Transcript A good Environment and a good Economy fit together Well Lincolnland EDC January 22, 2009 Thomas W.

A good Environment and a good
Economy fit together Well
Lincolnland EDC
January 22, 2009
Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE, QEP Commissioner
IN Department of Environmental Management
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IDEM’s Mission and
Environmental Goal
IDEM is responsible for protecting human health
and the environment while providing for safe
industrial, agricultural, commercial and
governmental operation vital to a prosperous
economy. Our 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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Pilot 2006 Environmental
Performance Index
 Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
Yale University
 Center For International Earth Science
Information Network (CFIESIN)
Columbia University
 http://www.yale.edu/epi/
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Income and the Environment
• Maslow’s Pyramid reminds us that people meet
their basic needs for food, shelter and security
before addressing other needs.
• In most of Indiana, personal autos for
transportation are a basic need.
• People with lower incomes can often only afford
older more polluting automobiles which
contribute more than their share to our
transportation related air quality issues.
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Auto Emissions grams/mile
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Income and the Environment?
• People with more income typically purchase
newer cars that pollute less
• Similarly, newer industrial processes have less
waste (more product per unit of input)
• Waste typically becomes pollution
• Financially successful industries typically are
able to purchase these newer processes that
pollute less
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Recent Indiana Projects with
Environmental Benefits
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Alcoa and Power Plant Emission Controls
Duke Edwardsport IGCC Power Plant
Ethanol Plants
Wind Farms for electricity generation
Honda and Toyota automotive facilities
BP Refinery upgrades
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We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment
Performance Metrics Jan 2009
Quality of Hoosiers' Environment
Result
Target
Comments
% of Hoosiers in counties meeting air quality
standards
84%
100%
80%
2 counties & 981,839 of
6,345,289 above standard
% of CSO Communities with approved programs to
prevent the release of untreated sewage
93%
100%
20%
90+9 (99) out of 98+9 (107)
Permitting Efficiency Total calendar days accumulated in issuing environmental permits, as determined by state statute
Land
16,647
66,565
86,864
131 permits
Air
72,845
207,000
385,000
317 permits
Water
29,712
48,000
200,000
24 permits
* Places emphasis on back logged permits
Compliance Total percentage of compliance observations from regulated customers within acceptable compliance standards
Inspections
96.22%
97%
75%
Self reporting
94.93%
99%
95%
Continuous monitoring (COM)
99.85%
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
$1,500,000
$0
$3,447,017
$1.5 OLQ
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Performance Metrics June 2005
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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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How Does IDEM Protect the
Environment?
• Measure the air, water and land to determine the existing
state of the environment
• Compare the measured values to levels that protect
human health and the environment
– Ambient Air Quality Standards
– Water Quality Standards
– Safe soil and ground water clean up levels
• Use modeling to determine how much of a substance can
be added to the environment
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How Does IDEM Protect the
Environment?
• Develop regulations and issue permits to restrict
discharges to the environment to safe levels
• Inspect and monitor permitted facilities to ensure
compliance with the permits
• Enforce against people who exceed their permit
levels or violate regulations
• Educate people on their environmental
responsibilities
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IDEM Makes Environmental
Decisions, Not Land Use Decisions
• When an entity applies for an IDEM permit,
the decision to approve or deny the permit is
based upon the question: “Does this project
meet the requirements designed to protect
the environment?”
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IDEM Makes Environmental
Decisions, Not Land Use Decisions
• This is different than deciding:
– Is this the best use of this land? or
– Is this the best location for this project?
• In Indiana, these are local land use decisions,
not State decisions
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Total Permit Calendar Days
600000
500000
400000
Air
300000
200000
Water
Land
100000
0
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Air Permits Branch Rapid Improvement Activities
• Lean/Kaizen Methodology to improve efficiency
– Significant Source Modifications (Construction Approvals)
9/07 Event
• Process time reduced from 220 days to 121 days avg.
–Permit Renewals 12/07 Event
• Process time reduced from 678 day avg. to all those
issued in ’08 within 270 days allowed (calendar days)
• Eliminate backlog of administratively extended permits
– 1/1/08 - 156 permits
– 1/7/09 only 9 remaining
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Agency 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 CAFOs, Auto Salvage
Yards and Landfills.
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Agency Accomplishments
• All CSO Communities have entered legal
agreements to address their CSO issues.
• Increased permit speed and virtually
eliminated permit and enforcement backlogs.
• Entire State met the 0.08 ppm Ozone air
quality standard for the period 2006-2008, all
but Lake and Porter Counties designated
attainment. PM2.5 Air Quality looks good.
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Agency Initiatives
• Virtual File Cabinet—electronic filing system—over
30,000,000 pages now available electronically.
Visits to IDEM file room 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 submittals
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Agency Initiatives
• Returned enforcement function to the air, water
and land programs and eliminated the separate
office of enforcement.
• Provide consistent Statewide air quality
permitting, monitoring and enforcement services
by directly managing the air program functions
previously contracted to: Anderson, Evansville,
Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, and Vigo County.
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Percent of Activities Meeting Regulations
102.00%
100.00%
98.00%
96.00%
Inspections
Self Reporting
Emission Monitoring
94.00%
92.00%
90.00%
88.00%
6/1/2005
12/1/2005
6/1/2006
12/1/2006
6/1/2007
12/1/2007
6/1/2008
12/1/2008
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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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We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment
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
• The data used in the report is as old as 2003 and
goes up to 2005
• We are implementing improvements and have
made great progress
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Questions?
Tom Easterly
Commissioner
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
317-232-8611
[email protected]
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