316(b) Research

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316(b) Research

• We have found the results from the EPRI 316(b)
  research to be very helpful. The EPRI report on
  strobe lights and acoustic systems, combined with
  existing literature, convinced us that these
  technologies, in their current level of
  development, were not the best fit for our
  facilities."
• Steve Summer, SCEG

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Regional Haze

• "We Energies provided regional haze research
  results (1012575), including recent analyses of
  international emission contributions to regional
  haze impacting the four upper Midwest Class I
  areas (1015251), to the Midwest Ozone Group as
  part of comments submitted to LADCO concerning
  the need for additional (e.g., beyond "on the
  books") control measures for attaining reasonable
  progress goals for this region."

Dave Michaud and Terry Coughlin, We Energies
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Industry Expertise

• An exclusive advantage provided by our EPRI
  Environment participation is to bring together
  the prominent national and international
  expertise required to develop, review, and
  implement complex research relevant to our
  industry. No other organization is dedicated to
  such a mission.

Mark Boggs, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. contracted with EPRI for assistance with performing a greenhouse gases (GHG) inventory and a plan to manage future inventories. EPRI and their consultant, E-Source, provided the expertise to help us better understand the elements of an inventory, the types of data required, the issues and elements of reporting, and the level of effort required to update an inventory over time. EPRIs staff and consultant have performed inventories for several EPRI members, understand the electric utility industry well, and are familiar with the various GHG reporting protocols. This allows them to be efficient and cost effective.

Martin Rehm, Tri-State GT
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316(b) Research

• The EPRI ORERP (Ohio River Ecological Research
  Program), which is managed by Doug Dixon under
  Program 54, is a unique collaborative research
  project that has recently addressed 316(b) issues
  at power plants up and down the river.  Most
  recently, EPRI developed a 316(b) sampling
  program that required less sampling, yet provided
  more fish impingement information, than a typical
  316(b) study.  The application of a model-based
  sampling program allowed each company to save
  over 500,000 per tested facility, but provided
  more information than a traditional study.  The
  results of the work have allowed participating
  companies to successfully negotiate 316(b)
  requirements for their facilities.

Tim Lohner, American Electric Power
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Groundwater Data Management

• "We have been using the MANAGES data base since
  its inception and find it a valuable tool for
  groundwater data management. Some of our
  remediation sites have been monitored for over a
  decade and MANAGES makes it easy to store and
  interpret data which would be voluminous in hard
  copy. The system also helps us meet the
  regulatory requirement of electronic reporting.

Mark Collins, We Energies
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316(b) Research

• Overall the results and support we have received
  from EPRI on 316(b) issues has been fantastic! We
  have found the screening technology
  reports very informative, and the easy access and
  quick response that we receive from Dave Bailey
  has been most helpful in forming our 316(b)
  compliance strategies." 
• Ann Wearmouth, Mirant

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Global Climate Change Webinars
"EPRI webinars on Global Climate Policy Design have been an excellent resource to educate ourselves as climate change policy develops. The webinars regarding allocation, auction, and cost containment measures for CO2 allocation schemes have been extremely valuable. EPRIs research and communication to membership in the area of climate change has been extremely beneficial to Tri-State."

Barbara A. Walz, Tri-State GT
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Ergonomic Handbooks

• "The Ergonomic Handbooks served as a catalyst to
  educate the workforce on the musculo-skeletal
  impact of routine job tasks on the body and to
  build business cases for new interventions
  validating ergonomics makes good business sense."

Karen G. Noe, Public Service Electric Gas
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Transmission Line Siting

• EPRI and Georgia Transmission Corp. (GTC) have
  shown leadership by developing a standardized
  overhead transmission line siting methodology
  that is open and transparent, helps utility
  professionals make more informed decisions based
  on more comprehensive data, and addresses public
  and regulatory concerns in measurable and
  meaningful ways.
• The Kentucky Public service Commission applauded
  us for employing this regimen and analytical tool
  to gather informed, proactive, and constructive
  input from stakeholders and to apply it for
  transmission line siting.

