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### MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 2 

### AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION 3 4 5 6 

### PUBLIC HEARING 7 

### CONCERNING PROPOSED AMENDMENTS 8 

### TO COMAR 26.11.01 AND 26.11.09 9 

### RE: FUEL BURNING EQUIPMENT DEFINITION 10 11 

### 12 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, 16 Maryland. 17 18 BEFORE: DEBORAH RABIN, Hearing Officer 19 20 Reported by: Robin Burgess 21 

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### A P PEA RAN C E S 2 

### 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 10 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 18 19 20 21



### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55553 1 2 3 Speaker: 4 Deborah Rabin, 5 Randy Mosier, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 

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### 19 20 21 I N D E X

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### 4 1 PROCEEDINGS 2 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:



### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55555 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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### 6 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. 14 15 

### S'ta'temen'tof 'theAir andRadia'tion 16 

### Managemen'tAdminis'tra'tion 17 

### Departmen'tof theBnvironmen't 18 

### for the PublicaearingRelating 'to 19 

### ProposedAmendmen'ts 'toRegula'tion .01 20 

### under COMAR 26.11.01 General Admdnis'tra'tive Provisions; 21 

### andRegula'tion .01 under CONAR 26.11.09 Con'trol of



### ForTheRecord,Inc. (301)870-8025-www.ftrinc.net-(800)921-55557 1 Fuel-Burning Bquipment, Stationary Internal 2 CombustionEngines, and Certain Fuel-Burning 3 Installations concerning the 4 Definition of "Fuel Burning Equipment" 5 held 

### onAugust 4, 2010 6 in Baltimor., Me 7 

### My name is RandyMosier. 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 heldpursuant 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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- 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 ofAmendments



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