Draft - Agenda WESTAR Sources Committee Conference Call

August 22, 2007

11:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time

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  1. Brief Introduction of each participant;
  2. Reg Olson – Utah
  3. Kirsten King – Colorado
  4. Rusty Ruby - Utah
  5. Mike - Hawaii
  6. Stewart Ryner, Chad Schitemyer,
  7. Syl Allen
  8. Tom Backman, Craig Thrstneson
  1. BART Issues
  • Where are States on BART
  • Utah
  • Two sources Huntington and Hunter
  • Only BART sources.
  • Retrofitting those sources – Will Hit Presumptive limits for SO2 and NOx.
  • Hawaii
  • Preliminary stages
  • Wyoming
  • Reviewing BART
  • 8 facilities have 7 applications in
  • 13 EGUs, 7 non EGUs
  • In the process of doing the reviews. Have not completed the determinations yet
  • Some sources are proposing presumptive some are not
  • Using presumptive limits as a guide
  • North Dakota
  • 7 EGUs. All the analyses have been received
  • Have SO2 and Particulate
  • Must consider control equipment better than BART
  • Industry indicates that SCR will not work.
  • Comments from EPA
  • Utah nothing to EPA yet
  • Oregon – only one source in determination stage
  • Number of sources close to 0.5 threshold. Are other states looking at cumulative for exemption modeling?
  • Wyoming has not looked at cumulative analyses. Don’t have many sources located closely.
  • How are states handling the 5 factors
  • North Dakota – looking at all 5 factors. Many are not really issues and it’s coming down to visibility vs. cost of compliance. The weight will be mostly on cost.
  • Wyoming – When looking at what’s reasonable are states using BACT?. ND – WRAP is looking at what is reasonable. We are looking at the guidelines and EPA pointed to the WRAP annex i.e. over $3000 and adjusted for inflation is around $3700/ton. Industry is arguing the value for the presumptive levels.
  • Wyoming is looking more at BACT but still early in the process.
  • Other issues;
  1. New Business/Open Forum;
  2. Reg – Updates on NAACA call –
  3. Several issues that might be of interest
  4. Courts vacated boiler and Brick mact – what does that do?
  5. Should be a call soon to address this issue
  6. There is a flexible permitting rule in the works
  7. Proposal coming end of August or first of Sept for PM 2.5 increment.
  8. Final rule on PM 2.5 implementation at OMB based on proposal of November 2005. May be first of year before it is released.
  9. Proposed rule on fugitive emissions. EPA was asked to reconsider how fugitive emissions should be included to determine whether a modification has occurred.
  10. Wyoming – Interpreting visibility results for BART – number of days over 0.5 dv how do you factor in the $/dv or $/# days over 0.5
  11. ND – reason why put heavy weight on cost rather than visibility
  12. CO – stayed away from the $/dv issue
  13. Oregon – had proposed similar metrics but has not gotten far. May have only one source subject to BART. Would be interested in how Wyoming is applying this.

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