Georgia Environmental Protection Division
Is “Good and Gooder” Good for Georgia and Georgian’s?
Jimmy JohnstonGeorgia EPD – Air Protection Branch
Georgia2008
Air Quality & Climate Summit
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Agenda
• It’s Just Crazy
• Is it Just an ATL Thing?
• Where do We Go from Here?
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
IT’S JUST CRAZY!!!
1997 PM2.5 SIPs Due to EPAApril 2008
Attainment Deadline for 1997 Ozone and non-ATL PM2.5
2009
Non-attainment Designations for 2006 24-hr PM2.5 Standards Dec 2008
Attainment Deadline for 24-hr PM2.5 Standard 2014
1997 Ozone ModerateSIP Due to EPADecember 2008
Non-attainment Designations for 2008 Ozone Standards Mar 2010
SIPs Due to EPAfor 24-hr PM2.5 Standards Dec 2011
SIPs Due to EPAfor 2008 Ozone Standards Mar 2013
Attainment Deadline for 2008 Ozone Standard – Marginal 2013?
Regional Haze SIP Due Dec. 2007
1997 Ozone Serious SIP Due to EPADecember 2011
Attainment Deadline – Serious Ozone & ATL PM2.5
2012
Non-attainment Recommendations for 2008 Ozone Standards Mar 2009
Non-attainment Recommendations for 2006 PM2.5 Standard Dec 2007
Regional Haze Mid-Course Review 2012
Regional Haze First Progress Goal
2018
Attainment Deadline for 2008 Ozone Standard – Moderate 2016?
Non-attainment Recommendations for Lead Standard Sept 2009
Designations for Lead Standard Sept 2011
Lead SIPs Due Spring 2013
Lead Attainment Date Fall 2016
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Is it Just an ATL Thing?
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Counties with Monitors Exceeding 1997 Ozone
Standard (1997-1999 data) & Initial
Nonattainment Recommendations
(6/30/2000)
County with MonitorMeeting StandardCounty with MonitorExceeding Standard
Nonattainment County
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Counties with Monitors Exceeding 1997 Ozone
Standard (2004-2006 data) on SIP Due Date
(4/15/2007)
County with MonitorMeeting StandardCounty with MonitorExceeding Standard
Nonattainment County
EAC Area – Designation Deferred
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Counties with Monitors Exceeding 1997 PM2.5
Standard After Deployment of PM2.5
Network
(1999-2000 data)
County with MonitorMeeting StandardCounty with MonitorExceeding Standard
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Counties with Monitors Exceeding 1997 PM2.5
Standard (2002-2004 data) & Final
Designations (4/5/2005)
County with MonitorMeeting StandardCounty with MonitorExceeding Standard
Nonattainment County
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Counties with Ozone Monitors
Exceeding 2008 Standard of 0.075 (ppm)
(based on 2005-7 monitored data)
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Where do we Go from Here?
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Point Sources
• More Power Plant Controls?– units without SCR & scrubbers in 2016 are
(relatively) small and will have reduced utilization
• Power Plant Type Controls (SCR & Scrubbers) or Cleaner Fuels on Industrial Boilers?– most large non-utility sources not near non-
attainment areas– Regional Haze most likely driving force
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Mobile Sources
• Gasoline & Light-Duty Dieselfleet turnover significantly reducing emissions
despite growth– voluntary reductions
• e.g., Telework, Carpool, Bike-Ped, Flexible Work Schedule
• have we reached maximum effectiveness?
– Mandatory measures• Largely untested in U.S. (e.g., odd/even drive days,
increase parking prices, pay-by-mile car insurance, reduced/enforced speed limits, vehicle scrappage, smoking vehicle ordinances)
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Mobile Sources (continued)
• Heavy-Duty Dieselfleet will get cleaner eventually– Incentives
• Retrofits• Truck-Stop Electrification• Biodiesel
– Regulatory• Anti-Idling (coming soon)• Retofits?
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Non-RoadMost Categories will Eventually get Cleaner Mostly Difficult to Regulate or Prohibited from
Regulation• Locomotive
– Incentives for Retrofits (expensive)– Voluntary Operational Changes
• Airport (Aircraft, GSE, Traffic)– Many Voluntary Fuel-Savings & Congestion
Reducing Already Underway – Also Reduce Emissions
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Non-Road (Continued)• Construction
Equipment Hard to Track & Frequently Relocates– Early Use of On-Road Diesel?– Clean Contracting?
• AgricultureMinimal Impact on Nonattainment Areas– Same Controls Measures Available as for other Heavy-Duty
Diesel
• Lawn & Garden– Mower Buy-Back?
• Marine– Has not been a Focus in Georgia
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Area• Open Burning
– Prescribed Fire• Basic Smoke Management Plan (soon)• Enhanced Smoke Management Plan?
– Agricultural Fire• New EPA Policy (July?)
– Land-Clearing/Construction• More Regulation?• Outreach/Education?• Local Ordinances?
– Residential• More Regulation?• Outreach/Education?• Local Ordinances?
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Area (Continued)
• Commercial/Residential/Institutional– Standard for New Boilers, Furnaces, Hot Water
Heaters?– Woodstoves & Fireplaces “Changeout”?
• RoadsVERY large part of direct PM2.5 inventory but how far
does it go?– Paving?– Sweeping?
• Construction/Agricultural– Best Management Practices for Minimizing Dust?
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Is Good & Gooder (the way NAAQS are currently adopted & implemented) Good for Georgia (EPD) and Georgian’s (regulated
industry and general public)?
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Contact Information
Jimmy Johnston
404-363-7014
www.georgiaair.org
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