Work Plan & Progress Report - Rhode Island Department of ...

Item 29: DEM indicated the air monitoring network plan pieces of this task will be completed before
9/30/10. The 2010 annual plan including the 5-year network assessment were submitted to EPA on
7/12/10 and EPA issued an approval of the annual plan on 7/14/10. Region I has forwarded the 5-year
assessment to OAQPS for their review and approval. The task should probably be reduced to just
“Implement plans to monitor for October 2008 lead NAAQS.” Dave will change this item to reflect the
discussion.
Item 35: The five-year Air Monitoring Network Assessment has been completed and submitted to the
Region. This item should be deleted. Dave agreed to delete this item.
Item 37: DEM indicated there is no available staff to work on minor sources in the Industrial,
Commercial, and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters NESHAPs promulgated by EPA. DEM can
work on the major sources, but does not have the resources to work on the small sources. DEM thought
the regulations, particularly the record keeping requirements were onerous and required significant
resources to respond to questions from the small regulated entities. Dave indicated that this was an
item that EPA envisioned would be completed with the new grant funding and mechanisms to do this
should be explored if the new funding is authorized.
Item 38 and 39: Doug indicated that like the previous task, DEM did not have the staff to work on
assisting EPA with outreach on the area source NESHAPs except where the universe of regulated
sources was fairly small. Doug had not had time to discuss these items with the Office of Customer
and Technical Assistance (OCTA). He will need to get back to Dave on this issue. Using a federal
TAC to assist in identifying sources in the categories is an option here.
Items 41: Revise the DEM contact person to be Gina Friedman.
Item 42: Revise the DEM contact person to be Karen Slattery.
Item 43: Doug indicated an intern working for the Assistant Director is working to document progress
to implement strategies under the RI Greenhouse Gas Action plan and to look at regional adaptation
strategies. DEM contact person should be Doug McVay.
Item 44: There is no OAR staff available to work on participating in NESCAUM’s Regional
Adaptation Planning effort. The intern mentioned in Item 43 above will be making recommendations
to the Assistant Director concerning DEM’s efforts in GHG activities. He mentioned that Janet
Freedman works for the Coastal Resources Management Council and not for RI DEM. Cynthia Greene
indicated that Tim Gleason who is on loan to the region is a good GHG contact and has a good
inventory of work being done by the states in the region concerning adaptation. Doug indicated new
legislation was enacted this year that creates the Rhode Island Climate Change Commission to address
adaptation. DEM will see how this commission plays out.
Item 45: DEM did not feel that sponsoring a workshop for industry on the implementation of GHG
permitting was necessary. DEM rarely has major NSR permits and thought permitting issues
concerning GHG could be accomplished on a case by case basis. Dave agreed to modify wording to
reflect this.
Item 46: Doug indicated he will submit the required letter to EPA which explains how DEM will
apply EPA’s meaning of the term “subject to regulation”. EPA will provide some guidance on the
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