Below are upcoming public participation opportunities with the Air Pollution Control Division. These opportunities include in-person, virtual, and hybrid community events, listening sessions, tutorials, and more. We’re excited to share updates, learn from you, and incorporate feedback into our work protecting clean air for all in Colorado.
For a calendar of upcoming community engagement opportunities across the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), visit the department’s public participation web page. For upcoming Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) public participation opportunities, please visit the commission’s website. If you have questions or need to contact us, visit our contacts page.
Upcoming public participation opportunities
May
- Virtual, May 20 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Register.
- Share your input on the Air Pollution Control Division’s work to provide more zero-emission vehicle options in Colorado and improve air quality at this upcoming public listening session.
- Offered virtually only, May 31 from 5:30 - 7 p.m.
- Register to join us virtually.
- Join a community-wide public listening session about the Air Pollution Control Division’s plans to reduce ground-level ozone pollution.
June
General Permits Public Meetings
- In person and virtual, June 7 from 6 - 8 p.m.
- In person and virtual, June 21 from 6 - 8 p.m.
- The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division is developing a facility-wide general permit for upstream oil and gas facilities in Colorado. Join us to learn more, ask questions, and share your thoughts on the drafting of the permit and the development of the Air Dispersion Modeling study used to support the permit.
Tutorial: Interactive Map of Colorado Stationary Air Pollution Sources
- Virtual, June 8 from 12 - 1 p.m. Register.
- Learn about a new, interactive visual map designed to make air pollution records more transparent and accessible. Discover how to use this tool to search for air pollution sources across Colorado and associated records in the Air Pollution Control Division’s online database.
- Virtual, June 10 from 9 - 10:30 a.m.
- Share your input as the Air Pollution Control Division considers how and at what level fees can be applied to greenhouse gases and other criteria and hazardous air pollutants.
- Virtual, June 6 from 6 - 8 pm. Space limited to 10 community members. Register for this Small Community Conversation.
- Join a community-wide public listening session about the Air Pollution Control Division’s plans to reduce ground-level ozone pollution.
August
- Virtual, August 19 from 10 am - 12 pm. Register.
- Join a community-wide public listening session about the Air Pollution Control Division’s plans to reduce ground-level ozone pollution.
- Building Performance Standard Rule
- Information and stakeholder engagement details about a rule that will be proposed in May 2023 to create building performance standards to help meet the goals of House Bill 21-1286.
- Disproportionately Impacted Communities Permitting Rule
- Information and stakeholder engagement details about a rule that will be proposed in May 2023, which will require additional permitting, modeling, and/or monitoring for sources of pollution that affect communities of color, low-income residents, and communities already being harmed by pollution.
- Greenhouse Gas Air Pollutant Emissions Notice Rulemaking
- Stakeholder process to review air pollutant emissions reporting of GHG emissions.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Efficiency Manufacturing Audit Program Rulemaking Process
- Stakeholder process to develop a rule to establish a GHG emission and energy audit program for specific GHG emitting manufacturing industries.
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing
- Stakeholder process to learn about and share feedback on the proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing Phase 2 (GEMM 2) Rule for industrial sources
- Greenhouse Gas Intensity Verification Rule Development
- Stakeholder process to support the development of the intensity verification rule for oil and gas upstream operations.
- Interactive Map of Colorado Stationary Air Pollution Sources
- Tutorial on an interactive visual map designed to make air pollution records more transparent and accessible.
- Public Protections from Toxic Air Contaminants
- Stakeholder process to seek input and feedback to help inform the location of monitoring sites.
- Recovered Methane Protocol Rulemaking
- Tentative November, 2022 rulemaking request. Technical Work Group Meetings are open to the public and written comments may be submitted using this form.
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation
- Stakeholder process to inform state GHG reduction rules and strategies addressing the transportation sector.
- Severe Ozone Planning
- Stakeholder process to share basic ozone information, identify planning processes and potential reduction strategies, and provide opportunities to share concerns and suggestions.
- Stationary Source Control Fund
- Stakeholder process to assess improvements in efficiency for fee-funded activities and billing and accounting practices
- Stationary Source Data Modernization
- Stakeholder process to help modernize the stationary source data system