Huntington, West Virginia

HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Effective Redesignation Date: 12/21/94 (59 FR 65719, 12/21/94)

Maintenance Plan - Key Features

• 1990 base year emission inventory; used 1990 to project to 1993 attainment base year (1991 through 1993 clean air quality data); emissions budget projected through 2005
• update the emission inventory every 3 years
• annual update of inventory tracking to indicate new source growth
• monitor ambient ozone levels by operating monitoring network in accordance with 40 CFR part 58
• continuation of federal RVP limit of 9.0 psi

Contingency Plan Trigger

• violation of the ozone NAAQS
• excessive or unanticipated growth in ozone precursor emissions

Contingency Measures

• extend the applicability of 45CSR21 (VOC/RACT rule) to include source categories previously excluded
• revise new source permit requirements requiring more stringent emissions control technology and/or emission offsets
• NO_x RACT requirements
• regulations to establish plant-wide emission caps (especially with emissions trading programs)
• Stage II
• highway motor vehicle I/M program

Schedule

• adoption of one or more rule(s) within 3 months of violation verification
• implementation within 6 months of violation verification

For further information:

Maria Pino/Kristeen Gaffney
U.S. EPA, Region III
841 Chestnut Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Pino - Telephone: (215) 566-2181; Email: pino.maria@epamail.epa.gov
Gaffney - Telephone: (215) 566-2092; Email: gaffney.kristeen@epamail.epa.gov

*Huntington is the West Virginia portion of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY multistate ozone nonattainment area.