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Wehrum, Bill [/0=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=33D96AE800CF43A3911D94A7130B6C41-WEHRUM, WIL] 2/2/2018 9:02:02 PM Miles Keogh [mkeogh@4cleanair.org]; Gunasekara, Mandy [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=53dla3caa8bb4ebab8a2d28ca59b6f45-Gunasekara,]; Woods, Clint [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=bc65010f5c2e48f4bc2aa050db50dl98-Woods, Clin] RE: Thanks for meeting with NACAA
Thanks Miles. It was good to meet you and get acquainted with the group. I look forward to continuing our dialogue.
Bill Wehrum Assistant Administrator Office of Air and Radiation U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (202) 564-7404
From: Miles Keogh [mailto:mkeogh@4cleanair.org] Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 2:21 PM To: Gunasekara, Mandy <Gunasekara.Mandy@epa.gov>; Wehrum, Bill <Wehrum.Bill@epa.gov>; Woods, Clint <woods.clint@epa.gov> Subject: Thanks for meeting with NACAA
Bill, Mandy, & Clint, I can't tell you how great it was to have you come speak with us at the NACAA board meeting. The feedback I got from the local and state air regulators was really positive and I hope you'll share their goal of using this as a platform for even better cooperation on the air issues that face our agencies. We really want to walk the talk on cooperative federalism and your investment of your time and ideas with us was a great way of showing you intend to do the same.
Clint has already reached out and let me know he'd circulated our streamlined permitting recommendations - we intend to shop this around to private and public sector decisionmakers more broadly, because the NACAA members see this as a way to unlock a lot of economic potential as we move towards more infrastructure investment. (In case you need a link to it, it's also at http://www.4cleanair.org/sites/default/files/Documents/121917 NACAA Permit Streamlining Principles FSNAL.pdf)
Clint, I'll probably be reaching out to you as a first point of contact if I get follow up questions from that session (please let me know if you have another suggestion) and if you need to connect with the 156 clean air agencies in NACAA, I'm ready to help, please count on it.
It really meant a lot that you joined us. Thanks again.
My best, Miles
Miles Keogh NACAA
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From: Miles Keogh Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 1:01 PM To: 'Gunasekara, Mandy' <Gunasekar3 .M3 ndy@epa.gov>; 'wehrum.bill@epa.gov' <wehrum.hni@ep3.gov>; 'Woods, Clint' <woods.dmt@ep3.fiQv> Cc: 'Atkinson, Emily1<Atkinson.Emily@epa.gov>; 'Loving, Shanita' <Loving.Shanita@epa.gov>; 'Wagner, Kenneth' <wagner.kenneth@epa.gov> Subject: Meeting with NACAA next week Importance: High
Dear Bill, Mandy, and Clint,
I hope things are going well - I'm writing to give you guys some final details on our upcoming board meeting. I'm really excited to help connect you with the NACAA leadership. We've asked y'all to participate on January 31 between 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm, here at the Hall of States, 444 North Capitol St NW. We'll have someone downstairs to help you get in through security and make sure you get to the meeting room on the third floor (and if your logistics team wants to reach me, I'll have my phone -202-624-5981 - forwarded to my cell.) It'll be a closed session with about 30 state and local air agency heads, plus the NACAA staff.
As for substance, Bill, I'm told you have a pretty good overview of OAR's direction and priorities, building on the lines of what you talked about at CAAAC but updated to reflect stuff since. I wonder if you'd mind starting us out with that? Mandy, I wanted to ask if you could talk about the same stuff from the perspective of what's in your hopper, especially inasmuch as you have insights into the yearlong conversation that y'all have had about what cooperative federalism actually means, in practice. In total I think we're looking for about an hour or 75minutes of us listening to EPA, and the hour-ish balance as q&a. I've been asked to have a sort of ordered Q&A which Bart Sponseller from Wisconsin & Sam Rubens from Akron OH will moderate. Clint, if EPA sees there are things you're the right guy to touch on, of course it's very welcome. You may be able to talk about implementation & budgets and the links to the strategic plan, or may not, but it's all welcome. I also know you may be suddenly unavailable!
Friends, I always come to the table with a full plate of goals, and I'll be forthright about them - my folks are eager to get work done with EPA and to really walk the talk on cooperative federalism. In as much as you guys can frame your remarks around what they're interested in, it's that. What's the formal and informal institutional infrastructure that connects the local and state implementers with the policies you're making? How can that partnership be made much more effective, and kick in at a much earlier point in the process? How to we open up communications so we're a constructive part of the policymaking process instead of reacting to it?
On a substantive basis, we'll have structured questions about the NAAQS, permit streamlining, about the CPP ANPRM, vehicle standards (especially MTE, gliders, and locomotives), "once in always in", international transport, enforcement issues, and fumigation. I know that's a lot of ground and not super specific, but I'm still corralling up the members' ideas. I thought I'd give you as much heads-up as possible.
If you have questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate. It was good to see you this week in Texas, Clint, thanks for coming out and ably representing EPA with the state and local agencies.
My best, Miles
Miles Keogh NACAA (202) 624-5981 @WeAre4CleanAir
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