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Opening Remarks 

Public Hearing on Maryland State Implementation Plan 

For Baltimore Serious Nonattainment Area 

0.08 ppm 8-Hour Ozone 

State Implementation Plan 

Demonstrating Rate of Progress for 2008, 2011 and 2012 

Revision to 2002 Base Year Emissions; and 

Serious Area Attainment Demonstration 

Date: July 19, 2013 

Mary Jane Rutkowski, Hearing Officer 

Maryland Department of the Environment

If the court reporter would turn on the equipment, we will begin. Good Afternoon. 

On behalf of the Maryland Department of the Environment, Air and Radiation 

Management Administration, I would like to welcome everyone present to this 

public hearing. This public hearing is being held pursuant to federal law found at 

42 U. S. C. § 7410(a) and 40 CFR Parts 51.102 and 251. It is also being held in 

conformance with the State Administrative Procedure Act, under the State 

Government Article, beginning at Section 10-101. 

Notice was also posted on the Maryland Department of the Environment web site 

starting on June 17, 2013. 
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My name is Mary Jane Rutkowski. I am a Natural Resources Planner with 

the Air and Radiation Management Administration’s Air Quality Planning 

Program. I will serve as hearing officer this morning. 

First, I would like to ask all in attendance to please sign-in at the back, if you 

haven't already done so. This will help us to keep an accurate record of the people 

who participate in our proceedings here today. Also, a full copy of the proposed 

SIP is available on the back table for your information. 

 The hearing will proceed in the following order. First, Molly Berger, a 

Natural Resources Planner with the Air Quality Planning Program of the Air and 

Radiation Management Administration will read the Department’s statement into 

the record.

After Molly Berger is finished reading the Department’s statement, I will 

first call on any elected official or government official who wants to make a 

statement. Then, I will call upon anyone else who indicated on the sign-in sheet 

that he or she would like to make a statement. 
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When giving your statement, please come up to the table, identify yourself 

and your affiliation, and give your statement loudly and clearly so the court 

reporter is sure to catch your words. Hearing procedure does not call for question 

and answer sessions. Statements recorded at this hearing event will be answered in 

writing and published with the final State Implementation Plan document. Are 

there any procedural questions? 

Once all questions have been taken -- if there are any -- you are ready to 

begin. 

If the court reporter would begin we will go on record to receive comment. 

Molly Berger will proceed with the Department’s statement. Again, there are 

copies on the back table you may use to read along.

(While Molly reads her statement you get up and walk to the back and pick 

up the sign in sheets. You are looking to see who said they would like to make 

a comment. When he is finished his presentation, you thank him and look to 
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call on any elected officials who wanted to make a statement first. If there are 

no elected officials, you call on the first person that wanted to comment.) 

I will now call on . 

After calling on all those who wanted to make a statement say the following:

Now is there anyone who would like to make a statement, but did not 

indicate so on the sign-in sheet? 

(If no one wants to make statement, say:)

No one has indicated that they wish to make a statement, is there anyone 

who would now like to make a statement, even if they did not indicate so on the 

sign-in sheets. 

(After all statements have been presented, say) 

Let the record reflect that a statement has been taken from all who wish to 

make one. This will conclude this public hearing. Let the record reflect that it is 

now (The correct time) o'clock and this hearing on the State Implementation Plan 

stands closed at the end of these proceedings on July 19, 2013. Also, at 5:00 pm 
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today, the official comment period for the document of record will completely 

close. 
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PUBLIC HEARING 

WHAT TO SAY IF NOBODY SHOWS FOR THE HEARING 

 WAIT AT LEAST 30 MINUTES BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING !!!

IF THE COURT REPORTER WOULD PLEASE TURN ON THE 

NECESSARY EQUIPMENT: LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT the time is 

now XXX o’clock on July 19, 2013. This hearing was scheduled for a 2:00 pm 

start time. There are currently no persons in the audience wishing to make any 

statements on the record so we request that the court reporter please enter the 

hearing statement into the record at this time. This public hearing is now closed. 

Also, at 5:00 pm today, the official comment period for the document of record 

will close.