U.S. EPA: Utah Regional Haze Public Hearing - 2020
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If you require special accommodations, please contact Clayton Bean at bean.clayton@epa.gov or (303) 312-6143 by Monday, February 3, 2020 to make arrangements.
The Air and Radiation Division at U.S. EPA Region 8 is holding a public hearing on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. This public hearing will provide all interested parties the opportunity to present data, views, or arguments concerning the proposed action, "Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Utah; Regional Haze State and Federal Implementation Plans".
The public hearing will be held at the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center (JLSC), Utah State University Eastern, 400 North 410 East, Price, UT 84501. For a detailed campus map showing the exact location of the JLSC, please see: https://usueastern.edu/about/map/_documents/PriceCampusMap.pdf. The hearing will run from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., and again from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. mountain standard time (MST).
The last day to register in advance to speak at the hearing is February 3, 2020. Additionally, requests to speak may be taken the day of the hearing at the hearing registration desk on a first come first serve basis, as time allows. The EPA will make every effort to accommodate all walk-in speakers, however we highly encourage the public to preregister for the hearing in order to be guaranteed speaking time.
The EPA may ask clarifying questions during the oral presentations, but will not respond to the presentations at that time. Written statements and supporting information submitted during the comment period will be considered with the same weight as oral comments and supporting information presented at the public hearing. The hearing officer may limit the time available for each commenter to address the proposal to 5 minutes or less if the hearing officer determines it to be appropriate. The limitation is to ensure that everyone who wants to make a comment has the opportunity to do so. We will not be providing equipment for commenters to show overhead slides or make computerized slide presentations. Any person may provide written or oral comments and data pertaining to our proposal at the public hearings. Verbatim transcripts, in English, of the hearings and written statements will be included in the rulemaking docket.
Please note that registration is intended for those who wish to speak at the public hearing. If a group wishes to have multiple speaking slots, a registration will be required for each speaker. Non-speakers will not need to register as this event is free and open to the public.
Proposed Rule Summary: The EPA is proposing to take action pursuant to section 110 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) on State Implementation Plan (SIP) revisions submitted by the State of Utah on July 3, 2019, as supplemented on December 3, 2019, to satisfy certain regional haze requirements for the program’s first implementation period. The EPA is proposing to approve the July 2019 SIP revision that provides an alternative to best available retrofit technology (BART) controls for nitrogen oxides (NOx) at the PacifiCorp Hunter and Huntington power plants. The EPA proposes to find that the Utah NOx BART Alternative for Hunter and Huntington would provide greater reasonable progress toward natural visibility conditions than BART, in accordance with the requirements of the CAA and the EPA’s Regional Haze Rule. In conjunction with this proposed approval, we propose to withdraw the federal implementation plan (FIP) that addresses NOx BART for the Hunter and Huntington power plants. The EPA also proposes to approve the December 3, 2019 SIP supplement that would require reporting of all deviations from compliance with the applicable requirements under BART and the BART Alternative, including the emission limits for Hunter and Huntington.
The proposed rule, in its entirety, can be found at:
