1. The Need for Clean Air Act Reform
Myra Reece, Bureau Chief, BAQ
ICAC Annual Meeting
April 22, 2015

2. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Why Modernization & Simplification of the CAA is Needed…”1 pollutant at a time”
Clean Power Plan aka 111(d)
Proposed 2015 Ozone Standard
“Next Steps” for Air Toxics
Where do we go from here?

3. Message is ‘Nothing New’
Jan 2004: National Research Council’s Air Quality Management in the United States” report
2005, 2007, 2008 Clean Air Act Advisory Committee’s Air Quality Management Workgroup reports
2009 Southeast SIP Summit, Columbia, SC
NACAA, ECOS SIP efforts

14. ---“I hate that each sector has 17 to 20 rules that govern each piece of equipment and you've got to be a neuroscientist to figure it out”. ---Gina McCarthy, U.S. EPA Administrator

15. RESPONSES TO “TOUCHING THE CAA”
Environmental groups: only if it makes the air cleaner
Big corporations: only if costs less.
CAPCA conference…….
SC: Now is the time for us to improve our air quality management approach and modernize the CAA. Not a matter of if but when!