Initiatives Oversight Committee: Documents

EPA Releases Draft Guidance for Setting Reasonable Progress Goals (11/28/05) PDF or WPD

• WRAP Comments On Draft Guidance (02/10/06) PDF

Congress Harmonizes Regional Haze SIP Due Dates
Consistent with the WRAP's position, the EPA's FY04 appropriation, which passed January 22nd, establishes December 31, 2007 as the latest submittal date for all regional haze SIPs and SIP revisions - i.e., those submitted under Section 309 of the regional haze rule. SIPs for fine particulate matter will also be due at this same time. Click here for the statutory language. (01/27/04)

• WRAP Letter Seeking Coordination of Regional Haze SIP Submittal Dates (11/03/03)
  • Letter to Senators Inhofe and Baucus PDF
  • Letter to Senators Stevens and Byrd PDF
  • Letter to Representatives Tauzin and Dingell PDF
  • Letter to Representatives Young and Obey PDF
  • Map of PM-2.5 designations and haze SIP due dates GIF (40 kb) or PPT (700 kb)

Letter to Lydia Wegman (EPA) by IOC/TOC Chairs Containing updated questions to those sent on 01/18/02.

• Letter PDF (01/07/03)
• EPA Response PDF (03/03)
• Final EPA Protocol for Reviewing 309 SIPs PDF(03/31/03)
  • Draft EPA Protocol for Reviewing 309 SIPs PDF (03/10/03)
  • Cover Letter to Draft EPA Protocol PDF (03/10/03)

Discussion paper: Options for Preserving the WRAP's SO2 Annex in Federal Multi-Pollutant Legislation for Electric Utilities DOC WPD (04/22/02)

Letter to Lydia Wegman (EPA) Containing 19 questions regarding the regional haze rule and SIPs PDF (01/18/02)

CA Air Resources Board Proposed List of Measures to Reduce Particulate Matter (10/18/04)
ARB staff has developed a proposed list of readily available, feasible, and cost-effective air measures existing in CA as of January 1, 2004 which could be adopted by air districts to make progress towards attainment of the state and federal standards, and which may also be useful for reducing regional haze in CA and other places. The list includes meausures for 20 source categories distributed among stationary sources, area-wide sources, transportation-related programs, and incentive programs.