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    BEFORE THE ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
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    MARCH 10, 2009
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    IN THE MATTER OF:
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    AIR QUALITY STANDARDS CLEAN-UP: )
    5 AMENDMENTS TO 35 ILL. ADM. CODE ) R09-19
    PART 243
    )(Rulemaking-Air)
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    REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS had before the
    10 ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD held on March 10,
    11 2009, at 9:00 o'clock a.m. at the Thompson Center,
    12 Room 11-512, Chicago, Illinois.
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    1 A P P E A R A N C E S:
    2 ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD:
    3 MR. TIMOTHY J. FOX, Hearing Officer
    4 MS. ANDREA S. MOORE, Member
    5 MR. ANAND RAO, Senior Environmental Scientist
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    8 ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
    9 1021 North Grand Avenue East
    10 P.O. Box 19276
    11 Springfield, Illinois 62794-9276
    12 MR. ROBERT J. KALEEL, Manager, Bureau of Air
    13 MR. CHARLES E. MATOESIAN, Assistant Counsel
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    15 ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY GROUP
    16 215 East Adams Street
    17 Springfield, Illinois 62701
    18 MR. ALEC M. DAVIS
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Good morning
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    everyone, and welcome to this Illinois
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    Pollution Control Board hearing. My name is
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    Tim Fox, and I'm the hearing officer for
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    this Rulemaking proceeding entitled, In The
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    Matter of Clean-Up, Amendments to 35
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    Illinois Administrative Code, Part 243.
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    Also present from the Board
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    today are at my immediate right, Board
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    Member Andrea S. Moore, the lead Board
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    Member for this rulemaking. And at my left
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    Anand Rao of the technical staff. The Board
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    docket number is R09-19.
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    The Illinois Environmental
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    Protection Agency filed this proposal on
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    December 1, 2008, and in an order dated
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    December 18, 2008, the Board accepted the
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    proposal for hearing. On January 20, 2009,
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    IEPA filed a motion to amend its rulemaking
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    proposal. And in an order dated
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    February 19, 2009, the Board granted that
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    motion.
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    Today we are holding the first
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    hearing on this amended rulemaking proposal.

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    Originally, the first hearing had been
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    scheduled to take place on February 3, 2009,
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    with the second hearing scheduled to take
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    place here on March 10th. On January 20,
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    however, the Agency, in addition to its
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    motion to amend the rulemaking proposal,
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    filed a motion to reschedule that first
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    hearing. And on January 30, 2009, a hearing
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    officer order granted that motion and
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    rescheduled the first hearing from
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    February 3rd to today, March 10th. That
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    order did not address the schedule for a
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    second hearing, but as indicated, it's
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    expected that the participants here today
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    will address that issue before adjourning
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    this hearing.
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    For the first hearing, the Board
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    on March 3, 2009, received pre-filed
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    testimony from the Illinois Environmental
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    Protection Agency by Mr. Robert Kaleel, who,
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    of course, is present here today. Also on
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    March 3, the Board received a motion to file
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    Mr. Kaleel's testimony instanter. Does
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    Mr. Davis or anyone else wish to be heard on

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    that motion? Although Mr. Davis indicates
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    he does not, while the Board's rules do
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    allow for 14 days to respond, undue delay
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    would result from allowing that period to
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    run. Mr. Kaleel is present, and I suspect
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    he will be sworn in to take any questions
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    very soon, and that motion and the testimony
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    were served on the entities on the service
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    list as the testimony is relatively brief in
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    length, I will grant that motion to file the
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    testimony instanter and accept it into the
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    record at this proceeding.
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    No other participant has
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    pre-filed testimony for this hearing. So
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    naturally, we will begin with the testimony
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    by Mr. Kaleel which is now in the record,
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    and then proceed to questions that any
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    participants may have on the basis of that
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    testimony. After those questions, we can
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    turn to any witness who did not pre-file
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    testimony but would like to testify. While
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    no one else appears in the room, other than
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    Mr. Davis and the representatives of the
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    Agency, there is a sheet at the door on

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    which any person -- at the end of this head
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    table near the door -- at which any person
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    who would like to do so, can indicate their
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    interest in testifying today.
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    This proceeding is, of course,
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    governed by the Board's procedural rules,
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    and all information that is relevant and
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    that is not repetitious or privileged will
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    be admitted into record. Please note any
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    question posed today by the Board or its
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    staff are intended solely to develop a
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    clear and complete record, and reflect no
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    prejudgment or predetermining about the
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    substance of the Agency's proposal.
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    For the court reporter, please
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    speak loudly. We do have a fan that may
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    make it a little more difficult to be heard.
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    That, I'm sure, will be appreciated so we
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    can have the clearest possible transcript.
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    Any questions at all about procedures or
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    background? Great. Mr. Matoesian, we're
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    ready to turn to the Agency. Did you or
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    Mr. Kaleel wish to make any quick
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    introduction or summary this morning?

