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### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 1 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 2 3 Public Hearing Concerning the Implementation, 4 Maintenance and Enforcement of the 8-hour Ozone 5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard 6 State Implementation Plan 7 8 9 10 11 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 12 JULY 10, 2007 13 14 15 HEARING OFFICER: Deborah Rabin, Regulation Development 16 Coordinator 17 18 The above-entitled public hearing was 19 conducted at Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington 20 Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21230 and commenced at 21 10:17 a.m. 222



### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 1 ATTENDEES 2 Deborah Rabin, MDE, Hearing officer 3 Carl York, MDE, Special Projects Manager 4 Elizabeth Klein, Interested citizen 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 223



### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 P R O C E E D I N G S 1

- - - - - 2 MS. RABIN: Good morning. On behalf of the 3 Department of the Environment and the Air and Radiation 4Management Administration, I would like to welcome you 5 to this public hearing. My name is Deborah Rabin. I 6 am the Regulation Development Coordinator for the Air 7 and Radiation Management Administration. I will serve 8 as hearing officer for today’s hearing. 9 I would like to ask all of you in attendance 10 today please sign in if you haven’t already done so. 11 This will help us to keep an accurate record of the 12people who participate in the hearing. Also, copies of 13 the proposed State Implementation Plan and the 14 Department’s statement are available on the table for 15your information. 16 This hearing concerns the implementation, 17maintenance and enforcement of the 8-hour ozone 18National Ambient Air Quality Standard, State 19 Implementation Plan or SIP, as we call it. The purpose 20 of this hearing is to give you the opportunity to 21 comment on this proposed plan which outlines Maryland’s 224



### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 authority regarding the implementation, maintenance and 1 enforcement of the 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air 2 Quality Standard. 3 Notice of this public hearing appeared in the 4 Baltimore Sun on June 1st, 2007, the Washington Post on 5 June 7th, 2007 and the Maryland Department of the 6 Environment’s website on May 30th, 2007 and remained on 7 the website until today’s hearing. 8 The hearing will proceed in the following 9 order. First, Mr. Carl York will make a statement on 10 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management 11Administration. After Mr. York is finished, I will 12 call on any elected official or government official who 13 wants to make a statement. And then I will call upon 14 anyone else who indicated on the sign-in sheet if he or 15 she would like to make a statement. When giving your 16 statement, please come up front and identify yourself 17 and your affiliation and give your statement, loudly 18 and clearly. Are there any questions? 19 A summary of all comments received will be 20 answered in writing and published with the final SIP 21 document. I will now call Mr. York. 225



### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 MR. YORK: Good morning. My name is Carl 1 York. I am the Special Projects Manager of the 2 Planning Program, Air and Radiation Management 3Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment. 4 This public hearing concerns Maryland’s 5 implementation, maintenance and enforcement of the 8- 6 hour ozone national ambient air quality standard State 7 Implementation Plan. 8 This public hearing is being held pursuant to 9 federal law found at 42 U.S.C. § 7410(a) and 40 CFR 10 Parts 51.102 and 251. It is also being held in 11 conformance with the State Administrative Procedures 12Act, under the State Government Article, beginning at 13 Section 10-101. 14 Notice of this public hearing appeared in the 15 Baltimore Sun on June 1st, 2007, the Washington Post on 16 June 7th, 2007 and the Maryland Department of the 17 Environment’s website and remained on the website until 18 today’s hearing. 19 Copies of these notices will be submitted 20 with the formal SIP submission package to the U.S. EPA. 21 Copies of the proposed SIP were submitted for 226



### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 review to the State Clearinghouse and are also 1 submitted at this time into the hearing record. Copies 2were also made available for public inspection on the 3 Maryland Department of the Environment’s website, at 4 the Air and Radiation Management Administration offices 5 in Baltimore, Cumberland and Salisbury, and at all 6 local health departments or local air quality control 7 offices. 8 The purpose of this hearing is to provide 9 the public with an opportunity to formally comment on 10 the proposed SIP document. 11 The purpose of this document was to examine 12 Maryland’s State Implementation Plan and determine if 13 all necessary implementation, maintenance and 14 enforcement measures for the 8-hour ozone National 15Ambient Air Quality Standard are in place. § 110(a)(2) 16 of the Clean Air Act provides a detailed listing of 17 various requirements for state implementation plans 18 regarding the national ambient air quality standards. 19 In this SIP document, each subparagraph from (A) 20 through (M) is broken down, with various provisions 21 supporting the requirements. 227



### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 The MDE has verified its authority, through 1 this document, to implement the National Ambient Air 2 Quality Standards. 3 The Department will consider all pertinent 4 comments and revise the proposed plan if necessary 5 before making a final decision to adopt the plan and 6 submit it to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 7 for approval as a Maryland State Implementation Plan. 8 The comment period for this SIP ends by 5:00 9 p.m. today. That ends my statement. 10 MRS. RABIN: Would anyone like to comment on 11 this document? 12 Let the record show that no one has commented 13 on this State Implementation Plan document. This will 14 conclude the hearing regarding the implementation, 15maintenance and enforcement of the 8-hour ozone 16National Ambient Air Quality State Implementation Plan. 17 Let the record reflect that it is now 10:25 and this 18 hearing is officially concluded. 19 **(Whereupon, the hearing was adjourned.)** 20

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### For The Record, Inc. (301) 870-8025 - www.ftrinc.net - (800) 921-5555 CERTIFICATE OF REPORTER 1 2 I, Frank Quinn, do hereby certify that the 3 foregoing proceedings were electronically recorded by 4me via audiotape and reduced to typewriting under my 5 supervision; that I am neither counsel for, related to, 6 nor employed by any of the parties to the action in 7which these proceedings were transcribed; that I am not 8 a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel 9 employed by the parties hereto, not financially or 10 otherwise interested in the outcome in the action. 11 12 13 14 15 FRANK QUINN 16 Court Reporter 17 18 19 20 21 22