The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled three public meetings to discuss regional ozone pollution control measures now under consideration by the Ozone Transport Commission for adoption.

Comments are due May 30. The meetings will be held:

· May 22 - Rachel Carson State Office Building Room 105, Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17105

· May 23 – DEP Southwest Regional Office, Waterfront A & B, 400 Waterfront Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15222

· May 25 – DEP Southeast Regional Office, Library, 2nd Floor 2 East Main Street Norristown, PA 19401

Among the actions to be discussed are: urging U.S. EPA adoption of a rule regulating emissions from small engines, develop changes to the rule regulating consumer products, changes to the architectural and industrial maintenance coatings model rule and developing a model rule that requires the correction of the “defeat device” option on certain heavy-duty diesel engines. (See Control Strategies Meeting links)

In addition, the Commission has directed its staff to work on regional air pollution control modeling to include sixteen different control strategies affecting: AIM coatings, asphalt paving and production plants, auto refinishing, consumer products, diesel truck chip reflash, electric generating units, EGU peaking units, glass furnaces, lime kilns, cement plants, industrial and commercial boilers, municipal waste combusters, refineries, reformulated gas options and distillate fuel sulfur content.

Written comments should be sent by May 30 to J. Wick Havens, Chief, Division of Air Resource Management, Bureau of Air Quality, P. O. Box 8468, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8468, jhavens@state.pa.us .

The Department will review and consider all written comments prior to voting on any mechanism that would commit the Commonwealth to adopt and implement these control strategies.

4/28/2006