December 31, 2013
Bart Barlow
Boise Building Solutions Mfg., LLC
1917 Jackson Avenue
La Grande, OR 97850-3748
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Barlow:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Interim Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Jess Brown
Collins Products, LLC
1618 SW First Avenue, Suite 500
Portland, OR 97201-5706
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Brown:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Interim Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Glen Keown
Columbia Forest Products, Inc.
South Highway 97
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Keown:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Randy Walker
Frank Lumber
47983 E Lyons Mill City Drive
Lyons, OR 97358-0510
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Walker:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Tony Flagor
Interfor Pacific Inc
1 Sawmill Road
Gilchrist, OR 97737
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Flagor:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Chris Swanson
Swanson Group Mfg.
2635 Old Hwy 99 South
Roseburg, OR 97470
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Swanson:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Peter Brewer
Jeld-Wen Inc.
3303 Lakeport Blvd
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Brewer:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Bill Moir
Steam Engineering
204 NE 117th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98684
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Moir:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Jim Huddleston
Asphalt Pavement Association of OR
5240 Gaffin Road SE
Salem, OR 97317
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Huddleston:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Aubrey Baldwin
Earthrise Law Center
10015 SW Terwilliger Blvd, MSC 51
Portland, OR 97219
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Ms. Baldwin:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Paul Fouch
Save Our Rural Oregon
8017 Hwy 66
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Fouch:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality
December 31, 2013
Chris Winter
Crag Law Center
917 SW Oak Street, Suite 417
Portland, OR 97205
RE: Air Quality Permitting Program Rule Updates - Fiscal Advisory Committee
Dear Mr. Winter:
Thank you for agreeing to serve as a member of our permitting program rule updates fiscal advisory committee. We are forming this committee pursuant to the Oregon Administrative Procedures Act, ORS 183.310 to gather input and recommendations on the adequacy of DEQ’s fiscal impact statement for the proposed rule changes. We are specifically seeking the committee’s recommendations on whether the rule will have a fiscal impact, what the extent of that impact will be and whether the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses. If the committee indicates that the rule will have a significant adverse impact on small businesses, DEQ will ask for the committee’s recommendations on compliance with ORS 183.540 (reduction of economic impact on small business). We will accept comments on the proposed rules during the public notice period which will begin after this committee meets.
The draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which includes the Statement of Economic and Fiscal Impact, and the draft proposed rule will be emailed to you. As you will see, this is a very large rulemaking. The Notice identifies three proposed rules that may have a negative fiscal impact on permitted facilities: update particulate matter standards, change permitting requirements for emergency generators and small natural gas or oil-fired equipment, and change pre-construction permitting program (New Source Review). The rules that will have the largest fiscal impact are the updates to the particulate matter standards, grain loading and opacity in OAR 340-226-0210, 340-228-0210 and 340-208-0110. A separate document containing these rules is also being emailed to you. Because of their apparent fiscal impacts, please focus your attention on those particular rules for discussion at the fiscal advisory committee meeting; however, please know we are seeking recommendations on the fiscal impacts of the entire rulemaking. Please do not distribute the pre-public notice draft version of the rules.
We will meet to discuss the fiscal impact statement of the proposed permitting program rule updates on Thursday, January 23rd at 10:00 a.m. in DEQ’s Northwest office, conference room AB on the 4th floor. The address is 2020 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, 97201. We expect to have only one 2 hour meeting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jill Inahara at 503-229-5001 or inahara.jill@deq.state.or.us.
Sincerely,
Uri Papish
Acting Administrator, Air Quality Division
Department of Environmental Quality