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	Protect My Community From Air Pollution - Docket Number: # 
EPA-HQ-OGC-2008-0488
	
	



US EPA


Dear US EPA,

Please fulfill your responsibilities under the law and address
the serious airborne contaminants from the proposed Desert Rock
coal plant. This 1500 megawatt coal plant would be one of the
largest in the western United States. It would pump out millions
of tons of global warming pollution and toxic mercury emissions
over the 50 to 60 years it would operate.

Please don't issue the permit for this facility until you have
completed your responsibility to address harmful global warming
and mercury emissions from the proposed facility, to assure it
has adequately considered clean energy alternatives. The
Southwest is home to world class solar and wind resources that
have not been untilized, and can power our economy without
harming human health and the environment.

I am very concerned that you have proposed to issue a final
decision on the permit for the proposed Desert Rock facility as
early as July 31, 2008. This huge facility will emit large
volumes of air pollution and will have impacts on the Four
Corners region for decades to come. Issuing a premature decision
by July 31 without requiring the necessary protections puts the
health and air quality of our communities at risk.

The Four Corners region is already burdened with numerous
industrial facilities that foul our air quality. The decision to
permit a new facility should not be made lightly and without a
full review of all the options to reduce these emissions.

Please consider motivational strategies to motivate development
of some of the clean energy alternatives. The Four Corners
region is blessed with enormous clean energy resources. By
utilizing those resources we can meet energy demand in the
region without further burdening air quality with another coal
plant.



Sincerely,
NancyAnn Stealey
P.O. Box 1566
Fort Defiance, AZ 86504