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4 AIR AND RADIATION MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION

5 PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING

6 PROPOSED NEW REGULATION .05-01 UNDER COMAR 26.11.10

7 CONTROL OF IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION INSTALLATIONS

8 CONCERNING CARBON MONOXIDE EMISSIONS

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13 WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2005

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15 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

16 1800 WASHINGTON BOULEVARD

17 AQUA CONFERENCE ROOM

18 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 21230-1720

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21 Reporter: Anne E. Castellow, CVR, Notary Public

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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 our 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 Department

21 proposes to adopt new regulation .05-01 under

22 COMAR 26.11.10 Control of Iron and Steel Production

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1 Installations.

2 The purpose of this hearing is to give you the

3 opportunity to comment on this action.

4 The Opportunity for Public Comment for this

5 proposed action appeared in the Maryland Register,

6 Volume 32, Issue 12, page 1069, on June 10, 2005.

7 The hearing will proceed in the following

8 order. First, Dr. Husain Waheed will make a statement on

9 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management

10 Administration. After Dr. Waheed is finished, I will

11 call on any elected official or government official who

12 wants to make a statement. Then, I will call upon anyone

13 else who indicated on the sign-in sheet that he or she

14 would like to make a statement.

15 When giving your statement, please come up

16 front, identify yourself and your affiliation, and give

17 your statement loudly and clearly. Are there any

18 questions?

19 (Please note that no questions were asked. No

20 one attended this public hearing.)

21 MS. RABIN: I will now call on Dr. Waheed.

22 DR. WAHEED: Good Morning. My name is

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Husain Waheed. I am a Public Health Engineer in the

Regulation Development Division of the Air and Radiation

Management Administration, Maryland Department of the

Environment.

This public hearing is being held pursuant to

the requirements of 40 C.F.R. Section 51.102 and Sections

2-301 et. seq. of the Environment Article, Annotated Code

of Maryland. It is also being held in conformance with

the State Administrative Procedures Act under the State

Government Article, beginning at Section 10-101.

Notice of this hearing appeared in the:

Maryland Register on June 10, 2005

Baltimore Sun on June 10, 2005

Saint Mary’s Enterprise on June 10, 2005

Cumberland Times-News on June 10, 2005

Frederick News-Post on June 10, 2005

Salisbury Daily Times on June 10, 2005

The Washington Post on June 9, 2005.

Copies of these notices were submitted for the

record.

Copies of the proposed amendments and

supporting documents were submitted for review to the

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1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a revision to

2 Maryland TsState Implementation.

3 The Department will consider all comments

4 before making a decision to adopt these amendments.

S MS. RABIN: Would anyone like to comment on

6 this proposed action?

7 (Please note that no comments were made. No

8 one attended this public hearing.)

9 MS. RABIN: This will conclude the public

10 hearing regarding proposed new regulation .05-01 under

11 COMAR 26.11.10 Control of Iron and Steel Production

12 Installations.

13 Let the record reflect that it is now 11:05

14 a.m. and this hearing is officially concluded.

is (Whereupon, at approximately

16 11:05 a.m. the hearing

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1 CERTIFICATE OF NOTARY

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3 I, ANNE E. CASTELLOW, CVR, the officer before

4 whom the foregoing hearing was taken, do hereby certify

5 that the hearing was taken by me by magnetic tape and

6 thereafter reduced to typewriting by me; that said

7 testimony is a true record of the testimony given by said

8 witness; that I am neither counsel for, related to, nor

9 employed by any of the parties to the action in which

10 this testimony is taken; and, further, that I am not a

11 relative or employee of any attorney or counsel employed

12 by the parties hereto, nor financially or otherwise

13 interested in the outcome of the action.

16 ANNE E. CASTELLOW, CVR

17 Notary Public in and for the

18 State of Maryland

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20 My Commission Expires:

21 November 1, 2007

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