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From the contact person ANALYSIS: The Department is proposing to add new Part 11, Visibility Protection Standards, to Subchapter 8. This new Part incorporates the Federal Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) requirements into Chapter 100. States are required to implement the Federal BART requirements as part of a Regional Haze Implementation Plan no later than December 2007. Stationary sources that were not in operation prior to August 7, 1962, and were in existence on August 7, 1977, that have the potential to emit 250 tpy or more of any air pollutant, are BART-eligible sources if they belong to one of the 26 categories listed in the definition of "existing stationary facility" contained in proposed OAC 252:100-8- 71. BART-eligible sources that cause visibility impairment in any Class I Area are subject to BART and must establish emissions limitations by the application of BART. Owners or operators of BART-eligible sources who wish to obtain an exemption or a waiver from BART must submit an application for an exemption or a waiver to the Director by December 1, 2006. The owner or operator of any BART-eligible source that has not applied for an exemption or a waiver for that source shall submit a BART determination to the Director by March 30, 2007. BART must be installed and operated at the sources subject to BART no later than five years after EPA approves the Oklahoma Regional Haze SIP. CONTACT PERSON: Joyce D. Sheedy, Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division, 707 North Robinson, P.O. Box 1677, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101-1677, phone (405) 794-6800, fax (405) 702-4101, e-mail joyce.sheedy@deq.state.ok.us. PURSUANT TO THE ACTIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN, THE FOLLOWING RULES ARE CONSIDERED FINALLY ADOPTED AS SET FORTH IN 75 O.S., SECTION 308.1(A), WITH AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF JUNE 15, 2007: SUBCHAPTER 8. PERMITS FOR PART 70 SOURCES PART 11. VISIBILITY PROTECTION STANDARDS