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    MR. MATOESIAN: Just briefly. I'm
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    Charles Matoesian, appearing for the
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    Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on
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    this matter of clean-up of part 243. This
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    clean-up simply incorporates new federal
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    standards into our rule which are currently
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    applicable throughout the nation, and
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    briefly we add a new PM2.5 standard. We add
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    a new 8-hour ozone standard. We revoke
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    the existing 1-hour ozone standard, and we
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    are modifying the PM10 ozone standard, as
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    well as modifying the Lead standard.
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    We also have a few clean-up
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    matters. We proceeded along, since the
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    part was open, and with that I can turn
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    things over to Mr. Robert Kaleel, manager of
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    the Air Quality Section in the Bureau Of
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    Air, who will provide testimony here today.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Mr. Matoesian
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    and Mr. Kaleel, I'm sure, you know,
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    pre-filed testimony is admitted in the
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    record as if read at 102.4F of the
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    procedural rules. If it's a good time, we
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    can swear you in too so you can proceed to

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    give any kind of summary or any other
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    introduction he might like to provide.
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    MR. KALEEL: I have no opening
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    statement.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Very good.
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    I'm presuming you would be willing to go to
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    questions then?
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    Mr. Davis, you are the single
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    nonagency entity, other than the Board,
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    present, so certainly it's an opportune
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    time to ask any questions that you might
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    wish to.
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    MR. DAVIS: Thank you. My name is
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    Alex Davis. I'm here on behalf of the
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    Illinois Environmental Regulatory Group. I
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    have a few questions that I'd like to ask
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    you today, Mr. Kaleel.
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    MR. KALEEL: Okay.
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    MR. DAVIS: Mr. Kaleel, in the
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    Agency's filings of your testimony, the
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    intent of the Agency is to have the state's
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    Air Quality Standards be the same in
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    substance to the National Ambient Air
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    Quality Standards for PM 2.5; is that a

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    correct understanding?
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    MR. KALEEL: That's correct.
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    MR. DAVIS: The technical support
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    document provides a lot of summary of the
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    characteristics and health impacts of ozone
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    particulate matter and lead, and generally
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    presents a synopsis of the bases for the
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    U.S. EPA setting the National Air Quality
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    Standards for these pollutants. Has the
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    Agency performed an analysis or
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    investigation of the documents that the
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    U.S. EPA used to establish the levels and
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    formed the standards in order to determine
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    if a different level should be set in
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    Illinois, or is it the policy of the Agency
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    to rely upon the expertise of the U.S. EPA
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    in setting the air quality standards in
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    Illinois?
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    MR. KALEEL: We have not done an
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    independent review of the health effect
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    studies. We do rely upon the U.S. EPA,
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    their experts, to develop those proposals,
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    and what we're here to do today is to adopt
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    the federal standards.

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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Mr. Davis, I
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    neglected to mention that in addition to his
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    pre-filed testimony, Mr. Kaleel did submit
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    into the record a revised technical support
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    document in this proceeding, and I'm
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    assuming that it's that revised document
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    that you are referring to?
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    MR. DAVIS: That is what I was
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    referring to.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Thank you for
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    letting me interrupt.
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    MR. DAVIS: Mr. Kaleel, in the case
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    of the ozone standards that you are
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    proposing, are you aware that the proposal
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    is subject to an appeal that could result in
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    the standard being changed?
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    MR. KALEEL: We are aware that the
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    ozone standard is subject to -- and PM2.5
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    are subject to legal action.
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    MR. DAVIS: If either of these
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    proposals were changed, would the Agency
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    40CRF rule begin to incorporate those
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    changes?
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    MR. KALEEL: Yes, it would.

