Environmental Quality Service Council IDEM Report – August 27, 2008 Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., DEE,...

Environmental Quality Service CouncilIDEM Report – August 27, 2008

Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., DEE, QEP Commissioner, Indiana Department of

Environmental Management

Mission and Environmental Goal

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.

IDEM’s goal is to increase the personal income of all Hoosiers to the national average while maintaining and improving Indiana’s environmental quality.

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We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

How is IDEM Protecting Hoosiers and Our Environment?

Clear, consistent and speedy decisions• Clear regulations• Assistance first, enforcement second• Timely resolution of enforcement actions• Current, valid permits for every regulated entity

without unnecessary requirements• Written Standard Operating Procedures• Improved staff training and development

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Performance Metrics June 2005

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Performance Metrics June 2008

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Quality of Hoosiers' Environment Result Target Comments

% of Hoosiers in counties meeting air quality standards 77% 100% 80% 3 counties @ 1,458,022 of

6,271,973 failed

% of CSO Communities with approved programs to prevent the release of untreated sewage 72% 100% 20% 64+9 (73) out of 98+9 (108)

Permitting Efficiency Total calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute

Land 25,452 66,565 86,864 225 permits

370 permits

45 permits

Air 123,628 207,000 385,000

Water 30,072 48,000 200,000

* Places emphasis on back logged permits

Compliance Total percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards

Inspections 95.76% 97% 75%

Self reporting 97.35% 99% 95%

Continuous monitoring (COM) 99.64% 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 $2,800,000 $0 $3,447,017 $1,5 OLQ + $1.3 OAQ

New Drinking Water Metric

• Percent of Hoosiers Drinking Safe Water– Percentage of Indiana population that receives

drinking water from facilities that are in full compliance with safe drinking water regulations

– Federal (EPA) Goal is 90%

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Total Permit Calendar Days

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Air Permitting Rapid Improvement Activities

• Significant Source Modification Lean Event – October 2007

• Permit Renewal Process Lean Event –December 2007

• Teams consisted of internal and external stakeholders

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Significant Source Modification Results

Items Measured Current New % Change

# of Steps 164 144 12.2%

# of Handoffs 41 29 29.3%

# of Decisions 16 12 25%

# Loop backs 13 8 38.5%

# of Value-Added Steps

6 6 0

Lead Time 195 – 255 days 120 – 166 days 38.5% - 34.9%

Delays 31 24 22.6%

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Status (avg) : 2/1/08 170 days / 4/1/08 154 days / 6/1/08 124 days

Air Permit Renewals Process Improvement

• Goal: eliminate backlog in 2008 (156 permits administratively extended)

• Backlog reduced to 51 = 67% (7-31-08)• Permit renewals now consistently issued

prior to expiration

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Attainment Status

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Ozone

PM 2.5

Lawrenceburg Twnshp

Allen

Jay

Lake

Knox

Vigo

White

Jasper

Cass

Clay

Laporte

Pike

Rush

Parke

Grant

Greene

Perry

Ripley

Clark

Noble

Gibson

Porter

Wells

Posey

Elkhart

Owen

Henry

Boone

Miami

Jackson

Putnam

Dubois

Shelby

Pulaski Fulton

Marion

Wayne

Clinton

Sullivan

Harrison

Benton Carroll

Daviess Martin

Orange

Kosciusko

Monroe

Morgan

Madison

Newton

Marshall

Warrick

Wabash

Warren

Brown

DeKalb

Franklin

Adams

Starke

Spencer

Decatur

Randolph

Lawrence

Whitley

FountainHamilton

Washington

St. Joseph

TippecanoeTipton

Jennings

Delaware

Hendricks

Lagrange

Montgomery

Jefferson

Steuben

Howard

Johnson

Scott

Huntington

Hancock

Crawford

Dearborn

Bartholomew

FayetteUnion

Floyd

Switzerland

Ohio

Blackford

Vermillion

Vanderburgh

Legend

Ozone Counties

Attainment

Proposed Redesignation to Attainment--not yet final

Nonattainment (Subpart 1/ EPA Basic)

