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Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner Brad Moore
Spoke at Barr (June
2007)
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 Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency Commissioner Brad Moore Spoke at
Barr on June 22, 2007
Addressing a sizeable audience in Barr’s
Minneapolis office, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Commissioner
Moore provided an agency and legislative update focused on
water-quality assessments, industrial permitting, growth in
the mining and ethanol industry sectors, and future plans
associated with the state’s passage of a climate change initiative.
Clarification:
A question was asked during Commissioner Moore's presentation
on what determines a "Complex Air Permitting" project. James
Warner, Director of the Industrial Division of the MPCA, responded
in a follow-up communication on 6/25/07:
"The definition that we are using
for a complex permit application are those applications
that include one or more of the following: environmental
assessment worksheet (EAW), requires air modeling, and/or
AERA (air emission risk assessment). When we looked at the
air permit applications received by the agency in our baseline
period (2000 - 2004) the complex permit applications were
around 12%. Over the past 2 1/2 years, these types of permit
applications have been about 50% of the applications received."
Materials:
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