Changes at IDEM Since EQSC House Environmental Affairs Committee January 28, 2009

1. Changes at IDEM Since EQSCHouse Environmental Affairs Committee January 28, 2009 Thomas W. Easterly, P.E., BCEE, QEP Commissioner IN Department of Environmental Management

2. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Performance Metrics Jan 2009

3. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Performance Metrics June 2005

4. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment New Drinking Water Metric • Percent of Hoosiers Drinking Safe Water • Percentage of Indiana population that receives drinking water from facilities that are in full compliance with safe drinking water regulations • Federal (EPA) Goal is 90% • Indiana Goal is 99% • Indiana Current Actual is 98.2%

5. Develop regulations and issue permits to restrict discharges to the environment to safe levels Inspect and monitor permitted facilities to ensure compliance with the permits Enforce against people who exceed their permit levels or violate regulations Educate people on their environmental responsibilities We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment How Does IDEM Protect the Environment?

6. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Total Permit Calendar Days

7. Air Permits Branch Rapid Improvement Activities Lean/Kaizen Methodology to improve efficiency Significant Source Modifications (Construction Approvals) 9/07 Event Process time reduced from 220 days to 121 days avg. Permit Renewals 12/07 Event Process time reduced from 678 day avg. to all those issued in ’08 within 270 days allowed (calendar days) Eliminate backlog of administratively extended permits 1/1/08 - 156 permits 1/7/09 only 9 remaining We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment

8. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Agency Accomplishments • All 97 State lead CSO Communities and 2 of the Federal lead Communities have entered legal agreements to address their CSO issues. • We are working with USEPA to speed the progress on the remaining 8 Federal lead CSO communities.

9. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Agency Accomplishments • Entire State met the 0.08 ppm Ozone air quality standard for the period 2006-2008, and we are working with USEPA to have Lake and Porter Counties designated attainment. • Entire State also met the 0.075 Ozone air quality standard for the year 2008. • All but Clark County met the PM2.5 Air Quality Standards for the period 2006-2008.

10. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Agency Initiatives • Virtual File Cabinet—electronic filing system with 40,000,000 pages now online • TEMPO—Enterprise wide electronic integration of all IDEM information—part of the to receive and process electronic permit applications and reports • Two programs accepting electronic submittals, 401 Certifications and Community Right to Know

11. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Agency Initiatives • Returned enforcement function to the air, water and land programs and eliminated the separate office of enforcement. • Provide consistent Statewide air quality permitting, monitoring and enforcement services by directly managing the air program functions previously contracted to: Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, and Vigo County.

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13. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Reasons for Enforcement Change • No improvement in compliance rates in 4 years • EPA HQ told me both enforcement models (separate office or in program) are used effectively • Enforcement was regularly “waiting on program staff” under the control of other managers • Unpublished enforcement policies resulted in unexpected actions—too timid and too aggressive

14. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Compliance and Enforcement Response Policy (CERP) • CERP was last revised in 2003 and was an internal IDEM document. • In order to meet our goal of transparency we decided to update the CERP and publish it as a Non Rule Policy Document under IC 13-14-1-11.5. Draft signed for 45 day public comment period on 10/31/08.

15. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Compliance and Enforcement Response Policy (CERP) • The 45 day review period ended in Mid December, but because of the changes to the enforcement structure the CERP will be revised and posted for another 45 day comment period before being presented to the Air, Water and Solid Waste Boards.

16. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Local Agency Contracts • Continuation of IDEM’s goal to use efficiency gains to reduce contracting out of core environmental protection functions. • $3 Million/year in Air Permit Contracts with $1.1 Million in IDEM Resources while improving service. • 1.5 Million/year in Leaking Underground Storage Tank Clean ups with $0.7 Million in IDEM resources while improving service.

17. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Local Agency Contracts • IDEM spends just over $2 Million per year on Local Agency Contracts: • Anderson $66,642 • Evansville $177,498 • Gary $24,000 • Hammond $375,100 • Indianapolis $1,124,139 • Vigo County $266,662

18. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Local Agency Contracts • IDEM believes that it can provide the same or better level of environmental protection for about $0.5 Million/year freeing up resources to address remaining air quality issues in Indiana. • Local Agency Air Quality Services include: • Permitting • Inspections • Complaint Response • Air Quality Monitoring

19. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Permits

20. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Permitting Speed

21. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Complaints

22. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Inspections

23. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Air Quality Monitoring

24. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Summary of Local Agency Contracts Change • IDEM will provide the following services for Anderson, Evansville, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis and Vigo County: • Permitting • Inspections • Complaint Response • Air Quality Monitoring

25. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Grant and Loan Suspension • All Grants and Loans from the following non-reverting funds to entities that had not returned award paperwork by December 19 have been suspended: • 2580 Recycling Promotion Assistance Fund • 2530 Solid Waste Recycling Fund • 2640 Waste Tire Fund

26. We Protect Hoosiers and Our Environment Questions? Tom Easterly Commissioner Indiana Department of Environmental Management 317-232-8611 teasterly@idem.in.gov