Mary Jane Warner, East Kentucky Power
Cooperative
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316(b) Research

• We estimate EPRI efforts to assist us in
  development of compliance alternatives for Phase
  II of the 316(b) rule at two of our
  facilities have saved us on the order of 300,000
  in initial study costs and likely well over
  100,000 annually in OM and compliance sampling
  costs. We have always believed that EPRI efforts
  have been an important component in solving both
  our environmental and operational challenges.
  The decision to utilize EPRI services is about as
  easy as it gets.
• Erik Silvola, Great River Energy

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Use of 316(a) Variance Studies

• The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission
  recently amended their temperature standards for
  the first time since their inception in the late
  1970s. During the course of the stakeholder
  process of reviewing and commenting on the
  proposed standards, EPRI (Bob Goldstein) provided
  important technical support and guidance to us
  (Tri-State) on the use of the Clean Water Act
  316(a) variance studies and the appropriateness
  of laboratory versus field studies in the
  determination of potential impact on aquatic
  life. Bob Goldstein provided a concise overview
  of the state of science in thermal discharge
  study.

Chantell Johnson, Tri-State GT
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Fish Protection

• Over the past decade, EPRIs 316 Fish Protection
  Program has provided expertise and extensive
  research, data compilation, and assessment
  results regarding cooling water intakes and the
  effects of these intakes on fish populations, all
  of which have been of tremendous value to both
  regulators and the regulated community.

Jim Wright, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Managing Dissolved Oxygen at Hydroelectric Plants

• "We Energies' Environmental and Hydro Operation
  staff used EPRI Report 1005194, Maintaining and
  monitoring dissolved oxygen at hydroelectric
  projects, to structure an analysis of options to
  correct low DO problems at several of its
  hydroelectric plants. The stream-lined analysis
  saved both time and effort during consultation
  with state and federal agencies it eliminated
  the need to consider the most costly alternatives
  from further consideration."

Dave Michaud, We Energies
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Groundwater Data Management

• Groundwater data management couldnt get any
  easier from data import to statistics and
  reporting add in the user support and you have a
  one-stop solution.
• Chantell Johnson, Tri-State GT

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316(b) Research

• The 316(b) Synthesis Report (on-line) is clearly
  the best, a one-stop-shop where all the
  technologies are listed. We did not have to hire
  a consultant to do a thorough review of all
  available technologies it was all right there.
  It saved us time and money.
• Dennis Dunning, New York Power Authority

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Toxic Release Inventory Reporting
Our organization has benefited greatly from use of the Pisces Database and LARK-TRIPP software produced by EPRI in preparation of annual Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reports. In conjunction with the LARK-TRIPP program, EPRI has produced several technical papers and procedures based on industry-wide data sets for estimating emission factors and environmental releases from various coal sources, boiler configurations, and emission controls. Utilization of the Pisces Database and the LARK-TRIPP program allow the user to more accurately calculate estimated environmental releases based on facility configuration, and significantly cut down on the time required to prepare annual TRI reports.

Lisa A. Warren, Tri-State GT
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Mercury in Coal Combustion Byproducts

• "We Energies has used results form EPRI's work on
  the environmental fate of mercury in coal
  combustion byproducts (Report 1010061) in recent
  discussions with state agencies in support of our
  application to allow land spreading of
  WFGD-produced gypsum for agricultural soil
  beneficiation. Report 1010835 was also used to
  support this beneficial use assessment."

Bruce Ramme and Robert Meidl, We Energies
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Mercury Characterization and Control Interest
Group

• The Mercury Characterization and Control
  Interest Group (MerCCIG) has been an extremely
  valuable tool to help utilities burning coal
  better quantify and understand mercury emissions
  from coal-fired plant because of the ability to
  share data.  To gather that same amount of data
  individually would be extremely expensive.  For
  example, the fact that numerous other utilities
  were seeing significant co-benefit mercury
  emission reductions with the installation of
  selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and flue gas
  desulfurization (FGD) systems allowed us to have
  a "warm and fuzzy" feeling about our mercury
  emissions after the installation our SCR and FGD
  systems.

Tom Burnett, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Condensable Particulate Matter
EPRIs stakeholder participation in EPAs Condensable Particulate Matter EPRI is currently evaluating alternative methods that could help to overcome the positive bias seen in Method 202. These results, and ongoing EPRI efforts in this arena, will lead to the development of a revised method that could ultimately lower Tri-States PM emissions. Tri-States Craig Unit 3 will have a condensable limit with the new PSD permit. This project is helping us prepare for better compliance certainty as the new requirements for regulation of condensable particulates are developed and implemented by state agencies.