Lawrenceburg Twnshp

Washington Twnshp

Montgomery Twnshp

Ohio Twnshp

Madison Twnshp

Spencer

Allen

Jay

Lake

Knox

Vigo

White

Jasper

Cass

Clay

Laporte

Pike

Rush

Parke

Grant

Greene

Perry

Ripley

Clark

Noble

Gibson

Porter

Wells

Posey

Elkhart

Owen

Henry

Boone

Miami

Jackson

Putnam

Dubois

Shelby

Pulaski Fulton

Marion

Wayne

Clinton

Sullivan

Harrison

Benton Carroll

Daviess Martin

Orange

Kosciusko

Monroe

Morgan

Madison

Newton

Marshall

Warrick

Wabash

Warren

Brown

DeKalb

Franklin

Adams

Starke

Decatur

Randolph

Lawrence

Whitley

FountainHamilton

Washington

St. Joseph

Tippecanoe

Tipton

Jennings

Delaware

Hendricks

Lagrange

Montgomery

Jefferson

Steuben

Howard

Johnson

Scott

Huntington

Hancock

Crawford

DearbornBartholomew

Fayette Union

Floyd

Vermillion

Switzerland

Ohio

Vanderburgh

Blackford

Legend

PM 2.5 Counties

Attainment

Proposed Redesignation to Attainment--not yet final

Nonattainment


Revisions to NAAQS for Ozone

• March 12, 2008 U.S. EPA published revision to 8-hour Ozone Standard

• Air Quality Index (AQI) also revised to reflect change in health standard

• Old Standard 0.08 ppm, effectively 0.084 due to rounding conventions

• New Standard 0.075 ppm

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Harding St0.077

Gary IITRI0.082

Leo0.078

E 16th St0.077

Avon0.076

Flora0.075

Bristol0.078

Albany0.077

Sandcut0.073

Granger0.079

Leopold0.081

Emporia0.076

LaPorte0.078

Hammond0.079

Whiting0.085

Roanoke0.076

Plummer0.079

Dayville0.077

Lynville0.075

Fairland0.078

Monrovia0.079

Fort Ben0.079

Boonville0.080

Trafalgar0.078

Fortville0.078

Inglefield0.075

Evansville0.080

South Bend0.071

Potato Crk0.074

Valparaiso0.076

Brownstown0.076

New Albany0.079

Whitestown0.081

Fort Wayne0.075

Terre Haute0.067

St. Phillips0.071

Michigan City0.077

Mann Rd0.076

Ogden Dunes0.081

Noblesville0.082

Charlestown0.083

Allen

Jay

Lake

Knox

Vigo

White

Jasper

Cass

Clay

Laporte

Pike

RushParke

Grant

Greene

Perry

Ripley

Clark

Noble

Gibson

Porter

Wells

Elkhart

Owen

Henry

Boone

Miami

Jackson

Putnam

Dubois

Shelby

Pulaski Fulton

MarionWayne

Clinton

Sullivan

Harrison

Benton Carroll

Daviess Martin

Orange

Kosciusko

Monroe

Morgan

Madison

Newton

Marshall

Wabash

Warren

Brown

DeKalb

Franklin

Adams

Starke

Spencer

Decatur

Randolph

Lawrence

Whitley

Fountain

Hamilton

Washington

Tippecanoe

Tipton

Jennings

Delaware

Hendricks

Lagrange

Montgomery

Jefferson

Steuben

Howard

Johnson

Scott

Huntington

Crawford

DearbornBartholomew

Fayette Union

Floyd

Switzerland

Ohio

Posey

Warrick

St. Joseph

HancockVermillion

Vanderburgh

Blackford

Ozone Standard at 0.075 ppmBased on 2005-2007 Ozone Design Values

Legend

Values posted are in units of ppm.

