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Oregon Bulletin
NOTICES OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING AND
PROPOSED RULEMAKING HEARINGS
Rule Caption: Updating Oregon’s air quality rules to address federal regulations.
Date: Time: Location:
9-25-12 5 p.m. DEQ Headquarters 811 SW 6th Ave, Rm. 3A Portland, OR
9-25-12 5 p.m. DEQ Bend Office 475 NE Bellevue Dr., Suite 110 Bend, OR (Teleconference location)
9-25-12 5 p.m. DEQ Medford Office 221 Stewart Ave., Suite 201 Medford, OR (Teleconference location)
Hearing Officer: Gregg Dahmen
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468.020, 468A.025, 468A.035, 468A.040, 468A.050 & 468A.310
Stats. Implemented: ORS 468.020, 468A.025, 468A.035, 468A.040, 468A.050 & 468A.310
Proposed Adoptions: 340-216-0068, 340-244-0239
Proposed Amendments: 340-200-0020, 340-200-0040, 340-210-0100, 340-216-0020, 340-216-0060, 340-216-0062, 340-216-0064, 340-216-0066, 340-228-0602, 340-228-0606, 340-228-0609, 340-228-0635, 340-228-0637, 340-232-0085, 340-238-0040, 340-238-0060, 340-244-0030, 340-244-0210, 340-244-0220, 340-244-0234, 340-244-0238, 340-244-0240, 340-244-0242, 340-244-0244,340-244-0246, 340-244-0248, 340-244-0250
Proposed Repeals: 340-228-0611, 340-228-0613, 340-228-0615, 340-228-0617, 340-228-0619, 340-228-0621, 340-228-0623, 340-228-0625, 340-228-0627, 340-228-0629, 340-228-0631, 340-228-0633, 340-244-0230
Last Date for Comment: 9-28-12, 5 p.m.
Summary: The proposed rules would adopt new and amended federal air quality regulations and related permit rules. This includes adopting new national standards for electric utility steam generating units, gold mine ore processing and production, polyvinyl chloride and copolymers production, and sewage sludge incinerators, as well as changes to the federal gasoline dispensing facility rules. The rulemaking proposal would also clarify when and if Air Contaminant Discharge Permits are required for sources subject to NSPS and NESHAP.
Rules Coordinator: Maggie Vandehey
Address: Department of Environmental Quality, 811 SW Sixth Ave., Portland, OR 97204-1390
Telephone: (503) 229-6878
Rule Caption: Oakridge PM2.5 Attainment Plan.
Date: Time: Location:
9-20-12 12:30 p.m. LRAPA, 1010 Main St. Springfiled, OR
Hearing Officer: Merlyn Hough
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468, 468A, 468.020, 468A.025, 468A.460 & 477
Stats. Implemented: ORS 468.020, 468A.025, 468A.035 & 468A.515
Proposed Amendments: 340-200-0040
Last Date for Comment: 9-20-12, 2:30 p.m.
Summary: This rulemaking proposes adoption of an attainment plan that will bring the Oakridge 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 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).
LRAPA requests public comment on whether other options should be considered for achieving the rule’s substantive goals while reducing the negative economic impact of the rule on business. These amendments, if adopted by LRAPA, will be presented to the Environmental Quality Commission for approval and submitted by DEQ 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.
Rules Coordinator: Maggie Vandehey
Address: Department of Environmental Quality, 811 SW Sixth Ave., Portland, OR 97204-1390
Telephone: (503) 229-6878
Notes
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