The May meeting of the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission is scheduled for next week in Raleigh.
According to the commission’s Thursday, May 14 draft agenda, members will consider a federal petition to incorporate National Ambient Air Quality Standards into state air quality rules.
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When newly enacted Environmental Protection Agency air quality standards take effect, the new rules effectively apply to state standards, which must be revised to align.
The proposal before the EMC would omit the state from having to go through the process of updating its rules every time a federal air quality standard changes.
The commission will also receive an update on the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Flood Resiliency Blueprint.
DEQ released on April 1 improved advisory flood maps for the Cape Fear, Lumber, Neuse, Tar-Pamlico and White Oak river basins. These maps are designed to help local governments, agencies and non-governmental partners develop, evaluate and prioritize resilience actions, and plan and secure funding to implement those actions.
The commission’s committees will meet beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Archdale Building’s ground floor hearing room, 512 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh.
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Those meetings will be livestreamed by Webex, meeting number/access code 2427 265 5562, password NCDEQ (62337).
The full commission will meet at 9 a.m. on Thursday in the Archdale Building. The meeting may also be viewed via livestream, meeting number/access code
2429 624 8234, password NCDEQ (62337).
To listen to the meetings either day by phone dial +1-415-655-0003.
Agendas for the committees and the full commission are available on the EMC’s website.
