DEQ review of draft Oakridge PM2.5 plan

DETP/19/6397

''Monday, July 08, 2019 at 3:11:21 PM (GMT+07:00) Goldstein, Meyer:'' Rule Caption: Oakridge-Westfir PM2.5 Attainment Plan. Adm. Order No.: DEQ 7-2012 Filed with Sec. of State: 12-10-2012 Certified to be Effective: 12-10-12 Notice Publication Date: 9-1-12 Rules Amended: 340-200-0040 Subject: The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission adopted an attainment plan that will bring the Oakridge-Westfir non-attainment area into compliance with the PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The attainment plan identifies a number of emission control strategies that will be implemented through city ordinances, state rules and non-regulatory efforts including education and incentives. A mandatory residential wood combustion curtailment program, implemented by LRAPA and the City of Oakridge, is a primary strategy to reduce PM2.5 emissions. If Oakridge-Westfir does not reach attainment by the federal Clean Air Act deadline of December 2014, an additional set of contingency strategies will become effective. These contingency measures include: a stricter opacity limit, revising the current 40% opacity limit to a more restrictive 20% limit, as has been done in some other northwest communities; a stricter green-yellow-red advisory program, with more yellow and red advisory days each winter; and further restrictions on the city woodstove curtailment exemptions (for sole source, economic hardship). DEQ will submit these amendments and attainment plan to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a revision to the State Implementation Plan under OAR 340-200-0040 as a requirement of the Clean Air Act.