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### April2. 2015 Janet McCabe Acting Assistant A dm inistr ator Of f ice of Air and Rndintion E

nvi ronmental Prote ct io n Agency EP A Docket Center ( E PA / DC) Mail code 2R22 1T Attn: Docket 10 No. EP A-HQ - OAR-20 13-0602 1200 Pennsylvan ia A vc. N\V Wa s hington. DC 2 046 0 Rc: Request for Meetings with the lJ . S. E n vironmental Protect ion

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### In cluding a Government-to-Govern ment Con s ul tation, to Discuss Aspects of a lll(d) 

### Plan for the Navajo Nat ion under the Cl e an P owe r P lan 

### Dear Ms. McCabe: I am writin g to r e que st two meet ing s w ith the U .S. En v ironmental Protection Agency (' ' USEPA" ) . Th e fir s t meet ing will consist o f repre sent ati ves from the a vajo Nation, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamati o n (' 'BOR"), Sa lt Rive r Projec t (' ' SRP") and A rizo na Puhlic Service Company ("APS " ) (<.:ollcctively the •· Reque s ting Parties'') and USEPA. 

## ·r he seco nd meeting will be a gov ernment- to -go vern me nt consultation betw ee n USE PA and the Navajo Nation . 1 

### The meet in gs will both t<>cus on a p o tential 111 (d) plan for the Navajo Nat ion to he developed in accordance with US EPA's Car b o n Polluti on Emission Guidel in es tor Ex ist in g S tationary Sources : Electri c Utility Gen erating Units (' 'Propo sed Rule") 2 

### and th e Carb on Po lluti o n Emi ss ion Guideline s for Exist in g Stationary Source s : E GU s in Indian Coun try and U . S. Territories; Mu lti- ju r is dictional P artnerships: Pro p o sed R . ule ("Supplemental Proposed Rule"l request that both meetin g s o ccur on the s ame da y during the week of April 27 , 2015 in Washington ,

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### l al s o request that at lea s t one representative fro m USE PA R egion 9 also attend these meetings.
1 T he Navajo Nati on makes this req uest in acco rdan ce with L.:xecu ti ve Ord e r l J 17 5. Co n su ltati on and Coo rdinati on will1 Ind ian T riba l

**Governm nt~.**  dated November 6, 2000 . and th e l 984 USE P A Policy for t he A d mi ni stration of Enviro nmental Pro g nHlts o n Indian Reservat ions . whi c h was reaffirme d by mos t recently by U SFP !\. Admi nistrator R

eg ina McCarthy on Ja n uar y 9 . 20 14 . Sec http: // www .cpa. gov/i nd im v basicinfofl 984-indiun -p o l i(;y - rcaffirmati o umc m o -0 9JI\.N l4 . pdf . : 79 f e d. Reg. 34 830 ' 79 Fed. Reg . 6 54 82 J I f th is is n o t en o ugh tim e f o r US FP A t o put t oge ther and plan f o r a g overnment - t o - g overnm e nt co nsuhati o n. a l e $s f o rmal mec:ting bet ween USL· PA and the Na v a jo Nati on wo ul d b e a cceptable. 

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### Topics to be discus sed During the first meeting. the Requesting Parties would like to discuss the following with USE PA :**~** l. Baseline year: 2. Heat rate improvements pertaining to Navaj o Generating Station and Four Comers Power Plant; 

### 3. Early Con1pliance Option: 

### and 4. Renewable energy development on the Navajo Nation. During the government-to-government consultation. the Navajo Nation would like to discuss the following with USEPA: I. Parity glidepath developed by the Navajo Nation regn rding end use and energy efficien cy (application of Building Block 4 to the Navajo Nation) ; and 2. Navajo Nation's comments on the Proposed Rule and Supplemental Proposed Rule. 

### I look forward to hearing from you soon to organize a date, time and location for these meetings . Please contact me at stephenbetsitty@navajo-nsn.gov or 928-871-7692 or April Quim1. Staff Attorney, Navajo Nation Department of Justice at aquinn@nndoj.org or 928-871- 6347.
Sincerelv. .

# 3::-**j ~**  Stephen B . Etsitty Executive Director



### cc: William Ni ebling, Sen. Advisor, Cong . & Internal Affairs. Air & Radiation, USEPA Melanie King, Energy Strategies Group. Sector Policies and Programs Di vision, USEPA Jared Blumenfeld. Administrator, USEPA Region 

### 9 Colleen McKaughan. Associate Dirc· ctor, Air Div i sion. US EPA Region 9 Anita L ee , Environmental Scientist, USEPA Region 9 Amy Zimpfer, Associate Director, USEPA Re&,rion 9 David Palumbo, Lower Colorado Assistant Regional Director. BOR Kelly Barr, Senior Director, Environmental Mgmt & Deputy Legal Executive. SRP Ann Becker, Vice President, Environmental and Chief Sustainability Oflicer, APS Deswood Tome. Cliief of Staff, Navajo Nat ion OPVP 

### HaiTison Tsosie. Attorney General, Navajo 

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