Secure grant from U.S. EPA to fund a facilitator and research contractors to assist with the MATI

October 2003

Invite stakeholders from a broad range of perspectives to form the Air Toxics Advisory Committee (ATAC)

November 2003

Develop a preliminary Strawman list of air toxics and a basis statement for the list.  This list contained 30 compounds ranked by risk they may pose to Maine citizens.

October 2003

Contract with a facilitator (Jonathan Reitman) to assist with consensus decision making by the ATAC

October 2003

First ATAC Committee Meeting

November 2003

Develop a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) to ensure that the secondary gathering and/or use of environmental data meets EPA standards

January 2004

Form subcommittees to work on specific pollutant, sector or data issues, as identified by the ATAC

Inventory, Toxicity, and Benchmarking Subcommittees formed

May 2004

Develop a draft of the Final Air Toxics Priority List

October 2005

Present Final Air Toxics Priority List to ATAC for adoption

November 2005

Form subcommittees to develop appropriate early actions and identify a long-term, targeted strategy, with clear implementation goals and timeframes, that will reduce air toxics to acceptable levels

November 2005

ATAC reviews the subcommittees' recommended early actions and long-term strategies

September 2007

Maine DEP develops final Maine Air Toxics Strategy based on recommendations from ATAC and subcommittees

March 2009

Begin implementation of long-term strategies

March 2009