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EGLE air division details permitting, monitoring and new asbestos inspections to House subcommittee
Summary
Annette Switzer, EGLE Air Quality Division director, told the committee the division processes permits for construction and modifications, manages a Title V operating permit program, uses a MyEnviroPortal system to speed reviews, and has formed a new asbestos unit funded by notification fees with a 2025 inspection metric target of about 20%.
Annette Switzer, director of EGLE's Air Quality Division, briefed the House Committee on Great Lakes and Energy on permitting, air quality planning and a recently created asbestos unit.
"I'm Annette Switzer, the air quality division director for EGLE," she said, describing the division's mission to protect air quality through industrial source regulation and implementation of federal clean air rules.
Switzer said the division has just over 200 full‑time employees and that the Permit to Install program processes roughly 300–400 permit applications per year from a broad array of sources, ranging from power plants and auto assembly facilities to smaller sources such as hospital emergency generators. She…
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