Value Over the Standard of 0.075 ppm

Value Under the Standard of 0.075ppm

Ozone Counties Based on Ozone Standard of 0.075 ppm

Attainment

Nonattainment

New Ozone Standard at 0.075 ppm

Designations will likely be made in 2010 based on 2007-2009 data


PM 2.5 Status• New 35 microgram per cubic meter 24 hour standard

issued in September 2006—annual standard retained• Preliminary designations were based on 2005-2007 air

quality, but process will allow use of 2008 monitoring data

• New nonattainment designations will likely be made April 2009, SIPS due 2012

• SIPS for current nonattainment areas were submitted in 2008—two redesignation petitions submitted (SW Indiana, NW Indiana)

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Allen

Jay

Lake

Knox

Vigo

White

Jasper

Cass

Clay

Laporte

Pike

Rush

Parke

Grant

Greene

Perry

Ripley

Clark

Noble

Gibson

Porter

Wells

Posey

Elkhart

Owen

Henry

Boone

Miami

Jackson

Putnam

Dubois

Shelby

Pulaski Fulton

Marion

Wayne

Clinton

Sullivan

Harrison

Benton Carroll

Daviess Martin

Orange

Kosciusko

Monroe

Morgan

Madison

Newton

Marshall

Warrick

Wabash

Warren

Brown

DeKalb

Franklin

Adams

Starke

Spencer

Decatur

Randolph

Lawrence

Whitley

FountainHamilton

Washington

St. Joseph

Tippecanoe

Tipton

Jennings

Delaware

Hendricks

Lagrange

Montgomery

Jefferson

Steuben

Howard

Johnson

Scott

Hancock

Crawford

DearbornBartholomew

Fayette Union

Floyd

Switzerland

Ohio

Huntington

Vermillion

Vanderburgh

Blackford

Legend

Attainment/Unclassifiable

Nonattainment

Map of Indiana 24-hr PM 2.5 Nonattainment Recommendations

Indiana final recommendations for 24-hour PM 2.5 nonattainment areas

Designations will likely be effective in April 2009


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EPA preliminary recommendations for 24-hour PM 2.5 nonattainment areas

US Courts Overturning Rules

• 2006—Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) Boiler MACT—directly impacted about 10 sources with coal fired boilers

• May 2008—Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) impacted all power plants

• July 2008—Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) impacted all power plants and most Indiana air pollution strategies

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BP Air Permit• 38 day public comment period, 342 written

comments received • Public meeting and hearing – 1,200 attended,

44 commented • Construction permit issued May 1 and

operation permit issued June 16• Multiple appeals of these permit decisions to

OEA, Federal Court and the EPA Administrator 18


NRDC Statement on Tar Sands

“BP’s decision to tap into the Canadian wilderness is ‘based on addiction, not reality,’ says Ann Alexander, senior attorney at the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), a nonprofit environmental group. ‘Tar sands crude oil is dirty from start to finish. It’s bad enough that [BP is] fouling our natural resources here in the Midwest, but it’s completely destroying them up in Canada. There are good sources of energy we can turn to that don’t involve turning entire forests into a moonscape.’”

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Duke-Edwardsport Power Plant• First commercial Integrated Gasification

Combined Cycle (IGCC) plant in the U.S. • 44 day public comment period• Public meeting and hearing – over 600 citizens

attended • Construction permit issued January 25 and

operation permit issued in March• Permit decision appealed

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Combined Sewer Overflows• 65 communities now have approved Long

Term Control Plans (LTCPs)• 12 communities took action to control CSOs

without the need of a LTCP– separated sewers or overflow prevention

measures• 77 of 107 communities are adequately

addressing their CSOs• 30 CSO LTCPs left to approve

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Permit Backlog Reduction• In 2005, there were 263 administratively

extended NPDES permits• Six of those 263 remain to be issued:

– US Steel Gary Works– US Steel Midwest Division– Arcelor Mittal Indiana Harbor East– Arcelor Mittal Indiana Harbor West– Arcelor Mittal Burns Harbor– Hoosier Energy Merom Plant


Flood Update• IDEM staff logged 1,218 hours of support time• Assisted DNR with early evacuations• Contacted 541 drinking water and wastewater

facilities; provided 63 with FEMA reimbursement assistance

• Offered debris management and spill response assistance to local officials

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Flood Update Continued

• Coordinated outreach to livestock operations• Coordinated with U.S. EPA to address solid and

household hazardous waste management issues and assess hazardous spills

• Provided communication outreach including severe weather website, FAQ document, four fact sheets and three news releases

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Dr. Barnes BP NPDES Permit Review • BP NPDES permit issued June 21, 2007 after

extensive public outreach and no apparent opposition

• Negative and misleading media resulted in uproar from public, politicians, etc.

