               STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
                    DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
                            OFFICE OF AIR RESOURCES
                                       
                        NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD
                                       
IN RE: Notice of Intent to Revise the State Implementation Plan for Air Quality: Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision Under the 2008/2015 8-Hour Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)
                                       
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Office of Air Resources hereby gives notice of intent to amend the State Implementation Plan (SIP) to address sections 182 and 184 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) with respect to reasonably available control technology (RACT) under the 2008 and 2015 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). 

CAA Sections 182(b)(2) and 182(f) require ozone nonattainment areas classified as moderate
and above to adopt RACT for sources that are subject to CTGs, and for non-CTG major sources
of VOCs and NOx. CAA Section 184 further requires states such as Rhode Island that are located in the OTR to implement RACT for all volatile organic compounds (VOC) and (oxides of nitrogen) NOx sources covered by a control techniques guideline (CTG) and for all other major sources of VOC and NOx. This SIP revision is an analysis of how Rhode Island has addressed such RACT requirements.
 
The RACT certification, once finalized, will be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be included in the State Implementation Plan as required by the Clean Air Act. Persons wishing to submit comments or request a public hearing regarding the certification are invited to do so. 

The proposed SIP revision is available on the Office of Air Resources' web page at: http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/air/.
Copies are also available at DEM's Office of Air Resources 235 Promenade St., Providence, RI. Any additional requests can be made by contacting the Office of Air Resources at 222-2808, weekdays, 8:30 AM- 4:00 PM.

DEM encourages the submission of written comments.  Written comments, to be considered part of the administrative record must be submitted during the public comment period.  Written comments may be mailed or e-mailed to the Office of Air Resources and received no later than 4:00 PM, Tuesday , September 17, 2019, at which time the public comment period will close.  The mailing address for comments is:

Karen Slattery, Supervising Air Quality Specialist
	Department of Environmental Management
	Office of Air Resources
	235 Promenade Street
	Providence, RI 02908-5767

The e-mail address for comments is: karen.slattery@dem.ri.gov

Signed this 16[th] day of August, 2019
      
      Karen Slattery
      
      Karen Slattery
      Supervising Air Quality Specialist
      Office of Air Resources
