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-2- <br />The Agency is also proposing to add requirements to the rules <br />concerning instrumentation and monitoring. <br />The Agency began the process of reviewing the existing noise <br />rules in 1979. The Agency published in the State Register on <br />November 26, 1979, a Notice of Intent to Solicit Outside Opinion <br />(4 S.R. 871) in which the Agency stated its intent to review <br />Minn. Rules NPC 1 and 2 and invited interested persons to submit <br />information on the subject. The notice was mailed to <br />approximately five hundred persons whose names were maintained on <br />a mailing list by the Agency. This list includes governmental <br />officials, industry representatives, citizens and organizations <br />which have expressed an interest in the noise rules. A public <br />information meeting concerning the rule review was held at the <br />Agency offices on December 5, 1979. <br />On June 24, 1980, the Agency staff developed a tentative <br />schedule for the review of the rules. Due to staff limitations, <br />it became apparent that consultant assistance would be necessary <br />in order to meet the time .lines presented in that schedule. the <br />Agency Board consequently authorized the staff to negotiate and <br />contract for the necessary consultant assistance. <br />A Noise Committee consisting of four Agency Board members was <br />formed on March 30, 1982, for the purpose of facilitating the <br />participation of a broad range of interested persons in the rule <br />review process. In addition, the Committee took part in <br />