7 submit it to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

8 for approval as a Maryland State Implementation Plan.

9 The comment period for this SIP ends by 5:00

10 p.m. today. That ends my statement.

11 MRS. RABIN: Would anyone like to comment on

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13 Let the record show that no one has commented

14 on this State Implementation Plan document. This will

15 conclude the hearing regarding the implementation,

16 maintenance and enforcement of the 8-hour ozone

17 National Ambient Air Quality State Implementation Plan. 

18 Let the record reflect that it is now 10:25 and this

19 hearing is officially concluded.

20 (Whereupon, the hearing was adjourned.)

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1 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER

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3 I, Frank Quinn, do hereby certify that the

4 foregoing proceedings were electronically recorded by

5 me via audiotape and reduced to typewriting under my

6 supervision; that I am neither counsel for, related to,

7 nor employed by any of the parties to the action in

8 which these proceedings were transcribed; that I am not

9 a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel

10 employed by the parties hereto, not financially or

11 otherwise interested in the outcome in the action.

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