Dana Stephens, Tri-State GT
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Global Climate Change Seminar

• Impressed with Global Climate Change Seminar it
  had good balance of science, economics, and
  policy. I learned a lot and it was good to have
  time away from the office to focus on the issue.
  
• Bob Teetz, KeySpan

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316(b) Research

• After a thorough review of several contracting
  options, we chose EPRI to help develop a
  comprehensive strategy for cooling system impact
  studies and options associated with 316(b)
  compliance. Site visits by EPRI staff were
  extremely helpful in explaining the new law and
  compliance alternatives to our staff and serving
  as a basis for site specific options, biological
  sampling design and strategic cost estimates that
  were extremely valuable to our management for
  budgetary guidance.
• Cost saving due to using our EPRI membership
  advantage was approximately 400,000 in reduced
  consulting, engineering and outside contractor
  expenses. Our management and environmental staff
  have been extremely pleased with the
  comprehensive services provided by EPRI in
  helping us meet our cooling water permit
  requirements.
• John Thiel, Dairyland Power Cooperative

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Clean Air Mercury Rule

• "The process that resulted in the federal Clean
  Air Mercury Rule was as politically and
  emotionally charged as any the utility industry
  has seen in recent memory.  Throughout this
  process EPRI was instrumental in providing
  stakeholders and decision makers with the best
  available science concerning our current
  understanding of how mercury behaves in the
  environment.  During the long and often
  contentious stakeholder process that we went
  through in Georgia, EPRI, and Leonard Levin in
  particular, provided invaluable support both in
  making sure that the positions our company took
  during the rulemaking were grounded in the best
  science available, and in also trying to
  communicate that information directly to our
  state regulatory agency.  And while sound
  science sometimes gets trumped by political
  reality, we at Oglethorpe commend EPRI for its
  tireless efforts in trying to make sure that
  policy choices are informed by the best available
  information."
• Boyd Vaughn, Oglethorpe Power Corp.

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Mercury "State of the Science"

• "We Energies has used the following EPRI
  communication briefs concerning mercury in the
  environment to inform Wisconsin's Natural
  Resources Board members on the "state of the
  science
• 1014438- Sources of mercury depositing in the
  U.S.
• 1014500- Integrated approaches to managing
  mercury
• 1014496- Health effects of mercury New insights
• 1014451- Status of mercury controls an update
• 1014428- Mercury "hot spots" Emissions and
  deposition patterns"

Dave Michaud and Kathleen Standen, We Energies
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Solving Environmental Challenges

• "EPRI is a critical component to solving our
  environmental business challenges, and the
  indispensable support received from the TAS staff
  over the years for finding EPRI projects to
  support our needs like the WARMF project and
  periodic customer follow-ups for application of
  research have been invaluable.  The EPRI
  technical staff is second to none in our
  industry, and we would find it hard to do our
  jobs without EPRI.
• Michalene Reilly, Hoosier Energy

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EMF Seminar

• "I want to express my sincere thanks to all of
  you for your efforts yesterday in conducting the
  EMF Seminar for Con Edison and Orange Rockland
  personnel. I think you did a great job
  distilling 30 years of research and communication
  issues into a 5 1/2 hour seminar. The
  participant feedback was excellent employees
  from various organizations learned a great deal
  about a complex topic. The handout of all the
  slides will serve as a terrific reference
  document for all involved."
• John Wilson, Consolidated Edison Co. of New York

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Air Permit Applications- New Coal Plants

• "We Energies has used results gained from PISCES
  program projects, specifically measurements of
  mercury at existing power plants (Report 1000608)
  as well as evaluations of SCR/WFGD impacts on
  mercury speciation and capture in our support
  materials for air permit applications for new
  coal-fueled power plants (Report 1014450)."

