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Volume 44 - Issue 4 - January 23, 2025

State of Kansas

Department of Health and Environment

Notice of Hearing

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is proposing a Lead Maintenance Plan as a revision to the Kansas Air Quality State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the partial Saline County, Kansas area designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in November 2011 as a nonattainment area for the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The geographic lead nonattainment boundary surrounded the Stryten Salina, LLC (formerly Exide Technologies) lead acid battery manufacturing facility located in the city of Salina, Kansas. Air pollution control measures and requirements were subsequently established and implemented in the nonattainment area that resulted in measured ambient lead concentrations meeting the federal lead standard for the following three-year periods: 2017-2019, 2018-2020, and 2019-2021. Pursuant to federal Clean Air Act (CAA) Sections 107(d)(3)(D) and (E), the KDHE will request that the EPA concurrently approve a Lead Maintenance Plan, in accordance with CAA Section 175A, as a revision to the SIP and redesignate the partial Saline County lead nonattainment area to attainment status with respect to the 2008 Lead NAAQS. The maintenance plan not only is designed to ensure that the area maintains the 2008 Lead NAAQS for at least ten years after redesignation but also contains contingency measures that were required for the nonattainment area and will be implemented if a violation of the federal lead standard occurs following redesignation of the area to attainment.

The proposed SIP revision does not include any rulemaking action. However, a federally enforceable Air Emission Source Construction Permit, most recently modified on December 27, 2018, for the implementation and enforcement of additional control strategy improvements at the Stryten Salina, LLC facility, in addition to an attainment demonstration modeling, are included with the proposed maintenance plan and redesignation request for approval by the EPA. Details concerning this action can be obtained by contacting Douglas Watson, KDHE Bureau of Air, at 785-296-6024. The proposed documents associated with this action may be viewed under the Planning tab of the KDHE Bureau of Air website at https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/413/Public-Notices, in addition to the following locations:

  • KDHE North Central District Office, 3040 Enterprise Dr., Salina, Kansas
  • Curtis State Office Building, 1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310, Topeka, Kansas

Any member of the public may request a public hearing or submit comments regarding this action. If requested, a public hearing for this action will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, February 24, 2025, at the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) Training Academy, 2025 E. Iron Ave., Salina, KS 67401. If no request for a public hearing is received by 5:00 p.m. February 13, 2025, the scheduled hearing will be canceled; and notice of the cancelation will be posted under the Planning tab of the KDHE Bureau of Air website cited above prior to 5:00 p.m. February 18, 2025. Phone inquiries regarding the status of the public hearing may be made to Douglas Watson at 785-296-6024.

Comments from the interested public may be submitted to KDHE, Bureau of Air, Attn: Douglas Watson, 1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310, Topeka, KS 66612-1366, by email to kdhe.boaregSIPcomments@ks.gov, or by fax to 785-559-4256. Public comments must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. February 24, 2025, to assure consideration.

Any individual with a disability may request accommodations in order to participate in the public hearing and may request the proposed maintenance plan and redesignation request in accessible format. Requests for accommodation should be made at least five working days in advance of the hearing by contacting Douglas Watson.

The above notice refers to the public comment period and public hearing information for a proposed maintenance plan, which constitutes a revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP), and a request for redesignation by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the partial Saline County lead nonattainment area to attainment status with respect to the 2008 Lead National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

El aviso anterior se refiere al período de comentarios públicos y a la información de la audiencia pública para un plan de mantenimiento propuesto, que constituye una revisión del, Plan de Implementación Estatal (State Implementation Plan, SIP) y una solicitud de redesignación por parte de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos (Environmental Protection Agency, EPA) de la zona parcial de incumplimiento de plomo del condado de Saline en relación de cumplimiento con respecto a Estándares Nacional de Calidad del Aire Ambiental (National Ambient Air Quality Standards, NAAQS) de plomo de 2008.

Janet Stanek
Secretary
Department of Health and Environment

Doc. No. 052812

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