The Department of Environmental Quality will hold a public hearing on proposed amendments to Or. Admin. R. 340-252, Transportation Conformity. The amendments would lengthen the interval between conformity demonstrations from three to four years, allow a one-year grace period for areas newly subject to conformity, and simplify requirements for localized "hot-spot" analyses. The hearing will be November 23, 2009. http://www.deq.state.or.us/aq/rules/transportation/announcement.pdf.