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1 PROPOSED FOR MEETING ON: 12-Jul-12 TIME NEEDED 30 minutes                            
3 AGENDA ITEM PROPOSED BY: Linda & Joanie/Andy PRESENTER Linda/AQ Rule Making Team                            
5 TOPIC: Restart Postponed Rulemaking for Air Quality Permitting Program Overhaul Rule                            
7 PRESENTATION TIME PREFERENCE (am/pm) am EQUIPMENT none                            
9 Nature of the topic:                                            
10 X For short-term decision                                        
11   For future decision                                            
12   For information only                                            
14 RECOMMENDED DECISION:                                        
15 Restart postponed rulemaking for air quality permitting program overhaul rule. This was one of 10 agency rulemakings put on our Stop/Postpone list (12/13/11) to create time for the breakthroughs. The request is to restart this rulemaking when the Permit Breakthrough is completed and resources are available and not in competition with the implementation of the permitting breakthrough. Staff: Jill Inahara, hours: 1600 ; other staff, Hours: 770, Manager Oversight: 65. Reviewers 20;                            
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19 DECISIONMAKER: EMT                            
21 DECISION DUE DATE: 12-Jul               Estimate of hours by Task         Initial estimate of total hours
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23 This item relates to the following criteria (check all that apply):       NSR/PSD Breakthrough   Reorg TOTAL HOURS weeks hours/week total hours
24   Completion of framework for outcome-based management (to move to full implementation)   weeks hours/week Total Hours weeks hours/week Total Hours weeks hours/week Total Hours      
25   High level implementation of OCBM (measures review, breakthrough assignment and tracking) Jill 18 30 540 4 5 20 35 28 980 1540 53 30 1590
26   Budget development and budget operation (i.e. hiring, prioritization) GGM 10 36 360 1 5 5 11 36 396 761 20 36 720
27   Other items of agency wide significance as determined by Director and/or Deputy Director) Rachel 10 5 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 10 5 50
28 X Politically significant (e.g. rulemaking) Tom/Uri/David 2 5 10 1 2 2 5 6 30 42 8 5 40
29   Impacts multiple divisions within the agency Andy 2 5 10 1 2 2 3 5 15 27 5 5 25
30 X Impacts agency/statewide policy Review Team 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 2 10 20
31   Impacts the legislative agenda     Total 972   Total 29   Total 1423 2424   TOTAL 2445
32 X Involves significant resource allocation *will use existing rulemaking staff whose time is already planned                            
33   Information items that are requested to inform a future decision                            
35 FACTS AND INFORMATION NEEDED FOR MAKING THE DECISION attach as needed                            
36 This rulemaking will include new streamlining items identified through the Permitting Breakthrough process as well as addresses a number of need-to-fix items in the current AQ permitting rules. Another issue to be rolled into the rulemaking will provide regulatory relief to small and medium -sized AQ regulated businesses in nonattainment areas. This rule revision needs to be addressed as soon as is practicable because the Klamath Falls attainment plan is scheduled for adoption this December and EPA will then have 18 months to approve it. Once the area attains the standard, we can then submit a maintenance plan and re-designation request, and EPA will have 18 months to approve that also. So, from approval of the attainment plan until the area is re-designated could be five or more years. During this entire time, new and expanding point sources over 15 tons/year will need to install the most expensive control technology and obtain offsets (which are in scarce supply). However, our analysis shows that woodstoves are the main cause of nonattainment - not industry. We would like to explore a rule revision that would eliminate the offset requirement for sources that are below the federal major level of 100 tons/year. If this option can be done in a way that does not harm the environment and is approvable by EPA, then the Klamath Falls community and other nonattainment communities will not have industry penalized for woodstove smoke and will be more attractive to incoming industry. This rulemaking is also necessary for the Lakeview area which is actually a nonattainment area but not designated as such. Larger new businesses and major modifications are not approvable because they cannot show compliance with the modeling requirements since the background concentration is already over the ambient air standard.                            
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