Regional Haze SIP

State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision to protect and enhance visibility levels in the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, a federally designated Class I Area

On August 4, 2009, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) submitted its “State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision to protect and enhance visibility levels in the Brigantine Wilderness Area of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, a federally designated Class I Area” dated July 2009, to the USEPA. The primary purpose of this SIP revision is to establish the first Reasonable Progress Goal of reaching natural background visibility levels by the year 2064. The SIP revision demonstrates that New Jersey will meet the 2018 Uniform Rate of Progress set for Brigantine Wilderness Area by the USEPA regulations. The remainder of the SIP revision addresses other mandatory SIP elements for regional haze and other related issues.

Cover, Table of Contents, and Executive Summary
Section 1 – Background and Overview of the Regional Haze Regulations
Section 2 – General Planning Provisions
Section 3 – Assessment of Baseline and Natural Conditions Within the Brigantine Wilderness Area
Section 4 – Monitoring Strategy for Visibility Impairment in the Brigantine Wilderness Area
Section 5 – Emission Inventory
Section 6 – Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART)
Section 7 – Contribution Assessment of States Causing or Contributing to visibility Impairment in the Brigantine Wilderness Area
Section 8 – Reasonable Progress Goals and Long Term Strategy
Section 9 – New Jersey Actions
Section 10 – Commitments
Section 11 – Public Participation

Appendix A: Background and History of the Regional Haze Rule and the Clean Air Act Amendments

Appendix A – Proposed: Background and History of the Regional Haze Rule and the Clean Air Act Amendments

Appendix A – Final: Background and History of the Regional Haze Rule and the Clean Air Act Amendments

Appendix B: Overview of MANE-VU Roles and Responsibilities

Appendix C: Documentation of Consultation Within and Outside MANE_VU

Appendix C-1: Summary of Consultation between the MANE-VU States

Appendix C-2: MANE-VU Inter-RPO Consultation Briefing Book

Appendix C-3: Inter-RPO State/Tribal and FLM Consultation Framework

Appendix D: MANE-VU Statements and Principles

Appendix D-1: Statement of the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast-Visibility Union (MANE-VU) Concerning a Course of Action within MANE-VU Toward Assuring Reasonable Progress

Appendix D-2: Statement of the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast-Visibility Union (MANE-VU) Concerning a Request for a Course of Action by States Outside of MANE-VU Toward Assuring Reasonable Progress

Appendix D-3: Statement of the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast-Visibility Union (MANE-VU) Concerning a Course of Action by The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Toward Assuring Reasonable Progress

Appendix D-4: MANE-VU Final Interim Principles for Regional Planning

Appendix E: Baseline and Natural Background Visibility Conditions – Considerations and Proposed Approach to the Calculation of baseline and natural Background Visibility Conditions at MANE-VU Class I Areas. (NESCAUM, December 2006)006)

Appendix F: Emission Inventory

Appendix F-1: Technical Support Documentation for 2002 MANE-VU SIP Modeling Inventories, Version 3 (E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc., November 2006)

Appendix F-2: Development of Emission Projections for 2009, 2012, and 2018 for Non-EGU Point, Area,a nd Nonroad Sources in the MANE-VU Region (MACTEC, February 2007)

Appendix F-3 (Final Only): Identification and Evaluation of Candidate Control Measures. OTC Final Technical Support Document (MACTEC, February 28, 2007)

Appendix G: BART Documentation

Appendix G-1 (Final as G-4): Five-Factor Analysis of BART-Eligible Sources: Survey of Options for Conducting BART Determinations (June 2007)

Appendix G-1 (Final Only): Regional Haze Regulations; Final Rule (July 1, 1999)

Appendix G-2 (Final as G-3): Regional Haze Regulations; Revisions to Provisions Governing Alternative to Source-Specific Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART)

Appendix G-2 (Final Only): Regional Haze Regulations and Guidelines for Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) Determinations; Final Rule (July 6, 2005)

Appendix G-3 (Final as G-5): New Jersey Letters to BART Facilities

Appendix G-4 (Final as G-9): PSEG Fossil LLC. Consent Decree

Appendix G-5 (Final as G-10): PSEG Fossil LLC. Amendment to 2002 Consent Decree Fact Sheet (USEPA, November 2006)

Appendix G-6 (Final as G-11): PSEG Fossil LLC. Amended Consent Decree

Appendix G-6 (Final Only): Responses to New Jersey Letters to BART Facilities dated November 1, 2006

Appendix G-7 (Final as G-12): Coastal Eagle Point (Sunoco) Consent Decree

Appendix G-7 (Final Only): New Jersey’s Letters to BART Facilities dated March 3, 2009

Appendix G-8 (Final as G-13): Coastal Eagle Point (Sunoco) Amended Consent Decree

Appendix G-8 (Final Only): Responses to New Jersey Letters to BART Facilities dated March 3, 2009

Appendix G-9 (Final as G-14): Conoco Phillips Consent Decree

Appendix G-10 (Final as G-15): Conoco Phillips Company Notice of Lodging of First Amendment to Consent Decree

Appendix H: MANE-VU Contribution Assessment

Appendix H-1: Contribution to Regional Haze in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States (NESCAUM, August 2006) (Aka MANE-VU Contribution Assessment Report)

Attachment 1: Appendix A: Application of Trajectory Analysis Methods to Sulfate Source Attribution Studies in the Northeast United States

Attachment 2: Appendix A – Brigantine Supplement: Trajectory Analysis Results at Brigantine National Park

Attachment 3: Appendix A – New York City Supplement: Trajectory Analysis Results at Queens College, New York City

Attachment 4: Appendix A – Multiple Site Averages Supplement: Trajectory Analysis Results at Multiple Sites

Attachment 5: Appendix B: Source Attribution by Receptor-Based Methods

Attachment 6: Appendix C: Chemical Transport model results for Sulfate Source Attribution Studies in the Northeast United States – Model Description and Performance Evaluation

Attachment 7: Appendix D: Development of Parallel CALPUFF Dispersion Modeling Platforms for Sulfate Source attribution Studies in the Northeast United States

Appendix I: Letters of Contribution Sent by New Jersey and Responses from States

Appendix I-1: New Jersey Letters to States

Appendix I-2: New Jersey Responses from States

Appendix J: Visibility Modeling Analysis

Appendix J-1: 2018 Visibility Projections (NESCAUM, May 2008)

Appendix J-2: Documentation of 2018 Emissions from Electric Generating Units in the United States for MANE-VU’s Regional Haze Modeling (Alpine Geophysics LLC., April 2008) (Aka Alpine Report)

Appendix K: Comments on MANE-VU Final Modeling

Appendix L: Top 167 EGU Units in the Eastern United States – Developed by MANE-VU

Proposed Appendix M: Control Measure Descriptions

Final Appendix M: Control Measure Descriptions

Appendix N: Reference Documentation

Appendix N-1: Assessment of Reasonable Progress for Regional Haze in MANE_VU Class I Areas (MACTEC, July 2007) (aka the Reasonable Progress Report)

Appendix N-2: MANE-VU Modeling for Reasonable Progress Goals: Model Performance Evaluation, Pollution Apportionment, and Control Measure Benefits (NESCAUM, February 2008)

Appendix O (Final Only): Public Participation

Appendix O-1: Notice of Availability

Appendix O-2: Documentation of the Notices that Appeared in the Newspapers and the New Jersey Register

Appendix O-3 (Final Only): Response to Comment Documentation