From: MATTHEWS Shelley
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:50 PM
To: MCALLISTER Larry
Subject: FW: LRAPA Rulemaking Documents and Information You Requested
Re: LRAPA’s Open Burning Rulemaking
Merrie said the Advisory Committee did not provide any formal recommendations – they went with LRAPA’s proposal. See her comment below. She said they could draft something to that effect with Russ Ayers signature and send it to us. Should we go that route or would it be adequate to copy this e-mail and include it in the final rulemaking packet?
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From: Merrie Dinteman [mailto:dinteman@lrapa.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:22 PM
To: MATTHEWS Shelley
Subject: LRAPA Rulemaking Documents and Information You Requested
Shelley—Here’s some more information that you requested. I’m sorry I’m so sporadic at getting it to you. I think I need a little office in a forgotten corner somewhere—or maybe a separate building. I just get started trying to find you what you need, and someone wants me to do something for them instead. You’d think I was here to WORK, or something!
1-Current rulemaking for industrial permitting rules:
The attached image is the letter from Andy Ginsburg giving LRAPA authority to serve as hearings officer for the permitting rules. The Archives Division received our notice information and are prepared to publish hearing notice in the August 1 edition of the Oregon Bulletin. I faxed everything to them, because that’s what they wanted four or five months ago with the open burning rules. This time they apparently want electronic documents, so we e-mailed those to them, as well. It didn’t get to them until Monday, but they were okay with that. The faxed documents had the necessary signatures on them. I’ve also attached that e-mail to you for your records.
2-LRAPA-adopted open burning rules going to EQC:
As far as the advisory committee and its discussions of the open burning rules (Title 47) amendments we did earlier this year, I didn’t find anything in my adoption record in the form of recommendations from the committee, so I asked Sally Markos if the committee actually submitted any formal recommendations. She looked through her records, too, and we’ve determined that, though the committee did hear staff’s presentation of the proposed changes and did have some general discussions at a couple of its meetings in 2006 and 2007, there were never any recommendations from the committee to the board. The committee agreed with staff’s proposal, as it was presented to them. I’m not sure what to do about that. We should have had some kind of communication from the committee to the board stating their concurrence with the draft proposal, but there is none. If that’s a sticking point for you, I can ask Sally to draft something for Russ Ayers’ signature, based on the committee’s meeting minutes, and we can send that up to you as part of your record, and also have something for ours. I think they just figured that if they didn’t have any substantive comments, it wasn’t necessary to submit a formal statement to that effect. Let me know if you need that.
Regarding the list of advisory committee members, the only change in the list I sent you before is that Maurie Denner was retired from teaching school but has since gone back as a school principal. There are a couple of members for whom Sally doesn’t have very much information. If you want something specific, I can call them and ask for the information.
Merrie
From: copier@lrapa.org [mailto:copier@lrapa.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:33 AM
To: Merrie Dinteman
Subject: Attached Image