VISTAS Consultation Process

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VISTAS Consultation Process

2006 - 2007
2006 - 2007
2003-2007
Presentations to VISTAS Workgroups
Setting the Reasonable Progress Goal 1) Baseline
Conditions 2) Pollutant Contributions 3)
Meteorological Influences 4) Source Areas of
Influence 5) Modeled Progress in 2018 6) BART
controls 7) Additional control options 8)
Control strategy impacts
Technical Analyses
Presentations to VISTAS Workgroups
Presentations to other RPOs and states
Review by States, RPOs, EPA, FLM, stakeholders
Reports and Documentation
Review by States, EPA, FLM, stakeholders
Revised Reasonable Progress Goal
Consultation and meetings to resolve opinions
States Recommend Reasonable Progress
Present to Inter-RPO workgroups, meetings
Revised State Recommendations
Public Comment Hearings re Reasonable Progress
Peer review, publication
State Implementation Plans Submitted Dec 2007
Improved Technical Analyses
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Different Levels of Consultation Already Occurring

• RPO to RPO on technical products
• Within RPO discussions including States, EPA and
  FLMs on technical products
• State to State discussion on particular Class I
  areas
• State to State/EPA/FLM on BART Exemptions and
  BART Determinations
• Anticipate different levels of consultation
  increasing as SIP deadline nears