Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0195-0209
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2020-03-03T05:00Z

MEMORANDUM
Subject:	Summary of Meeting with National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) and EPA Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards (OAQPS)
From:		Rochelle Boyd, U.S. EPA, OAR/OAQPS
To:		Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0195
I.	Purpose
	To discuss recycled wood pallets to wood pellet fuel issue. (NSPS Regulation)
II.	Place and Date
	The meeting was held via teleconference on October 16, 2019 at 11:00 am EST.
III.	Attendees
	NWPCA Participants
Joe O'Brien, Owner of Industrial Pallet, LLC
Shane Thompson, Westwind Logistics, LLC, Pallet Division President
Billy Hoskins, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Easy Heat Wood Pellets and Board of Directors, Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI)
Don Shandy, Attorney, Crowe & Dunlevy (CHEP/BRAMBLES)
Peter Whitfield, Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP (NWPCA)
Jason Robison, Owner, Conway & Robison
Chris Wiberg, Vice President of Laboratories, TPI
Brent McClendon, President/CEO, NWPCA
Patrick Atagi, Vice President, Advocacy and External Affairs, NWPCA
Dr. Brad Gething, Director of Science and Technology Integration, NWPCA

      EPA Participants
Mike Koerber, OAR/ (OAQPS)
Chuck French, OAR/OAQPS
Rochelle Boyd, OAR/OAQPS
Amanda Aldridge, OAR/OAQPS
	

IV.	Meeting Agenda
11:00 a.m.          Introductions: NWPCA and EPA (Brent McClendon, President and CEO, NWPCA/ Mike Koerber, Deputy Director, EPA-OAR-OAQPS)
11:10 a.m.          Review of the issue of pallets to pellets in the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS). (NWPCA begins discussion)
11:20 a.m.          EPA  -  Where is NSPS in the review process, timeline for regulations to come out from OMB. Could there be a separate track for the pallet to pellet issue. (EPA)
11:30 a.m.          EPA Response to NWPCA question of pallets to pellets and NSPS regulation. (EPA)
11:35 a.m.          Questions from NWPCA member companies to EPA (NWPCA)
11:50 a.m.          Steps forward (EPA and NWPCA)
Noon                  Conclude