Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2011-0660-0016
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
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Posted Date: 2012-04-13T04:00Z

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Date:   07/06/2011 02:22 PM

Subject:        NRECA/APPA follow up with suggestions for EPA's
July 13 NSPS meeting

July 6, 2011

Ms. Lanelle Bembenek Wiggins

RFA/SBREFA Team Leader

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Policy

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (1806A)

Washington, DC  20460

Dear Ms. Wiggins:

Good afternoon. On behalf of the Small Entity Representatives (SER) for
the NSPS for the electric generation sector (EGU-NSPS for CO2) group we
write to make several suggestions.

We believe that the proposal of an NSPS in September should be delayed
until the SER panel spends considerable time discussing regulatory
options for various sizes, types, a variety of fuels and ages of 
plants. We don’t think that the last meeting even scratched the
surface. We think that it could have been more useful to discuss
specific efficiency opportunities with different types of generation
technology.

We note that, as of July 6, 2011, we have received no agenda or listing
of specific regulatory alternatives identifying options on fuel types,
generation types, or ages of plant.  In light of the general
discussions regarding the June 17, 2011 meeting, we would like to make
some recommendations. We believe that these recommendations will enable
the U. S. EPA staff (and contractors) to make better decisions regarding
least cost or less burdensome regulatory options. Although the U. S. EPA
has not offered specific regulatory alternatives (as requested and as is
the standard for a SER panel), we do believe, based upon your slides,

that a pounds/mwH has been informally implied by your staff.

On behalf of the participants, we suggest the following issues to be
added to the agenda for July 13th assuming that you intend to proceed
with the SER meeting. If the EPA had already planned a full day’s
program, then we would like to suggest that these topics be added to the
meeting. If needed, we suggest that you add a third day to the SER
process to make certain that these topics are included in the SER panel.

(As you might recall, APPA requested 4 or 5 SER meetings to discuss NSPS
for CO2 and other GHGs).

•       Limited use boilers with limited opportunities for
efficient improvements due to NSR complications for conventional
pollutants (even though we believe that the pollution control exclusion
applies in the

context of NSPS) (30 minutes)

•       Variances per kwH and heat rates over monthly and annual
operations (six  real world case studies by utilities totaling 45
minutes)

•       Why age of plant is significant in setting any NSPS for
CO2 (Wyandotte) (1hour) (if speaker is available by phone or in person)

•       A brief presentation on legal issues on NSPS for CO2
(Bill Wehrum)  (30 minutes)

•       Why knowing the end game on biomass is critical before
proposing NSPS for EPA and utilities (Holland) (30 minutes)

•       Why municipal government electric utilities are
different from other utilities. Examples: why the business model is
based upon cost-effective decisions that integrate wastewater treatment
waste

combustion, etc. Why waste heat for snow melt and community energy plan
provides high temperature for high temperature water in buildings to
reduce CO2 used from heating of water, etc (Holland) (30 minutes)

These recommendations, totaling about 4 hours, should improve the SBERFA
SER process significantly given the importance of a NSPS for the power
sector and your impending September 30th deadline.  Thank you for your
consideration.

Thank you,

(approval given for electronic signature by e-mail)

Rae

Theresa

Rae Cronmiller

Theresa Pugh

NRECA

APPA

Sent by:

Theresa Pugh

Director, Environmental Services

APPA

1875 Connecticut Ave, NW

Suite 1200

Washington, D. C. 20009

202 467 2943 (direct)

202-495-7443 personal fax number

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