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8 AMENDMENT TO COMAR 26.11.26.05

9 CONCERNING REMOVAL OF AN UNNECESSARY SUBSECTION

1011 The hearing in the above matter commenced on

12 Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at the MDE Headquarters,

13 Montgomery Park, 1800 Washington Boulevard, Baltimore,

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1617 BEFORE: DEBORAH RABIN, Hearing Officer1819 Reported by: Rick Sanborn

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3 ON BEHALF OF THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT:4 DEBORAH RABIN5 Regulation Development Coordinator

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7 Maryland Department of the Environment8 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 730

9 Baltimore, Maryland 21230

1011 CARL YORK12 Special Projects Manager

13 Air Quality Planning Division

14 Air and Radiation Management Administration15 Maryland Department of the Environment16 1800 Washington Boulevard, Suite 73017 Baltimore, Maryland 21230

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3 (10:24 a.m.)4 MS. RABIN: Good morning. On behalf of the5 Department of the Environment and the Air and Radiation

6 Management Administration, I would like to welcome you to

7 this public hearing.8 My name is Deborah Rabin. I am the Regulations

9 Coordinator for the Air and Radiation Management

10 Administration. I will serve as hearing officer for

11 today’s hearing.

12 I would like to ask all of you in attendance

13 today to please sign in, if you haven’t already done so.

14 This will help us to keep an accurate record of the

15 people who participate in the hearing. Also, copies of

16 the regulation proposal, support documents, and the17 Department’s statement are available on the table for18 your information.

19 This hearing concerns Air Quality Regulations

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

21 Subtitle 11, Air Quality. The Secretary of the

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5 The Opportunity for Public Comment for this

6 proposed action appeared in the Maryland Register, Volume

7 35, Issue 7, Page 763 on March 28, 2008.

8 The hearing will proceed in the following

9 order. First, Mr. Carl York will make a statement on

10 behalf of the Air and Radiation Management

11 Administration. After Mr. York is finished, I will call12 on any elected official or government official who wants

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

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

15 like to make a statement.16 When giving your statement, please come up17 front, identify yourself and your affiliation, and give18 your statement loudly and clearly. Are there any

19 questions?

20 I will now call on Mr. York.21 Please let the record indicate that no one has

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3 subsection of a recently adopted transportation4 conformity regulation. The subsection being removed has5 been deemed not necessary by the U.S. Environmental

6 Protection Agency (EPA) . EPA requested that Maryland

7 make this change to the regulation.

8 The removal of this subsection of the

9 regulation will not affect the agencies responsible for

10 transportation conformity nor will it have an economic11 impact. It simply removes language that is not relevant

12 to the regulation.

13 Maryland’s State Implementation Plan (SIP)14 This amendment will be submitted to the U.S.15 Environmental Protection Agency as a revision to

16 Maryland’s State Implementation Plan.

17 Consideration of Comments

18 The Department will consider all comments

19 before making a decision to adopt this amendment.

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21 4S. RABIN: This will conclude the public hearing

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3 I, Rick Sanborn, do hereby certify that the4 foregoing transcription was reduced to typewriting via

5 audiotapes recorded by me; that I am neither counsel for,

6 nor related to, nor employed by any of the parties to the

7 case in which these proceedings were transcribed; that I

8 am not a relative or employee of any attorney or counsel

9 employed by the parties hereto, nor financially or

10 otherwise interested in the outcome of the action.

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