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    MR. DAVIS: The Agency's proposed
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    revisions -- in the proposed revisions,
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    no mention is made to designate the proposed
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    standard as being primary or secondary
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    standards. The proposed standards are
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    identical for primary and secondary
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    standards. If that were to change as a
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    result of ongoing appeals, for example,
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    would the Agency make such a designation in
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    this part 243 or is it the intent of the
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    Agency to only establish a primary or health
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    base standard?
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    MR. KALEEL: I think it would be our
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    intent to propose to make secondary
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    standards consistent with U.S. EPA's Air
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    Quality Standards. As you noted, in most
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    cases, if not all cases, in this proposal,
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    the primary standard and the secondary
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    standard are identical. There's no need to
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    do that at this point.
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    MR. DAVIS: Okay. The Agency's
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    proposed revisions do not duplicate the
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    language of the U.S. EPA National Ambient
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    Air Quality Standard, but seem to capture

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    the substance. Why doesn't the Agency use
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    the same language as the federal standard so
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    as to avoid any possible misinterpretation
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    or confusion?
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    MR. KALEEL: Excuse me for just a
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    second. I think our intent was to capture
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    the essence of the Air Quality Standard.
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    I'm not aware of specific instances where
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    the language is different. If you have some
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    information in that regard --
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    MR. DAVIS: I might be able to
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    draw your attention to a few instances that
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    I'm aware of. I think I'll get to that in a
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    minute, if that's all right.
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    The Agency is proposing to
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    delete the 1-hour ozone standard and to
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    adopt the 200 federal ozone standard, but
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    Part 243 has never included the 1997 ozone
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    standard, which is currently the subject
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    of rulemaking before the Board and state
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    implementation plans that are being
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    developed by the Agency. Why didn't the
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    Agency propose to include the 1997 ozone
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    standard in the Part 243 rules?

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    MR. KALEEL: Well, I guess our
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    preference would have been to adopt the 1997
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    standard shortly after 1997. We didn't make
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    such a proposal. As you noted, current
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    ozone standards are under legal challenge.
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    The 1997 standards were under legal
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    challenge for many years, and at the point
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    that those standards were successfully
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    resolved legally, we are aware that U.S. EPA
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    was already under a deadline to revise those
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    standards yet again. So it's a little bit
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    of a game of catch-up. The 1-hour standards
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    are federal standards. We believe they
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    apply to Illinois, even if they are not
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    included in Part 243, and we have an
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    obligation under federal law to address
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    those standards, even if they are not
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    contained in Part 243. So I think it would
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    be a mistake to go back and adopt the 1-hour
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    standard when they no longer exist at the
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    federal level.
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    MR. DAVIS: Thank you. I now have
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    some questions that are focused directly at
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    the contents of the proposal. It might be

