ADEM Air UpdateRon Gore

November, 2012

National Issues

• EPA is delaying many controversial decisions and issues:

• Implementation of new SO2 NAAQS

• Setting of new ozone and fine particle NAAQS• Redesignations of areas from non-

attainment• Regional haze approvals

One-hour SO2 issues

• EPA has punted the modeling-vs-monitoring issue until Summer, 2013

• EPA is not designating areas as non-attainment even when monitoring data shows violations

• Will EPA come back to modeling?

• SO2 modeling for PSD is still there

SSM

• It is likely that EPA will soon ask 30 to 40 States to remove SSM from their rules

• Will generate political and legal battles

Continued

• EPA use of FIP’s when SIP’s are the appropriate legal mechanism

-Cross-State ruling is a big setback for EPA

• Continued use of settlements to drive EPA actions and timelines

-SSM

-Infrastructure SIP’s

Continued

• 40- year old concept of localized non-attainment areas is outdated

• CAA needs to be amended• Local control measures cannot achieve

attainment by themselves

Monitor 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008Bay Road 70 71 77 73 70Chickasaw 69 70 74 67 76Fairhope 67 73 74 69 72DBT 65 68 73 61 68Sumter Co. ##### 63 67 54 60Montgomery 66 70 72 64 69Huntsville 76 72 71 66 73Decatur 74 70 70 62 68Tuscaloosa 58 60 60 55 68SouthSide 62 62 65 61 64Phenix City 67 66 69 63 69Muscle Shoals 73 63 68 61 66Dothan 63 65 67 58 66

Helena 76 76 74 68 82Fairfield 77 75 73 62 74McAdory 78 81 74 70 75Hoover 74 80 77 69 79Pinson 74 74 75 63 79Tarrant 84 79 77 66 76Corner 71 76 72 62 77Providence 73 76 75 61 74North Bham 79 77 70 68 78Leeds 80 77 72 65 72

4th High Values

Monitor 10-12 O9-11 O8-10 O7-O9 O6-O8Bay Road 72 73 75 74 77Chickasaw 71 70 70 73 79Fairhope 71 72 71 73 77DBT 68 67 67 67 71Sumter Co. 61 60 61 65Montgomery 69 68 68 71 74Huntsville 73 69 68 73 78Decatur 71 67 66 70 75Tuscaloosa 59 58 57 67 75SouthSide 63 62 63 66 71Phenix City 67 66 66 70 74Muscle Shoals 68 64 64 67 72Dothan 65 63 62 65 70

Helena 75 72 71 81 87Fairfield 75 70 67 74 82McAdory 77 75 72 78 83Hoover 77 75 73 80 87Pinson 74 70 69 74 79Tarrant 80 74 71 79 86Corner 73 70 67 76 82Providence 74 70 68 74 80North Bham 75 71 69 79 85Leeds 76 71 68 72 76

3 Yr Avg. Design Values

Ozone, continued

• If EPA revises standard to 70 ppb, areas which do not attain include:

Birmingham

Mobile

Huntsville-Decatur

If the new standard is 65 ppb, add:

Montgomery

Columbus, GA/Phenix City, AL

Tri-cities (Muscle Shoals)

If the new standard is 60 ppb;

All monitors in Alabama except

Tuscaloosa fail

Fine Particles

• Highest monitor in Alabama is 12.9 ug/m3 in Birmingham for the annual standard

• Highest monitors are 27 ug/m3 in Phenix City and Birmingham for the 2y-hr standard

• If EPA sets annual standard at 12ug/m3, Phenix City and Birmingham fail

Permitting

• No really controversial permits or regulation changes in last year

• Have not yet acted on any PSD permits which include greenhouse gas issues

• New or modified sources with significant SO2 emissions will have problems meeting SO2 modeling requirements

Enforcement

• Number of NOV’s, number of penalty actions and penalty amounts relatively unchanged

• Serious violations trending toward small to medium sized sources rather than Title V sources

• Many State/Federal joint enforcement actions ongoing

Major Compliance Issues

• Trend is that more violations occur at small to medium size facilities

• Violations at larger facilities tend to be due to complexity, not laxity or deliberate ignoring of requirements

Boiler MACT

• EPA is re-writing the major source MACT• Plan is to re-initiate the 3- year compliance

schedule