Greenhouse Gas Permitting Workshop 
July 26, 2011

The Upper Midwest Section of the Air & Waste Management Association held a Greenhouse Gas Permitting Workshop, featuring perspectives from today's practitioners in this evolving field. 

Background: On June 3, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Tailoring Rule, which modified the Title V and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program rules to consider the inclusion of greenhouse gases as a regulated pollutant. EPA then issued guidance documents in October and November of 2010, and March of 2011 providing additional guidance to states and regulated sources on implementing the rule changes. EPA also proposed a deferral from these requirements for certain sources of biogenic carbon. In response to the Tailoring Rule, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued emergency state rules to implement these federal changes on a state level as necessary. This workshop looked at the recent rule changes and policies, early actions by sources to satisfy their responsibilities under these new rules, and challenges to these rule changes from third parties. 

Details 
When: Tuesday, July 26
Time: 1:30 to 5:00 pm
Place: Great River Energy
Address: 12300 Elm Creek Blvd, Maple Grove, MN 
Cost: $25 for A&WMA members 
$45 for non-members 
Payment: Accepted via online registration, or in person (by check at the door)

  

Agenda for GHG Permitting Workshop
1:15-1:30 Registration
1:30-1:40 Welcome and Introductions 
1:40-2:15 GHG Permitting (.PDF, 295 kb): Background, Applicability, and (Un)Intended Consequences – Clay Raasch, Trinity Consultants
2:15-3:00 MPCA Perspectives* 
– Changes to MPCA Permitting Forms to Address GHGs – Peggy Bartz 
– Review of EPA Comments on Early GHG BACT Permits – Richard Cordes 
– Roadmap from Emergency to Permanent MPCA Rules – Barbara Conti
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-3:45 Industry Perspective and GHG Permitting Case Study – Mark Manninen, 3M
3:45-4:15 Challenges to Latest GHG Rules, Actions, and Issued Permits (Microsoft PowerPoint, 188 kb) – Bill Hefner, The Environmental Law Group Ltd.
4:15-5:00 Panel Discussion / Q&A

    

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