From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Amy Branning/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, 

Bylin.Carey@epamail.epa.gov, Chuck French/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, 

Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov, Dave Guinnup/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, David 

Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Elaine Manning/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Elizabeth 

Kopits/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Mark 

Morris/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Paul Gunning/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron 

Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Suzanne Waltzer/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, William 

Nickerson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: Alison Davis/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Peter Tsirigotis/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 06/22/2011 11:39 AM

Subject: Materials for 1:00 OMB Briefing on Oil and Gas NSPS/NESHAP

Please see attached PowerPoint for today's briefing. Call-in number is 919-541-1958. If you call in early, 

you may get an error tone. Just try again.

Thanks,

Bruce

Oil & Gas NSPS OMB Briefing 6.22.11.pptx 

Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

"moore.bruce@epa.gov"

----- Forwarded by Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/23/2011 11:57 AM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Janet 

Eck/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 08/18/2011 10:14 PM

Subject: Fw: Oil and Gas supplemental items sent to OMB -- 0.2

----- Forwarded by Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/18/2011 10:13 PM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Amy Branning/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Amy 

Lamson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Bryan Hubbell/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Carey 

Bylin/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov, David 

Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Elizabeth Kopits/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Greg 

Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Kate Cardamone/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Linda 

Chappell/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Paul Gunning/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron 

Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Souad Benromdhane/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Stephanie 

Waldhoff/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Suzanne Waltzer/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, William 

Nickerson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA
Cc: Alison Davis/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Steve Fruh/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Teresa 

Clemons/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 06/27/2011 11:23 AM

Subject: Materials for 1:30 Oil and Gas RIA EPA/OMB Call -- 919-541-1958

Cortney and others,

Here is the presentation prepared by Alex Macpherson for our call today. Please forward to others who 

may be on the call.

Bruce

Oil & Gas RIA OMB Interagency Briefing 062711.pptx 

Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

"moore.bruce@epa.gov"

----- Forwarded by Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/23/2011 11:57 AM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Janet 

Eck/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 08/18/2011 10:27 PM

Subject: Fw: Oil and Gas supplemental items sent to OMB -- 0.3 -- ONE MORE I MISSED

----- Forwarded by Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/18/2011 10:25 PM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov>

Date: 06/28/2011 04:34 PM

Subject: Chesapeake-Devon Best Management Practices in Barnett Shale

Cortney,

As agreed, here is the presentation we referred to in our RIA discussion yesterday. This should be 

informative.

Bruce

ChesapeakeDevon BMP in Barnett Shale April 2011.pdf 
Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

moore.bruce@epa.gov

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov>

Cc: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Suzanne 

Waltzer/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, William 

Nickerson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 07/02/2011 12:03 AM

Subject: Oil and Gas -- Additional Items for OMB & Interagency Review

Cortney,

Attached are several things we agreed to send you to help answer questions brought up on our calls. 

The Completions TSD chapter is still being cleaned up and will be ready Tuesday by midday. 

Accompanying the TSD chapter will be a memo discussing the baseline emissions estimates and how 

they have been developed in the context of the GHG inventory.

1. Gina McCarthy memo to Regional Administrators on aggregation of oil and gas sources

2. Educational presentation on reduced emission completions.

3. EPA Natural Gas STAR "Lessons Learned" on well completions -- this is new and not yet posted on 

the Gas STAR website. It is very detailed and informative.

4. Memo on gas composition variability and what we used for our representative profile for impacts 

estimation.

5. Detailed spreadsheet showing emissions, reductions, costs, etc. for all potential regulated emission 

points, including those we did not regulate. For NSPS, the rows with "YES" in the Option 2 column will 

show you which ones we have in the proposed rule. This spreadsheet (2 tabs) includes one sheet for 

NSPS and one sheet for MACT. This spreadsheet is large and is best viewed on the computer rather 

than printing it.

I'll be out of the office on Tuesday, but will be checking email. I've been assured we will have the TSD 

chapter on well completions ready to send on Tuesday. We are also working hard to finalize the chapters 

on remaining emission units (compressors, pneumatic devices, storage vessels, etc.), but those are not 

ready to share yet. 

Bruce
----- Forwarded by Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/23/2011 11:59 AM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Janet 

Eck/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 08/18/2011 09:47 PM

Subject: Fw: Oil and Gas supplemental items sent to OMB -- 2 

----- Forwarded by Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/18/2011 09:45 PM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov>

Cc: Suzanne Waltzer/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, William 

Nickerson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Greg 

Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 07/06/2011 04:24 PM

Subject: Oil and Gas Well Completions TSD and Memo on Baseline Emissions

Cortney,

Attached are the TSD for well completions and a memo explaining the methodology for baseline 

emissions as agreed. Although much work has been done on it to make sure it is technically accurate, it 

remains a draft, so it is still pending potential fixes.

