NEWS FROM THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

Vol. 38, No. 83
March 3, 2008

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information contact Jack Sipple, Air Quality Management Section, 302-739-9402 or Melanie Rapp, Public Affairs, 302-739-9902.

Hearing Set for March 4 on Proposed Revisions to State Implementation Plan for Attainment of Annual Fine Particle National Ambient Air Quality Standard

DNREC’s Air Quality Management Section will hold a public hearing Tuesday, March 4 on proposed revisions to the State Implementation Plan for Attainment of the Annual Fine Particle National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The hearing will be held at DNREC’s Priscilla Building, 156 S. State Street, Dover, beginning at 6 p.m.

The proposed amendment can be viewed on the department’s web site at http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/whs/awm/Info/Regs/AQMPlansRegs.htm.

For additional information on the PM 2.5 Attainment State Implementation Plan, contact Jack Sipple or for the 2002 Base Year Emissions Inventory, contact David Fees at 302-739-9402.

Statements and testimony may be presented either orally or in writing at the public hearing. Interested parties may also submit comments in writing to: DNREC Air Quality Management Section, 156 South State Street, Dover, DE 19901.

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