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What is Going on at IDEM? Southwest IN Chamber of Commerce July 15, 2015

What is Going on at IDEM? Southwest IN Chamber of Commerce July 15, 2015. Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE , Commissioner IN Department of Environmental Management. IDEM’s Mission. Protecting Hoosiers and Our Environment While Becoming the Most Customer-Friendly Environmental Agency

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What is Going on at IDEM? Southwest IN Chamber of Commerce July 15, 2015

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  1. What is Going on at IDEM?Southwest IN Chamber of CommerceJuly 15, 2015 Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE,Commissioner IN Department of Environmental Management

  2. IDEM’s Mission Protecting 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Performance Metrics March 2015

  6. Performance Metrics June 2005

  7. Permits--Percent of Statutory Days

  8. Best in NPDES Permitting

  9. 2nd Best in Title V Permits

  10. Water Quality Indiana Combined Sewer Overflow Status

  11. Evansville CSO Agreement • Mayor Winnecke and his team have reached agreement with U.S. DOJ, IDEM and U.S. EPA on a plan to reduce Evansville CSOs to an average of 4 per year by 2039. • Mt. Vernon has completed its CSO abatement projects.

  12. 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 1970’s. • IDEM was successful in working with U.S. EPA to have all of the state designated as attainment for those pollutants except: • Clark and Floyd Counties PM2.5

  13. SouthwestIndiana Region

  14. Carbon Monoxide

  15. Carbon Monoxide

  16. Lead * Lead Standard Lowered to 0.15 µg/m3 in 2008.

  17. Lead * Lead Standard Lowered to 0.15 µg/m3 in 2008.

  18. Nitrogen Dioxide

  19. Nitrogen Dioxide * 1-Hour NO2 Standard Established in 2010.

  20. Ozone * 1-Hour Ozone Standard Revoked in 2005.

  21. Ozone * 8-Hour Ozone Standard Established in 1997.

  22. Changing Particulate Standards Name Total Suspended PM10 PM2.5 Particle (TSP) Dates 1970-1987 1983-Present 1999-Present Regulated Size 30 µm 10 µm 2.5 µm 24-Hour Standard 260 150 65 (1999-2006) 35 (2006-Present) Annual Standard 75 50 15 (1997-2012) 12 (2012-Present) *µm = micrograms

  23. Particulate Matter *Annual TSP Standard Revoked in 1987.

  24. Particulate Matter *24-Hour TSP Standard Revoked in 1987.

  25. Particulate Matter *Annual PM10 Standard Established in 1987 and Revoked in 2006.

  26. Particulate Matter *24-Hour PM10 Standard Established in 1987.

  27. Particulate Matter

  28. Particulate Matter

  29. Sulfur Dioxide * Annual SO2 Standard Revoked in 2010.

  30. Sulfur Dioxide * 24-Hour SO2 Standard Revoked in 2010.

  31. Sulfur Dioxide * 1-Hour SO2 Standard Established in 2010.

  32. 2015 Legislation • HB 1350—IDEM’s General Improvements • Allows variances for all programs to be issued for up to five years. • Allows IDEM to require electronic reporting. • Allows the Ivy Tech fee for operator certification exams. • Clarifies the wetland in-lieu fee program requirements. • Adjusts various reporting and fee dates.

  33. 2015 Legislation • SB 311—Clarifies cost recovery for IDEM oversight of clean up of contaminated property. • SB 312—Enhanced Drinking Water Protection. • Requires surface water quality threat minimization and response plan for public water supplies. • Requires one time registration of above ground tanks, not otherwise reported to government agencies, in the critical zone of concern.

  34. FederalInitiatives to Watch • President’s climate change initiative. • Mercury MACT—Supreme Court decision. • Revised ozone air quality standard. • Waters of the United States definition. • eDMRs—possible expansion of reporting requirements and mandatory electronic reporting. • Air pollution transport to downwind states.

  35. U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan • Regulates Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants using fossil fuels • New Source Standards under 111(b) • Existing Source Standards under 111(d)

  36. Indiana Carbon Dioxide Emission Rates(pounds of CO2 per Megawatt Hour)

  37. Indiana’s Response to the 111(d) Proposal • The proposed regulation is not consistent with our goal of affordable reliable energy. • Governor Pence, Attorney General Zoeller and IDEM Commissioner Easterly have taken numerous actions to opposing U.S. EPA’s proposal.

  38. Questions? Tom Easterly Commissioner Indiana Department of Environmental Management (317) 232-8611 teasterly@idem.IN.gov

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