Comment on FR Doc # 2012-20777

Being a concerned citizen about higher pollution levels here in Desert Hot Springs and in the Coachella Valley, I strongly object to CPV's Sentinel Energy Plant going online in the near future. First of all, you have adjusted the offset credits to a point where the plant can now be allowed to be built. How is it possible that this can occur given that these credits are very outdated? They go back many years, particularly those from the Seagull Sanitation landfill operation. Is this normal that the EPA will issue these credits from a highly polluting trash-"burning" operation in order to allow a PM10 and PM2.5 micron emitting plant in Desert Hot Springs, one of the worst already polluted areas in Southern California? Secondly, I can't see how offset reduction credits derived from an operation so far from where I live can be applied here. How is it that these can make our air-quality much better here? I fail to see the reasoning. According to the Clean Air Act, the transfer of credits is to be used to assist us in generating cleaner air. Isn't this so? Finally, I know I do not speak alone when I say I have special health concerns about this plant. I am a lung cancer survivor and I know that the pollutants going into the air here if the plant goes online could easily throw me into a relapse situation which means, basically, my number is up. Many children with asthma and Senior Citizens suffering from respiratory and pulmonary afflictions will also be adversely affected. I ask that you do not rule favorably on the offset credits which would enable the CPV Sentinel Plant to go online. Besides being too old, they would do nothing to mitigate pollution levels here. Sincerely, Darel Propst 66173 8th. St. Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240 1(760)329-6864