Ross Brennan/DC/USEPA/US 
11/30/2007 02:42 PM	To
	ThompsonJE2@state.gov, FinmanHH@state.gov, KleinJM@state.gov, 
Burleson.Smith@usda.gov, Mary_L._Belefski@ceq.eop.gov, 
Russell_Smith@USTR.EOP.GOV, John_S._MacNeil@omb.eop.gov, 
balserak.paul@epa.gov, Ross Brennan/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Aaron 
Levy/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Diane McConkey/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Richard 
Keigwin/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Christine Augustyniak/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Paul 
Balserak/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Nikhil Mallampalli/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Elisa 
Rim/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Colwell Cook/DC/USEPA/US@EPA
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	Subject
	For 4:00 call - EPA/SPD's responses to USDA comments
	
	

Colleagues,

To help guide this afternoon's discussion with Burleson, we have written 
our responses to his comments alongside his comments as they occur on his 
markup of the interagency review draft.  Therefore, as you peruse the 
comment using the "Track Changes" feature, Burleson's comments are 
embedded in the text and our responses are included in the comment 
balloons at right.  You will see that we agree with many of Burleson's 
comments and will change the preamble text accordingly.  However, his 
comments also raise a couple of policy issues to which EPA/SPD provides an 
initial rebuttal.

We have almost finished addressing all of the other comments received from 
the interagency process.  Assuming interagency resolution of the USDA 
issues in today's call, we expect to have a final draft first thing Monday 
for everyone to glance at. 


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Ross Brennan
Chief, Stratospheric Program Implementation Branch
U.S. EPA - Office of Atmospheric Programs
(202) 343-9226                    www.epa.gov/ozone

