Fw: Additional TSD's 

 RobertJ Wayland 

 to: Cortney_Higgins 

 03/10/2011 05:56 PM 

 Cc: Bill Maxwell 

 

Cortney - 

Attached below is OAP's response to my questions regarding documentation 

for the retirements and how the TVA units were treated. Please take a 

look at these materials, and if you need more - just let us know. 

thanx! 

bob 

Robert J. Wayland, Ph.D. 

Leader, Energy Strategies Group 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards 

Sector Policies and Programs Division 

Mail Code D243-01 

RTP, NC 27711 

 

Phone: (919) 541-1045 

Cell: (919) 306-2290 

Fax: (919) 541-5450 

e-mail: wayland.robertj@epa.gov 

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DRAFT/Deliberative Document -- FOIA Exempt 

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----- Forwarded by RobertJ Wayland/RTP/USEPA/US on 03/10/2011 05:54 PM 

From: Jeb Stenhouse/DC/USEPA/US 

To: RobertJ Wayland/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA 

Cc: Nick Hutson/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Kevin Culligan/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Sam 

Napolitano/DC/USEPA/US@EPA, Bill Maxwell/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Erich 

Eschmann/DC/USEPA/US@EPA 

Date: 03/10/2011 05:51 PM 

Subject: Fw: Additional TSD's 

Hi Bob, 

We gave OMB full documentation of retirements in the Excel spreadsheet 

included in Bill Maxwell's email to OMB on March 4 (recopied at the 

bottom of this chain). 

The answer on the TVA question is that we have no way to "idle" plants in 

IPM, so the only way to prevent their generation in our analysis was to 

retire them. 

I hope that helps. 
Sincerely, 

Jeb Stenhouse 

Clean Air Markets Division 

Environmental Protection Agency 

202-343-9781 

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From: Bill Maxwell/RTP/USEPA/US 

To: Cortney_Higgins@omb.eop.gov 

Cc: RobertJ Wayland/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Jeb Stenhouse/DC/USEPA/US@EPA 

Date: 03/04/2011 05:18 PM 

Subject: Additional TSD's 

Cortney -- 

Here are some additional TSDs. 

Thanks. 

Section 5.3 Coal to Gas Retrofit v3.docx New documentation on coalto-gas switching. 

TSD_Coal-to-Gas Conversions_to OMB 03-04-11.doc TSD on fuel 

switching. 

Planned and Projected Retirements.xlsx List of unit retirements (a) 

before the base case is modeled, (b) modeled in the base case, and (c) 

modeled in the policy case. Note that we had previously listed 20 GW of 

planned retirements; this was a copy error. The actual planned 

retirement capacity is 11.4 GW. This issue does not affect any 

regulatory materials already in interagency review (it was implemented 

correctly in the modeling). 3 GW of this retiring capacity is based on 

information available in EIA Form 860 (2009). The remaining planned 

retirements were identified through external sources and verified by EPA 

using proprietary and publically available information. "2015 Base 

Retirements" and "2015 ToxR Retirements" identify all units projected to 

close in the IPM 2015 base case and Proposed Toxics Rule case, 

respectively. 

Deliberative Document -- FOIA Exempt 

Bill Maxwell 

Energy Strategies Group 

Sector Policies and Programs Division 

U.S. EPA Mail Code D243-01 

109 T.W. Alexander Drive 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 

Phone: 919-541-5430 

FAX: 919-541-5450