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The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) recently posted revised draft revisions to Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission No. 8 (Administrative Procedures)(“Reg. 8”).

These revisions are a subsequent draft of a version that had been issued on January 25th. (See March 2nd post regarding the January version of the Reg. 8 revisions here.)

Reg. 8 encompasses the administrative procedures for both ADEQ and the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) utilizing various procedures.

The administrative procedures for Reg. 8 address:

• Permits

• Grant, loan, and tax credit decisions

• Enforcement actions

• Emergency actions

• Practice and procedure for appeals

• Rulemaking

• Other matters

Exhibit A of what is styled the “REVISED Mark-up Draft” are stated to include:

1. Shortened all references to “electronic mail” to “email;”

2. Added language to allow submission of documents to ADEQ in other electronic media in an ADEQ-approved format in the following sections

   1. 8.201: Definition of “Public comment;”

   2. 8.306(D);

   3. 8.307(E)(1);

   4. 8.309(E);

   5. 8.404(D)(8);

   6. 8.405(E); and

   7. 8.1006(C);

3. 3. 8.1002: Changed to ADEQ’s website;

4. 4. 8.1007: Simplified language;

5. 5. 8.1018: Changes for consistency with 8.1007

A link to the document can be found here.