This section gives you a continuously updated thumbnail sketch of issues to be considered in upcoming advisory committee meetings where the agendas have been released

May 14-- Agenda Released. DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:30.

-- 2014 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report, Methods

-- Chesapeake Bay Updates

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May 21-- Agenda Released. Environmental Quality Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.

-- Proposed Regulation controlling VOC emissions from boat manufacturing

-- Rulemaking petitions from the Clearfield Creek Watershed Association to upgrade streams in Cambria County: Killbuck Run, Wyerough Run, and Beaverdam Run

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May 21-- Agenda Released. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

-- 2012 natural gas emissions inventory

-- DEP comments on EPA’s carbon emission reduction rule

-- 2014 Water Quality Assessment Report

-- DEP’s new Director of the Office of External Affairs, Katie Hetherington-Cunfer

-- DEP’s May monthly report

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May 27-- Environmental Quality Board holds a hearing on proposed changes to Chapters 121 & 129 - RACT requirements for major sources of NOx and VOCs.  DEP Southwest Regional Office, 400 Waterfront Dr., Pittsburgh. 1:00.  (formal notice)

May 28-- Environmental Quality Board holds a hearing on proposed changes to Chapters 121 & 129 - RACT requirements for major sources of NOx and VOCs.  DEP Southeast Regional Office, 2 East Main St., Norristown. 1:00.  (formal notice)

May 29-- Environmental Quality Board holds a hearing on proposed changes to Chapters 121 & 129 - RACT requirements for major sources of NOx and VOCs.  DEP Office, Room 105 Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 1:00.  (formal notice)

June 3-- DEP Storage Tank Advisory Committee meeting.  14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 4-- DEP Coastal Zone Advisory Committee meeting.  10th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 9:30.

June 4-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Infrastructure State Air Quality Implementation Plans for the 8-hour ozone standard.   DEP Southeast Regional Office, Schuylkill River Room, 2 East Main St., Norristown. 10:00 a.m. to noon.  (formal notice)

June 4-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Infrastructure State Air Quality Implementation Plans for the 8-hour ozone standard.   DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m. to noon.  (formal notice)

June 4-- DEP hearing on proposed revisions to the Infrastructure State Air Quality Implementation Plans for the 8-hour ozone standard.   DEP Southwest Regional Office, 400 Waterfront Dr., Pittsburgh. 10:00 a.m. to noon.  (formal notice)

June 5-- DEP Solid Waste Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 10-- DEP Board Of Coal Mine Safety meeting.  DEP Cambria Office, 286 Industrial Park Rd., Ebensburg. 10:00. 

June 12-- DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. 14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.  (formal notice)

June 12-- CANCELED. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15. (formal notice)

June 12-- NEW. DEP public hearing on proposed changes to Air Quality Implementation Plan to meet particulate standards in the Philadelphia area. DEP Southeast Regional Office, 2 East Main St., Norristown. 1:00. (formal notice)

June 16-- DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting. DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 10:00.

June 17-- Environmental Quality Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.

June 17-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 18-- DEP Small Water Systems Technical Assistance Center Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 18-- DEP State Board for Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators meeting.  10th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 24-- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 25-- DEP State Board for Certification Of Sewage Enforcement Operators meeting.  Conference Room 11B, Rachel Carson Building.  10:00.

June 26-- DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

July 30-- DCNR Natural Gas Advisory Committee meeting. LTBA.

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