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NC VW Phase 2 Draft Mitigation Plan Comments

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If you submitted comments for North Carolina’s Phase 2 Draft Mitigation Plan to the following email address, daq_NCVWGrants@ncdenr.gov by the September 7, 2021, 5 p.m. deadline, your comments may not have been received by the NC VW Team. Unfortunately, the email address for submitting comments on the Phase 2 Mitigation Plan was listed incorrectly on our website. If you sent your comments by email to the address above, please forward a copy of that original email to the following email address: daq.NC_VWGrants@ncdenr.gov by 5 p.m. November 5, 2021.

This will ensure that we received and addressed all comments submitted by the due date.

Public Comment Period Begins for Draft Phase 2 Volkswagen Mitigation Plan

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The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality invites public comment on the state’s plan to invest $67 million in Volkswagen Settlement funds.  The Draft Phase 2 Mitigation plan focuses on efforts to reduce pollution impacts while incentivizing zero emission vehicles and increasing outreach to under-resourced communities.

The funds represent North Carolina’s share of the $2.9 billion federal settlement with Volkswagen due to its misrepresentation of diesel emission standards in certain vehicles. Governor Roy Cooper designated the Division of Air Quality as the lead agency to manage the project in November 2017. Wilmington Trust officially designed North Carolina as a State Beneficiary in January 2018.

In Phase 1 of the program, North Carolina awarded nearly $27 million to replace 111 school buses and 16 transit buses and to install 33 zero emission vehicle (ZEV) fast charging stations and 78 Level 2 charging stations across the state.

The Division of Air Quality will also hold a series of in-person public information sessions for counties eligible in the Historically Under-Resourced Counties Outreach Program. Additional meeting dates, locations and times will be posted on the DEQ Volkswagen Program webpage.

Comments may be submitted online via Microsoft Forms at https://bit.ly/3jMMu3i or emailed to daq_NCVWGrants@ncdenr.gov. Voicemail comments will also be accepted at 919-707-8429.

All comments will be accepted until September 7, 2021 at 5 p.m.

Additional information regarding Phase 2 can be found on https://deq.nc.gov/vw-settlement.