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Write-up on the CO2/Clean Air Act issues in first iteration of Kerry-Lieberman bill "Discussion draft version" (May 7, 2010)

EPA's Final Decision to Continue Applying the Agency’s Existing Interpretation of a Regulation That Determines the Scope of Pollutants Subject to the Federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program under the Clean Air Act (03/29/2010)

APPA Paper Summarizing the August 2009 EIA Analysis of the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill (September 2009)

APPA's EPA Endangerment Comments (6/23/09)

EPA Requests that the Department of Justice Withdraw the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in EPA v. State of New Jersey (No. 08-512) concerning EPA's intention to develop emission standards for utility units under section 112 of the Clean Air Act. (01-29-2009)

APPA and the American Water Works Association File Joint Comments on Federal Requirements Under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program for Carbon Dioxide Geosequestration Wells, Proposed Rule, (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2008-0390 73 Fed. Reg. 43492 July 25, 2008) Contact: Theresa Pugh, Director of Environmental Services, 202/467-2943 (12/24/2008)

APPA Submits Comments on Federal Requirements Under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program for Carbon Dioxide Geologic Sequestration Wells (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OW-2008-0390 73 Fed. Reg. 43492 July 25, 2008) Contact: Theresa Pugh, Director of Environmental Services, 202/467-2943 (12/19/2008)

APPA Submits Comments in Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act: Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0318 73 Fed. Reg. 44354 July 30, 2008) Contact: Theresa Pugh, Director of Environmental Services, 202/467-2943 (11/26/2008)

EPA Releases  Notice of Public Comments Period on The Development of Land-Use Scenarios Consistent with Climate Change Emissions Storylines'' (EPA/600/R-08/076) (07/25/2008)

EPA Releases  Proposed Rule on Federal Requirements Under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program for Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Geologic Sequestration (GS) Wells (07/25/2008)

APPA Submits Comments to NERC on Reliability Impacts of Climate Change. Contacts: Allen Mosher, Senior Director of Policy Analysis, 202/467-2944 and Theresa Pugh, Director of Environmental Services, 202/467-2943 (07/16/2008)

APPA Submits Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency on the March 28, 2008 Draft National Water Program Strategy as a Proposed Response to Climate Change. (06/10/2008)

APPA Paper Summarizing the April 2008 EIA Analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Bill (May 2008)
See additional legislative materials at APPA's legislative climate page.

EIA Energy Market and Economic Impacts of S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 (April 2008)

APPA Paper Summarizing the March 2008 EPA Analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Bill (April 2008)

EPA Analysis of the Lieberman/Warner Climate Change Legislation (March 2008)

APPA Analysis of Lieberman-Warner Bill (01/10/2008)
Utility members, download APPA's analysis of S. 2191. The Workbook (Excel) contains several spreadsheets that are described in the Description and Analysis (Word).
(Contact mfumento@appanet.org for your password.)

EIA Analysis of Bingaman-Specter & House Climate Hearing (January 2008)

EPA March 2007 Memo in 316b Implementation

ASIWPCA Comment Letter on USEPA NPDES Permit Fee Rule (03/12/2007)
ASWIPCA stands for Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators or state water regulatory agency heads. ASWIPCA and APPA have worked together on this rulemaking in opposition to the proposed increase of NPDES permit fees and a shrinking Section 106 grant program to the state agencies.

Letter Sent to EPA Administrator Johnson Calling for the Withdrawal of the NPDES User Fee Rule (03/05/2007)
The letter is signed by Senators Durbin, Isakson, Warner, Kyl, Smith, Wyden, Clinton, Salazar and Inhofe.

Final Comments of the CAPUM Coalition against New Permitting Fees (03/05/2007)

APPA Comments to EPA Regarding Proposed Changes to the NPDES Permit Program and the Grant Program in the Proposed Rule (03/05/2007)

Office of Advocacy NPDES Permit Fees (03/02/2007)

Power Partners^SM Annual Report
This is the first annual report documenting progress to date by the U.S. electric power sector in reducing electric generation greenhouse gas intensity - the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced per kilowatt-hour of electricity. It highlights voluntary initiatives undertaken by the seven organizations comprising Power PartnersSM, the organizations that represent all of the electric power generation in the United States. The electric power industry is making significant progress towards achieving its emissions reduction goal.

Joint Local Government/Industry Letter to Tom Sullivan at the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy regarding NPDES Permit Fees (12/20/2006)

Letter from Senators Inhofe and Clinton to help on the NPDES User Fee Issue (Dec. 2006) 

APPA Pfiesteria Memorandum (11/15/2006)

APPA Comments for EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0132 submitted October 23, 2006 (11/02/2006)

July 2006 Water Issues Update Letter (07/18/2006)

CO₂ Control and Sequestration: A Recent Exercise with Public Perception, Presentation by Theresa Pugh, Director, Environmental Services, American Public Power Association, Addressed To Utility Air Regulatory Group 2006 Control Technology Committee Meeting (Powerpoint, posted 03/30/2006)

Coal-Based Power Plant Permitting: A Roundtable Discussion of Issues and Opportunities (pdf, posted 02/17/2006) 

APPA Report: Generating Greener Communities (01/09/2006)

EPA TSCA Inventory Update Reporting Final Rule (12/28/2005)
This message contains a copy of the final TSCA inventory update reporting (IUR) rule published at 70 Fed. Reg. 75059.  Among other things, the final rule confirms that the 2006 IUR submission period remains August 25 to December 23, 2006.   The final rule also adopts EPA's proposal to change the reporting cycle from four years to five years (i.e., after 2006, the next IUR submission period will occur in 2011).  Both of these decisions were supported in comments submitted earlier this year by USWAG. 
"The IUR regulation requires manufacturers of several thousand large volume chemicals on the TSCA Chemical Substances Inventory to report data on the manufacture, processing, and use of the chemicals.  The next data submission period, when submitters will report data on manufacturing, processing, and use of certain chemical substances, will be from August 25th to December 23rd, 2006.  In addition, the rule changes the reporting cycle from every four to every five years, establishes future submission periods to be from June 1st to September 30th, clarifies requirements for “low current interest” partial exemption petitions and amends one of the considerations for listing chemicals on the partial exemption, clarifies requirements and adds chemicals to the petroleum process streams partial exemption, amends the list of commercial and consumer product use categories, separates reporting of manufacture and import volume, limits the requirements to report processing and use information to domestic activities only, and clarifies the polymer exemption definition."

APPA Tree Benefits Estimator (05/15/2004)