ENCLOSURE 2

CERTIFICATION OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES

AND COMPLIANCE WITH

STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES



As required by 40 CFR 51.102 and Section 2.1 of Appendix V of 40 CFR
Part 51, the following information regarding public participation
activities and compliance with state administrative procedures is
provided.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES

As required by 40 CFR 51.102(a), a public comment period to  provide the
opportunity to submit written comments concerning a proposed revision to
the Commonwealth of Virginia State Implementation Plan was held from
August 4 to September 3, 2010.

As required by 40 CFR Part 51.102(a) and (d)(1) and (2), the public was
given notice of the public comment period in the Washington Examiner
(for the National Capital Interstate Air Quality Control Region), along
with the location of the proposal for public inspection, on August 4,
2010.  The notice included procedures to afford the public the
opportunity to request that a hearing be held pursuant to 40 CFR
51.102(a); no such request was received. The attached copy of the notice
provides the evidence required by Section 2.1(f) of Appendix V of 40 CFR
Part 51.  Similar notices were placed in at least one paper of general
circulation in each of Virginia's other Air Quality Control Regions.  

The Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
was notified of the public comment period, as was each local air
pollution control agency which will be significantly affected by the
revision and is located in the affected Air Quality Control Regions.  In
addition, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Tennessee, which share
affected interstate Air Quality Control Regions with Virginia, were
notified of the public comment period.  These notifications follow the
requirements of 40 CFR Part 51.102(d)(3), (4) and (5).

COMPLIANCE WITH STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES

As required by Section 2.1(b) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 51, the
regulation amendments were published in the Virginia Register of
Regulations on February 16, 2009 after being duly adopted by the State
Air Pollution Control Board on December 15, 2008, certified by the
Office of the Attorney General as within the Board’s statutory
authority on December 15, 2008, and thus fully enforceable under
Virginia law, and submitted to the Virginia Registrar on behalf of the
board by the Department of Environmental Quality as a true and accurate
copy of the duly adopted regulation on January 21, 2009, providing the
evidence required by Section 2.1(b) and (e) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part
51.  As required by Section 2.1(d) of Appendix V of 40 CFR Part 51, a
copy of the actual regulation submitted for approval and incorporation
by reference into the Commonwealth of Virginia State Implementation Plan
is attached, along with the effective date of March 18, 2009.

Only those provisions of the final regulation which are not marked out
on the attached copy are to be considered part of the Virginia State
Implementation Plan.

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