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Ohio EPA cites area for soot problems

By Bob Downing
Beacon Journal staff writer

It's official: Summit, Stark, Portage, Medina and Cuyahoga counties have bigger problems with microscopic soot.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants to designate these five counties plus 16 others as failing to meet tighter federal limits for soot, or particulates, and creating a health threat.

The 21 counties aren't complying with tighter daily soot limits adopted in 2006 by the U.S. EPA. Most of the counties are under earlier federal orders to curtail soot levels by 2010.

The new designation, which had been expected, could trigger tighter new and costly restrictions on diesel- and gasoline-powered vehicles, coal-burning power plants and smokestack emissions.

Ohio counties must comply with the tighter federal soot limits by April 2012 or face sanctions.

The state's recommendation has been submitted to the U.S. EPA and will be the subject of Jan. 22 public hearing in Columbus.

The Ohio EPA is accepting comments on its proposal until Jan. 25. It must then be finalized and resubmitted to the U.S. EPA.

Other counties also designated as being in non-attainment are Lake, Lorain, Trumbull and Mahoning in Northeast Ohio; Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield and Licking near Columbus; Montgomery and Greene near Dayton; Hamilton, Butler, Clermont and Warren near Cincinnati, and Jefferson and Washington in eastern Ohio.

The Jan. 22 hearing will be at 2 p.m. in conference room B of the Ohio EPA's Central Office, Lazarus Government Building, 50 W. Town St., Suite 700, Columbus.

The Ohio EPA will accept comment on its plan until the close of business on Jan. 25. Written comment may be sent to Bill Spires (bill.spires)@epa,state.oh.us) or Sam MacDonald (sam.macdonald@epa.state.oh.us) or mailed to the Ohio EPA, Division of Air Pollution Control, P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, OH 43216.

Comments submitted after Jan. 25 may be considered as time and circumstances allow.

More information on the state's plan is available at http://web.epa.state.oh.us/dapc/SIP/Nonattain/nonattain.html. You can also contact Spires at 614-644-3618 or MacDonald at 614-728-1743.

American Electric Power's Gen. James M. Gavin Plant in Chesire in Gallia County is one of the largest coal-fired plants in Ohio. (Bob DeMay/Akron Beacon Journal file photo)

It's official: Summit, Stark, Portage, Medina and Cuyahoga counties have bigger problems with microscopic soot.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants to designate these five counties plus 16 others as failing to meet tighter federal limits for soot, or particulates, and creating a health threat.

The 21 counties aren't complying with tighter daily soot limits adopted in 2006 by the U.S. EPA. Most of the counties are under earlier federal orders to curtail soot levels by 2010.

The new designation, which had been expected, could trigger tighter new and costly restrictions on diesel- and gasoline-powered vehicles, coal-burning power plants and smokestack emissions.

Ohio counties must comply with the tighter federal soot limits by April 2012 or face sanctions.

The state's recommendation has been submitted to the U.S. EPA and will be the subject of Jan. 22 public hearing in Columbus.

The Ohio EPA is accepting comments on its proposal until Jan. 25. It must then be finalized and resubmitted to the U.S. EPA.

Other counties also designated as being in non-attainment are Lake, Lorain, Trumbull and Mahoning in Northeast Ohio; Franklin, Delaware, Fairfield and Licking near Columbus; Montgomery and Greene near Dayton; Hamilton, Butler, Clermont and Warren near Cincinnati, and Jefferson and Washington in eastern Ohio.

The Jan. 22 hearing will be at 2 p.m. in conference room B of the Ohio EPA's Central Office, Lazarus Government Building, 50 W. Town St., Suite 700, Columbus.

The Ohio EPA will accept comment on its plan until the close of business on Jan. 25. Written comment may be sent to Bill Spires (bill.spires)@epa,state.oh.us) or Sam MacDonald (sam.macdonald@epa.state.oh.us) or mailed to the Ohio EPA, Division of Air Pollution Control, P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, OH 43216.

Comments submitted after Jan. 25 may be considered as time and circumstances allow.

More information on the state's plan is available at http://web.epa.state.oh.us/dapc/SIP/Nonattain/nonattain.html. You can also contact Spires at 614-644-3618 or MacDonald at 614-728-1743.




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