Exceptional event demonstration contracts (Department of Natural Resources)

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Good morning,

I’ve been assigned to coordinate your public records request concerning:

We are aware that air quality management agencies sometimes conduct "exceptional event demonstrations," which are analyses to demonstrate that emissions from potential exceptional events caused an exceedance of one or more NAAQS. These demonstrations are then submitted to the Regional EPA office in order to request that the office exclude the air quality monitoring data from use in certain regulatory determinations.

Concerning services related to these exceptional event analyses, we request:
1. Any and all executed contracts, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), or other equivalent agreements that are currently active, or have been active within the last five years;
2. Any addenda, amendments, attachments, exhibits, materials, and schedules;
3. Any and all correspondence, between the relevant air quality agency and the contracting individual, corporation, or other entity, related to the implementation of these agreements.

I will contact you if and when any records responsive to your request are located. I will also contact you before processing this request if there will be any fees to locate records, for which the DNR has authority to pre-bill for public records requests, per Wis. Stat. § 19.35(3)(c).

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Meg Schaeffer-Utter
she/her/hers
Phone: (608) 266-7524
MegE.SchaefferUtter@wisconsin.gov

Good morning,

Thank you for your email. At this time, I am working with the Air Program to provide a time estimate to locate records that may be responsive to your request. Although we cannot commit to providing records by a certain date, if there is an external deadline involved, it is good for us to be aware of that information.

Thank you for your understanding and please let me know if you have any additional questions.

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Meg Schaeffer-Utter
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Phone: (608) 266-7524
MegE.SchaefferUtter@wisconsin.gov

Good morning,

Thank you for your email. The Air Management Program coordinator is out of the office until June 26, 2023. When she returns, I will continue working with the Air Management Program to provide you a time estimate to locate records that may be responsive to your request.

Thank you for understanding.

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Meg Schaeffer-Utter
she/her/hers
Phone: (608) 266-7524
MegE.SchaefferUtter@wisconsin.gov

Good morning,

In response to your public records request, submitted on May 23, 2023, the Department of Natural Resources has searched for records concerning:

We are aware that air quality management agencies sometimes conduct "exceptional event demonstrations," which are analyses to demonstrate that emissions from potential exceptional events caused an exceedance of one or more NAAQS. These demonstrations are then submitted to the Regional EPA office in order to request that the office exclude the air quality monitoring data from use in certain regulatory determinations.

Concerning services related to these exceptional event analyses, we request:
1. Any and all executed contracts, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), or other equivalent agreements that are currently active, or have been active within the last five years;
2. Any addenda, amendments, attachments, exhibits, materials, and schedules;
3. Any and all correspondence, between the relevant air quality agency and the contracting individual, corporation, or other entity, related to the implementation of these agreements.

The Department of Natural Resources has concluded its search and located no records for this property responsive to your request.

At this time your public records request will be considered closed.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

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Meg Schaeffer-Utter
she/her/hers
Phone: (608) 266-7524
MegE.SchaefferUtter@wisconsin.gov

Pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 19.35(4)(b), these determinations are subject to review by mandamus under Wis. Stat. § 19.37(1) or upon application to a district attorney or the Attorney General.