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Proposed State Implementation Plan Revision

Section 11O(a)(2)(A)-(M) Clean Air Act Requirements

for Ozone

January 2008

District Department ofthe Environment

51 N Street NE, 6th Floor

Washington, DC 20002

George Hawkins, Director
A State Implementation Plan (SIP) is a plan for each state that identifies how that state will attain and/or maintain the pr

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The SIP is a complex, fluid document containing regulations, sourc

regulatory items such as plans and inventories, and in some cases additional requirements promulgated by the U.S. Envi

(EPA). The initial SIPs for states were approved by on May 31, 1972. SIPs can be revised by the state with EPA approv

federally enforceable SIP for District of Columbia is compiled in 40 CFR Part 52 Subpart J.

This SIP revision incorporates the requirements of Section 11 0(a)(2)(A)-(M) ofthe Clean Air Act (CAA) which have no

This SIP revision is a compilation of elements that describe how the District of Columbia is implementing the eight-hou

elements ofthis SIP revision, once approved by EPA, will provide a federally enforceable written confirmation of how t

continue to comply with the Section 11 0(a)(2) requirements ofthe CAA.

Legislative authority for the District of Columbia air quality program is codified in 40 CFR Part 52 Subpart J, which giv

the Environment the power and duty to implement the provisions ofthe CAA in the District of Columbia.

Those requirements of Section 11 0(a)(2)(A)-(M) that are already in the approved SIP or recently submitted SIP revision

emission limits and schedules for compliance; monitoring, source testing and emissions reporting; recordkeeping and rep

permit fees. Some requirements, such as those for intergovernmental consultation, air quality modeling and compliance 

fulfilled during the development and submission to EPA as a SIP revision of attainment plans and related requirements d

the case of ozone, subpart 2 of the CAA. In the case of ozone, District of Columbia has submitted the ozone nonattainm

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provide for establishment and

operation of appropriate devices,

methods, systems, and procedures

necessary to monitor, compile, and

analyze data on ambient air quality,

and upon request, make such data

available to the Administrator;

The District Department ofthe Enviro

operates a multi-station ozone network 

ozone levels within District of Columb

NAAQS as required by 40 CFR Part 5

October) and annual ozone monitoring 

at various locations throughout the Dis

data is measured using U.S. Environm

(EPA) approved methods as either Ref

monitors; all monitors are subjected to 

requirements of 40 CFR Part 58, Appe

are located at sites that have met the m

Part 58, Appendix E. The data is subm

Quality System (AQS) system, in a tim

accordance to the schedule prescribed 

Part 58.

In order to keep EPA informed of chan

network, the District Department of th

EPA Region III with prior notification 

to the network. As needed, details oft

anticipated approvals of the changes ar

EPA. On an annual basis, the District 

Environment sends EPA a summary ta

the network. This summary also provi

each change, the reason for each chang

information relevant to the change. Th

ofthe Environment submits data to the 

timely manner, pursuant to the schedul

EPA in 40 CFR Part 58.

The District Department ofthe Environ

§ 11 0(a)(2)(B)

Section 110(a) element Summary of element The District of Columbi&s Implement

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(i) necessary assurances that the state

(or, except where the Administrator

deems inappropriate, the general purpose

local government or governments, or a

regional agency designated by the state

or general purpose local governments for

such purpose) will have adequate

personnel, funding, and authority under

state (and, as appropriate, local) law to

carry out such implementation plan (and

is not prohibited by any provision of

federal or state law from carrying out

such implementation plan or portion

thereof);

to determine attainment status of areas 

evinced by the June 12, 2007 attainme

implementation plan (SIP) revision sub

The District assures EPA that it has ad

the District of Columbia Air Pollution 

effective March 15, 1985 (D.C. Law 5

§8-101 et seq.) to carry out its SIP obli

the 8-hour ozone standard and to revis

The primary sources of funding for the 

8-hour ozone requirement is the Sectio

funds provided by the District and fees 

Title V fee program. The District Depa

Environment believes that the District 

and personnel to carry out the SIP with 

requirements. Should EPA determine 

Department ofthe Environment lacks 

carry out the Plans, EPA may issue a f

that deficiency, which the District wou

obligation to correct.

The District Department ofthe Environ

anticipate the need for additional resou

the plan for the 8-hour standard beyon

have been utilized to date to meet the 

preparation ofthe plans submitted to d

current programmatic demands.

§ 11 0(a)(2)(E)(i) provide

§ 1 1 0(a)(2)(F) require, as may be prescribed by the All reports are available to the public u

Administrator— Columbia Freedom of Information Act 

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Code §2-531 et seq.)

(i) the installation, maintenance, and

replacement of equipment, and the

implementation of other necessary steps

by owners or operators of stationary

sources to monitor emissions from such

sources,

(ii) periodic reports on the nature and

amounts of emissions and emissionsrelated data from such sources, and

(iii) correlation ofsuch reports by the

state agency with any emission

limitations or standards established

pursuant to this Act, which reports shall

be available at reasonable times for

public inspection;

§ 11 O(a)(2)(H)

provide for revision of such plan—

(i) from time to time as may be

necessary to take account ofrevisions

of such national primary or secondary

ambient air quality standard or the

availability of improved or more

expeditious methods of attaining such

standard, and

(iii) except as provided in paragraph

(3)(C), whenever the Administrator

finds on the basis of information

available to the Administrator that the

plan is substantially inadequate to

attain the national ambient air quality

standard which it implements, or to

otherwise comply with any additional

The District of Columbia will review a

time to time as may be necessary to tak

of such primary or secondary NAAQS 

improved or more expeditious method

standard and whenever the Administra

information available to the Administr

substantially inadequate to attain the N

implements or to otherwise comply wi

requirements established under the CA

are necessary, the local planning organ

the Metropolitan Washington Air Qua

(MWAQC), coordinated with the trans

agencies, is used. The District has ade

District of Columbia Air Pollution Co

effective March 25, 1985 (D.C. Law 5

§ 8-101 etseq.) to revise the SIP.

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requirements established under this

Act;

§ 11 O(a)(2)(J) meet the applicable requirements of The District of Columbia air quality da

(Section 127 public notification) section 7421 ofthis title (relating to network is published on EPA’s AirNo

consultation), annual summary of all monitoring data

and violations ofstandards, are publish

Quality Data Mart. The daily Air Qual

on the District Department ofthe Envi

data are also submitted to the Council 

ofthe Ozone Action Day process.

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