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

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

  2. 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 Indiana’s Environmental Quality.

  3. How is Personal Income Linked to Environmental Improvement? • Maslow’s 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Major Strategic Issues • CSO’s/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

  10. 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

  11. 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 responsibilities—working to speed up the enforcement process

  12. Performance Metrics

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

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

  17. How You Can Help IDEM • Be involved in the development of IDEM’s 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 Governor’s 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

  18. Thank You--Questions? Tom Easterly 100 N. Senate Ave. IGCN 1301 Indianapolis, IN 46204 (317) 232-8611 Fax (317) 233-6647 teasterly@idem.in.gov

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