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CHRIS CHRISTIE 

G01'ertlOr 

KIM GUADAGNO 

Lt. Governor 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

401 EAST STATE STREET 

P.O. Box 402 

Trenton, N.J. 08625-0402 

BOB MARTIN 

Conlmlssioner 

December 9,2010 

The Honorable Judith A. Enck 

Regional Administrator 

United States Environmental Protection Agency - Region 2 

290 Broadway- 26th Floor 

New York, New York 10007-1866 

Dear Regional Administrator Enck: 

Enclosed for your review and approval is a reVISIon to the New Jersey State 

Implementation Plan (SIP) to incorporate the recently adopted Sulfur in Fuels rule revision 

(NJ.A.C. 7:27-9). New Jersey previously committed to propose this measure in the State's 

regional haze and fine particulate matter SIP revisions. This adopted rule will reduce the sulfur 

content in all distillate heating oil (No.2 and lighter distillate fuel) to 500 parts per million (ppm) 

by July 1,2014 and to 15 ppm by July 1,2016. The adopted rule will also reduce the sulfur 

content in No.4 fuel oil to a consistent 2,500 ppm throughout the State and reduce the sulfur 

content in No.5, No.6, and heavier fuel oil to 5,000 ppm or less on July 1,2014. 

The rule proposal for this amendment was published in the November 16, 2009 New 

Jersey Register at 41 NJ .R. 4156 and the rule adoption published in the September 20, 2010 

New Jersey Register at 42 NJ.R. 2244. A copy of the Department's final rule adoption and 

public notice for the rule are enclosed. A summary of the comments received on the proposed 

rule amendments and SIP revision, as well as the Department's responses to those comments, is 

included as part of the enclosed adoption document. 

Please be advised that New Jersey will be proposing a revision to this adopted rule to 

allow for an extension of the interim 500 ppm standard deadline if a refinery certifies that it has a 

planned turn-around of the refinery within I-year of the July 1, 2014 deadline. This extension 

would allow a refinery to avoid excess emissions from an additional shutdown and start-up of the 

refinery. We will provide you a copy of the proposed rule amendment for comment when 

available. New Jersey is not proposing any change to the stringency or date to comply with the 

final sulfur content in distillate fuel standard of 15 ppm on July 1, 2016. 
We are requesting your approval of these SIP revisions to contain New Jersey's revised 

Sulfur in Fuels rule. If you have any questions regarding this proposal, please do not hesitate to 

contact me or William O'SuIlivan, Director of the Division of Air Quality, at (609) 984-1484. 

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lriob Martin 

Commissioner 

Enclosures: 

1. List of public notice actions taken by the Department 

2. Copies of the newspaper legal advertisements and affidavits of publication 

3. Copy of the proposal, as published in the New Jersey Register 

4. Copy of the adoption, as published in the New Jersey Register 

c:	 Nancy Wittenberg, Assistant Commissioner w/o enclosures 

William O'Sullivan, Director w/o enclosures 

Ray Werner, USEPA w/enclosures 

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