1. WESTAR Business Meeting April 7, 2004 Tempe, Arizona
PSD Reform Initiative
WESTAR Business Meeting
April 7, 2004
Tempe, Arizona

2. Topics Initiative Goals Questions/Issues Approach Timeline Budget
Communication Strategy

3. Goal
“The goal of the PSD Reform Initiative is to develop recommended changes to EPA rules that implement the Prevention of Significant Deterioration provisions of the Clean Air Act (Title I, Part C), changes that will create a comprehensive program to manage and protect PSD increments and Class I air quality related values (AQRVs) as resources. The changes should establish a practical program that eliminates disincentives in the current rules which are discouraging state and local agencies from addressing cumulative increment consumption and Class I AQRV protection. .”

4. Questions/Issues Grouped into six categories: Definitions
Emission Inventory Issues
Increment consumption analysis methods
Response to increment exceedance
AQRV issues
Inter-jurisdiction coordination issues

5. Approach Parallel evaluations Evaluation criteria – Guiding Principles
PSD fundamentals group
New framework group
Evaluation criteria – Guiding Principles
Conference calls
Face-to-face meetings

6. Timeline 3/3/04 Final questions/issues Develop work plans 6/29/04
Preliminary recommendations from both groups
Decision regarding parallel or single set of recommendations
September ‘04
Consolidated recommendation for WESTAR Council consideration
October ’04
Recommendation to STAPPA at membership meeting
2/28/05
Formal recommendation to EPA

7. Budget
In-kind contribution from states, EPA and the FLMs very significant
Contractor/facilitation support
Allocation of WESTAR staff time

8. Communication Strategy
What is our message?
How/when will we communicate our message?
Vetting the issues with:
Stakeholders involved in workgroup
Other stakeholders