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    useful to refer to that. In the proposed
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    section 243.120, that would be the PM10,
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    the proposal says in part, "That the ambient
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    air quality standard for PM10 is a maximum
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    24-hour concentration of 150 micrograms per
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    cubic meter." Does this language mean that
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    the standard is violated if the Agency
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    performs for a single 24-hour period at a
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    value greater than 150 micrograms per cubic
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    MR. KALEEL: That is not in keeping
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    with the form of the standard. I believe
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    the form of the standard is 150 micrograms
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    per cubic meter not to be exceeded more than
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    once per year.
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    MR. DAVIS: I see. And that I think
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    is similar to the federal Ambient Air
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    Quality Standard language.
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    I guess I can -- can I enter
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    that as an exhibit if I were to distribute
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    the Code of Federal Regulations for
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    reference?
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Certainly. If
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    distribute, we can take that up.
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    MR. DAVIS: This would be Title 40,
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    Sections 50.4 through 50.15, which contain
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    the National Ambient Air Quality Standards
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    for the various pollutants.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Mr. Davis, I'll
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    take your circulation of that as a motion to
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    admit this as Hearing Exhibit 1. Is that a
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    fair assessment?
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    MR. DAVIS: That would be, exactly.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Does the Agency
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    wish to be heard on the motion to admit this
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    as Exhibit 1?
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    MR. MATOESIAN: No, thank you.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Very good. It
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    will be marked as Exhibit 1, the citation to
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    the Code of Federal Regulations as Mr. Davis
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    had indicated.
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    MR. DAVIS: The PM10 standard is
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    contained in Section 50.6, and as you
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    indicated, it says there in subsection A,
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    the number of days per calendar year is a
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    single exceedance. And I was just curious
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    the Agency doesn't explicitly include this
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    or similar language in the standard it's
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    proposing?
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    MR. KALEEL: I don't think we're
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    opposed to do doing that. I would note that
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    the language that you just distributed also
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    makes reference to Appendix K, as does our
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    proposal, and I think the effect of Appendix
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    K would do exact the same thing. It
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    identifies that the first exceedance of 150
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    micrograms per cubic meter does not
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    constitute a violation and takes a second
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    exceedance. I think our proposal does the
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    same thing, but we're not opposed to some
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    clarifying language if it's determined
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    that's necessary.
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    MR. DAVIS: Okay. Thank you.
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    Similarly, with regard to the
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    PM5 standard, that would be the 243.20A,
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    and for comparison's sake, is 40CFR,40E.7,
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    referring these two, comparing these two
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    sections, the Agency's proposed
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    standard refers to 50 micrograms per cubic
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    15.0 micrograms per cubic meter. That's
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    just one indication that was pointed out to
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    me. A second being that the standard is
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    described as being met in the federal
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    standard when the annual arithmetical mean
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    concentration is determined in accordance
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    with the Appendix N, this part is less than
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    15.0 micrograms per cubic meter. This
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    information isn't included or at least it's
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    not immediately obvious whether or not the
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    reference to Appendix N is applicable to
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    both the 24-hour and the annual standards in
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    the proposal or to me at least it's not
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    immediately evident that this is the case.
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    Is that the intent?
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    MR. KALEEL: The intent is for
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    Appendix N to apply to both standards, and
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    that is consistent with the language in the
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    federal standard that you have supplied.
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    MR. DAVIS: Thank you. Turning our
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    attention to the 8-hour ozone standard
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    contained --
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    MEMBER RAO: Mr. Davis, before you
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    respond to the issue of 15.0 --
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    MR. DAVIS: Yes, you are right.
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    Thank you.
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    MEMBER RAO: -- micrograms per cubic
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    meter.
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    MR. KALEEL: The 15.0, that could
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    conceivably have a substantive effect, and I
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    would agree that the value should be 15.0.
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    In prior air quality standards there's
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    frequently some discussion or some process
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    to deal with rounding. So it's conceivable
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    that 15 micrograms could be interpreted than
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    15.0. So I think we probably would intend
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    to amend that to make it look at 15.0.
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    MEMBER RAO: Just one more. This is
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    more of a procedural issue. For PM2.5 you
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    are given a section number of 243.120A, and
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    as far as I can tell we have not seen
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    sections broken up in terms of A, B, and C.
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    Would it be acceptable to the Agency if we
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    just make it 243.121?
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    MR. KALEEL: I think we'd want to
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    consider that. We noticed that 243.121 is
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    1/22. I suspect our attorneys were trying
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    not to use the same section number, but I
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    think I'd want to consult with your
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    attorneys.
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    MEMBER RAO: Because we may have
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    some J-CAR issues with that numbering
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    system.
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    MR. KALEEL: I appreciate you
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    pointing that out, and I think we will take
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    a look at that matter.
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    MEMBER RAO: Thank you.
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    MR. DAVIS: Turning our attention to
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    the 8-hour ozone standard contained in the
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    243.125, and similarly in Section 50.10 of
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    the Code of Federal Regulations, I was
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    pointing out the difference that the
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    Agency's proposal states that the standard
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    is based on the fourth highest 8-hour daily
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    value recorded in a calendar year. But
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    unlike the federal standard, it doesn't
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    explain that compliance is based on the
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    three-year average of the annual fourth
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    highest daily maximum 8-hour averages. And
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    that.
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    MR. KALEEL: Again, I guess we'd
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    want to take a look specifically at the
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    language that you are pointing to. It is
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    our intent to match up the state air quality
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    standard with the federal air standard? If
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    there's some sloppiness on that, I do
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    apologize, but we do intend for the state
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    standards to match the federal standards.
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    MR. DAVIS: Okay. If I could take a
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    minute here.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: That's just
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    fine, Mr. Davis. Please go ahead.
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    MR. DAVIS: Okay, thank you.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Please go ahead,
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    if you have more questions, Mr. Davis.
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    MR. DAVIS: A few more.
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    With regard to the lead
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    standard, this would be in the amended
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    proposal, Section 243.126. Initially I'd
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    like to indicate that under subsection A you
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    referred to air quality standard for lead,
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    and I suspected this was the case. But I
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    intent to have more than one standard. My
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    question that immediately came to mind was
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    that there was going to be a primary and
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    secondary or whether it was just the single
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    standard in this proposal; is that correct?
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    MR. KALEEL: I believe there is just
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    a single standard.
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    MR. DAVIS: Okay. I'd also like to
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    indicate that as you stated, I believe it
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    was in regard to the PM10 standard, referred
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    to the appendix that referenced how that
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    standard was to be met, yet in this lead
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    standard, that is not included, this is an
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    Appendix R, which is the method for
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    interpreting the standard. Is there a
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    reason the Agency chose not to explicitly
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    refer to this Appendix R? And that would
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    not be in the CFR's I distributed because
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    that lead standard was published after the
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    CFR's. So we would have to turn to your
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    filing of the federal register for that
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    citation. Federal register, volume 73, page
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    60752. This was the Agency's filing
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    accompanied the amendment.

