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Regional HAZE and BART Information

Contact: Air Quality Division 517-373-7023
Agency: Environmental Quality

Within its boundary, Michigan has two Class I areas - Isle Royale National Park and Seney Wilderness Area. Michigan must submit to EPA a Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP) that identifies sources that cause or contribute to visibility impairment in these areas and require these sources to apply Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) controls to reduce emissions. The SIP must also include a demonstration of reasonable progress toward reaching the first incremental progress goal (2018) for each of the state's Class I areas.

Regional Haze SIP
A thirty day public comment period on Michigan's Regional Haze SIP begins May 24, 2010. Below are the documents receiving public comment. If requested by June 23, 2010, a hearing will be held June 29, 2010. Written comments should be sent to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Air Quality Division, P.O. Box 30260, Lansing, Michigan 48909, to the attention of Lorraine Hickman. Information Contact: Ms. Cindy Hodges, Air Quality Division, 517-335-1059.

SIP Submittal For Regional Hazeand Appendices

Signed Cover Letter For SIP submittal PDF 11/9/2010
Final Regional Haze SIP Submittal PDF 11/9/2010

Appendix 1A List of Class I Areas In or Impacted By MRPO	Appendix 2A Public and FLM Comments with DNRE Responses
Appendix 3A MRPO Principles for Regional Planning	Appendix 3B Regional Haze in the Upper Midwest
Appendix 3C MANE-VU Consultation Notes	Appendix 3D EPA Letters
Appendix 5A LADCO Technical Support Document	Appendix 5B Glide Path Analyses for Regional Haze
Appendix 6A Description of Isle Royale and Seney	Appendix 8A Emissions Inventory Methodology
Appendix 9A DNRE BART Rules	Appendix 9B Determining BART-Eligible and BART-Subject Facilities
Appendix 9C Lafarge BART Technical Analysis	Appendix 9D Lafarge Consent Decree - Alpena Facility
Appendix 9E St. Mary's Cement BART Technical Analysis	Appendix 9F St Mary's Cement BART Letter
Appendix 9G St. Mary's Cement Excerpts from the ROP	Appendix 9H Tilden BART Technical Analysis
Appendix 9I Tilden BART Letter	Appendix 9J Tilden Excerpts from the ROP
Appendix 9K New Page BART Technical Analysis	Appendix 9L New Page Bart Letter
Appendix 9M New Page Excerpts From the ROP	Appendix 9N Smurfit-Stone BART Analysis
Appendix 9O Smurfit-Stone ROP	Appendix 10A Minnesota Final Consultation Report
Appendix 10B Conceptual Model - Cause of Haze	Appendix 10C Seney and Isle Royale - Visibility Information
Appendix 10D Calpuff Modeling - Seney	Appendix 10E Calpuff Modeling - Isle Royale
Appendix 10F OTC-LADCO Letter to EPA

Contacts:
Jim Haywood at 517-241-7478 or haywoodj@michigan.gov
Teresa Cooper at 517-335-2247 or coopert@michigan.gov
Asad Khan at 517-335-6825 or khana@michigan.gov
Cindy Hodges at 517-335-1059 or hodgesc@michigan.gov

Links for Regional Haze Information
Midwest Hazecam; Live Air Pollution Web Cam
USEPA Regional Haze and BART
EPA Cost of Control Manual

History:
In July 1999 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published regulations to address visibility impairment in our nation's largest national parks and wilderness (Class I) areas. This rule was commonly known as the "Regional Haze Rule" (64 Fed. Reg. 35714 [July, 1999]) and is found in 40 CFR part 51, in §§ 51.300 through 51.309. On July 6, 2005 , EPA published a revised final rule, including Appendix Y to 40 CFR part 51, "Guidelines for BART Determinations Under the Regional Haze Rule" (Guidelines). Under EPA's Regional Haze Rule, certain emission sources "that may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute" to visibility impairment in downwind Class I areas are required to install Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART). The rule also requires affected states to demonstrate reasonable progress towards reaching natural background conditions by 2064. The first progress goal is 2018.


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