Dave Michaud and Terry Coughlin, We Energies
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Industry Support on Water Issues

• "Thank you so much for the continued interest
  and support of EPRI to the Advisory Committee on
  Water Information (ACWI), a formal committee
  established by the Secretary of the Interior
  under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Our
  very special and sincere thanks go to Dr. Robert
  Goldstein, who has been a strong contributor to
  ACWI. Dr. Goldstein has provided a pillar of
  support for ACWI's Sustainable Water Resources
  Roundtable, which has made considerable progress
  over the past few years. We are delighted to have
  him continue to represent EPRI on the Advisory
  Committee. Our sincere appreciation to Dr.
  Goldstein and other EPRI staff who support our
  efforts to improve the availability and use of
  Water Information for the Nation."
• Toni Johnson, Advisory Committee on Water
  Information

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316(b) Research

• The EPRI-UWAG 316(b) Workshops have been most
  helpful we compliment EPRI for opening up the
  second workshop to include consultants and
  contractors.  The presentations at the workshop
  and the ability to network were important to us.
  
• Carla Logan, Constellation

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Ambient Water Quality Criteria

• EPRIs work was vital in informing the states
  decision to withdraw a scientifically flawed
  arsenic standard, helping us avoid 12 million in
  compliance costs at one ash pond site and similar
  challenges at other facilities.

Jack Preston, SCANA
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Air Permit Applications- New Coal Plants

• "We Energies used mercury deposition modeling
  developed by AER among other technical analyses
  to support the Air Permit Application for the
  then proposed Elm Road Generating Station. The
  Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
  subsequently approved the permit application."

Dave Michaud and Terry Coughlin, We Energies
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Manufactured Gas Plant Clean-up

• "Our MGP clean-up site was located on a
  picturesque town harbor on Maryland's Eastern
  Shore and was surrounded by new residential
  development and busy recreational marinas. Our
  mission was to complete the clean-up in a careful
  and responsible way -- mindful of the impact of
  odor and the footprint of our harbor dredging
  activities. EPRI's technical direction --
  especially the odor control models and tools --
  guided our progress every day -- and were
  critical to our success."

Wesley L. McNealy, Pepco Holdings, Inc.
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Rights-of-Way Issues

• A key benefit of EPRI is its ability to bring
  companies together to research common challenges
  and develop solutions that are viable,
  defensible, and truly effective. Weve applied
  EPRI products to improve system reliability,
  comply with NERC requirements, reduce vegetation
  management costs, mitigate environmental impacts
  and risks, ensure compliance with laws protecting
  migratory birds, and partner with other
  stakeholders to identify compatible uses for
  rights-of-way.
• EPRIs work also helps us bring new employees up
  to speed and establish a common base of
  scientific knowledge, data, and field-proven
  solutions among all staff as they work with
  property owners, agency representatives, and
  others.

Terry Yakich, American Transmission Company
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Manufactured Gas Plant Symposium

• "In the MGP area, the national symposia which are
  held provide great opportunities for networking
  with utility professionals, consultants,
  contractors and experts in the field of MGP
  remediation."

Mark Collins, We Energies
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316(b) Research

• At the time of the court decision on the 316(b)
  Phase II Rules, we were preparing to award the
  contract for CDS. Although this is on hold, EPRI
  has provided us with excellent reviews of the
  decision and its possible impacts. They have
  also provided several suggestions on how we could
  proceed in the interim period. We have been very
  pleased with the assistance and support which
  EPRI provided.
• Michalene Reilly, Hoosier Energy

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Groundwater Data Management
MANAGES 3.0 significantly reduces the amount of time I spend conducting groundwater statistical analyses of data collected from our monitoring well networks in Virginia. This time reduction is due to the data import feature as well as the general ease in using this software. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality accepts the summary report that MANAGES 3.0 provides making reporting less time consuming too. The software also allows interface of data and graphs with Windows applications, which is convenient when writing a report for which supporting data tables or graphical figures are necessary.
Aimee Toole, American Electric Power
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Water Quality Criteria Development and Assessment

• EPRIs Water Quality Criteria Development and
  Assessment Program provided information regarding
  new and ongoing research on the effects of iron
  on aquatic life. That information facilitated
  the issuance of a narrative iron criterion as
  part of State 2007 Water Quality Standards, as
  opposed to a numerical standard based on older
  information. The narrative iron criterion
  resulted in TVA avoiding expensive compliance
  costs related to water discharge limits at
  several fossil power plants.

