Thank you for the opportunity to express my concerns with this proposed action.  My life as a child and an adult has centered around agricultural and and forest management.  Before my parents passed recently our immediate family had over 300 collective years of experience with land managed for farming and forestry.  Both Grandparents and One Great Grandparent also farmed and grew trees.  This may not qualify us as experts but when it comes to land and trees it is important and PERSONAL! Our family and businesses own timberland in 6 counties in Virginia.  It is well managed with BMP's, Best Management Plans and all is SFI, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, certified.  We have placed approximately 3000 acres in conservation easements.  We too care about the environment and we have put our money where our mouth is!!   There is much we could say about what trees do for the environment, water, air, stream management, recreation etc. but that is not the topic today.  During the last 15 months lumber prices have experienced historic increases however log prices are flat, stagnant.  We also operate a sawmill, planer, etc.  We know why lumber prices escalated.  New net works talk about this daily. February 24, 2021 The Wall Street Journal carried a 13 page article entitled " Lumber Prices Are Soaring.  Why Are Tree Growers Miserable ? Please read this article.  Basically in Virginia simple economics more supply than demand.  We are growing more trees than demand and use requires.  We have managed only because sister operations are buying and processing the logs.  Many landowners are sitting on trees that need to be thinned and or cut. They are waiting for demand to improve.  Our Virginia Timber is not like the West Coast Trees.  It has a limited life span and is subject to decay, disease, infestation as we humans are.  We are also solar farming as well and have had 2 farms in production since 2016 and 2017, two of the first in Virginia of this scale and the first in Virginia to have battery storage installed.  This opportunity allows us to keep land in the family and diversify our business model and generate clean renewable energy that provides benefits to the localities and to the state.  If you have not visited a solar farm, invite you to do so.  When battery storage improves it will be a game changer for solar power.  It will be cheaper by far, the source of fuel is free, it is clean, requires minimal cost of labor once built.  It is renewable energy that makes real sense not smoke and mirrors.   The timing of this proposed regulatory rules seems so contrary and arbitrary to the aggressive Biden administration green energy proposals and those of our Governor and those of Dominion as well.  This does not make sense.  America has been the world's "bread basket".  Would you prefer to use our farmlands for solar?  Farmland has a higher value than tree farms and we can sell our agricultural products both domestically and abroad.  Tree Farmers do not have this base of markets. We oppose any arbitrary rule that limits our my family's ability to use our land in its best and highest value and use.  DEQ  should not be "picking" winners and losers for renewal energy.  Having decades and generations of land management this proposed rule will not contribute to our state environmental and economic security and fiscal stability.   I served on the DEQ Air Board for 12 years and valued this opportunity.  I learned much and one of my basic questions and concerns was " Are we balancing real costs of regulations with the desired and needed improvement in air quality.  This propose regulation does not do this.  Thank you for the opportunity to express our concerns.