Document ID: EPA-R03-OAR-2017-0149-0006
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
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Posted Date: 2017-09-25T04:00Z

Opening Remarks
                                       
             Public Hearing on Maryland State Implementation Plan 
For 2011 Base Year Emissions Inventory for the Maryland Portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD Ozone NAAQS Nonattainment Area 

                            Date: November 18, 2016
                                       	
                       Timothy Wallace, 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 of this public hearing has appeared as follows:

   (1)  On the Maryland Department of the Environment website, "Public Hearing, 
      
      Meetings, and Request for Comments" page on October 14, 2016 and 
      
      remained on the website through today's hearing.
      
   (2)  In the Maryland Register, Volume 43, Issue 21, Friday, October 14, 2016.

      My name is Timothy Wallace. I am a Regulatory and Compliance Engineer 
      
in the Maryland Department of the Environment, Air and Radiation Management 

Administration's Air Quality Planning Program. I will serve as hearing officer for 

today's hearing.

      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, Ms. Alexandra Brun, 
      
a  Natural Resource Planner  with the  Planning Program of the Air and Radiation 

Management Administration will read the Department's statement into the record.

      After Ms. Alexandra Brun 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.

      
      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. 
      
Ms. Alexandra Brun will proceed with the Department's statement. Again, there 

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

(While Ms. Alexandra Brun 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 she is finished her presentation, you thank her and look to 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 November  18, 2016. Also, at 5:00 

pm today, the official comment period for the document of record will completely.