I believe this will help the interagency reviewers understand better the background for the proposal.

Bruce

DRAFT Overview of US Inventory Oil and Gas Emissions and NSPS Baseline Estimates.doc 

DRAFT_Oil and Gas Completions TSD_July062011.docx 

Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

"moore.bruce@epa.gov"

----- Forwarded by Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/23/2011 11:59 AM -----
From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Janet 

Eck/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 08/18/2011 09:49 PM

Subject: Fw: Oil and Gas supplemental items sent to OMB -- 3

----- Forwarded by Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/18/2011 09:48 PM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov>

Date: 07/07/2011 12:39 PM

Subject: Re: Can you send me a copy of the most recent court order for the Oil & Gas rule?

Original CD plus 2 extensions

B

ENV_DEFENSE-#508864-v1-

DN_26_STIPULATION_of_the_Parties_to_Modify_Consent_Decree_by_LISA_P__JACKSON__STEPHEN_L__JOH

NSON.PDF Oil & Natural Gas CD entered 020410.pdf WEG Oil and Gas Extension 042711.pdf 

Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

"moore.bruce@epa.gov"

----- Forwarded by Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/23/2011 11:59 AM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Janet 

Eck/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 08/18/2011 09:51 PM

Subject: Fw: Oil and Gas supplemental items sent to OMB -- 4

----- Forwarded by Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/18/2011 09:50 PM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov>
Cc: Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Amy Branning/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, "Whiteman, Chad" 

<Chad_S_Whiteman@omb.eop.gov>, Dave Guinnup/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Suzanne 

Waltzer/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron 

Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, William Nickerson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Elizabeth 

Kopits/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 07/19/2011 05:54 PM

Subject: Oil and Gas: EPA Responses to Interagency Questions

Chad and Cortney,

Attached are two files responding to the questions on Risk and other questions raised by the interagency 

reviewers. Please pass these along. We have one or two responses still in progress, but we wanted to 

get these to you right away.

Thanks,

Bruce

Oil and Gas OMB Interagency Group RISK Comments Response 071911 .docx Oil and Gas OMB 

Interagency Group Comments Response 071911.docx 

Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

"moore.bruce@epa.gov"

----- Forwarded by Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/23/2011 11:59 AM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Cc: David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Janet 

Eck/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 08/18/2011 09:56 PM

Subject: Fw: Oil and Gas supplemental items sent to OMB -- 5

----- Forwarded by Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US on 08/18/2011 09:53 PM -----

From: Bruce Moore/RTP/USEPA/US

To: "Higgins, Cortney" <Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov>

Cc: Alex Macpherson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, David Cozzie/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Suzanne 

Waltzer/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Greg Nizich/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, William 

Nickerson/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Elizabeth Kopits/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron 

Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Amy Lamson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Bryan 

Hubbell/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Steve Fruh/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Dave 

Guinnup/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Mark Morris/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Peter 

Tsirigotis/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Date: 07/22/2011 04:46 PM

Subject: Oil and Gas Revised RIA, TSD chapters, and small business niche responses
Cortney,

Attached as we just discussed are:

1. the revised RIA (RLSO and clean versions)

2. our responses to the small business questions raised earlier this week

3. additional draft chapters of the TSD (we've sent the Completions chapter, but that is being revised to 

reflect our new composition analyses and resulting reduction in baseline emissions). The attached new 

chapters cover compressors, pneumatic devices, leak detection and repair, and storage vessels. Please 

be aware these are draft chapters in various stages of readiness and will be revised as we move forward. 

However, they should be helpful to the reviewers in understanding the background and analyses.

As we agreed, I will send the revised preamble later tonight. 

I will also schedule a meeting and get a phone line for Monday at 1:00 to have a followup discussion on 

the interagency questions and our responses. Dave Guinnup has already arranged for a meeting on 

Tuesday to followup on the risk discussions.

Thanks and have a great weekend,

Bruce

TSD Pneumatic Controllers_July 22_.docx TSD Storage Vessels - tables.docx TSD 

Storage Vessels.docx TSD Equipment Leaks 7-22-2011.docx TSD Compressors 7-21-2011.docx 

Small business niche questions 072211 FINAL.docx Oil and Gas RIA OMB review REDLINE 

STRIKEOUT revision SENT 072211.docx Oil and Gas RIA OMB review revision SENT 072211.docx 

Bruce Moore

Senior Technical Advisor, Oil and Natural Gas Sector

Sector Policies and Programs Division

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E143-01)

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone (919) 541-5460 Fax (919) 541-0246

"moore.bruce@epa.gov"