MEMORANDUM

TO:    Docket ID: EPA‐R09‐OAR‐2013‐0009

FROM:    Anita Lee, EPA Region 9

DATE:    October 14, 2014

SUBJECT: Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Navajo Nation; Regional Haze Requirements for

Navajo Generating Station; Re‐Posting of Attachment Missing From EPA‐R09‐OAR‐2013‐0009‐

0228

EPA posted document number EPA‐R09‐OAR‐2013‐0009‐0228, titled “Comment in letter/email from taxpayers

from Arizona, Thomas and Anita Christy, November 11, 2013,” to www.regulations.gov on November 25, 2013.

EPA intended to post the letter as an attachment to the document number.

The commenters submitted this email on November 3, 2013 to EPA and EPA posted it to our rulemaking docket

prior to the January 6, 2014 close of the comment period. EPA erroneously dated the email as November 11,

2013 in the title to the document.

The final rule was published in the Federal Register on August 8, 2014.

On October 9, 2014, EPA was informed that no letter was included as an attachment to document number 0228.

EPA had attached this letter elsewhere in the docket, as an example mass email from “Taxpayers from Arizona.”

See document number 0377 titled “Comments: Example of 26 Similar Emails all containing “Taxpayer from AZ”

in signature line received by EPA as of 1‐6‐14.”  

However, for clarity, EPA is re‐posting the missing attachment under a new document ID number within EPA‐

R09‐OAR‐2013‐0009.

   
RE: EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0009

Anita Christy to: R9ngsbart 11/03/2013 07:00 AM

Cc: "Patrick O'Malley "

From: "Anita Christy" <anitalchristy@cox.net>

To: R9ngsbart@EPA, 

Cc: "Patrick O'Malley " <pat.o@azcitrus.com>

Anita Lee (Air-2)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9

75 Hawthorne Street

San Francisco, CA 94105-3901

RE: EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0009

Dear Dr. Lee,

We, Thomas and Anita Christy have lived in Arizona since 1977. We are concerned about the EPA’s 

proposed rule regarding regional air visibility in areas surrounding the Navajo Generating Station in 

northern Arizona. 

In February 2013, the EPA issued a proposed rule aimed at limiting nitrogen oxide emissions at the plant. 

At an estimated cost of up to $1.1 billion, EPA's proposal to limit these emissions five years from now, 

with a possible extension to 2023, would place a tremendous financial burden on me and my family as 

well as on energy users in Arizona and water users that take Central Arizona Project (CAP) water. The 

owners of the plant have made clear that the short timeframes in the proposed rule could result in plant 

closure. Regardless of whether the plant closes or remains open, EPA's proposed rule could cause 

serious economic hardship in northern Arizona and will force unaffordable water and energy costs upon 

Arizona businesses and ratepayers. 

Because the EPA's proposed rule is unworkable on several levels, CAP and other key stakeholders 

formed a Technical Work Group (TWG) and developed a reasonable alternative that would protect 

regional air quality and also the future of NGS. The future economic well-being of Arizona, including the 

Navajo and Hopi people who depend on NGS for jobs and other income, is at stake. We urge the EPA to 

adopt the TWG BART Proposal as the final rule for NGS.

Sincerely,

Thomas and Anita Christy

Taxpayers from AZ