MEMORANDUM

DATE:  May 21, 2012

FROM: Colleen McKaughan

TO: File

SUBJECT:  Meeting with Nevada Department of Environmental Quality (NDEP)


Colleen McKaughan, Associate Director, Air Division, and Thomas Webb,
Air Division Planning Office met with NDEP officials, Mike Elges, Rob
Bamford, Vinson Guthreau, and their attorney, Jasmine Mehta, on May 4,
2012. 

EPA and NDEP briefly discussed the hearings the day/night before and the
issues that were raised.  The turnout was better than expected at both
hearings. NDEP was looking for clarification on next steps for both
EPA’s final action on Reid Gardner and replacing the Federal
Implementation Plan (FIP) with a State Implementation Plan (SIP)
revision. EPA clarified that the FIP was very narrow so any replacement
SIP could also be very narrow.  We all acknowledged that EPA would be
responding to comments before taking final action, and the content of
the comments is yet unknown. The close of the public comment period is
June 4th.