Lindy Johnson, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Watershed and Water Resource Management

• When faced with a request from one of our
  operating companies to understand the effects of
  NOx and SO2 emissions controls from a coal-fired
  power plant on nitrogen deposition to the nearby
  bay in order to explore potential offsets for
  increased nitrogen discharge from a new sewage
  treatment plant, we quickly turned to EPRI for
  guidance. While we had some atmospheric modeling
  that we could leverage, using EPRI's
  CMAQ-MADRID-APT model, we realized that we needed
  to also conduct watershed modeling. Because of
  our long-standing relationship with EPRI around
  watershed and water resource management issues,
  we trusted Eladio Knipping and Bob Goldstein from
  EPRI to help us identify the right consultants
  and draft the scope of work. As the work
  progressed, Eladio and Bob continued to offer
  their expertise and lend credibility to the
  project results. Because TMDL's in mercury and
  nitrogen is an emerging issue that EPRI wants to
  pursue, this project helped lay the foundation
  for future EPRI research in the end it was a
  win-win for EPRI and for us.

John Jansen, Southern Company
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316(b) Research

• "We Energies has used many of the technical
  reports developed by EPRI that address feasible
  fish protection strategies for both steam
  electric and hydroelectric facilities in our
  consultations with state and federal agencies
  over the past 15-years. Reports used included the
  following TR-109483 Evaluation of fish
  behavioral barriers 1011786 Evaluation of an
  angled louver facility for guiding sturgeon to a
  downstream passage TR-1005339 Laboratory
  evaluation of wedgewire screens for protecting
  early life stages at cooling water intakes
  1014934 and its predecessors,  Fish Protection at
  cooling water intake structure, a technical
  reference manual."

Dave Michaud and David Lee, We Energies
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Groundwater Data Management

• "Tri-State manages all groundwater monitoring
  data in EPRIs MANAGES program. This program
  allows you to quickly run graphs and reports for
  submittal to regulatory agencies. This enables
  the quarterly groundwater data evaluation process
  reviewing 30 groundwater wells and wastewater
  ponds to occur in a matter of minutes rather than
  hours or days. EPRIs support staff (Ken Ladwig
  and contractor Bruce Hensel, NRT) also provide
  rapid response to assist in questions on
  functionality and operation."

Chantell Johnson, Tri-State GT
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Coal Combustion Products

• Duke Energy used the information in the Impact
  of Air Emission Controls on Coal Combustions
  Products Report (1014943) to brief management on
  the need to re-evaluate CCP management practices
  any time new emission controls are retrofitted
  onto generating units. Minor changes such as
  the use of additives in the boiler or injection
  into the flue gas down stream of the boiler for
  emission control can results in significant
  change to the characteristics CCP. The
  information in the report highlights the fact
  that these changes in characteristics could drive
  change disposal or reuse practices when new
  emission controls are installed.

Jim Meiers, Duke Energy
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Ash Pond Management

• The Integrated Ash Pond Management work, which
  is managed by Rick Carlton under Program 56, has
  investigated how the water chemistry in ash ponds
  can be managed to maximize their treatment
  capabilities.  For example, EPRI helped with a TC
  project at the AEP Amos Plant, which determined
  how best to manage the water quality in the pond
  to maximize the removal of ammonia and still
  comply with effluent limits for metals such as
  arsenic, copper, and selenium.  With the help of
  EPRI and it's consultants, it was determined that
  pond aeration, along with the addition of
  nutrients and caustic, would facilitate ammonia
  removal in a very cost effective manner.  These
  ash pond management techniques have been applied
  to other AEP ash ponds with similar success.

Tim Lohner, American Electric Power
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State Mercury Rules
As states developed mercury rules, EPRI research results were very valuable tools to use with regulators. In Colorado, we retained Leonard Levin of EPRI to do Colorado specific modeling and analysis. The research was shared with regulators and environmental groups while negotiating a state mercury rule. Although the final Colorado rule was much more stringent than the federal CAMR rule, the utilities had solid research to provide credibility during negotiations and to address accusations of mercury toxins impacting Colorado citizens.

Barbara A. Walz, Tri-State GT
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QuickSEM

• The round-robin and follow-on QuickSEMs project
  have been especially beneficial to TVA in that we
  now feel very comfortable using the thermal
  analysis technique (rather than the traditional
  wet chemistry method) along with the QuickSEMs
  technology for the RATA testing to certify our
  mercury continuous emission monitors.

