Welcome to Nevada

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Welcome to Nevada

• Greg RemerChief, Nevada Bureau of Air Pollution
  Control

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Nevada Issues

• Lake Tahoe
• NSR
• SIPs
• Mercury
• Climate Change
• Ozone/Transport

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Nevada Issues

• Lake Tahoe
• Formed under a Bi-State Compact between Nevada
  and California
• Authorized by Congress
• Managed by Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA)
  (www.trpa.org)
• All planning and implementation performed by TRPA
• NDEP air permitting authority

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Nevada Issues

• NSR
• Climate change uncertainty
• Regulatory uncertainty
• Legal Challenges
• Increment Reviews

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Welcome to Nevada

• SIPs
• Attempting to update core SIP since early 2000s
• In mediation with 9th Circuit/Region IX over
  minor source permitting provisions
• To Do
• Include NSR reform in NNSR provisions
• PSD SIP
• PM2.5 SIP
• Ozone SIP

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Welcome to Nevada

• Mercury
• State Mining Hg Control Program
• Implementation continuing at this point
• Improvement in quality of emission inventory
• Increase on knowledge/understanding of mercury
  emissions from mining processes
• Fugitive emission study underway
• Expect signficant emission reductions on
  new/modified units
• EPA agreement to create Mining Hg MACT
  jeopardizing States program
• Nevada filed request to intervene
• State Utility Hg Control Program under development

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Nevada Issues

• Climate Change
• Nevada a leader in renewable Energy primarily
  geothermal and solar (lead the nation in
  geo/capita)
• Expect 600 MW of Geothermal by 2012
• Many additional geothermal, solar and wind
  projects proposed.
• Nevada leads country in percent of new homes
  built ton Energy Star standards 75 in 2008
• Govs CCAC finished in 8/08

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Nevada Issues

• Climate Change (continued)
• 2007 Legislative Session
• State-wide GHG inventory finished 12/08
• Historic trends and projections to 2020
• Mandatory reporting working w/ TCR developing a
  pilot program
• Founding member and reporter in TCR
• Not member of WCI but official observer
• Significant concern over CC economic impacts in
  light of significant State budget shortfalls

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Nevada Issues

• Ozone/Transport
• Nevada in attainment for O3 except for Clark
  County
• Designations submitted on-time included
  9-factor analyses for Clark-Nye CBSA
• Concern over long-range transport
• Lower standard will likely result in significant
  areas of Nevada as non-attainment with no
  significant emission sources to control