Recent Activities and Current Projects

• November 28, 2016 - December 16, 2016 is the deadline for Round Nine of the Clean Diesel Grant Program (School Bus Replacement)

• October 27, 2016 - In October 2015, EPA revised the National Ambient air Quality Standard for ozone by reducing the 8-hour average concentration level from 0.075 to 0.070 parts per million. As required by the Clean air Act , the state submitted its initial recommendations for area designations. DENR received a thank you letter from EPA for the states's recommendations, saying they plan to finalize the designations no later than October 1, 2017.

• July 26, 2016 - DENR has developed a new one-stop page for Contested Cases. A link to the new contested cases page has also been added to the Air Quality navigation bar to the left under Permitting.