Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2004-0238-0060
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2007-01-03T05:00Z

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:	Meeting Minutes for the June 23, 2005 Meeting Between the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to Discuss the Draft Oil and Natural Gas Production
National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)
Proposal

FROM:	Greg Nizich

U.S. EPA.

TO:		Air and Radiation Docket

Docket No. OAR-2004-0238

DATE:	June 29, 2005

The EPA met with OMB on June 23, 2005 to discuss the Oil and Natural Gas
Production (ONGP) NESHAP area source proposal currently under review at
OMB.  The following is a list of meeting participants:

Greg Nizich, EPA			Amy Branning, EPA		Paul Noe, OMB

K.C. Hustvedt, EPA			Wendy Blake, EPA		Art Fraas, OMB

Penny Lassiter, EPA			Bill Nickerson, EPA

Bill Wehrum, EPA			Edmond Toy, OMB

The following topics were discussed:

Clarifying consent decree proposal (6/30/05) and promulgation (12/30/06)
dates..

General requirements of section 112(k) of the Clean Air Act..

The basis for the national scope and benzene health effects and
characteristics in the atmosphere.			

Consideration of coproposing rural/urban as another option to the 1998
urban-only proposal.

Data on reduction in cancer incidence of the different options.

Data evaluated to estimate source distribution/location

Evaluation of the natural gas throughput and benzene cutoffs

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