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IDEM UpdateIndiana Industrial Operators Association
April 9, 2013
Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE CommissionerIndiana Department of Environmental Management
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IDEM’s MissionProtecting Hoosiers and Our Environment
While Becoming the Most Customer-Friendly Environmental Agency
IDEM’s mission is to implement federal and state regulations to protect human health and the environment while allowing the environmentally sound operations of industrial, agricultural, commercial and government activities vital to a prosperous economy.
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How Does IDEM Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment?
• Develop regulations and issue permits to restrict discharges to environmentally safe levels.
• Inspect and monitor permitted facilities to ensure compliance with the permits.
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How Does IDEM Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment?
• Use compliance assistance and/or enforcement when people exceed their permit levels or violate regulations.
• Educate people on their environmental responsibilities.
• Clean up contaminated sites to eliminate public exposure to toxics and return properties to productive use.
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Performance Metrics December 2012Result Target Comments
Quality of Hoosiers' Environment
% of Hoosiers that live in counties that meet air quality standards
99.99% 100% 80%Lead in a small portion of Muncie
% of CSO Communities with approved programs to prevent the release of untreated sewage
98.15% 100% 90%97+9 (106) out of 99+9 (108)
% of Hoosiers that receive water from facilities in full compliance with safe drinking water standards
99.30% 99% 95%
Permitting EfficiencyTotal calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute*
Land 25,706 23,678 26,856 27,856 statutoryAir 47,790 50,033 55,919 58,863 statutoryWater 34,501 55,972 62,557 65,850 statutory
* Places emphasis on back logged permits
ComplianceTotal percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards*Inspections 97.67% 97% 75% Self reporting 97.45% 99% 95%
Continuous monitoring (COM) 99.82% 99.9% 99.0%
* Tracks observations and not just inspections
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Performance Metrics June 2005Quality of Hoosiers' Environment Result Target Comments
% of Hoosiers in counties meeting air quality standards 61% 100% 80%
12 counties & 2,408,571 of 6,195,643 above standard
% of CSO Communities with approved programs to prevent the release of untreated sewage
4% 100% 20% 75% by 2007 is goal
Permitting Efficiency Total calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute*
Land 100,013 66,565 86,864
Air 511,000 207,000 385,000
Water 301,000 48,000 200,000
* Places emphasis on back logged permits
Compliance Total percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards*
Inspections 95.46% 97% 75%
Self reporting 97.11% 99% 95%
Continuous monitoring (COM) 99.19% 99.90% 98.95%
* Tracks observations and not just inspections
Organizational Transformation Budgetary agency dollars spent on key outside contracts for core agency functions.
Dollars spent on outside services per year $6,179,367 $0 $3,447,0176
25 Years of Progress
http://www.in.gov/idem/files/state_of_environment_2011.pdf
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IDEM Backlogs Eliminated• On January 10, 2005, there were 263
administratively extended NPDES permits and 289 unissued Title V permits. All of those have been issued, and IDEM now issues permits using less than 85% of the statutorily allowed days.
• On January 10, 2005, there were 250 unresolved enforcement cases over 2 years old. Now the oldest referral on our tracking list is June, 2010.
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Permits — Percent of Statutory Days
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50
100
150
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250
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Percentage of allowable days
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Comparison of Region 5 States Permitting Program Status
Compiled by U.S. EPA Region 5 for July 26, 2012, State Environmental Directors Meeting
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Status of All Facilities Covered by Current NPDES Permits (as of 7/6/12)
Status of All Facilities Covered by Current Permits (as of 7/6/12)
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25 Years of Progress
•Water Quality: Combined Sewer Overflows − All 98 State lead CSO Communities and 8 of the 10
Federal lead Communities have entered legal agreements to address their CSO issues.
− We are working with U.S. EPA to finish the remaining 2 Federal lead CSO communities.
− At least 41 of the CSO communities have completed their projects to address the release of untreated sewage during rain events.
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Water Quality
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Fish Tissue — Mercury
• At the end of 2010, U.S. EPA issued new
guidance on the proper interpretation of the fish
tissue data.
• U.S. EPA’s guidance indicates that a properly
calculated average mercury value is the
appropriate interpretation of the limit.
• IDEM has reevaluated its mercury data using
the U.S. EPA guidance.
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Fish Tissue — Mercury(Note: Lake Data Does Not Include Lake Michigan)
Year Mercury Impaired Stream
Reaches
Mercury Impaired
Stream Miles
Mercury Impaired
Lakes
Mercury Impaired
Lake Acres
2010 272 1,689 37 44,5402012 42 417 15 14,582
Change -84% -75% -60% -67%
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Current Air Quality Status
• At the end of 2009, all of Indiana met every currently effective NAAQS for the first time since NAAQS were established in the 1970s.
• IDEM has succeeded in working with U.S. EPA to have all of the state designated as attainment for those pollutants except:– Central Indiana PM2.5
– Clark and Floyd counties PM2.5
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Attains
Does Not Meet the PM Standards
Does Not Meet the Ozone Standard
Does Not Meet Ozone and PM Standards
Location of the State Capitals
State Boundaries
Ozone and Particulate Air Quality 2009 to 2011
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CO2 (Greenhouse Gasses)
• In April 2012, U.S. EPA proposed New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions for certain Electric Utility Generating Units (EGUs). The rules only apply to large new fossil fired Electrical Generating Units in the continental United States.− Simple cycle gas turbines are exempt (even
though the more efficient ones currently meet the rule).
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CO2 (Greenhouse Gasses)
• Combined cycle gas turbines will meet the rule.
• Coal fired units will not meet the rule without using carbon capture and storage.
• Carbon capture and storage:− is not yet commercially available,− has not yet been demonstrated at
commercial scale, and− is likely to be prohibitively expensive.
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CO2 (Greenhouse Gasses)
• Is a rule which effectively prohibits the construction of new electrical generating facilities that use coal in the United States going to make a significant difference in emissions?
• The National Academy of Sciences report, “America’s Climate Choices,” recommends that actions be taken now to start reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to levels between 50% and 80% below 1990 levels.
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CO2 (Greenhouse Gasses)
• In the spring of 2012, the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) passed resolution 12-1, “Challenges of Achieving Significant Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Reductions.” A copy of this resolution is available at:
www.ecos.org/files/4711_file_Resolution_12_1_Challenges_of_GHG_reductions.doc
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CO2 (Greenhouse Gasses)
• The resolution requests that the U.S. EPA develop one or more scenarios that will produce an 80% reduction in GHG emissions nationally, from a 2005 baseline, in 2050 or beyond; and to conduct an analysis of the costs and the benefits associated with each such scenario along with an estimate of the costs and benefits of not obtaining these GHG reductions.
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CO2 (Greenhouse Gasses)
• U.S. EPA has decided not to spend the resources required to develop the requested scenario, but rather to develop rules to reduce GHG emissions, even if these rules do not materially reduce U.S. emissions.
• The NSPS for EGUs effectively bans new coal fired facilities in the U.S. without any public plan to actually reduce U.S. (or world) GHG emissions to the levels advocated by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Questions?
Tom EasterlyCommissioner
Indiana Department of Environmental Management(317) 232-8611