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1 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 

2 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 

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6 PUBLIC HEARING 

7 CONCERNING PROPOSED AMENDMENTS 

8 TO COMAR 26.11.01 AND 26.11.09 

9 RE: FUEL BURNING EQUIPMENT DEFINITION 

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13 The hearing in the above matter commenced on 

14 Tuesday, August 4, 2010, at the MOE Headquarters, 

15 Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore, 

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18 BEFORE: DEBORAH RABIN, Hearing Officer 

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20 Reported by: Robin Burgess 

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1 A P PEA RAN C E S 

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3 ON BEHALF OF THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT: 

4 DEBORAH RAB:IN 

5 Regulation Development Coordinator 

6 Regulation Development Division - ARMA 

7 Maryland Department of the Environment 

8 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 730 

9 Baltimore, Maryland 21230 

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11 RANDY MOSIER 

12 Division Chief 

13 Regulation Development Division 

14 Air and Radiation Management 

15 Maryland Department of the Environment 

16 1800 Washington Boulevard 

17 Baltimore, Maryland 21230 

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1 PROCEEDINGS 

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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 to 

6 this public hearing. 

7 My name is Deborah Rabin and I am the 

8 Regulations Coordinator for the Air and Radiation 

9 Management Administration. I will serve as hearing 

10 officer for today's hearing. 

11 I would like to ask all of you in attendance 

12 today to please 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 hearing. Also, copies of 

15 the regulation proposal, support documents, and the 

16 Department's statement are available on the table for 

17 your information. 

18 This hearing concerns Air Quality Regulations 

19 found in the Code of Maryland Regulations, Title 26, 

20 Subtitle 11, Air Quality. The Secretary of the 

21 Department proposes to amend: 

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1 (1) Regulation .01 under COMAR 26.11.01, 

2 General Administrative Provisions; and 

3 (2) Regulation .01 under COMAR 26.11.09, 

4 Control of Fuel-Burning Equipment, Stationary Internal 

5 Combustion Engines, and Certain Fuel-Burning 

6 Installations. 

7 The purpose of this hearing is to give you the 

8 opportunity to comment on this action. 

9 The Opportunity for Public Comment for this 

10 proposed action appeared in the Maryland Register, Volume 

11 37,' Issue 14, Page 961 on July 2, 2010. 

12 The hearing will proceed in the following 

13 order. First, Ms. Carolyn Jones will make a statement on 

14 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management 

15 Administration. After Ms. Jones is finished, I will call 

16 on any elected official or government official who wants 

17 to make a statement. Then, I will call upon anyone else 

18 who indicated on the sign-in sheet that he or she would 

19 like to make a statement. 

20 When giving your statement, please come up 

21 front, identify yourself and your affiliation, and give 

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1 your statement loudly and clearly. Are there any 

2 questions? 

3 (No response). 

4 MS. RABIN: I will now calIon Ms. Jones. 

5 Correction, Randy Mosier will be submitting 

6 this hearing statement into the record, so Randy will now 

7 submit his hearing statement. 

8 MR. MOSIER: My name is Randy Mosier. I am the 

9 Division Chief of the Regulation Development Division of 

10 the Air and Radiation Management Administration, 

11 Department of the Environment. Seeing as no one -­ I am 

12 submitting the hearing statement at this time, seeing as 

13 no one is in attendance for the hearing. 

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15 S'ta'temen't of 'the Air and Radia'tion 

16 Managemen't Adminis'tra'tion 

17 Departmen't of the Bnvironmen't 

18 for the Public aearing Relating 'to 

19 Proposed Amendmen'ts 'to Regula'tion .01 

20 under COMAR 26.11.01 General Admdnis'tra'tive Provisions; 

21 and Regula'tion .01 under CONAR 26.11.09 Con'trol of 

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1 Fuel-Burning Bquipment, Stationary Internal 

2 Combustion Engines, and Certain Fuel-Burning 

3 Installations concerning the 

4 Definition of "Fuel Burning Equipment" 

5 held on August 4, 2010 

6 in Baltimor., Me 

7 My name is Randy Mosier. I am the Division 

8 Chief of the Regulation Development Division of the Air 

9 and Radiation Management Administration, Department of 

10 the Environment. 

11 This public hearing is being held pursuant to 

12 the requirements of 40 CFR Section 51.102 and Sections 2­

13 301 et. seq. of the Environment Article, Annotated Code 

14 of Maryland. It is also being held in conformance with 

15 the State Administrative Procedures Act under the State 

16 Government Article, beginning at Section 10-101. 

17 Notice of this hearing appeared in the 

18 Maryland Register on July 2, 2010; Baltimore Sun on July 

19 2, 2010; Saint Mary's Enterprise on July 2, 2010; 

20 Cumberland Times-News on July 2, 2010; Frederick News21 Post on July 2, 2010; Salisbury Daily Times on July 2, 

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1 2010; Washington Post ,on July 1, 2010; and the MDE's 

2 website on June 22 - August 4, 2010 

3 Copies of these notices were submitted for the 

4 record. 

5 Copies of the proposed amendments and 

6 supporting documents were submitted for review to the 

7 State Clearinghouse and are also submitted at this time 

8 into the hearing record. Copies of the proposed 

9 amendments and supporting documents were made available 

10 for public inspection at the Air and Radiation Management 

11 Administration offices in Baltimore, Cumberland, and 

12 Salisbury, and at all local health departments or local 

13 air quality control offices. 

14 The purpose of today's hearing is to give the 

15 public an opportunity to comment on proposed amendments 

16 to (1) Regulation .01 under COMAR 26.11.01 General 

17 Administrative Provisions; and (2) Regulation .01 under 

18 COMAR 26.11.09 Control of Fuel-Burning Equipment, 

19 Stationary Internal Combustion Engines, and Certain Fuel20 Burning Installations. 

21 Summary of Amendments 

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