Transcript Changes at IDEM Since EQSC House Environmental Affairs Committee January 28, 2009 Thomas W.

Changes at IDEM Since EQSC
House Environmental Affairs
Committee
January 28, 2009
Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE, QEP Commissioner
IN Department of Environmental Management
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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%
– Indiana Goal is 99%
– Indiana Current Actual is 98.2%
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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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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 97 State lead CSO Communities and 2 of
the Federal lead Communities have entered
legal agreements to address their CSO issues.
• We are working with USEPA to speed the
progress on the remaining 8 Federal lead CSO
communities.
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Agency Accomplishments
• Entire State met the 0.08 ppm Ozone air
quality standard for the period 2006-2008,
and we are working with USEPA to have Lake
and Porter Counties designated attainment.
• Entire State also met the 0.075 Ozone air
quality standard for the year 2008.
• All but Clark County met the PM2.5 Air Quality
Standards for the period 2006-2008.
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Agency Initiatives
• Virtual File Cabinet—electronic filing system
with 40,000,000 pages now online
• TEMPO—Enterprise wide electronic
integration of all IDEM information—part of
the to receive and process electronic permit
applications and reports
– Two programs accepting electronic submittals,
401 Certifications and Community Right to Know
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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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Reasons for Enforcement Change
• No improvement in compliance rates in 4 years
• EPA HQ told me both enforcement models
(separate office or in program) are used
effectively
• Enforcement was regularly “waiting on program
staff” under the control of other managers
• Unpublished enforcement policies resulted in
unexpected actions—too timid and too aggressive
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Compliance and Enforcement
Response Policy (CERP)
• CERP was last revised in 2003 and was an
internal IDEM document.
• In order to meet our goal of transparency we
decided to update the CERP and publish it as a
Non Rule Policy Document under IC 13-14-111.5. Draft signed for 45 day public comment
period on 10/31/08.
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Compliance and Enforcement
Response Policy (CERP)
• The 45 day review period ended in Mid
December, but because of the changes to the
enforcement structure the CERP will be
revised and posted for another 45 day
comment period before being presented to
the Air, Water and Solid Waste Boards.
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Local Agency Contracts
• Continuation of IDEM’s goal to use efficiency
gains to reduce contracting out of core
environmental protection functions.
– $3 Million/year in Air Permit Contracts with $1.1
Million in IDEM Resources while improving service.
– 1.5 Million/year in Leaking Underground Storage
Tank Clean ups with $0.7 Million in IDEM resources
while improving service.
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Local Agency Contracts
• IDEM spends just over $2 Million per year on
Local Agency Contracts:
– Anderson
– Evansville
– Gary
– Hammond
– Indianapolis
– Vigo County
$66,642
$177,498
$24,000
$375,100
$1,124,139
$266,662
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Local Agency Contracts
• IDEM believes that it can provide the same or
better level of environmental protection for
about $0.5 Million/year freeing up resources to
address remaining air quality issues in Indiana.
• Local Agency Air Quality Services include:
– Permitting
– Inspections
– Complaint Response
– Air Quality Monitoring
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Permits
Permit Issuer
Number of Permits
Average Days per Permit
Evansville (2006)
2
874
Hammond
5
382
40
232
9
293
423
173
Indianapolis
Vigo County (2007)
IDEM
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Permitting Speed
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Complaints
Hammond 2007
Particulate Matter
Indianapolis (8 Mo)
IDEM 2008
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25
88
9
78
194
Odors
21
28
60
Smoke
3
2
12
13
37
Open Burning
Asbestos
Noise
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Total Air Complaints
70
1
148
431
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Inspections
TOTAL
USED CAR LOTS
AIR EMISSIONS
Indianapolis
202
60
142
Other Local
Agencies
141
0
141
IDEM
1711
0
1711
TOTAL
2054
60
1994
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Air Quality Monitoring
Continuous
PM2.5
TOTAL
14*
6*
20*
Indianapolis
14
5
19
IDEM
51
25
76
TOTAL
79
36
115
Evansville
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Summary of Local Agency
Contracts Change
• IDEM will provide the following services for
Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond,
Indianapolis and Vigo County:
– Permitting
– Inspections
– Complaint Response
– Air Quality Monitoring
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Grant and Loan Suspension
• All Grants and Loans from the following nonreverting funds to entities that had not
returned award paperwork by December 19
have been suspended:
– 2580 Recycling Promotion Assistance Fund
– 2530 Solid Waste Recycling Fund
– 2640 Waste Tire Fund
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Questions?
Tom Easterly
Commissioner
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
317-232-8611
[email protected]
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