IDEM

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IDEM

• Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., DEE, QEP, Commissioner
• IN Department of Environmental Management

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IDEM Environmental Goal

• Increase the personal income of all Hoosiers from
  the current 0.88/1.00 of the national average
  to at least 1.00/1.00 of the national average
  while maintaining and improving Indianas
  Environmental Quality.

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How is Personal Income Linked to Environmental
Improvement?

• Maslows Pyramid reminds us that people meet
  their basic needs for food, shelter and security
  before addressing other needs.
• In most of Indiana, personal autos for
  transportation are a basic need.
• People with lower incomes can often only afford
  older more polluting automobiles which contribute
  more than their share to our transportation
  related air quality issues.

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Income and the Environment?

• People with more income typically purchase newer
  cars that pollute less
• Similarly, newer industrial processes have less
  waste (more product per unit of input)
• Waste typically becomes pollution
• Financially successful industries typically are
  able to purchase these newer processes that
  pollute less

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Income and the Environment?

• Businesses that are struggling financially still
  must pay their workers and their suppliers. One
  of the few places to reduce is maintenance.
• At some point, deferred maintenance leads to
  reduced equipment availability and increased
  pollution

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Income and the Environment?

• People and businesses who have met their basic
  needs look past their own needs to the greater
  good including the general quality of life.
• Pursuit of improved quality of life includes
  support for better environmental quality.

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How Will IDEM Help Increase Personal Income?

• Clear, predictable and speedy decisions.
• Clear regulations
• Assistance first, enforcement second
• Timely resolution of enforcement actions
• Every regulated entity will have current, valid
  permits without unnecessary requirements

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New IDEM

• Less management and more empowerment of technical
  staff
• Eliminated the deputy commissioner layer
• Manage by objectives
• EnPPA
• QMP or equivalent
• Meaningful Performance Assessment System
• Generally implement government efficiency
  commission recommendations

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Major Strategic Issues

• CSOs/Long Term Control Plans
• Air Quality Non-Attainment Designations PM2.5,
  Ozone SO2
• Redevelopment of Contaminated Sites
• Brownfields
• Voluntary Remediation Program
• LUST
• RCRA Corrective Action

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Significant Issues

• Electronic Permits and Reporting
• Administratively extended NPDES permits
• Water Quality Standards or Variances
• Not yet issued Title V permits
• Appealed Title V and NPDES permits
• Unwritten policy applied as regulation

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Compliance Enforcement

• Focus is on Compliance, not penalties or gotcha
• Goal is for every regulated entity to understand
  and comply with their environmental
  responsibilities
• Will continue to enforce against those who do not
  meet their environmental responsibilitiesworking
  to speed up the enforcement process

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Performance Metrics
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Pollution Prevention

• Pollution Prevention can reduce pollution and
  reduce production costs thus improving
  competitiveness.
• Personal Pollution Prevention Projects
• Blast Furnace Coal Injection 100,000,000
• Kress Indirect Dry Cooling 10,000,000
• Reduction in Door Leak Emissions
• Capturing previously emitted coal chemical plant
  emissions for fuel and chemical feedstock use

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IDEM Pollution Prevention

• Appointed Dan Murray as Assistant Commissioner of
  OPPTA
• Grant to Educate IDEM Program Staff on how to
  integrate P2 into their work
• SEP penalty offsets for P2 Projects are higher
  than for many other projects
• Indiana Performance Track

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Indiana Performance Track

• Potential Eligibility Criteria
• Commitment to Pollution Prevention
• Environmental Management System
• Good Compliance History
• Potential Program Incentives
• Recognition by IDEM
• Speedier permit decisions
• Reduced recordkeeping and reporting
• Lower priority for routine inspections

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Performance Track Schedule

• First Notice of Rulemaking published in September
  2005 Indiana Register
• Comments Due by October 3, 2005
• Public Meeting September 27 _at_ 1PM in IGCS
  Conference Room 4
• Future Steps
• Second Notice
• Preliminary Adoption
• Final Adoption

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How You Can Help IDEM

• Be involved in the development of IDEMs
  Performance Track Program
• Stay in compliance with all of your environmental
  obligations
• Tell us about your environmental successes
• Pass the P2 word along
• Apply for Governors Awards and Notify OPPTA
  about new technologies that prevent pollution
• Consider joining Partners for Pollution
  Prevention
• Request that CMTI or OPPTA perform a P2
  opportunity assessment at your facility
  
  
  

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Thank You--Questions?

• Tom Easterly
• 100 N. Senate Ave. IGCN 1301
• Indianapolis, IN 46204
• [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• teasterly_at_idem.in.gov