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Clean Air Act: Important issues and considerations during COVID-19 COVID-19 Considerations Statements by the EPA and the DEQ Preparing your facility for compliance Documentation Redundancy planning Impacts to DEQ staffing

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Clean Air Act: Important issues and considerations during COVID-19

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COVID-19 Considerations

Statements by the EPA and the DEQ
Preparing your facility for compliance
Documentation
Redundancy planning
Impacts to DEQ staffing
Impacts to State and DEQ budgets

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Diesel, Indirect Sources, Implementation of House Bill 2007

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Indirect Source Rulemaking

What are indirect sources?
What is the concern?
EQC received a petition Dec. 20, 2019
Elements of Proposed Rulemaking
EQC voted to deny the petition on March 18, 2020
Recommended by the DEQ
Reasoning
What is the DEQ doing now?
Summary of HB2007

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Regional Haze

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Regional Haze Rule- Update

What is it?
Regulatory history
What is a Class I area?
What is the Rule’s mandate?
Planning periods
What are steps undertaken by Oregon?
How are Oregon facilities affected?
What’s a Four Factor Analysis
Next steps for the DEQ

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Governor Brown’s Executive Order on Climate Change

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Executive Order on Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Emergency Board funding
Why an Executive Order now?
What are the reduction goals?
Five things the Order mandates
Next steps for the DEQ
Is this affected by COVID-19?
What has the DEQ done to date?

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A New Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs is Created

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Cleaner Air Oregon, Hazardous Index Rulemaking; and more

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Cleaner Air Oregon – Hazard Index Rulemaking

Adopted April 24, 2020
What did SB1541 allow?
Who does this affect?
How many pollutants are changed?
Diesel Particulate Matter added
How does the rule work in practice?

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Risk Determination Ratio =

Only Existing Sources Affected
Only Top 3 Risk Action Levels

Example pollutants subject to HI = 5:

DGME
Propionaldehyde

Example pollutants subject to HI = 3:

Ammonia
Formaldehyde
Diesel Particulate Matter

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Cleaner Air Oregon – Lessons Learned

DEQ has been flexible and attentive to facility concerns
Status of call-in process
Lessons learned-
Target Organs
Data needs are greater than expected
Requirements for de minimis sources
Ambiguity around new or existing source status
Zoning
Updates to emissions inventories state-wide in 2021
What’s coming?