San Antonio has border issues, but has not exceeded this year. These include many well-known areas, such as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Mount Rainier. Two areas in Texas are included Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The rules focus on regional haze and call for states to establish goals for improving visibility to natural background conditions. The preamble to this rule is 267 pages long.
Staff anticipates guidance on how to determine background conditions.
The Commissioners adopted a resolution regarding subdelegation of various permitting matters to the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director and then further down to various staff. Most decisions would be made at the Division Director and Section Manager levels. They are attempting to keep like levels of action delegated to like levels of staff across the various media. The Executive Director s Agenda has been revised and will be kept on the Agency s web page. The Commissioners were concerned about the large number of default orders and worked with staff to develop better communications, including a new brochure to be distributed at every inspection.