1. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
310 CMR Final Regulations Restructuring Roundtable - April, 2001
Nancy L. Seidman
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

2. Background on 310 CMR 7.29 Context for the Regulation
Framework for Regulation
changes from July public hearings
Other Issues of Interest
Reliability
Fuel Diversity

3. 310 CMR 7.29: FOCUS Acid Deposition Climate Change Mercury
Nitrification, Eutrophication
Ozone
PM 2.5
Regional Haze
Visibility
CO2 - utilities = 30%
Hg - utilities = 11%, highest after MWC which we’ve regulated

4. Installed capacity in MW

7. 310 CMR 7.29: Major Provisions Standards Compliance schedules
Output-Based Rates - SO2, NOx, CO2
Cap for CO2
Data collection for future Mercury proposal
Compliance schedules
Later dates than draft
Dates depend on compliance method

8. 310 CMR 7.29: Major Provisions Standards - SO2 and NOx
2 phase SO2 requirement
6.0 lb/MWh at 1st compliance date
3.0 lb/MWh at 2nd date
1.5 lb/MWh for NOx at first compliance date
12 month rolling average and monthly average at 2nd date

9. 310 CMR 7.29: Major Provisions Standards - CO2 Compliance Dates
facility cap based on three years of data at first compliance date
facility rate of 1800 lb/MWh at second compliance date
compliance measured as a 12 month rolling average
Compliance Dates
standard path - 10/04 and 10/06
repowering path - 10/06 and 10/08

10. 310 CMR 7.29: Major Provisions Compliance Flexibility
Two Compliance Options - standard and repowering
No averaging across facilities
Early reduction credit for SO2
Use of SO2 Allowances
Off-site Reductions for CO2
Monitoring/Enforcement

11. 310 CMR 7.29: ISSUES Timelines Averaging Trading
CO2/Offsite Reductions
Reliability
Fuel Diversity
Reliability
DEP believes that changes in compliance schedules and options available to facilities will ensure that will not be an issue
ISO announcement this week on this summer
Biewald/Synapse report on reliability
thanks to DTE and DOER - we are fortunate that New Eng has set model for interagency cooperation
will continue to work closely with them and ISO as reg moves forward; we will keep the lights on in New Eng
Fuel Diversity
in eye of the beholder - changes depends on who’s looking at it
in >20 years in New Eng have seen lots of swings in how power utility facilities
many reasons why new capacity coming on line is NG - turn key facilities, low labor, cost to manufacture, efficiency in production of electricity - all ahead of environmental reasons
continue to work with DTE/DOER
will work with facilities who want to have oil back-up (and not all do)
DEP will work with folks who want to burn coal but we will also ensure that a new facility is most efficient and clean as it can be, as our regs require

12. For a copy of the final regulation and documents:
daqcpubs.htm#regs