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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: That was 67052?
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    MR. DAVIS: Correct. And the
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    national primary and secondary ambient
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    air quality standard for lead are contained
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    in Section 50.16. And in subsection B of
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    that section, it's on the left-hand column
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    about three inches down, it's subsection B,
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    and it describes the use of Appendix R to
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    determine whether or not the standard is
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    met. And I guess my question is, is there a
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    reason that that appendix R, the reference
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    to appendix R was not included in the
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    proposed standard?
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    MR. KALEEL: I'm not aware of a
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    reason why that was excluded. I think I
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    appreciate you pointing that out. We'll go
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    back and take a look at that and see if an
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    amendment is appropriate.
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    MR. DAVIS: Okay. Thank you. I
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    have just a few more -- a few questions, and
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    these are along the same vain. However,
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    these are in reference to some of the
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    standards that aren't being explicitly
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    standard, which is contained in 243.122,
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    contains substantial differences between the
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    current state standard and the U.S. EPA
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    standard. Would the Agency be considering
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    reviewing standard other than those it's
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    MR. KALEEL: We are not proposing
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    any changes for sulfur dioxide. We are
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    trying to get caught up, if you will, with
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    changes for the other standards that we have
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    for many years. It's not our intent to
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    revise that at this time.
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    MR. DAVIS: The Carbon Monoxide Air
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    MR. KALEEL: Again, it's not our
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    intent to revise the carbon monoxide
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    standard. I noted that in the Board's
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    version of 243.123 for carbon monoxide both
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    milligrams per cubic meter and parts per
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    million are listed, and at least my quick
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    distributed, U.S. EPA does it the same way.
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    Different ones are parenthetical, but both
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    units are listed, both parts per million and
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    milligrams per cubic meter, and in both
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    parts of the rule. I guess I don't
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    revise anything since both are listed.
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    Having said that, we are not proposing any
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    changes for carbon monoxide. It's not our
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    MR. DAVIS: I suspect your answer
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    MR. KALEEL: You suspect correctly.
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    We are not making changes to nitrogen
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    dioxide. These quality levels have existed
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    U.S. EPA revises those standards, we will
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    MEMBER RAO: May I ask a follow-up
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    Could you clarify whether the Agency has
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    looked at these standards that Mr. Davis
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    questioned you about to see if there were
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    any substantive changes at the federal level
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    that we need to make at the state level?
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    MR. KALEEL: To be honest, we've not
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    spent any time on the older standards. I
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    don't believe, with the exception of sulfur
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    dioxide, I don't believe just from my own
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    knowledge of these standards that are there
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    substantive differences. The sulfur
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    MEMBER RAO: And you had no problems
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    with the U.S. EPA in terms of how the state
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    is implementing those sulfur dioxides?
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    MR. KALEEL: I believe our sulfur
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    dioxide, the way it is, is slightly more
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    stringent than the U.S. EPA standard. I
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    also point out that there are no places in
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    Illinois that's an issue. All of Illinois
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    is in attainment with both the state form of
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    the standard and the federal form of the
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    standard. So we are not really interested
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    in proposing a change to that at this time.
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    MR. DAVIS: Thank you. That's it
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: No further
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    questions, Mr. Davis?
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    MR. DAVIS: No. Thank you.
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: Mr. Davis has
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    questions based on that testimony. So it is
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    appropriate, Mr. Kaleel, to thank you for
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    your preparation of that testimony and time
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    in testifying today.
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    If everyone is prepared to do
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    so, why don't we go off the record briefly
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    and speak about procedural issues for just a
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    moment or two.
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    (Whereupon, a discussion was had
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    off the record.)
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    HEARING OFFICER FOX: In going off
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    the record and discussing procedural
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    matters, participants have agreed to
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    schedule a second hearing in this rulemaking
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    to take place at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April
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    28, 2009, in Springfield at the Pollution
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    Control Board offices. With the deadline of
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    Tuesday, April 14, 2009, for pre-filing
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    testimony. And it's the Board's intent that
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    the mailbox rule would not apply, and the
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    pre-filed testimony would be in the Board's
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    regarding procedural aspects of this
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    rulemaking, they may reach me through the
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    I, DENISE A. ANDRAS, being a Certified
    7 Shorthand Reporter doing business in the City of
    8 Chicago, Illinois, County of Cook, certify that I
    9 reported in shorthand the proceedings had at the
    10 foregoing hearing of the above-entitled cause.
    11 And I certify that the foregoing is a true and
    12 correct transcript of all my shorthand notes so
    13 taken as aforesaid and contains all the
    14 proceedings had at the said hearing of the
    15 above-entitled cause.
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    DENISE A. ANDRAS, CSR
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    CSR NO. 084-0003437
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