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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">This<span style="color:#ED7D31"> <a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/air/documents/airnet20d.pdf">
document</a> </span>will serve as Rhode Island’s DRAFT 2020 Annual Monitoring Network Plan, prepared by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, in accordance with Section 58.10 (a) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 58.10(a)),
which requires states to submit a monitoring network plan to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in July of each year. The plan provides a description of the state’s current monitoring network, demonstrates that the network conforms to
EPA requirements, and discusses any plans to remove or move a monitoring station in the 18 months following the plan submittal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">In addition, 40 CFR 58.10(d) requires each state to prepare an assessment of its monitoring network once every five years. This is RIDEM’s 3rd 5-year network assessment. In its 5-year assessment, the state must
determine whether its existing network meets required monitoring objectives, whether new sites are needed, whether any existing sites are no longer needed, and whether new technologies are available that should be incorporated into the network. The assessment
must also consider “the ability of existing and proposed sites to support air quality characterization for areas with relatively high populations of susceptible individuals, (e.g. children with asthma)” and must identify shifts in the distribution of the population
within the state which may necessitate changing the location of population-oriented monitoring sites. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This DRAFT Annual Monitoring Network Plan and 5-year assessment is being posted for public comment 30 days prior to submittal to the EPA. The notice is posted at
<a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/air/"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/air/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Please forward comments to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Darren J Austin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Senior Air Quality Specialist, RIDEM Office of Air Resources<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a href="mailto:darren.austin@dem.ri.gov"><span style="color:windowtext">darren.austin@dem.ri.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">401-222-2808 ex 7430<o:p></o:p></p>
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