Notices. Notice; public meeting
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BILLING CODE 6450-01-P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL-12774-01-R1] 2025 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice; public meeting. SUMMARY: The United States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)is announcing the 2025 Annual Joint Meeting of the Ozone Transport Commission
(OTC)and the Mid-Atlantic Northeast Visibility Union (MANEVU). The meeting agenda will include topics covering OTC and MANEVU activities to reduce regional ground-level ozone precursors and visibility-impairing fine particles. DATES: The public meeting will be held on June 11, 2025, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 3 p.m. *Location:* West Room, 2nd Floor, The NonProfit Center, 89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111. Further information on the details is available at *http://otcair.org.* FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: *For documents and press inquiries contact:* Ozone Transport Commission, 89 South St., Suite 602, Boston, MA 02111;
(617)259-2005; email: *ozone@otcair.org;* website: *http://otcair.org.* *For registration:* To register for the meeting, please use the online registration form available at *http://otcair.org,* or contact the OTC at
(617)259-2005 or by email at *ozone@otcair.org.* SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 contain Section 184 provisions for the Control of Interstate Ozone Air Pollution. Section 184(a) establishes an Ozone Transport Region
(OTR)comprised of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, 1 Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, parts of Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The purpose of the OTC is to address ground-level ozone formation, transport, and control within the OTR. 1 The geographic scope of Maine within the OTR was subsequently reduced to the portion of Maine encompassing 111 towns and cities comprising the Androscoggin Valley, Down East, and Metropolitan Portland Air Quality Control Regions, commonly referred to as the “Portland and Midcoast Ozone Areas.” 87 FR 7734 (February 10, 2022). MANEVU was formed in 2001, in response to EPA's issuance of the Regional Haze Rule. MANEVU's members include Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, the Penobscot Indian Nation, and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, along with EPA and Federal Land Managers. *Type of Meeting:* Open. *Agenda:* Copies of the final agenda are available from the OTC office at
(617)259-2005, by email: *ozone@otcair.org,* or via the OTC website at *http://www.otcair.org.* Dated: May 6, 2025. Mark Sanborn, Regional Administrator, EPA Region 1. [FR Doc. 2025-08726 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]