Arizona Regional Haze State Implementation Plan

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Arizona Regional Haze State Implementation Plan

• Western Regional Air Partnership
• Fall Board Meeting
• October 14 15, 2003 Salt Lake City, Utah

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Phase I II Development

• Phase I Met with stakeholders August 2001
  through November 2001 decided Arizona would go
  309 for 4 Class I areas on Colorado Plateau with
  commitment to a 309(g) SIP for remaining 8 Class
  I areas
• Phase II Over 300 stakeholders were asked to
  participate on work groups and committees over
  165 did starting in May 2002 through August 2003

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Organizational StructureArizona Regional Haze
SIP Development
Director ADEQ
Project Oversight Committee
Stakeholder Advisory Committee
Outreach Communications Committee
Peer Review Panels
Dust Management Work Group
Pollution Prevention Work Group
Stationary Source Work Group
Fire Emission Work Group
Mobile Source Work Group
Emissions Inventory Work Group
Technical Assessment Work Group
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Related Rulemakings

• Reasonably Attributable Visibility Impairment
  (RAVI) Rule
• Revisions to existing Fire Rules for Unlawful
  Open Burning and Forest Range Management Burns
• Western Backstop SO2 Trading Program Rule
  revisions to related rules for inventory
  pre-trigger requirements

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Current SIP Process

• Workgroup/Committee review August 20, 2003
  Management review complete
• SIP to be released for public comment on October
  24, 2003 with Public Hearings on November 24th
  and in both Phoenix and Flagstaff.
• Await outcome of EPAs proposed revisions to
  Regional Haze Rule for mobile sources
• Continue communication with other 309 states in
  effort to maintain SIP cohesiveness

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Next Steps for Arizona

• Submit base SIP to EPA by December 31, 2003
• Submit SIP revision for final fire rules and
  Arizona trading/inventory rule before June 2004
• Begin work on Section 309(g) for Arizonas
  remaining 8 Class I areas
• Continue and support relationship with WRAP