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Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (2018-2028)

This SIP revision is to protect and improve visibility levels in Federal Class I Areas in Vermont as well as in other states affected by air contaminant emissions originating in Vermont.  The only Class I Area in Vermont is the Lye Brook Wilderness Area within the Green Mountain National Forest.  This SIP revision establishes the progress goal and long term strategy for the second ten-year regional haze planning period (2018 – 2028) to achieve the goal of reaching natural background visibility levels by 2064.

Final 2018 Air Monitoring Network Plan

Air Quality and Climate Division General Information
June 27, 2018
In accordance with adopted federal EPA regulation, 40 CFR Part 58, Subpart B §58.10(1), the Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division is required to submit to EPA by July 1, 2018 an air monitoring network plan for the State of Vermont. The regulation requires that the network plan be posted on the AQCD website or other form of notification for public comment 30 days prior to submission to the EPA Region 1 Office. The 2018 Network Plan was posted on the “public notice” section of AQCD website from 5/25/18 through 6/26/18. During this period, the VT AQCD received no public comments.

AQCD Final 2016 Air Monitoring Network Plan

Final 2016 Air Monitoring Network Plan
July 1, 2016
In accordance with adopted federal EPA regulation, 40 CFR Part 58, Subpart B §58.10(1), the Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division is required to submit to EPA by July 1, 2016 an air monitoring network plan for the State of Vermont. The regulation requires that the network plan be posted on the AQCD website or other form of notification for public comment 30 days prior to submission to the EPA Region 1 Office.
The 2016 Network Plan was posted on the “public notice” section of AQCD website listed above from 5/25/16 through 6/28/16. During this period, the VT AQCD received no public comments.

Air Toxics Monitoring

The Vermont Air Quality & Climate Division (AQCD) began operating an air toxics monitoring program in 1993 based on concerns with the potential health risks associated with specific air toxic pollutants or hazardous air contaminants (HAC) in the ambient air. The specific HACs (EPA refers to these compounds as Hazardous Air Polluntants (HAP)) of concern pose human health risks associated with cancer, lung disease and other acute or chronic health problems.

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