Transcript Indiana Chapter of AWMA 12th Annual Winter Technical Meeting December 12, 2013 Thomas W.

Indiana Chapter of AWMA
12th Annual Winter Technical Meeting
December 12, 2013
Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE Commissioner
IN Department of Environmental Management
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Good to Great Background
• Good to Great is a 2001 book by Jim Collins
about very successful companies
• The Hedgehog Concept
- Focus on few simple goals
• The Doom Loop
- Reactive decision making
- Follow short lived trends
• Brutal Facts
- Critical analysis of what you are doing and
the reality of its impacts or ineffectiveness
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Where do we go from here?
The Roadmap for Indiana and IDEM
IDEM’s Plan for The Road from Good to Great
addresses three goals of the Roadmap for
Indiana:
• Increasing private sector employment (Goal 1)
• Attracting new investment in Indiana (Goal 2)
• Improving the health, safety, and well-being of Hoosier
families, especially children (Goal 3)
– Clean Air
– Abundant Clean Water
– Protect Water and Land from both new and historical
pollution
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IDEM’s Hedgehog Concept
Our Updated Mission
“Protecting Hoosiers and our environment
while becoming the most customer-friendly
environmental agency.”
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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.
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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 September 2013
Result
Target
Comments
Quality of Hoosiers' Environment
% of Hoosiers that live in counties that meet air
quality standards
87.64%
100%
80%
Muncie Lead; Ozone in Clark, Floyd,
Greene and LaPorte Counties; Sulfur
Dioxide in parts of Daviess, Marion,
Morgan, Pike and Vigo Counties
% of CSO Communities with approved programs
to prevent the release of untreated sewage
99.07%
100%
90%
98+9 (107) out of 99+9 (108). Not
Gary
% of Hoosiers that receive water from facilities in
full compliance with safe drinking water
standards
99.40%
99%
95%
Permitting Efficiency
Total calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute*
Land
Air
Water
22,647
49,179
32,269
31,714
55,740
57,859
35,445
62,298
64,666
37,310 statutory
65,577 statutory
68,070 statutory
* Places emphasis on back logged permits
Compliance
Total percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards*
Inspections
96.77%
97%
75%
Self reporting
97.99%
99%
95%
Continuous monitoring (COM)
99.83%
99.9%
99.0%
* Tracks observations and not just inspections
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Performance Metrics June 2005
Quality 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
$3,447,017
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Permits--Percent of Statutory Days
Percentage of allowable days
250
200
150
100
50
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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IN
0.0%
ID
OR*
AK*
NH
MA
DE*
CT
VT*
IA
HI*
MI
SC*
MO
SD*
WI
MT*
IL
CA*
KY
W…
NM
CO*
NJ*
RI
WV
UT
PA
GA*
DC
W…
TN
MN*
KS*
AZ*
NE*
NY*
MD
AL*
MS
TX*
OH
NC*
OK*
ME*
VA
FL*
AR*
NV
ND*
LA*
Best in NPDES Permitting
Total % Current Wastewater Permits
120.0%
100.0%
80.0%
60.0%
40.0%
20.0%
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Water Quality
Indiana Combined Sewer Overflow Status
120
100
80
U.S. EPA
Responsibility
60
40
IDEM
Responsibility
20
0
Total
Legal
Agreement
Approved
Plan
Completed
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New Water Metric
• Our previous water metric focusing on CSO’s
measured an activity, not an environmental result.
• IDEM is working with Governor Pence’s office to
develop a new metric that will accurately portray
the quality of Indiana’s surface waters—issues
include:
– How to explain probabilistic sampling results.
– How to explain chemical, physical and
biological integrity.
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200%
Percent Difference Between Highest Historical Monitored Concentration (Left Bar) and Highest
2012 Monitored Concentration (Right Bar) - Statewide
180%
Percent of Original Standard
160%
140%
-88%
-30%
120%
-68%
-14%
-87%
-23%
100%
80%
-84%
-23%
60%
-82%
-75%
40%
20%
0%
1-Hour CO
8-Hour CO 24-Hour PM10 Annual PM2.5 Daily PM2.5 24-Hour SO2 Annual SO2
8-Hour O3
Annual NO2
Lead
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Governor Pence’s Initiatives
• Good to Great plans for every agency.
• Review and revise agency performance
metrics and provide incentives based upon
performance.
• Cut red tape regulation review.
• Office of State-Based Initiatives.
• About two dozen Governor’s legislative
proposals—a few impacting IDEM.
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Governor Pence’s 2014 Roadmap
• Increase the speed of business through
one-stop permitting.
• Improve recycling in Indiana through
market-based reforms.
• Implement the first step of a unified, longterm water plan by streamlining Indiana’s
water quality permitting responsibilities.
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IDEM’s Legislative Proposals
• Compartmentalized underground storage
tank fee clarification and onsite field review of
regulated drains.
• Composting clarification and simplification of
CFO program permit deadlines.
• Cost recovery for Environmentally Restrictive
Covenant (ERC) modifications and
terminations and IDEM (instead of DOR) fee
collections.
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IDEM’s Legislative Proposals
• Environmental crimes revisions.
• Elimination of the underground storage
tank Financial Assurance Board (FAB)
and consolidation of their responsibilities
into the Environmental Rules Board.
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Federal Initiatives to Watch
• President’s climate change initiative.
– Regulations to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions from new and existing power plants.
– Mitigation measures.
• eDMRs—possible expansion of reporting
requirements and mandatory electronic
reporting.
• Air pollution issues from downwind states.
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President’s Climate Directives
• U.S. EPA to issue proposed carbon
pollution restrictions for:
– New power plants by September 20, 2013.
– Existing power plants by June 1, 2014, and
finalize those restrictions by June 1, 2015.
• States will be required to submit
implementation plans under Section 111(d)
of the Clean Air Act by June 30, 2016.
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President’s Climate Directives
• In September 2013, U.S. EPA proposed New
Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions for
certain Electric Utility Generating Units
(EGUs).
- Combined cycle gas turbines will meet the rule.
- Coal fired units will not meet the rule without
using carbon capture and storage.
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President’s Climate Directives
• 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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President’s Climate Directives
QUESTION: Will initiatives which are aimed at
weaning power plants off of coal 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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Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Tg CO2 equivalent from
Table ES-2 "Recent Trends in U.S. Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and Sinks from EPA 430-R-11-005 Inventory of
U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, April 15, 2011
(note Columns 3, 4, and 5 are calculated)
7000
6000
5000
All Other
N2O Stationary
4000
N20 Mobile
CH4 Mobile
3000
CH4 Stationary
CO2 Combustion
2000
1000
0
1990
2009
80% below 1990
Only N Gas as fossil
fuel
additional reduction
required
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President’s Climate Directives
• 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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President’s Climate Directives
• 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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President’s Climate Directives
• The President’s plan does not include numerical
goals for GHG reductions.
• 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 President’s directive will change the power plant
carbon profile 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 Easterly
Commissioner
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
(317) 232-8611
[email protected]
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