• Governor Daniels requested Barnes review August 13, 2007

• Report issued December 3, 2007

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Dr. Barnes Conclusions• Permit complies with existing regulations and

fully protects drinking water, recreation and aquatic life

• Permit is more restrictive and protective of Lake Michigan than required by adjoining states

• Indiana should clarify antidegradation regulations for permit applicants and public to understand and the agency to apply

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IDEM Response • Updating Indiana Antidegradation regulations

– Will apply to entire State– Special protection for Lake Michigan

• Require more documentation for compliance schedules

• Obtain U.S. EPA non-objection determination prior to public notice of NPDES permit

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Mercury Switch Removal

• Currently 401 Indiana participants• 32,060 mercury switches collected• 70.53 pounds of mercury removed from end

of life vehicles

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IC 13-20-17.7-2

Land Quality Accomplishments• All 1,269 tons of VX Agent stored at the

Newport Chemical Agent Facility since 1969 has been safely destroyed. VX destruction started in May of 2005 and was completed in August 2008

• Digital Inspector Tool is in use for solid waste inspections including CFOs, CAFOs and auto salvage yards

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Agency Initiatives• Virtual File Cabinet—electronic filing system, over

27,000,000 pages now available electronically, IDEM file room visits down over 90% from 445/mo 1Q 2007 to 35/mo 2Q 2008

• TEMPO—Enterprise wide electronic integration of all IDEM information, part of the process to allow us to receive and process electronic permit applications and reports

• Applied for EPA approval for electronic submittals30


Percent of Activities Meeting Regulations

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Office of Enforcement2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008*

Referrals 607 467 547 591 606 189

Violation Letters 5,222 4,980 4,268 4,024 3,958 11**

Notices of Violation 457 318 202 427 420 178

Agreed Orders 349 314 258 417 372 185

Commissioner’s Orders 15 6 41 38 39 12

Dismissals 121 44 48 46 57 20

Complies/Closed 308 312 317 577 568 214

AG Referrals 13 17 4 33 52 10

32*through 2nd quarter **Does not include Program Violation Letters


Office of Enforcement

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008*

Assessed Penalty $2,979,415 $2,273,688 $7,758,749 $5,249,249 $1,404,833

Cash Penalty $2,710,174 $2,087,244 $3,509,974 $4,930,988 $1,350,724

SEP Offset $393,586 $212,354 $4,111,655 $337,915 $276,661

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*through August 2008


Criminal Convictions• Wabash Environmental Technologies and Derrik

Hagerman—Clean Water Act felonies. Sixty months of imprisonment and $237,000 in restitution (Terre Haute)

• Miller Environmental and Anthony MuCullough—Clean Water Act felonies. Four months imprisonment and $510,000 in penalties (Shelbyville and Rushville)

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Criminal Convictions

• Richard Reece—RCRA felonies. Six months in half way house, six months home detention and $60,000 restitution (Muncie)

• Hassan Barrel and Alan Hersh—RCRA felonies. Awaiting sentencing (Fort Wayne)

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Forbes “America’s Greenest States” Report

• “So who’s at the bottom? Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana and, at No. 50, West Virginia. All suffer from a mix of toxic waste, lots of pollution and consumption and no clear plans to do anything about it. Expect them to remain that way.”

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Forbes Report Conclusion

• Does not rank States based upon government verified environmental quality data

• Appears to be a ranking based upon adherence of States to a group of policies advocated by the NGO’s providing information used in the rankings

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Possible 2009 Legislative Issues

• Discuss public’s expectations at property transfers and related programs – Restrictive Covenant– Define oversight and recovery, owner/operator

and other technical language

• Clean up several statutes to match operational efficiencies

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Questions?

Megan TretterLegislative & Business Liaison

[email protected]

Sandra FlumIntergovernmental Relations

[email protected]

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