Air Quality Public Information
Public Comments & Public Hearings
Public notices, draft permits and draft reviews are posted in Public Notices and Hearings with the start and end date of each comment period. Open comment periods on air permits are listed here for convenience. Also listed will be public notices for Division rulemaking and compliance and enforcement actions open to public comment.
Instructions for submitting comments are included in the public notices linked below. Comments can also be emailed to daq.publiccomments@deq.nc.gov.
Title V Email List
The North Carolina Division of Air Quality Permitting Section maintains an email list for dissemination of permitting information to interested parties. These emails include public notices with draft permits and application reviews. Final permits will be distributed through this email list as well. Please note that only permitting actions that are processed through the public notice procedures will be distributed.
To have your email address added to the list of recipients, please send a request to Mark Cuilla.
Notices for public hearings are posted in Public Notices and Hearings and Events and will be listed below for convenience.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date and Time: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Location: Orange High School
Address: 500 Orange High School Road in Hillsborough, NC 27278
*CANCELED* Pre-hearing Draft of the Exceptional Events Demonstration to Support Attainment Designation Recommendations for the 2024 Annual PM2.5 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for Mecklenburg and Davidson Counties
NOTE: This public hearing has been canceled because the Division did not receive a request to hold the hearing on or before Dec. 13, 2024. The original public notice and press release are below.
Date and Time: Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, at 3 p.m.
Permit Review Timelines Rule Revisions
Date and Time: Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, at 6 p.m.
Location: DEQ Green Square Office Building, 1st Floor Training Room (#1210); or Cisco Webex Digital Hearing
Address: 217 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27603
Cisco WebEx Link: https://tinyurl.com/mrxj5238
Meeting Password: NCDAQ
Audio recordings, notices and other documents related to certain past public hearings are available to view or download.
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For additional assistance or information about the Division of Air Quality, contact:
1641 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1641
United States
Check out the Air Quality Division Directory for additional contact information.