Tom Burnett, Tennessee Valley Authority
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MGP Symposium

• "Within the last year, I assumed new job duties
  supervising We Energies' Remediation Group.  The
  EPRI MGP 2007 Symposium provided the best means
  of quickly climbing the learning curve in the
  state-of-the-art technologies, case studies and
  professional networks. I immediately used these
  contacts and information in my job. It also
  allowed me to identify and respond to some needs
  for research that we are now jointly funding
  through EPRI."

Thomas Jansen, We Energies 
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Clean Air Mercury Rule

• "The Clean Air Mercury Rule was adopted in
  Indiana along the lines of the EPA rule in large
  part due to the contributions of EPRI.  The weeks
  leading up the hearing were intense with a number
  of resolutions being proposed to make the rule
  more stringent.  Many thanks go to Leonard Levin,
  of EPRI, for his review of the EPA report on
  Watershed Mercury.  We used it to support our
  oral comments and rebut statements by the
  environmental groups who did cite the study in
  written and oral comments to the board.  In
  addition to Leonard's review of the report, we
  appreciate the other work that he, various EPRI
  staff and the contractors did throughout the
  entire multi-year ordeal.  I firmly believe that
  the technical work that EPRI did on both the
  modeling and the pollution control issues made a
  significant contribution to improving the
  understanding of the issues and educating the
  decision makers so that we could come out with a
  reasonable rule."

Dan Weiss, Duke Energy
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Air Permit Applications- New Coal Plants

• "We Energies has used results gained from PISCES
  program projects, specifically measurements of
  mercury at existing power plants (Report 1000608)
  as well as evaluations of SCR/WFGD impacts on
  mercury speciation and capture in our support
  materials for air permit applications for new
  coal-fueled power plants (Report 1014450)."

Dave Michaud and Terry Coughlin, We Energies
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Watershed and Water Resource Management

• EPRIs Watershed and Water Resource Management
  Program provides unique technical resources for
  impending and strategic issues that have recently
  intensified due to our regions enduring drought
  and climatic anomalies. The Program allows us to
  stay current with significant and otherwise
  inaccessible research, developments, and
  guidelines on important options for existing and
  future water environment challenges in the
  Tennessee Valley.

Greg Brodie, Tennessee Valley Authority
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Coal Combustion Products

• Recently, we have been in the process of
  permitting a new landfill to handle coal
  combustion products (ash and FGD solids). Ken
  Ladwig assisted in comparing existing groundwater
  concentrations to concentrations in the ash
  product. He provided typical indicator parameter
  data ranges to put our data in perspective.
  Tri-State also used EPRIs risk analysis of coal
  combustion products (CCPs) to respond to the
  EPAs NODA request on the current state of CCP
  disposal locations.

Chantell Johnson, Tri-State GT
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eTherm - A Repository of 316(a) Variance Studies

• The eTherm website has been very helpful as a
  one-stop site to locate historic 316(a) variance
  studies and determine where on-going research is
  headed.

Chantell Johnson, Tri-State GT
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Integrated Vegetation Management

• One of the greatest benefits we received from
  the EPRI assessment was our increased
  understanding all around of the larger issues we
  face when we do vegetation management. We
  continue to be excited about the whole process. I
  think we got tremendous value out of it.

John Acklen, PNM Resources
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Ambient Water Quality Criteria

• We emphasized findings from EPRIs review of the
  federal ambient water quality criteria in the
  successful effort to challenge the technical
  validity of the states arsenic standard.

Allen Stowe, Duke Energy
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Impacts of Thermal Shock and Fluctuation

• EPRI and its contractor, Oak Ridge National
  Laboratory, have conducted several studies over
  the last five years reviewing the cumulative
  impact of thermal fluctuations, which had been
  purported to be higher by some environmental
  stakeholders during the Colorado process. The
  implementation of the new temperature standards
  is continuing in Colorado, however, the work of
  EPRI to continue research on the issue of thermal
  shock and thermal fluctuation provides scientific
  support for fact-based regulation.

Chantell Johnson, Tri-State GT
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Value of the Collaborative

• A key value of participating in EPRI Environment
  is the informal collaboration gained from our
  annual meetings and other forums. Cooperative
  interaction among members, which is sometimes
  constrained within larger, formal EPRI efforts,
  allows us insight and discovery into what others
  have already done to address similar challenges
  facing our company, thereby avoiding costly
  projects, studies, contracts, and the long-term
  process of an investigation.

Greg Brodie, Tennessee Valley Authority