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DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AIR QUALITY ISSUES
Proposed Regional Haze State Implementation Plan
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held on Monday, August 30, at 6:00 p.m. in Room 512 at 1200 First Street, N.E., 5th Floor, in Washington, D.C. This hearing provides interested parties an opportunity to comment on the District’s proposed Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP).
The District is currently under a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) deadline to submit its Regional Haze SIP to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by January 15, 2011. This SIP was completed pursuant to the requirements of EPA’s 1999 Regional Haze Rule (as revised). The Regional Haze Rule requires states and the District to address regional haze in Federally-designated Class I areas, which include national parks and wilderness areas. As a member of the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Visibility Union (MANE-VU), the District participated in a regional process to develop a long-term strategy to ensure that reasonable progress is made to eliminate visibility degradation by 2064. The District’s SIP describes the District’s specific plans to meet the region’s goals and implement the Regional Haze Rule. It includes a determination of Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) for the District’s one BART-eligible facility, the Benning Road Generating Station.
The entire proposed SIP and Appendices are available for public review during normal business hours at the offices of the District Department of the Environment (DDOE), 1200 First Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20002. Due to the size and extent of the Appendices, only the main SIP document is available on-line at http://ddoe.dc.gov/ddoe. A hard copy of the main SIP document is also available for review at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at 901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-4531.
Interested parties wishing to testify at this hearing must submit in writing their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and affiliation, if any, to Mr. William Bolden at DDOE by 4:00 p.m. on August 30, 2010. Interested parties may also submit written comments to Ms. Cecily Beall, DDOE Air Quality Division, at 1200 First Street, NE, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20002, or submit comment to her by email at cecily.beall@dc.gov. No written or email comments will be accepted after August 30, 2010. For more information, call Ms. Jessica Daniels at 202-741-0862 or email her at jessica.daniels@dc.gov.
